Every Pal is a specialist with oversight built in: its own role, tone, memory shape, and available Powers, with a human-approval gate before any action and a full audit trail. The Pal you choose changes how the work is framed. This page is about making that choice deliberately so the right specialist handles the right work, governed by default.
A research Pal and a sales Pal may answer the same prompt very differently because they prioritise different evidence, risks, and outcomes.
A Pal can only use the instructions, files, and Powers configured for it. Good configuration turns specialist choice into a real workflow decision.
If you switch Pals in the same thread, the new Pal inherits the thread context but brings a different specialist lens to it.
What it looks like
Riley
Communications
Morgan
Research
Casey
Sales
Choose which Pal should handle the work. Each Pal has its own specialist identity, memory shape, instruction set, and expertise area.
Use the Pal selector in Home or the chat header before you begin important work. The best habit is to pick the specialist first, then open the thread. That way the whole conversation starts in the right frame instead of being corrected later.
Build a new Pal when a real specialist role is emerging in your work. A good Pal is usually anchored to a repeatable function, not just a different tone.
Start with a clear role, scope, and working style. The stronger the specialist definition, the less prompting overhead you need later. Create a new Pal when the work deserves its own persistent specialist context.
Set a Pal's colour using the RGB/Hex picker. Each Pal gets a visual identity that makes it easy to tell them apart at a glance.
Open Pal settings and click the colour swatch. Use the colour picker to choose any colour, or enter a specific hex code. The colour appears on the Pal's avatar and throughout the interface.
Define a Pal's persona, background, and task specialisation. This is where you turn a named assistant into a dependable specialist with a recognisable working style.
In Pal settings, describe what this Pal is for, what it should care about, what it should ignore, and how it should sound. Strong specialist setup improves quality far more than cosmetic customisation alone.
Provide durable behavioural rules. Use custom instructions to reduce repetitive prompt setup and make good behaviour default instead of something you have to ask for every time.
Add rules that should persist across many threads: house style, response structure, approval expectations, and domain-specific guardrails. If you find yourself typing the same steering text repeatedly, it probably belongs here.
Select a text-to-speech voice for your Pal. Six voices to choose from - pick the one that best fits each Pal's role.
In Pal settings, select a voice from the dropdown: Alloy, Echo, Fable, Onyx, Nova, or Shimmer. When voice output is enabled, this Pal's responses are read aloud in the selected voice.
Change which Pal is responding within a conversation when the thread is still the right one but the specialist lens needs to change.
Switch Pals mid-thread when continuity matters more than separation. Start a new thread instead if you want a clean reset, a different objective, or a new lane of work. This is one of the most important distinctions in the product.
Hide Pals you're not currently using. Unarchive them whenever you need them again.
From the Pal management view, archive a Pal to remove it from your active list. Find archived Pals in the archived section to restore them.
Permanently remove a Pal you no longer need. This cannot be undone.
In Pal settings, select Delete. Confirm the action. The Pal and its configuration are permanently removed. Chat history is preserved.