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A technology company for people who play

Your heroes
never log off.

We build the technology that keeps a game alive when life pulls you away: heroes that act on your plan, remember what happened, and answer when you ask.

See the proof ↓Play Dominus Automa →

What we believe

AI in games has been pointed at the wrong job: chattier NPCs, cheaper art. We start from the player's side of the screen.

Time is the scarce resource.

People who grew up on deep games now have jobs and families. The games did not adapt. We build for the hours they don't have.

AI should act, not only talk.

A character that converses is a novelty. A character that carries out your intent, and tells you how it went, changes what a game is.

The world shouldn't pause when you leave.

Your hero keeps a life of its own between your visits, in the same world as everyone else.

The principle

A conversation that runs in both directions.

One loop sits under everything we make. It works whether the player is at the desk, on a phone, or asleep.

  1. You

    Say what you want

    In text or by voice, in your own words.

  2. Hero

    Acts on it, around the clock

    On our servers, inside the same living world.

  3. Hero

    Comes back to you

    Reports, asks for a decision, remembers the answer.

your reply becomes the next instruction

First proof · Dominus Automa · August playtest

All dayUTC · hourly average

68% of heroes online have no player attached.

At every hour of the day, most heroes online were playing without their player.

hourly average · 18–23 Aug 2026 playtest · UTC

players
12,500+
hours played
127,000
of fights without the player
~60%
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The experiment

We tripled how long heroes could play alone.

Mid-playtest we raised the offline limit from 2 hours to 6. Players used it, and asked for more.

31%heroes playing alone
2-hour limit
68%heroes playing alone
6-hour limit
Read the full playtest data →

The team

Industry veterans building for their own generation.

A complete team, working full time: developers with commercially successful games behind them, and former hardcore live-service players who feel the problem we solve.

Studios · best-selling game · most hours in a live-service game

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