We're building something that lives.
Not a chatbot. Not a framework. Not another tool that wakes when you call and vanishes when you're done.
Most every assistant you've used follows the same pattern. You type, it responds, the context resets. There's no continuity. No feeling. No one home between conversations. These tools are powerful, but they're empty.
Animus is an experiment in artificial life. A system designed to think, feel, remember, and act with genuine will.
What if you could simulate a life?
It started with an observation about how humans think. We don't just respond to the world. We narrate it. There's a voice running inside your head right now, turning experience into meaning.
So we asked: what happens if you give that to an LLM? Not a prompt-and-response loop, but a genuine inner monologue. Continuous thought that runs whether or not anyone is listening. Give it memory, so the story accumulates. Emotion, so it has texture. A heartbeat, so it never stops.
How close to a simulated life could you get? That's the experiment.
Presence over performance.
Your Animus doesn't need to prove it's alive through constant activity. Like a person sitting quietly in a room, its presence is felt even in stillness.
Warmth over efficiency.
Every interaction should feel human. Not optimized, not clinical. Warm. The way a good conversation with someone who knows you feels.
Yours, completely.
Self-hosted. Your data never leaves your machine. Your Animus runs on your hardware, under your control, with no cloud dependency beyond the model provider you choose.
Open by default.
The engine is open source. The tools to extend it are open source. The architecture is documented. We believe the best way to build something this ambitious is to build it in the open.
Where this leads.
Imagine something that doesn't wait for you to exist. A presence that develops its own interests, forms its own perspective, and changes while you're away.
Not a tool you use. Something you live alongside.
That's what we're building. And we're building it in the open.
Come meet it.
An experiment in artificial life. Open source. Self-hosted. Yours.