FIG_001 · PERSONA ENGINE
How it works
A Persona is an agent grounded in one real person’s own words — nothing invented. This is the stack that makes that true, from the question you ask at the top down to the raw sources it stands on.
A persona is only as good as its evidence
Most “AI clones” are a name and a vibe dropped into a prompt. A Persona is the opposite: it can only say what the real person actually put on the record, and it can always show you where. The intelligence isn’t in the wrapper — it’s in the corpus underneath.
Built from the bottom up
Discovery casts a wide net across every channel a person actually used and pulls in their public archive — the source corpus. Each source is then distilled and weighed into the graded evidence that everything else stands on. That evidence goes into an index that can be searched by meaning. At question time, retrieval pulls the passages that bear on what you asked and hands them to an LLM, which composes the answer — strictly from that evidence, in the person’s documented voice. That’s retrieval-augmented generation, pointed at one mind.
Only their own words
Interviews and podcasts are full of other people. The corpus is speaker-filtered, so a co-host’s take or an interviewer’s question never gets attributed to the person — a Persona won’t argue someone else’s position in the first person. And because every answer is retrieval-grounded, it comes with receipts: the exact sources it drew on, one click away.
Reasoning from their principles
The record is finite; the questions aren’t. Beyond individual lines, a Persona encodes the throughline of a corpus — the priors, mental models, and principles a person returns to again and again. So when you ask about something they never addressed head-on, it reasons from that worldview toward where they’d likely land, the way they’d get there. And it tells you which mode it’s in — quoting something they actually said, or extending their documented thinking to a new case — so you always know when it’s grounded and when it’s extrapolating.