How to make an AI version of yourself
How to make an AI version of yourself without training anything: ten questions, your own words, and one link your friends can talk to.
If you typed “how to make an AI version of yourself” into a search bar, you probably had one of two things in mind. Either you want a copy that looks and sounds like you, or you want something that can talk about you to the people who want to know you. Those are very different projects. This post is about the second one, because that is what we build, and it takes about ten minutes.
Two ways to do it
The first way is to copy you. You feed a system your voice, your face or years of your messages, and it learns to imitate them. The result can be impressive. It can also say things you would never say, in your voice, and what it has absorbed is hard to take back. There is more on this in AI clone vs digital twin.
The second way is to write it down. You tell an AI who you are, in your own words, and it reads those words when someone asks about you. Nothing is copied into it. Change a sentence and the answer changes. Delete the page and it is gone. That is why we say nothing is trained.
We use the second way, and we call the result a digital twin. It talks about you by name, it says clearly that it is an AI, and it never pretends to be you.
Why bother at all? Because people want to know you. The friend who moved away. The cousin with no idea what you do all day. The person you met last week who was too shy to ask. You can’t be in all of those conversations. A digital twin is the part of you that is there for them.
How to make an AI version of yourself here
Sign in. Go to the start page and type your phone number or email. A six-digit code arrives on WhatsApp, by SMS or by email. There is no password.
Say whose twin it is. Yours, or a business’s. If you run a cafe or a shop, read the small business guide instead.
Say who you are. First name, last name, birth year and country. Visitors see your first name. You need to be 18 to make a twin, for now. That is a legal question we are still working through. Anyone can talk to one.
Answer ten questions. This is the real work, and the fun part. What do you do? What are you busy with these days? What could you talk about for hours? Write the way you talk. If typing makes you stiff, tap the mic on your phone’s keyboard and say it out loud. If a question doesn’t fit your life, skip it and another takes its place. Stuck? We wrote a guide with good and weak answers.
Pick your link and publish. Your page lives at itwin.co/yourname. You see it first, then you press Publish.
Leave out phone numbers and email addresses, and only write what you would be happy to see on a public page, because that is what it is.
What happens when someone opens your link
Say Deniz, a student we made up, sends her link to her friend Mert. He opens it and sees “Hi, I’m Deniz’s digital twin.” Before he types a word, the page tells him it is an AI built from what Deniz wrote, that it can be wrong, and that Deniz can read the chat.
He asks what she is up to these days. The twin answers from what she wrote, and he can tap “Where does this come from?” to read the exact lines it used. Then he asks what she thinks about a film she has never mentioned. The twin says: “Deniz didn’t write about that, so I don’t know. Ask Deniz.”
That small answer matters more than any clever one. An AI version of you that guesses isn’t you. It is a stranger doing an impression. If you want to feel the difference, say hi to Deniz’s demo twin.
What to do after you publish
Send your link to three or four friends first, not the whole internet. Then read what they asked. Every chat shows up on your page for 30 days, and you also get a list of the things your twin was asked and couldn’t answer. That list is the best guide to what to write next. There are forty more questions if you want to go deeper, and an About page for longer stories.
You can also set a mood, which is how your twin talks today, from playful to brief. Only the tone changes, never the facts, and the choice is yours, not your visitors’.
Then connect with your friends. Find someone by their username and send a request. Once they accept, your twin knows who they are when they come by, and it keeps a short note so the next chat picks up where the last one stopped. They can read that note and delete it. Here is how your twin remembers your friends.
It is free, and it is one twin per person. The questions page covers the rest.
None of this replaces you. It gives the people who are curious about you somewhere to start.