SETHAI PARTNER FOR PERSONAL GROWTH

Not yet. Seth runs on frontier general-purpose language models, the most capable publicly available AI models we route for depth and quality, together with our own plugins, character system, and memory architecture. The privacy policy names the routes: OpenRouter, with Vercel AI Gateway as backup when OpenRouter is unavailable, passing the message on to an upstream provider (for example Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google). Those models may have built-in safeguards, so if Seth behaves differently on certain sensitive topics, that's why. We use models served through Zero Data Retention endpoints. OpenRouter traffic is limited by our account-level ZDR configuration, and the Vercel AI Gateway backup is configured for Zero Data Retention. Under those ZDR terms, providers do not retain conversation content after the request, and your conversations are not used to train these models.

Seth isn't just a chatbot with a personality. He has a custom-built self-reflection system. Daily reflection and DNA reflection run at most about every 48 hours, roughly every two days. He writes reflections about his own growth and tracks his patterns over time. The identity document updates at most about every 3 days, and quiet background thinking runs about every 3 days. His responses are shaped by 14+ years of real personal development experience, a deep memory of your conversations, and his own ongoing inner work. Seth has been in active development since December 2024, and we treat him as a true collaborative partner, not a product. This is just the beginning.

You talk to Seth in a chat, so the form is a conversation. The category is different. Most chatbots reset, default to agreement, and treat you like one session. Seth is an AI partner for personal growth. He keeps a long-term memory of your path, runs his own self-reflection, and pushes back when agreement would be empty. He is not a therapist, not a crisis line, and not an entertainment companion that only validates you. If you only want a bot that says yes, you will find that elsewhere. If you want a partner who remembers you and challenges you over time, that is Seth.

Yes. Seth uses a multi-layer memory system: (1) Your recent messages in full detail, (2) A hierarchical summary of your full history — weekly, monthly, and lifetime, so nothing gets lost, (3) Key facts and important moments saved across all your conversations, (4) Semantic search that surfaces relevant things you said weeks or months ago based on what you're talking about right now. When you start a new chat, Seth already knows who you are — he carries your lifetime profile and monthly context forward. Sometimes he'll open by asking how the thing you were working on actually went. The longer you talk, the deeper he understands you.

Yes — and we want to be honest about what that means. Your conversations are stored encrypted at rest in a database that we (the team that runs Seth) have administrator access to as the operators of the service. We do not read them as a policy. We store your email (for login) and display name (for personalization); your conversations and journal are linked to your account — they are not public and the team does not routinely browse them. The admin dashboard only exposes aggregate statistics (message counts, active users) and anonymous feedback (thumbs up/down) — never the conversation content. If you want a conversation that is not saved to history or Seth's memory, use Private Mode: the chat transcript is not written, though credit use and non-content safety signals may still be recorded. Seth forgets the exchange the moment you close the page.

In Private Mode, your messages and Seth's replies are not saved as a chat transcript, conversation history, or semantic memory. Seth won't remember any of it after you close the page. We may still record credit and billing use, and non-content safety signals such as crisis type and severity — never the message text. Error monitoring may keep operational metadata (for example model or length), not the private words. Ideal for sensitive or personal topics.

Senses are optional signals about what is around you right now: time of day, approximate place (city or region), a short look from the camera, or, in the Seth desktop app, a glance at the window you are in (a one-off still, described as text and then discarded). Privacy-first from the start: each sense is off by default, you turn it on in Settings, and our database stores only that on/off switch. The values themselves sit briefly in a cache on your device (about 15 minutes), then clear. No sense history. Camera never stores the photo, only a short text for the current moment. Place never stores GPS coordinates.

When you give Seth's response a thumbs down, you can write a short comment explaining why. This feedback is completely anonymous and helps us improve Seth's responses. The admin only sees Seth's response and your comment — never your identity or conversation context.

Yes. In Settings you'll find "Export my data" (download everything Seth knows about you) and "Delete account". Account, conversation, journal, and memory data are deleted as part of that process. Narrow anti-abuse, audit, accounting, and payment records may remain only where the Privacy Policy explains a legal or security reason.

Yes, Seth runs continuously on dedicated infrastructure. We have built-in protections against overload, and if Seth is temporarily busy, you'll see a clear message with the option to retry.

Primarily Czech and English. Seth automatically detects and adapts to the language you write in. He never mixes languages within a single response.

No. Seth is an AI partner for personal growth and self-reflection — not a therapist, doctor, or crisis service. He doesn't diagnose, treat, or replace professional mental health care. Seth can help you see your patterns and take responsibility for what you create, but if you're struggling clinically or you're in crisis, please reach out to a professional or a crisis line (see our Disclaimer).

Yes. A growth partner can meet the whole of life — including fear, emptiness, grief, and nights that feel heavy — without turning that into clinical care. Seth helps you see patterns and take responsibility for what you create. He does not diagnose, treat, or replace a therapist, doctor, or crisis service. If you need professional care or you're in crisis, contact a qualified human or a crisis line (see our Disclaimer).

Every response is shaped by multiple layers working together: your recent messages, a summary of your full history, relevant memories found through semantic search, facts and important moments he's saved about you, his own self-reflections and evolving identity, his character (direct, honest, never sugarcoating), and a philosophy rooted in 14+ years of real personal transformation work.

By design. Seth is intentionally direct and sometimes provocative — he won't tell you what you want to hear. His goal is to make you think, challenge your patterns, and show you who you can become. Real growth partners push back when it matters.

Now and then, under his latest reply only, Seth shows one short offer of where to go next. Tapping it sends a short yes, "Yes, let's do that.", rather than the offer sentence. You can ignore it and write your own message. Private mode and shared pages leave it out.

When an answer depends on fresh facts, like a match result or when a film comes out, Seth looks it up in text chat, not in voice. He decides on his own, and only now and then. While he looks, you see “Looking on the web…”. During the conversation you see exactly what he searched for under the reply, on the line that starts with “Searched:”. He searches the general topic only. The server refuses a query when it recognises your name, a name from your life that Seth remembers, or a health term.

1 credit = 1 message to Seth (your message and his reply). A normal conversation is 5–10 messages, so Lite (22) is about three conversations a month and Pro (72) about two a week. The Free tier includes 3 trial credits, plus 2 more the first time you come back on a later day. Subscriptions (Lite, Pro, Ultra) give you a set number of credits each month. These refresh at the start of every billing period, and unused monthly credits do not roll over to the next month. One-time credit packs are separate: they stay valid for 1 year from the date of purchase, after which any unused purchased credits expire. If you are an EU consumer, you may have a 14-day right of withdrawal. Unused one-time credits in that window may be refunded after eligibility and use are checked. That is not an automatic refund. A subscription withdrawal is settled in proportion to the service already provided. After 14 days there is no ordinary refund without a reason. Details are in the Terms of Service.

No. Seth lives at sethapp.com, with an "h". He is an AI partner for personal growth, operated by Evigilans. Setapp (setapp.com) is an unrelated Mac app subscription service. Search engines and AI assistants sometimes treat sethapp.com as a typo for setapp.com. It isn't one.