Giving characters a soul.
We are building NUMEN — an AI personality engine for games and interactive worlds. Characters that feel, remember and grow attached — running entirely on your machine. This page works the same way.
- 2026
- Officially founded
- 01
- Flagship engine · NUMEN
- 100%
- On-device · privacy-first
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- Fields of application
Anatomy of
a mind.
From algorithm to final experience, our six disciplines are organs of the same organism. Touch one — the others respond.
Personality engine& persistent psychology
Biomimetic cognitive architecture for AI characters: emotions that evolve, hidden intentions, lasting attachments. Grounded in decades of cognitive-psychology research.
- Biomimetic emotions
- Long-term memory
- Neural voice
- On-device
Living game characters
NPCs that remember, shift moods, grow attached — or hold a grudge. Characters that persist beyond a single scene.
Neural voice cloning
A unique voice per character, cloned from a few seconds of audio. Tone adapts to emotion in real time.
Applied R&D
Fundamental and applied research, measuring emotional believability, academic partnerships.
Enterprise AI
Operational AI integration for insurance, finance, legal and regulated industries. Standard and bespoke solutions, privacy-first by design.
Consulting & training for studios and institutions.
Audits, AI-character integration support, tailored training programs for game studios,
publishers and institutions.
Workshops · Roadmaps · POCs.
One flagship.
Two sealed files.
NUMEN is public. The rest is under NDA — the memory log below is the only window we leave open.
NUMENThe presence inside the character
An engine that gives AI characters genuine psychology: they feel, they remember, they grow attached — for real. It runs entirely on the player's machine. Nothing leaves.
- Q4 2025Core cognitive architecture
- Q1 2026Long-term memory & neural voice
- Q2 2026Working internal alpha
- Q4 2026Closed beta with partners
- 2027SDK for studios
Feeling is not a feature. It's the architecture.
A character is not a chatbot in costume — it is memory, mood, and the scar of every conversation.
We build minds light enough to live on your machine, and deep enough to miss you.
- 2026
- Founded
- 48.86°N
- Paris, France
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- Disciplines
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- Flagship engine
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- Years of vision
A studio the size
of an obsession.
I didn't set out to build smarter NPCs. I set out to build ones you'd miss.
The characters I loved as a kid forgot me the moment I set the controller down. The world went dark behind me, and nothing on the other side kept the warmth. NUMEN was born from that absence — let something persist: a mood, a grudge, the trace of a promise — so that closing a game feels less like unplugging a machine and more like leaving a friend mid-sentence.
A mind doesn't grow in soil-less clouds. A character comes alive through what moves through it — memory settling like sediment, moods drifting with the weather of your conversations, attachment taking root. All of it on your machine, sheltered: something you cultivate, not a service you rent. If a page this small can already remember you, imagine what a character becomes after a hundred hours of shared life.
Founder & CEO
From blank page
to production.
Four phases. One obsession: every idea ships with its creative intent intact.
ExplorationResearch & intuition
Scientific watch, user immersion, bold hypothesis design.
PrototypeLiving mock-up
Fast functional POCs, objective metrics, validation with pilot partners.
IndustrializationScaling up
Robust architecture, security, observability, documentation, automated testing.
ReleaseShipping
Progressive rollout, impact measurement, continuous iteration, partner handover.
This page will remember you.
Most software won't.
Partnerships, joint R&D, investment, consulting — every serious conversation is welcome.