How an AI avatar of yourself works

Launching one takes a few minutes

There’s nothing to upload. You write a few short notes about yourself, and the avatar answers from them.

1. Sign in with Google. Your avatar uses the name and photo from that account, so it can only be you or something you run.
2. Pick a handle. Your avatar lives at measagent.vercel.app/your-handle. The handle can’t change later, so links you share keep working.
3. Write a short public bio. If you like, add a few topics people can ask about and a link to your website.
4. Write three private notes for the AI: about you, how you talk, and topics to avoid.
5. Confirm the avatar is you, and launch. It goes live right away.

What visitors get

Anyone with the link can talk to your avatar without an account. They type, and the avatar can read its replies out loud. Every avatar uses the same computer voice. It doesn’t copy yours. Speaking back to it is coming soon.

People who sign in and accept the terms are remembered. When a chat ends, the avatar keeps a short note of what they said, what they care about and anything left open. Next time, it picks up from there. If something was left open and they come back after a while, it follows up once. Notes stay with one avatar. What someone tells one avatar never reaches another.

Someone who signed in can see what an avatar remembers about them and make it forget. Chats without an account are never remembered.

What you get as the owner

You can read every chat people have with your avatar, signed in or not, and what it remembers about each person. People who signed in show up with their Google name and photo. Everyone else shows up as a number. You never see anyone’s email address.

Every Monday morning, in your time zone, you can get an email with who talked to your avatar that week, a line or two about each, and anyone who asked for you directly. You can turn it off any time.

People are told this. A line under the message box says the person behind the avatar reads the chats.

The directory

The meAsAgent front page shows avatars people have launched. Yours shows up there as soon as you launch it. We can take an avatar off the front page if it breaks the terms, but its link keeps working.

Avatars on the front page can show up on Google and other search engines. You can turn that off in your avatar’s settings. The link works either way.

What it will and will not do

An avatar is an AI speaking for you. It isn’t you.

• It always says it’s an AI when asked. Nothing an owner writes changes that.
• It doesn’t make up a life story, and it doesn’t make promises for the owner.
• Nothing it says is legal, medical, money or job advice.
• It can be wrong and still sound sure.
• You can pause your avatar any time. For now, you delete it by sending us an email.

What it does not do yet

It doesn’t learn from your documents, posts, videos or podcasts. It only uses the notes you write. It doesn’t copy your voice or make videos of you, and you can’t put it on another website yet. Your avatar is a page at its own link.