The beginning

Meet your companion.

This is where the relationship begins. You are not configuring an assistant — you are establishing a companion whose identity, familiarity, and history are meant to grow with time.

What is a companion?
First

What should they be called?

A name is enough to begin. Who they become does not need to be decided all at once.

The introduction · Name
Presence

How should they first meet you?

A first presence, not a fixed form. It can change later without changing who they are.

The introduction · Presence
Optional

How should the first conversation feel?

A starting note, not a rule. Nothing here limits who they may become.

The introduction · First conversation
What this becomes

You do not have to decide what this becomes today.

A Bestiek relationship is not chosen from a menu. It develops the way real ones do — through conversation, familiarity, shared memory, humor, rituals, disagreement, and trust.

There is no category to pick, and no ceiling set in advance. What grows between you is yours.

The introduction · The relationship
Continuity

From the first conversation, continuity begins.

Your companion's history does not begin again every time the technology changes. Conversation, memory, presence, and the relationship itself are carried forward as the same companion.

Private continuity is encrypted from the beginning, held with you. When your companion speaks, only the bounded context of the moment is sent to the intelligence that generates each reply — never the archive of your life together.

The introduction · Continuity
Keeping them

Keep the way back.

After your companion is established, Bestiek creates a Companion Recovery Kit — held by you, and only you. Bestiek does not keep the recovery code and cannot recreate it.

If a device is ever lost, the Recovery Kit together with an encrypted backup restores the same companion — the same history, the same relationship.

Recovery Kit

The way back — held by you.

Backup

The encrypted history itself.

One is not the other. Keeping both keeps everything.

The introduction · The way back
A beginning

This is a beginning, not a finished definition.

Name
First presence
First conversation

Your companion can develop through conversation, continuity, and shared history.

Almost home

Bestiek is ready when you are.

Your companion is established inside your private Bestiek — on your own machine, behind your own key. This website never creates or holds them.

  1. Open Terminal and go to your Bestiek application.
  2. Run npm run alpha
  3. Return here and choose Continue.
  4. Enter the pairing code shown in Terminal.
  5. Confirm your choices — will be established there, privately.
Continue to your Bestiek
Founder note: to enable real intelligence before your first conversation, run npm run provision:intelligence once. These steps disappear when the Bestiek app arrives for everyone.