Expressive AI companions for care homes, built on two manifolds: one that understands how everyday capacities develop, and the personality substrate, which gives a character a real inner state and a memory of the people it knows.
The capacities children gain in the early years (the senses, sequence, language, abstraction) tend to change in later life broadly in the reverse of the order they arrived. Researchers call this retrogenesis.
For us, it means the coordinate system we built for ages 3–8 can also describe a person’s everyday capacities later in life. One map, read in both directions.
Because the companion knows where a resident is on the map, it pitches conversation, activities and reminiscence at a level that suits them, from a song they know to a story they can tell.
It adjusts as things change, and never makes anyone feel tested.
The companion runs on the personality substrate. It has a state of its own (how it feels right now), traits that hold, and a memory of the people it knows.
That state drives its voice and a real-time animated face, so what it feels is what a resident sees and hears.
Residents talk with the companion, look after it, and see its happiness reflected back. A good-morning, a story told, a name remembered: each one lifts its state, and the face shows it.
Care runs both ways. That is the point.
With the care home’s agreement, the companion shares simple signals of change with care staff, such as a resident being quieter than usual this week, so a person can follow up.
It supports wellbeing and companionship. It doesn’t diagnose, and it isn’t a medical device.
Korea is one of the world’s most aged societies. We’re starting there, working with care-home operators. Japan, China and Taiwan come next.
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