Opening the site drops you into what they call a talking library. There's a grid of faces stretching back 25 centuries. Plato sits next to Virginia Woolf. Marcus Aurelius shares space with Marie Curie. The interface lets you pick from over 100 historical figures and just start chatting.
You can browse by discipline if you want structure. Writers, Thinkers, Scientists. Each category opens to reveal dozens of options. Or you can move by era and movement, jumping from Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to Modernism. There's also filtering by profession, so you can zero in on poets versus economists versus mystics. The browsing feels like wandering through a museum where every exhibit talks back.
Click on any figure and a chat window opens. You type questions. They respond in character, drawing from their philosophical positions, literary styles, or scientific work. Conversations happen in 16 languages, which matters when you're talking to Cervantes or Goethe and want to switch between English and their native tongues.
The responses lean heavily on mimicking historical voice and perspective. Sometimes this works beautifully. Other times you hit the limit of what an AI can do with centuries-old context, and answers feel more like Wikipedia summaries dressed in period language. The system doesn't break down when this happens, but the magic dulls.
Website owners can embed these conversations through customizable widgets. You pick colors, select which authors appear, choose the language, and drop the code into any CMS platform. For literary blogs or educational sites, this means readers can chat with Dostoevsky without leaving the page. The widget setup isn't complicated, but you're limited to the figures already in the system. Can't add your own.
There's an affiliate program offering 30 percent commission on first payments, with a 60 euro minimum payout and 30-day cookie window. This suggests there's a paid component somewhere, but the site doesn't surface what costs money versus what's free. You'd need to create an account to see if conversations hit a paywall or if it's the widget integration that requires payment.
The concept works. Talking to historical minds beats reading about them. But the execution depends entirely on whether the AI captures enough nuance to feel like conversation versus costume. Sometimes it does. Sometimes you're just typing at a very educated parrot wearing Benjamin Franklin's face.
