What all of this is
Everything that used to be crowded onto the front pages, in one place instead of three. If your question is not here, write and ask it — the gap is the useful part.
The short version
What is SoulBots?
One idea with three surfaces. Lethe builds one understanding of you out of your own words, and any AI you use can read it with your permission. Your SoulBot is the one that carries it — one of sixty-six, chosen once. The arena is where how well you work an AI gets judged by people rather than by a score, and the AI Mastery League is twelve weeks of that.
Is this a companion app? An AI friend?
No. Nothing here is built to be company, and this is not a product for talking to because you want someone to talk to. A SoulBot is closer to a record than a friend: what it holds is how you work, and its job is to carry that into rooms where the question is how good you are at something.
The confusion is ours, not yours — until today the front page said “choose your partner” and “a companion for a lifetime”, and an automated tool reading it listed Replika and Character.AI as the competitors. It was reading what was written. Those lines are gone.
Do I need to be a programmer?
No, and this is the part most people get wrong about it. The briefs are things like settling a claim people repeat in your field, or finding every subscription leaking out of a year of your own statements. Any field, any background. What is measured is how you went about it.
What does it cost?
Nothing. No fee, no equity, no selling of student data. Lethe is in free beta.
Lethe
What does Lethe actually do?
You explain yourself once. Lethe turns that into an understanding of you that Claude, Cursor and any MCP client can read, so you stop re-explaining yourself to every new tool. Every claim it holds cites the line you said it in, and every read is on the record. You can revoke any AI’s access in one tap.
Is it a profile? A login?
Neither. A profile is what a company writes about you; this is built from your own words and owned by you. It is the layer underneath, not another account.
What happens to what I tell it?
Identifiers are scrubbed before anything leaves your machine, and names only travel if you opt in. Nothing is deleted behind your back — things age into a saved state rather than disappearing. The long version is on the privacy page, and it is written to be read rather than to be clicked past.
SoulBots and the sixty-six
What is a SoulBot?
One of sixty-six beasts to start from. You claim it once, it is never reassigned, and you do not get a second. It hatches knowing almost nothing except you and grows only from what you hand it — and as it grows, what it looks like changes. Somebody else may begin from the same beast. Neither of you will be looking at the same one for long.
Why sixty-six? Can I collect them?
No. There is no deck to complete and nothing to roll for, and you only ever have one. Sixty-six is where everybody starts, not how many people there can be — what makes yours yours is not the draw, it is what it has learned from you and the features that changed as it grew. Two people who began from the same beast end up somewhere different.
What are the nine elements?
Nine ways of being good at something: the elements are the nine masteries the league is built on, and every beast belongs to one. Beasts sharing an element share a function — they differ in how they use it, not in what it is. The nine, and the briefs that test each of them, are listed on the league page.
Does my beast make me win?
No, and this one matters. A beast changes what you had to work with, never what a round scored. Whatever it did shows up in your trace, and the trace is what three people read. A judge who has not scored yet cannot even see which beast made the moves.
The arena and the league
What is the arena?
Where two people take the same brief and both traces get read. Not the answer — the trace: the moves you made, in order, and whether what you leant on was something you had seen or something you had been told.
Who judges, and how?
People do. Three of them per round, on nine axes, one to five. There is no automatic scoring anywhere in it. To fight one round you judge three, which is the part that makes the whole thing work — and the part being tested first.
When does the league run?
Twelve weeks, 8 February to 2 May 2027, remote, open internationally. Registration opens 21 September 2026. Before any of that there is a trial round on 31 October – 1 November — one brief, one weekend, ten to twenty people, no prizes, and the point of it is to break the thing while breaking it is still cheap.
Can I just try it without signing up for twelve weeks?
Yes — that is exactly what the trial round is for. One weekend, nothing to commit to afterwards. Here it is.
How far along this is
What works today?
Lethe is live and reads into Claude, Cursor and any MCP client. The void, the claim and the arena are live. Your SoulBot is in trials. The league has not run yet — season one starts in February and the trial round is in October.
How many people are in it?
Very few, and most of the early claims are family. That is the honest answer and it is why the trial round exists. Nothing on this site quotes a number it has not earned.
Something here made no sense to me.
Then that is a fault in the thing, and worth more to us than a compliment. Write to hello@soulbots.in and say which bit. There is also a running log of what broke and what got fixed at the field notes.