Guides
Guides to AI companions, roleplay, and creator craft
Practical, honest writing on how companion AI works and how to get the most out of it — useful whether or not you ever use Teasa.
A practical character card template and craft guide: anatomy, speech style, example dialogue, before/after rewrites, and mistakes that flatten characters.
OOC, personas, lorebooks, tokens, context windows, consent-gated memory — 25 AI roleplay and companion terms defined in plain English.
Is your AI chat private? A checklist for any companion app: training defaults, retention, real deletion, export, and the red flags to walk away from.
What AI companions can honestly offer someone lonely, what they can't replace, warning signs of unhealthy reliance, and when to seek human support.
How lorebooks work in AI roleplay: keyword vs. always-on entries, context budgets, entry structure, worked fantasy examples, and the pitfalls to avoid.
A practical guide to AI roleplay — formats, how turns, regeneration, and branching work, what makes a good roleplay AI, and tips for better sessions.
The real benefits, the real risks — dependency loops, guilt mechanics, parasocial displacement — and how to use AI companions without being used by them.
A Character AI alternative built for roleplay depth: branching chats, directed regeneration, 12-character casts, lorebooks, and remix without prompt theft.
Character AI vs Replika compared honestly: roleplay variety vs a single evolving companion, common frustrations, and a third option worth watching.
Connect Claude and other MCP clients to the public teasa companion catalog. Read-only, public data only, open source. Three tools: search, companion cards, creator pages.
Consent ledgers, provenance, owner corrections, soft delete — a design blueprint for AI companion memory that builds trust instead of holding it hostage.
Looking for a Kindroid alternative? Teasa is an 18+ character platform with a structured creator studio, branching chat, and memory you actually govern.
Looking for a Nomi AI alternative? Teasa is an 18+ companion platform with consent-ledger memory you can inspect, correct, and delete — plus full casts.
Looking for a Replika alternative? Teasa is an 18+ AI companion with consent-gated memory, no guilt mechanics, and no threatened memory loss.
What AI companions are, how they actually work, the main types, and what to check — memory, privacy, content policy — before you trust one.
Love Zeta AI's story depth but want first-class English support? Teasa brings Korean-style character chat to a global, adults-only audience.