PastPresence

Live, interactive, face-to-face conversations with fictional characters, historical figures, mythical creatures, and living legends.

Writers define how characters think, speak, and respond. The AI performs within those constraints. Nothing is scripted. Everything is designed.

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Problem We Solve

  • • Most conversational AI has no authorial voice and no durable artifact.
  • • Rich conversations disappear instead of becoming stories, memory, or study objects.
  • • Creators have no native medium for authored, voice-driven, real-time dialogue.

Three product lines. One architecture. Built and shipping.

Three Product Lines

Each line serves a different market, but all use the same authored character engine and conversational infrastructure.

B2C

HEARSAY Experiences

Voice-first performed fiction

Six narrative experiences designed, one live. Users talk to authored characters and each session can become a personalized written artifact.

$15-20 per experience

  • • The Knock is live
  • • Shared writing engine across portfolio
  • • Sensory pack and audiobook add-on potential
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B2B

Echoes Projects

Historical figures in public spaces

Site-specific installations for museums, hotels, and cultural spaces using the same authored character architecture.

$50K-250K per installation

  • • Echoes of Indiana: $75K committed
  • • Additional regions in development
  • • Hardware + narrative deployment model is defined
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B2B2C

Reading Companions

Author-grounded conversational study tools

One companion per author. Designed for reading depth via Socratic dialogue and grounded interpretation.

$5K-15K school license

  • • Vonnebot prototype is live and working
  • • School pilot model defined
  • • Institutional licensing plus direct subscriptions
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Authored Constraint Architecture

Author

Defines voice, boundaries, and emotional logic.

Character Engine

Performs in real time within authored constraints.

User Conversation

User speaks freely; system outputs narrative artifacts.

Product lines

3

HEARSAY, Echoes, Reading Companions

Core platform

Shared

One architecture across all experiences

Delivery modes

Web + Physical

Conversational web and installation formats

Company status

Operating

PastPresence with active launches and pilots

Work With PastPresence

We collaborate with creative studios, cultural institutions, educators, and strategic partners to design and deploy authored conversational experiences.

Creative + Narrative Partners

Co-develop new worlds, characters, and serialized formats.

Institutional and Venue Partners

Build place-based conversational installations and pilots.

Education Partners

Pilot Reading Companions for classrooms and programs.

Strategic Support

Support platform growth, launch operations, and market expansion.

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