# SoulGlitch Design Notes — Vision & Mechanics > Design document for SoulGlitch: creature evolution, Hall of Fame, swarm networking, emotion training, privacy-first AI companion—not a cloud chatbot wrapper. Canonical: https://openfluke.com/soulglitch/notes --- Developer notes • current direction • public build plan SoulGlitch Notes These are the live notes behind SoulGlitch’s current direction: a local offline AI pet with emotional reactions, swarm personalities, founder-only inner layers, and a longer-term path toward richer on-device agent behaviour. Back to SoulGlitch Pricing & Tiers Coming Features 🧬 What SoulGlitch is now The current app direction SoulGlitch is no longer framed as the old creature-simulation placeholder. The current product is an offline AI digital pet with a glitch face, emotional reactions, local training, and a swarm layer for asking multiple personalities the same question and collecting their answers. The goal is to make local AI feel expressive, playful, reactive, and personal — something that feels alive on your phone, not another sterile cloud chatbot. Privacy matters, but the front-facing experience is still meant to be fun. 📱 Core app loop How the main experience is supposed to feel Open the app and interact with a living full-screen face rather than a plain message list. Talk to the entity and watch it react visually with glitches, emoji-driven moods, and changing expression. Train its sentiment and emotional behaviour using your own data. Share a photo or video and let it react based on what you previously taught it. Move into the founder layer and ask a swarm of personalities the same question to get a group vote. 💸 Free, Founder, and later pricing The monetization direction as it stands right now Free tier The expressive outer layer Talk to the glitch face and train text sentiment reactions Train on images and influence emotional response Share a photo and get a mood-based reaction Share video and move toward video-aware emotional reactions Export and share moments to social media Founder unlock • $8.88 The hidden inner layer Customize entity colour, shape, and other visual traits Create more than one entity with different prompts and instructions Ask a question to a swarm of agents and collect their votes Build your own custom groups from a larger entity pool Access deeper prototype features behind the hidden door 🌀 Coming features The longer-term buildout pushing toward the higher tier Later roadmap • $18.88 direction System expansion Encrypted chats Network swarm hosting Windows, Linux, and Mac releases Device-to-device encrypted syncing Better face expressions and richer emotional display Audio and video training Optional distributed compute / donate device power 3D environments to engage with the entity in its own dimension Kernel fusion and other inference speed improvements 🎯 Targeting notes Who this appears to be for right now Current likely audience AI-curious adults who like playful tech, weird chat experiences, expressive interfaces, privacy-first software, and experimental apps that do not feel overly corporate or serious. Why the tone matters SoulGlitch works better when framed as fun, strange, reactive, and slightly chaotic. The privacy story is important, but “don’t take AI too seriously” is likely the sharper outer hook. 🧠 Model layer notes How the local brain tiers are being thought about 135M — light brain: fast reactions, playful tone, lower load, ideal for lively mobile interaction. 360M — balanced brain: stronger all-round local personality, better for fuller interaction on more capable devices. 1.7B — deep brain: heavier reasoning tier intended more for server or stronger hardware contexts. 🚀 Launch notes How rollout is currently framed The rollout path starts on Android, where the current build and local model story make the most sense. The founder direction then expands slowly into iOS, desktop storefronts, and eventually Steam. The app that launches first is not the final universe. It is the first stable layer: local pet, emotional reactions, founder swarm, and enough weirdness to prove the concept. SoulGlitch is being built in layers: first the expressive local pet, then the founder inner system, then the broader dimensional expansion.