The Mersive Story

For more than a decade I had the belief that most of us would deserve a personal coach for the rest of our lives just like we have personal trainers for our physical fitness.
With the rise of reliable LLMs and specifically the launch of Chatgpt at the end of 2022 I became convinced that the moment arrived to create it.

The hypothesis was:

• Some people are 120% self-motivated, they do not need a personal trainer, support or anything of that nature, but there’s the rest of us we need the PTs to make us sweat on a regular basis.

• A Personal trainer is there for accountability and sharing some best practices (exercising with correct form, targeting different muscle groups, warming up etc) BUT you decide what type of trainer you want the goals objectives and focus (mobility, strength, lifting X weight etc) and choose the PT with the methodology that works best for you.

• Similarly, for coaching we should pick our methodology and objectives and the style that works for you. For that, we have a pseudo-infinite bank of material to work with. All the books that you read and the ideas you like and want to implement. Choose your own favorite book or any body of content -BOC- (could be 10 podcasts or 30 essays, etc etc)

• LLMs are good for I/O BUT we should help model the world for them so our plan was to build an EQ engine similar to what a game AI would be to record and model different element of the real world and then use that in conjunction with the BOC of your choice.