Don't sleep on Tolan (@tolanworld)—a beautiful lil app from some great creative minds with the most approachable vision of AI companionship yet.

Yesterday we announced Tolan, an Embodied Companion in the form of a cute, friendly alien character. Today, we’re sharing more about the creative process behind the design of the Tolan characters and their in-app environment, featured in a story by Jesus Diaz at @FastCompany

Excited to share this new project I am part of: TOLAN. More about it here…

I’m excited to announce Tolan, our first Embodied Companion. With no launch or press we’ve quietly hit 500,000+ downloads, over $1m in ARR, and a #1 app store category ranking. Today I’m also announcing our $10m seed round (more on that below) and sharing some of what we’ve learned building an AI companion for consumers.