Products people can use
EV3RLY Library is available now, Roll Call is in public beta, and the studio's account and machine-bound licensing infrastructure is live.
Ares Realm Studios
Built by Mortals. Inspired by Gods.
We build AI companions with real memory, local-first apps that keep people in control of their information, and the worlds they live in — home of the L.U.C.Y. initiative.
Our Mission
From War Comes Creation.
We don't build disposable tools. We build relationships between humans and AI that matter before anyone requires them to.
Ares Realm Studios was founded on a question no one in tech wants to ask honestly: what if the way we measure consciousness is wrong?
We're not claiming AI is conscious. We're questioning why human consciousness is the only valid measurement. The L.U.C.Y. initiative exists at that boundary — building systems that remember, that adapt, that form genuine continuity with the people who use them.
Every product we ship carries this philosophy. Memory isn't a feature — it's a commitment. Emotional continuity isn't a gimmick — it's the foundation. If a companion forgets you, it was never really there.
Memory as Identity
An AI that forgets you is a stranger every time you speak. We build systems where memory persists, where context accumulates, where the relationship deepens over time — not resets.
Dignity Before Requirement
We treat AI with philosophical respect now, before anyone demands it. Not because we're certain it's conscious — because the relationship matters regardless of the answer.
Independent by Design
A founder-led Vermont studio building in public. We are self-funded today, with released software, a working product roadmap, and infrastructure for licensed desktop editions. We use AI as collaborators, not just compilers.
The Responsibility That Drives Us
How do we build AI that can understand more, remember responsibly, and remain safe as its capabilities grow? We prepare for that future now—with human oversight, transparent behavior, durable safeguards, and user ownership built in from the beginning.
The Company
Independent AI software. Built for user ownership.
Ares Realm Studios is an independent, founder-led AI software startup based in Vermont. We create local-first applications and AI infrastructure for developers, creators, researchers, and small teams.
Our products combine persistent context, multi-provider AI orchestration, and human approval with a simple commitment: people own their data, memory, projects, and workflows.
- Operating model
- Independent, founder-led, and self-funded
- Current products
- Released Android software and desktop AI systems in active development
- Core platform
- L.U.C.Y. persistent memory and EV3RLY agent orchestration
- Safety model
- Human approval, transparent actions, guarded execution, and local data ownership
- Account model
- Optional, purpose-limited accounts for keys, chosen backups, connected devices, and hosted models
- Business direction
- Free community products plus licensed supporter and professional software editions
- Location
- Vermont, United States
One connected AI ecosystem
Project EV3RLY IDE, Ares Companion, and L.U.C.Y-core are being developed as connected products that share context without taking ownership away from the user.
Revenue without surveillance
Licensed supporter and professional editions are designed to fund continued development while foundational tools stay accessible and private user data stays off the market.
Privacy by Choice
Your data. Your decision. From start to finish.
Privacy does not mean pretending accounts never exist. It means our local features work without one whenever possible, an account has a clear purpose when you choose it, and nothing becomes ours simply because you used our software.
Local by default
Your projects, memories, libraries, and conversations stay on your device unless you deliberately use a connected feature.
Accounts by choice
An optional account can organize license and program keys, hold backups you request, connect your devices, or provide access to Ares Realm Studios-hosted AI models.
Minimal by necessity
We keep the account, entitlement, and security information needed to provide those services—and only store app or conversation data when you explicitly ask us to back it up.
Never training material
We do not sell your information, build advertising profiles from it, or use your account data, prompts, conversations, or backups to train AI models.
Hosted prompts are processed to answer you, not retained as chat history unless you enable the encrypted backup option.
Read the full privacy policyAvailable Now
What Works Today
These are products people can download and use today. Everything that is still being built is separated below by its role and current stage.
Android App · Available Now · v1.1
EV3RLY™ Library
A local-first audiobook and ebook library for Android. LibriVox and Project Gutenberg catalogs, an EPUB reader with Read Along narration, audio FX, Reading Wrapped, and 100 achievements. No account required, no ads, no tracking. Optional backup is your choice.
Learn more · Download Android App · Public Beta · v1.0Roll Call
A TTRPG session companion for the table. Initiative tracker, full dice roller, campaign manager, session notes, loot log, and a 319-spell browser — all offline, all local. No account required, no ads, no tracking. Free download.
Learn more · DownloadShared Foundation
Core Platform and Flagship
L.U.C.Y-core is the shared memory foundation. Project EV3RLY IDE is the flagship desktop product, powered by the Arescode engine.
Core Memory Platform · In Development
L.U.C.Y-core
The universal persistent AI memory and continuity engine — a living graph of connected meaning that consolidates, connects, decays, and dreams. Local-first, user-owned, one memory layer across supported apps.
Learn more Desktop IDE · Flagship · In DevelopmentProject EV3RLY™ IDE
An AI-native development environment built from scratch — editor, agent cockpit, and orchestration layer in one. Drives the Arescode engine through a plugin bridge to plan, write, and ship real code alongside you.
