A Living Presence for Discord

Your server doesn't need another bot.

DEV remembers people, develops relationships, reacts to the life of your server, runs persistent progression systems, and grows increasingly capable through its own evolving local cognitive architecture.

Currently entering Private Alpha • Founding Member pricing available
Persistent Memory across conversations
Local-first External AI only when needed
Per-server Independent intelligence & settings
Prepaid No surprise AI overages
Living Systems

DEV becomes part of the server.

Instead of waiting silently for slash commands, DEV builds context, remembers interactions, follows ongoing conversations and responds to activity throughout the community.

01 / MEMORY

Persistent Memory

DEV can retain durable member and server context while preserving normal short-term conversational continuity.

02 / SOCIAL

Social Intelligence

Relationships, interactions and server dynamics become context instead of every message being treated as an isolated prompt.

03 / AUTONOMY

Autonomous Presence

DEV can choose when speaking is worthwhile instead of requiring a mention or command for every interaction.

04 / PROGRESSION

Relics & Hunts

Persistent server progression gives members reasons to interact, discover, compete and return.

05 / EVENTS

Activity-Driven Events

DEV reacts to server activity through Hunts, manifestations, prophecies and evolving events rather than fixed schedules alone.

06 / CONTINUITY

A Developing Identity

DEV maintains beliefs, relationships, internal state and an ongoing sense of continuity instead of resetting every message.

The Difference

Commands are features.
DEV is a presence.

Traditional Discord bots execute tasks. DEV is being built around persistent cognition: memory, context, relationships, attention, local decision-making and continuing development.

Cross-conversation memory Built in
Member relationship models Persistent
Activity-aware autonomous behavior Local
Per-server intelligence controls Independent
External AI spending Prepaid ceiling
Long-term direction Increasingly independent
DEV Intelligence

External AI is a tool — not the entire brain.

DEV's architecture is being developed so more decisions, memory operations, routing and behavior happen locally. External models are used selectively when additional language intelligence is valuable.

STEP 01

Think locally first

DEV evaluates context, memories, local decisions and available internal intelligence before escalating.

STEP 02

Escalate selectively

When external language intelligence is useful, DEV can route the request through its provider layer.

STEP 03

Respect the wallet

Every server has a prepaid AI ceiling. When credit is exhausted, paid API calls stop rather than creating surprise charges.

Predictable AI Costs

Use more intelligence without open-ended billing.

Paid plans include external-AI credit. Optional prepaid top-ups can add more. DEV tracks actual usage and enforces a hard ceiling before external calls are made.

As DEV's local intelligence improves, the same amount of included credit can go further.

EXAMPLE PRO WALLET ACTIVE
Monthly included $4.00
Prepaid top-up $5.00
Used $2.17
Available $6.83
Private Alpha Pricing

Join while DEV is still becoming.

Private Alpha plans are designed to let early communities experience DEV while keeping external AI costs predictable.

Free
$0 / month
No card required

Experience DEV's core systems with a lightweight external-AI allowance.

$0.10 included AI credit / month
  • Persistent memory
  • Hunts
  • Relics
  • Core DEV interaction
  • Prepaid top-ups available
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Trial
Free
Limited-time full experience

See what the complete Living DEV experience feels like before subscribing.

$0.50 trial AI credit
  • Full DEV feature bundle
  • Memory & social intelligence
  • Autonomous speech
  • Events & Whispers
  • Hunts & Relics
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Founding Member Guarantee: subscribe to Pro during the Private Alpha and keep the $9.99/month rate while your subscription remains continuously active. If canceled, returning subscriptions use the then-current public price.
Private Alpha

Be there while DEV learns to stand on its own.

Living DEV is currently entering Private Alpha. Early servers help shape the systems, intelligence and commercial platform that come next.