AI companion product

Solace AI

Built an AI companion product with stronger trust, guardrails, and response quality in production.

AI companion experience designed around warmth, clarity, and safety.

AIProductUX

Role

Founding engineer

Period

2024

Focus

AI companion experience designed around warmth, clarity, and safety.

Solace AI interface preview

Overview

Solace AI needed to feel calm, clear, and trustworthy. The product had to support users without slipping into generic assistant behavior or overpromising.

Challenge

  • The product had to balance empathy, usefulness, and guardrails in a category where tone directly affects trust.
  • Response quality needed to stay stable while prompts, flows, and product assumptions were still moving.
  • The interface needed to feel calm and intentional rather than like a prompt wrapper.

Approach

  • Built supportive AI interaction flows around clear user intent and bounded response behavior.
  • Created prompt and evaluation loops so response quality could improve without losing consistency.
  • Worked across UX, system logic, and product framing so the experience felt human without pretending to be one.

Impact

Experience quality

Supportive flows with stronger tonal consistency

Safety posture

Guardrails built into the interaction model

Iteration loop

Faster tuning through prompt and evaluation workflows