THE WIKI

The platform manual. What every feature, model, and idea means — in plain language. Read-only, always free.

Features

Deck

The heart of discovery. You move through curated topic cards one at a time — heart to enter, cross to pass. Every swipe costs nothing and is unlimited, but every signal is stored. Right swipes teach Tara who you are; left swipes simply step aside and remain eligible to return. During cold start your first three right swipes unlock vector ordering; after that the deck is ranked highest-to-lowest by your interests, and any card you have experienced never returns.

Card

The atomic content unit. One title, its tags, metadata, and a randomized background gradient that changes each render — the gradient is decoration, not data. Three depth versions share that one title: Ember (25 turns), Blaze (50), Nova (75). No card ever shows who made it or how popular it is; the platform owns every card, and no swipe count or like metric exists anywhere.

Oracle Search

The only way to search, and it is cards-only — there is no people search. Type 3+ characters: 3–9 chars runs keyword (title substring) only; 10+ chars runs both keyword and semantic vector at a strict 50/50 alternating interleave. You receive up to 100 results via scroll pagination. Your own cards and any card you have experienced (entered and ended) are permanently excluded; left-swiped cards remain visible.

Card Conversations & Versions

A single, purchase-gated conversation with Tara grounded in the card you chose. You pick a version (Ember/Blaze/Nova) and a model (Pulse/Aether/Singularity); price is per-turn × margin × version and model multipliers, minus a fixed 50-coin sponsored delta if you opt in. There is no per-turn billing — the purchase covers the whole allowance — and server-side checkpoints keep you safe through interruptions.

Crystallization

The paid sealing that happens only at the end of a conversation. For 10 Tara Coins you can turn the finished dialogue into a permanent Achievement — an AI-synthesized summary with its own title, metadata, and a read-only transcript. Accept and the synthesis runs; if it fails after the charge, the 10 coins are refunded automatically. Decline or lack of balance simply ends the conversation without an Achievement.

Achievements

A sealed, read-only record of a crystallized conversation. It holds the AI title, originating card title, metadata, summary, timestamp, and the immutable transcript you can revisit but never edit. Visible in reverse-chronological order on the Achievements page, and shareable externally as a generated branded image via the native share sheet — your profile itself is never exposed.

Memories

Your personal archive. You write fragments yourself or the system extracts them automatically when a conversation ends — both paths run the same gatekeeper → rewriter → title pipeline powered by Gemini, and both are priced identically: 5 coins to create or edit, free to delete. Every memory is embedded for retrieval and tagged by origin; they are private to you and never public, yet they personalize every future chat and your vector profile.

Tara Coins & Store

The only currency in this universe. You use it to unlock conversations, suits, crystallization, and support tickets. The Store shows one free claim of 500 coins (once per account) plus ten paid glass tiers from $10/1,000 to $100,000/12.5M coins (100–125 coins per dollar). Settlement is via Razorpay, server-verified and idempotent, with every movement recorded in the Ledger.

Creation Suits

Three paid tiers that run an AI-guided conversation to author a card: Genesis (100 coins, 25 turns, 1/100 royalty, 1,000 cap), Crucible (250, 50, 3,000), Zenith (500, 75, 7,500). You choose a suit, then a model (Pulse 1.0×, Aether 2.5×, Singularity 5.0×); the model-adjusted price is charged before chat begins, and there is never an end button — the AI or the turn limit triggers compilation.

Campaigns

How brands sponsor welcome and end screens. Choose Beacon (100 base, 100–10K impressions), Signal (250, 10K–100K), or Radiance (500, 100K–1M), then a model for the guided campaign conversation. The minimum impression amount is deducted at compile and the remainder held hostage; cancel and the hostage is released. Personalization depth scales with suit: vector only → +achievements → +memories.

Royalties & Withdrawals

You earn 1 coin per 100 turns consumed on cards you authored, up to the lifetime cap of the creation suit that made the card. Self-consumption never accrues. Your royalty ledger on My Royalties is append-only and scroll-paginated, separate from the normal Ledger. Withdrawals are manual to any major gateway once legal clears, $100 minimum, atomic and exactly-once.

Leaderboard

The intellectual race, measured quarterly. Points come only from completions inside the season: Ember 5pts, Blaze 10pts, Nova 20pts, and each crystallized Achievement 15pts. Model and spend do not affect score. The top three earn in-app rewards proportional to their quarterly spend (1.5×, 1×, 0.5×); rewards are spendable in-app, never withdrawable, and seasons roll over exactly once.

