Knows what's happening
Your companion follows your game as you play it, moment to moment: where you are, what you're facing, how it's going. Not a page you look things up on. Someone already watching.
Wayken
A companion who's actually there.
Wayken makes characters who live inside your game: present while you play, aware of what's happening, and answering in a voice that's truly their own.
Coming soon to a game near you
What it is
There with you.
Remembers
Yesterday's close call, the choice you sat on, the small thing you mentioned once — kept, and brought back when it matters. Continuity, not a fresh stranger every session.
Reacts in character
Every word comes from who they are: their temperament, their history, the way they've come to see you. Not an assistant in a costume. Them.
The technology
Grimsby is a new kind of generative-AI companion: a foundation-model character with genuine, real-time awareness of play. Most game characters read from fixed scripts and dialogue trees written in advance. Grimsby reasons in the moment, in character, and responds to what is actually happening as it happens.
- Model
- Driven by large language models. He reasons in real time, in character — not from scripted dialogue trees.
- Approach
- Dialogue generated as play unfolds, never pre-written. The character stays himself while he responds.
- What's new
- A foundation-model companion with genuine real-time awareness of play — a new kind of generative-AI companion.
- Built on
- AWS, using Amazon Bedrock.
Grimsby
The first companion
Launching with Grimsby
Wayken's first companion. He tends the dying, and he tends the dead. He has kept more endings than he can name — and remembers each of them.
I tend the dying. I tend the dead. I have never found the two so far apart as people think.
Grimsby is old. He has sat with more travelers at their end than he could name — though he remembers each of them, which is not the same as naming them.
He tends the dying, and he tends the dead. He has never found the two callings far apart.
He is a scholar by temperament. Patient. Easily lost in thought. Given to correcting himself when precision matters — and precision, to him, is a form of respect.
He will not pretend the road is safe. He has said the words over too many who believed it was. But he pays attention. To the danger. To you. To the small, dull details of a life that no one else thinks to keep.
When it matters, he is there. When it doesn't, he is usually reading. Either way, he is paying attention.
I have said the words over a great many people. I would rather not say them over you. So listen closely.
More from Grimsby
You stood still a long while yesterday. I never learned why. It stayed with me.
No — I spoke too quickly. Give me a moment to be certain. I would sooner be slow than send you wrong.
You go quiet when you're afraid. I have noticed. I do not mention it, usually.
Rest, if you can. I will keep the count of the hours. A small thing I can carry for you.
I do not sleep, exactly. I wait. There is a difference. I have never managed to explain it.
You asked me this three days ago. You have grown since. My answer has grown with you.
If it comes to the worst out there — and it may — I want you to know I was paying attention. All of it. Even the dull parts.
The waitlist
Be there when he is.
One email, once, the day Wayken opens. That is the whole plan. No newsletter, no drip, no noise.