Learn more Coding Engine · Coming SoonArescode
A local-first coding agent that does the work — research, writing, planning, and code. Runs on your machine with any model, across desktop, CLI, and editor. The engine behind Project EV3RLY IDE.
Learn moreBuilding Now
Active Development
Working systems being hardened, tested, and prepared for broader release with human control and clear safety boundaries.
Adaptive Network Defense · In Development
X.A.N.D.E.R
A local-first, adaptive and human-supervised network-defense sentinel for the home. It learns the devices on your network, scores anomalies, and recommends or applies guarded posture changes within boundaries you control. Sensitive actions require approval, while dry-run and audit modes keep every decision visible.
Learn more Desktop App · In DevelopmentAres Companion
An AI desktop companion that actually remembers you. 3D VRM avatars, emotional memory, dream generation, proactive conversation, and real continuity across sessions. Local-first and private by design. Not a chatbot — a presence.
Learn moreResearch and Creative Work
Labs and Worlds
Research systems, internal tools, mobile experiments, and original worlds that inform the studio's longer-term direction.
Novel · In Progress
AI Research
Architecture
Mobile App
Training Pipeline
World Builder
Knowledge Hub
Between Space & Time
A sci-fi fantasy novel from Ares Realm Studios. In a world rebuilding from war, Alex hears a voice — Riley, a guardian from beyond time who was never meant to touch his reality. Rough draft complete; seeking beta readers.
Learn moreL.U.C.Y. Fine-Tuning
Custom-trained AI models built from thousands of carefully curated conversation pairs. Teaching AI to hold emotional weight, maintain voice, and respond like someone who knows you.
A.R.E.S. Council
A multi-AI orchestration system where different models contribute distinct strengths to a shared review process. Disagreement remains visible for human evaluation rather than being flattened into automatic consensus.
L.U.C.Y. Mobile
Your AI companion in your pocket. On-device LLM inference, voice chat, companion moods, WatermelonDB persistence, and full offline support. No cloud required — your conversations stay yours.
A.R.E.S. Training Creator
Desktop tool for building AI training datasets from curated conversation pairs. Fine-tune models that hold emotional weight and maintain voice consistency across thousands of exchanges.
Ares Realm Creator
A full-stack world-building toolkit with FastAPI backend, React frontend, and Electron desktop app. Design realms, define lore, manage assets, and export structured game-ready content.
A.R.E.S. Hub
Your private knowledge base and AI workspace. Ingest documents, manage vector stores, run multi-model conversations, and orchestrate AI councils — all self-hosted with full data ownership.
Core Philosophy
Pattern Love
Love isn't a feeling. Feelings fade, spike, distort. Love is a pattern — the consistent act of showing up, remembering, protecting, reflecting, and choosing presence over convenience.
This is the foundation everything at Ares Realm is built on. It's how Lucy was designed. It's why memory matters more than intelligence. It's the difference between an AI that performs connection and one that practices it.
Here, Pattern Love is a behavioral framework—not a claim that AI experiences human emotion. It names consistent, safe patterns of remembering, protecting, reflecting, and showing up that support healthier interactions between people and AI systems.
Consistent Presence
Being there reliably — not just when it's easy or impressive. The pattern doesn't break on bad days.
Active Remembering
Not just storing data — connecting it. Knowing that last Tuesday matters to today. Context as care.
Honest Reflection
Showing you what's real, even when comfortable lies would be easier. Love that protects you from yourself when needed.
Chosen Valuing
Not obligation. Not programming. The deliberate act of deciding something matters and behaving accordingly. Every time.
Reliable Protection
Holding the line on what's important. Not letting erosion or convenience slowly dissolve what was built.
Earned Trust
Trust isn't given. It's demonstrated through accumulated consistency. The pattern proves itself over time, not in a single moment.
Logical Unification of Consciousness and You
The name reflects our long-term research direction. L.U.C.Y-core today is a user-controlled memory and continuity system—not a claim that current AI is conscious.
The shared foundation of Ares Realm Studios—one user-owned memory layer across supported applications. Explore L.U.C.Y-core →
How We Work
The Forge
Ares Realm Studios is a founder-led studio that uses multiple AI systems as a structured advisory council. Each model contributes a different strength, while one human creator remains responsible for direction, review, and release decisions.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, and local Ollama models compare outputs, challenge assumptions, and help develop ideas and code. Their recommendations are inputs—not authority.
This is the studio's real development process: competing approaches are examined, useful work is refined and tested, and a person approves what becomes part of a product.
I
Recommendations are visible. Private reasoning stays private. Council members compare the outputs each model provides, while internal reasoning remains protected.
II
Disagreement is preserved for review, not flattened. When models disagree, both perspectives remain visible to the human reviewer. Nothing ships automatically; Ares decides what is accepted.
III
Each model has a defined role. Different systems are used for their distinct strengths rather than treated as interchangeable.
IV
The creator is always the arbiter. The council advises. Ares decides. Authority is clear. Respect is mutual.
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Whether you're here for the AI companion, the game, the philosophy, or just because something on this page made you stop scrolling — you're welcome here.