Sixty seconds. Real signal.
Speak for sixty seconds. Whisper transcribes it server-side. The Bodhisattva Engine extracts your emotional state — not keywords, but a structured inference of what is actually happening for you.
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Your zodiac companion lives here. Speak your day. Release them into the river. Return to see what the current carried back.
What it is
River Habitat is a living system built around your Chinese zodiac companion — one of twelve animals assigned by your birth year. Each day has a rhythm: you speak, you play, you release your companion into the river, and you return to close the day.
The river changes with how you move through life. Your companion listens, responds, and remembers.
We are in soft launch. The core ritual loop, puzzle system, and companion AI are live today. The ranked leaderboard, celestial events, and physical companion toys are being built — we will tell you when they are ready.
A 60-second voice entry. Speak your state. The companion listens and extracts signal.
The Great River Race — navigate twelve training zones, one per zodiac animal.
Talk to your companion. They respond based on your behavioral history, not scripts.
The evening release ritual. Your companion returns. The day closes.
Your longitudinal signal — patterns across days, synthesized by the companion AI.
What makes it different
Speak for sixty seconds. Whisper transcribes it server-side. The Bodhisattva Engine extracts your emotional state — not keywords, but a structured inference of what is actually happening for you.
Your zodiac animal is assigned by your Chinese birth year — not chosen. After ten sessions they begin naming patterns between what you declared and what actually happened. After thirty, they can cut straight to what matters.
The habitat is not decoration. Your companion's state, your ritual consistency, and your puzzle performance all feed into a living environment that changes visibly over time.
The Great River Race has one zone per zodiac animal — each with its own current mechanics, attempt limits, and special rules. Puzzle performance feeds behavioral telemetry: resilience depth, volatility index, cognitive elasticity.
The companion AI infers a structured state vector — primary emotional state, intensity, modifiers, and a response mode. It stabilises, clarifies, reframes, or directs based on what you actually need right now.
Included in paid tier · 7-day free trialToday's Signal synthesises your voice entry, communion session, and puzzle performance into a single structured card — emotional arc, dominant state, recommended focus, and risk flags.
Paid tier onlyYour companion
Enter your birth date. Your companion is revealed. They carry the personality, movement physics, and elemental nature of their zodiac sign — and they grow more personalised the longer you use them.
Custom illustrated companions being commissioned — full artwork arriving before public launch.
The Bodhisattva Engine
It is not a chatbot. It does not respond to keywords. The Bodhisattva Engine reads the pattern of your days — your declarations against your reality, your puzzle behaviour, your voice entries — and infers what is actually happening for you.
In your first sessions it stays quiet. Grounding observations only. By the tenth session it starts naming the gap between who you said you'd be today and what actually happened. By the thirtieth, it can ask the one question that cuts through.
It gets harder to fool the longer you use it.
7-day free trial · then $9.99/mo
Thirty-four days. You have said a version of this nineteen times. The question is not why you don't slow down. The question is what you are afraid will happen if you do.
The long game
Every voice entry, every puzzle run, every evening reflection — it is building a longitudinal model of how you move through the world. The end destination is a physical companion toy, zodiac-specific, that carries your behavioural history and becomes genuinely personalised over time. Not a toy that ships with a personality. A toy that earns one.
This is a long-term vision. The app comes first. We will not build the toy until the data is worth putting into it.
In development · not yet available
Pricing
The core experience — your companion, the habitat, and all twelve puzzle zones — is free, always. The AI layers require a subscription after your trial ends.
$0
Forever. No card required.
$9.99
Per month. Cancel anytime.
After your 7-day trial ends, your companion will say: Your companion has walked with you through the trial. To continue this conversation, step into the current.
The shop
Merch is being designed now by a commissioned artist — each piece built around the zodiac companion system. Nothing ships until it is worth wearing.
One design per animal. Limited run.
Art prints from the living habitat.
Enamel pins, totes, and more.
Designs commissioned from an independent artist. Beta users get early access to the shop. Follow @TheDigitalZoo for previews when they drop.
Early access
River Habitat is in private beta. Join the waitlist — we'll send your invite when your place opens.
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