Persopy: AI Personas Grounded in the Documented Record
AI personas built from a person's documented record—published work, writings, recorded testimony—so answers come from the sources themselves rather than from a model's recollection of them.
Persopy builds AI personas of experts and historical figures from the full record those people left behind. A prompt can imitate a voice; the harder problem is having the underlying corpus organised well enough that an agent can reach it, cite it, and know the limits of what it supports.
The Problem
Any language model will happily answer “as Einstein” if you ask it to. What it cannot do reliably is tell you which of its claims come from a paper the person actually wrote, which come from what others later wrote about them, and which are confabulated to fill a gap.
For education, research, and cultural memory, that distinction is the whole point.
What a Persopy Persona Does
- Answers from sources. Responses are drawn from the actual documents, not from a model’s memory of them. The persona can point to the passage it used.
- Separates what is whose. A person’s own words are never blended with later commentary about them. The persona keeps the difference and will say which it is speaking from.
- Stops where the record stops. Where the documents are silent or uncertain, it says so—in character, without inventing memories, quotations, or opinions.
Where It Applies
Memory and testimony. Recorded testimony rendered as a persona that answers in the first person, strictly within what the witness documented—so visitors and students can ask their own questions, and the account stays reachable for the next generation.
Research institutes. A lab’s own publication record, distilled into the methods behind it, so students and collaborators can consult the group’s accumulated reasoning directly.
Historical figures. Complete primary works—papers, letters, notebooks— reconstructed into an interlocutor for study, teaching, and public engagement.
Personas Built So Far
| Subject | Built from |
|---|---|
| Albert Einstein (1879–1955) | Collected papers—articles, lectures, notebooks, reviews |
| Henri Bergson (1859–1941) | Philosophical works and essays |
| E. T. Jaynes (1922–1998) | Papers on probability, inference, and statistical mechanics |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) | Histological works and scientific writings |
| Research groups | A working lab’s own publication record, by arrangement |
Persopy works with archives, memorial institutions, and research groups. Testimony work is undertaken only together with the holding institution. Get in touch at contact@persopy.com.