Ledger

Every coin you earn and spend, recorded forever. Store purchases, card conversations, creation and campaign suits, crystallization, and support tickets all appear with direction, amount, timestamp, and a human-readable cause. Royalties live separately on My Royalties. Records are append-only, never editable, and loaded via scroll pagination.

Support

A direct line to the team. You create a ticket by choosing priority (Low 2 coins, Medium 5, High 10), subject, and your message; a ticket card appears and opens a human chat. Both you and support have an explicit end button, and the ticket closes atomically — response is best-effort, never a guaranteed SLA.

Founder Page

The lore and backstory behind Tara Rodrigues and the human who built it. Written for a global audience — references say India, never a specific city — and fully SEO-optimized with semantic headings, meta and Open Graph, canonical URL, and Person structured data so the founder story is indexable and crawlable.

Learn More

A technical flex page that shows how Tara helps you personally. You type about yourself or pick a pre-made prompt; a template plus your words are sent to the AI, and personalized content is generated and rendered inline. Distinct from Wiki (reference) and Support (tickets) — this is live generation.

The Three System Models

Pulse

Rhythm core

Steady, reliable companion for daily queries.

Reliable outputFast responsesShort context

Aether

Higher plane

Elevated reasoning with broader context awareness.

Deeper reasoningMedium contextNuanced responses

Singularity

Event horizon

Deep multi-turn coherence for extended sessions.

Deep coherenceLong contextMulti-turn memory

Core Concepts & Terminology

Card

The atomic content unit. One title, its metadata, and three depth versions (Ember/Blaze/Nova) sharing that title. Rendered on a randomized gradient, with no creator or popularity signals ever shown — the card is what it contains, not who made it.

Turn

One user-sent message in any chat — creation suite, card conversation, or support. The unit of depth and of royalty accrual (1 coin per 100 turns consumed on your cards). Messages cap at 10,000 characters and failed turns surface without charging.

Version

One of three depth levels of a card: Ember (25 turns), Blaze (50), or Nova (75). The version sets the maximum turns you purchase; deeper versions allow more narrative development, and together they share the same title and metadata.

Model

One of three system models you choose at purchase: Pulse (1.0×), Aether (2.5×), Singularity (5.0×). The choice determines which AI engine powers the conversation and multiplies the price.

Royalty

Creator earnings credited at 1 coin per 100 turns consumed on a card you authored, up to the per-card lifetime cap of the creation suit (Genesis 1,000 / Crucible 3,000 / Zenith 7,500). Self-consumption never accrues, accounting is atomic and idempotent, and the cap never resets.

Withdrawal

Cashing out withdrawable royalty balance to a linked payout gateway. Minimum $100 (100 coins at 100 = $1), manual only — no auto payouts — atomic and exactly-once. Leaderboard rewards are in-app only and never withdrawable. No identity verification required — payouts go directly to your connected account when linked; launch-blocked until legal clears tax terms.

Tara Coins

The single in-app currency. You spend it on store purchases, card conversations, creation and campaign suits, crystallization, and support tickets. Every movement is recorded in the Ledger; royalties live separately. Purchased via Razorpay, 100 coins = $1, with ten paid tiers plus one free claim.

Crystallization

The paid action that seals a finished conversation as a permanent, titled Achievement. For 10 coins at the mandatory end-offer, the full transcript is summarized by the AI into a title + metadata. Decline or lack of balance simply ends the conversation; failure after charge refunds automatically.

Ledger

The immutable, owner-visible, append-only record of every Tara Coin movement except royalties. Each entry shows direction (in/out), amount, timestamp, and a human-readable cause. Royalty flows live on My Royalties; nothing ledger-entries can be edited or deleted.

Memory

A fragment of user context — user-authored (5 coins to create/edit) or auto-extracted when any conversation ends — that personalizes future chats and your vector profile. Both types run the same Gemini gatekeeper → rewriter → title pipeline, are embedded for retrieval, and are private to you.

Experienced Card

A card whose conversation you purchased, entered, and ended by any termination mode (user-request, auto-complete, turn-limit, or decline). It is then permanently hidden from your deck and Oracle Search — no re-purchase, no thread, no recovery. A right-swipe alone without entry is not experienced.

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