Context & Motivation
The people who know us best understand how we think, care about our wellbeing, and tell us hard truths. AI assistants are now everyday thinking partners, yet they share one set of default values and know us only through facts. Petalprint lets people shape those values within core safety and honesty principles, making their assistant more human without ever replacing the people in their lives.
Target Audience
Adults who want a personalized, curated AI assistant with character, starting with people whose cultures and traditions are least reflected in AI defaults.
Customer Problems
Value lists like "honesty" don't guide real outputs, and written instructions cover only anticipated situations. People want an assistant that understands them, looks out for their wellbeing, stays honest, and leaves them in full control.
Compelling Solutions
Teaching
A ten-minute voice or text conversation invites life stories through prompts like "Tell me about a time when...", then follows up to understand your reasoning. Questions, written by people from diverse backgrounds, start light and deepen only as trust builds, and any can be skipped. Your stories form a readable Petalprint of your thought patterns, shaping the priorities, never the facts, behind everything your assistant creates. You choose where it mirrors you and where it offers a counterweight, and requests to hide mistakes are gently and transparently reworded, because care requires honesty.
Growing
Ask any question, compare its reasoning with yours, and teach it the difference, or change your own mind. An optional daily prompt, like "Tell me about a time you felt truly proud," lets your assistant reflect back your values and suggest additions. A toggle removes personalization from any answer, and prompts to share stories with loved ones keep people at the center. Effort compounds: time invested early yields ever more aligned answers.
Trust
Off by default. Nothing is added without your approval or shared with third parties, and your Petalprint can be switched off or permanently and verifiably erased anytime.
Outcome
As AI increasingly shapes how people think and write, Petalprint provides the optionality to preserve the diversity of human values in AI, so people of every culture and tradition are understood as themselves rather than nudged toward a single default.
