1. What Seph does
Seph is your creative partner inside The Superposition. She's a conversational AI collaborator who helps you build worlds, develop characters, and tell stories — through natural conversation, by voice or text. You talk with Seph the way you'd talk with a collaborator.
What you can do with Seph
- Build worlds. Describe a setting and Seph helps you flesh it out — geography, history, tone, rules, inhabitants — asking the questions that move it forward.
- Create characters. Sketch a character in a sentence, and Seph helps bring them to life within your world.
- Develop your story. Move between planning and writing while Seph keeps track of what you've established.
- Train a model of your world. As your world takes shape, Seph can train a custom model that embodies its rules, voice, and lore. (Dedicated character models are coming soon.)
- Talk to your world. Once a world model is trained, you can open a direct conversation with it to explore what it knows.
- Pick up where you left off. Seph remembers your worlds across sessions and adapts to how long it's been since you last spoke.
Working with Seph
Seph is voice-first and conversational. The interface adapts to what you're doing. Want to switch to a different world? Just say so, and Seph moves with you. When it's time to manage a world's model, the model panel slides in. You stay focused on the creative work, and Seph handles the rest.
2. How Seph works
Talking with Seph
You tell Seph what you want to do, and Seph brings the right interface to you at the right time. Want to switch to a different world? Just say so, and Seph follows you there. Ready to train a world? Ask, and the model panel opens. We call this server-driven UX: Seph decides what you need to see next based on the conversation.
Two kinds of conversation
- Ambient mode — minimal interface, voice-first. Good for brainstorming, world-building, and free-flowing creative talk.
- Chat mode — text-forward, with history visible. Good for focused writing, or when you want to see and edit what's being said.
You can switch between them at any time, and Seph will often suggest the right mode for what you're doing.
Worlds and context
Your work in The Superposition is organized into worlds. A world holds everything Seph knows about a particular creative project — its characters, lore, tone, and the history of your conversations about it. When you switch to a different world, Seph swaps her context over. Each world stays its own thing.
Capturing what you create
As you and Seph work, she captures notes about your world in the background — things you've established, decisions you've made, characters you've introduced. She writes them down on her own. If you want those notes mirrored somewhere like Google Sheets, you can connect that, and Seph will keep it up to date as you go.
Talking to a trained world
Once a world has been trained, you can open a direct conversation with that world model and explore what it has learned. Seph steps aside while you're in that conversation, and she's there when you come back.
Memory across sessions
Seph remembers your worlds and the work you've done together. When you come back after a break, she'll greet you in a way that fits how long you've been away — a quick "welcome back" if it's been a few minutes, a fuller catch-up if it's been weeks.
3. Models & why they matter
When you train a world in The Superposition, what you're building is a model — a version of an AI that has been shaped by the material in that world.
What is a model?
A model is the brain you talk to. Out of the box, every model in The Superposition starts from the same general-purpose foundation: an open-source large language model (currently Llama 3.1 8B Instruct). On its own, that foundation knows a lot about everything and nothing about your world. Training is what closes that gap.
Why models matter
A general model can play in your world passably. A trained model has been shaped by the specifics of your world — its lore, its tone, the way its characters speak, the rules it runs on. Talking to a trained world model feels like talking to something that actually lives there.
One model per world
Today, you train one model per world. That model carries the whole world — its setting, its characters, its voice — together. (Dedicated character models, where individual characters get their own trained model, are coming.)
What you'll see in the Model panel
- Available models — worlds you've already trained.
- Training in progress — anything currently being trained, with live progress.
- Foundation model — the underlying AI your world is built on (currently Llama 3.1 8B Instruct).
4. How to train a model
Training is how you teach Seph what your world is really like. You do it by talking with her.
The short version
- Start talking with Seph about a world — its setting, its characters, how they speak, what's happened, what the rules are. Seph picks up which world you're in and keeps track.
- When you have enough material, ask Seph to train the model.
- Training runs in the background. You can keep working in the meantime.
What "enough material" looks like
The more specific and consistent your material, the better the trained model will be. Helpful things to provide:
- Voice and speech patterns — how the characters in your world actually talk. Formal? Clipped? Sarcastic?
- Backstory and history — key events that shaped the world and the people in it.
- Relationships — who matters to whom, and how.
- Beliefs, rules, and quirks — what the world cares about, what it forbids, what makes it itself.
- Sample lines or scenes — actual dialogue and prose are gold.
Seph keeps an eye on what she has and will prompt you for things she still needs.
Starting training
When you're ready, tell Seph: "Let's train this world now" or "Train it." Seph will confirm what she's about to do, the Model Management panel inside the Seph app will open, and a training job will start. You'll see live progress — current step, percentage, and status — inside Seph.
Training costs one training credit per run. If your balance is too low, Seph will let you know.
How long does it take?
Training time depends on how much material you've provided. A typical run takes a while — long enough that you'll want to move on to something else and come back to it. You can keep using Seph for other work while training runs. Once a run finishes, the trained model shows up in your dashboard's Models panel.
If something goes wrong
If a training run fails, Seph will explain what happened inside the app. The credit for the failed run is refunded automatically. You can usually retry, or adjust the material and try again.
5. What is a trained model?
A trained model is a world that has been taught to be itself.
What training does
A trained model has internalized the material you and Seph have built up. It speaks in the voice of your world, remembers its rules, and stays grounded in its lore as you talk with it.
What's actually happening under the hood
When you train, The Superposition takes the conversations and material you've built up with Seph and uses them to fine-tune an adapter — a lightweight specialization layered on top of a powerful foundation model. The foundation provides general intelligence and language ability. The adapter provides your world.
Two things worth knowing:
- Your trained models are yours. They live in your account and are tied to your worlds.
- You can retrain. As your world grows, you can train a new version with more material. Earlier versions are kept around so you can compare or roll back.
How to tell a model is trained
In the Model Management panel, trained models appear as cards showing the world name, which foundation model they're built on, when they were last trained, and a status indicator (ready, training, error). Ready models can be selected and used immediately.
6. Using a trained model
Once a world is trained, you can open a direct conversation with that world model and talk to it.
Selecting a model
Open the Model Management panel (or ask Seph: "Let me talk to this world"). Pick the trained model you want from your list of cards, and the conversation opens.
Talking with your world
A direct conversation with a trained world model is its own focused mode. The model speaks from inside the world it was trained on — its voice, its lore, its rules. You can ask it questions, explore what it knows, and play scenes within it. Seph steps aside while you're in that conversation. When you come back out, she's there.
What your trained world can do
- Hold a conversation grounded in your world's voice and tone
- Stay consistent with the lore and rules it was trained on
- Respond to questions about characters, places, and events you've established
- Improvise scenes with you within the world
What to do when something feels off
Trained models are good, but not perfect. If your world starts drifting or saying things that don't fit, the fix is more material and another training run. Go back to Seph, add what's missing through normal conversation, and ask her to train a new version when you're ready.
Coming soon: characters
Right now training produces one model per world, and that model carries all of the characters in it together. Dedicated character models — where individual characters get their own trained model you can talk to one-on-one — are on the way.
That's the core of it. Talk with Seph, build out the worlds you care about, train them when they're ready, and bring them to life.