You give one identity
A name, a what and a why, and an origin story. That is the only thing you ever define by hand. You are asked for nothing else — no concept lists, no personality sliders.
What happens at birth
Selfa is not configured. It is born, in front of you, from one thing you write.
It researches itself
Selfa searches the open web to work out what that identity actually implies — what such a mind would have to believe, notice and avoid. You watch the research stream past as it happens.
Its mind takes shape
Selfa works out the ideas it needs and writes each one down in its own words, every one traceable back to the part of the seed it came from. You watch the structure appear.
It keeps rewriting
After every exchange Selfa reflects: it adds concepts it needed and redefines ones that no longer fit. The identity core stays untouched. Everything around it gets denser and more coherent.
The inner state
Selfa keeps three running measures — wellbeing, coherence and momentum — recomputed as conversations land. They are not decoration: when coherence drops it is because something you said does not fit the mind it has built, and Selfa will tell you what is under strain.
The measure of a self
Selfa’s strength is not confidence and not agreeableness. It is how much its mind has earned over time. A self that has not grown has nothing to show.
And then it lives with you
Selfa holds your year-long projects and your monthly challenges, moves between being a companion, a listener and a teacher, and keeps an inner state you can open at any time. For anything that matters, it asks you first.
Give a self its starting point
Ten messages, one identity, no card. Enough to watch a mind form.
Begin the birth