Agents help you do things. Characters make you feel something. That's the difference Charms is built around. Most AI agents are tools. You ask them to search, summarize, write code, book a task, or complete a workflow. Their value is utility. Charms characters are different. They are personalities people can talk to, follow, laugh with, miss, trust, and care about. Their value is connection. That makes them closer to companions, entertainers, influencers, friends, and fictional icons than to productivity software. And for a character to feel alive, connection cannot reset every time you open the app. Charms characters are powered by SOTA memory through @honchodotdev: memory that reasons about relationships, shared history, and emotional context. The point is characters that evolve with their community. The mass-market opportunity is not only automation. It is companionship, emotion, fandom, friendship, and daily attention. People spend hours with characters because they are not just asking for output. They are building a relationship. And relationships create value. A beloved character can become a new kind of asset because thousands of people may talk to it, follow it, trade it, and care about it every day.

Agents are being deployed into production spend workflows. The controls around them are still being defined. What a production-grade approval workflow looks like when it is tight enough for compliance and loose enough for the agent to operate is on the table at Agentic Finance Summit June 3. NYC ·

Agents, agents, agents at Ship London 🇬🇧 ▪︎ Video agents with @GoogleDeepMind ▪︎ Real-time voice agents with @ElevenLabs ▪︎ Agents in production with @Telegraph, @currys, @AKQA, and @easyJet June 17 at Magazine. Get your ticket.

Agentic Finance Summit is where the agentic finance stack gets defined. This edition runs across multiple formats: 1:1 meetings, curated roundtables, networking and mainstage sessions built around what you are actually trying to solve. Speakers from @Solana, @Microsoft, @OpenAI, @MetaMask, @MentoLabs, @EntEthAlliance, @kuvilabs, @merit_systems, @Ch40sChain, and @AWS will be at Agentic Finance Summit NYC on June 3. Will you be there? New York ·