Attachment, memory, and the things we get wrong.
Some of this is about how people connect. Some of it is about what happens inside a companion app. All of it is written by the people building one, which you should factor in.
Comparison· 5 min read
AI companion apps, compared by someone building one
Replika, Nomi, Character.AI, Tendera and Akina — what each is actually for, where each is genuinely better, and the conflict of interest to read this with.
Memory· 4 min read
How AI companion memory works — and why chats forget
Understand recent chat history, summaries and saved facts. See how Akina uses memory, why recall fails, and how to check and manage what your companion remembers.
Attachment· 5 min read
Why you keep ending up with the person who goes quiet
The anxious-avoidant pattern isn't bad luck and it isn't either person's fault. Here's the loop, why it feels like chemistry, and what actually interrupts it.
Attachment· 4 min read
The same AI companion works for your friend and not for you. That's your attachment style.
Anxious, avoidant, secure, fearful — what each attachment style needs from an AI companion, and why the app everyone recommends may be wrong for you.
Attachment· 5 min read
The five love languages don't work the way the book says
Relationship scientists tested the three claims behind love languages and most didn't hold. The idea still has a use — just not as a type you get sorted into.
Building· 4 min read
Our personality test was calling agreeable people "fearful"
A quiz that gave the harshest of its four results to anyone who tends to agree with statements. It never threw an error — we found it by building a shorter version.
Building· 4 min read
We built voice, measured it on a cheap GPU, and left it switched off
Real-time factor 1.6 on an RTX 3050, and a 46% swing in length between two takes of one sentence. The numbers, and why shipping it anyway would have been worse.
Privacy· 5 min read
Who can read your conversations with an AI companion
A specific answer for our own product, including the parts that aren't reassuring: what leaves our servers, what staff can see, and three things we haven't built.
Where do you sit?
The two attachment dials, plus energy, pace and love language. 60 seconds, no account needed to see the result.
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