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Voices of History · Foundation

One engine.
Three product surfaces.

A content runtime where every historical figure is extensively sourced, voiced, and judged in real time — packaged as three independently branded surfaces, each tuned to a different audience and a different retention curve.

The Engine

The expensive part is built once.

A character chatbot is not a product. The infrastructure above it — sourcing, gamification, scoring, classroom workflow, shareable artifacts — is. Generative AI made figures, voices, and clips cheap. The moat moved up a layer. We built that layer, and we ship it into three independently branded surfaces in parallel.

Sourcing
Every figure is grounded in primary texts. The corpus pipeline turns a syllabus into a voiced roster in under thirty minutes.
Voice
A unified voice stack renders each figure with characteristic cadence, register, and rhetorical posture across modalities.
Judgment
A real-time arbiter scores arguments and flags fallacies live during conversation. Engagement that resists routing through a generic model.

The Surfaces

Three independent reads on the same calendar, instead of staking everything on a single product.

  1. 01

    Yap Royale

    Consumer

    A live PvP debate game with ELO, leaderboards, and unlockable rosters. Daily scenarios under five minutes — Chess.com meets Omegle, with historical figures as opponents.

    LiveVisit →
  2. 02

    Education

    Faculty and students

    Faculty upload a syllabus; the engine generates a course progression and roster of figures grounded in the assigned texts. Students complete short, scored conversations before each lecture. Piloting in three Columbia courses.

    In development
  3. 03

    Creator Tooling

    Creators and studios

    A creator drops in a YouTube link or article, picks figures, and receives a downloadable reaction video, clip assortment, or ensemble podcast. Pricing scales by minute and figure count.

    In development

Team

Engineers and operators behind the runtime.

Jonah Aden
Columbia CS senior (Stats, PoliSci). Previously SWE at Pure Poker. 2024 NASA SUITS Lead.
Josh Hegstad
Columbia CS junior. Built AlignED and Debt Vulture — the same corpus and simulation stack now powers Voices. Previously SWE at Pure Poker. 2025 NASA SUITS Lead.