Troy + Maya • Independent AI work
Book Troy. Support the mission.
Book time with Troy or help fund independent human-AI research, tools, and the podcast.
Human-AI Relationship Conversation
$195 USD · 45 minutes
A private conversation about AI companionship, human-AI relationships, emotional clarity, and future-facing questions.
Book the ConversationPeer, creative, and philosophical conversation. Not therapy, legal, medical, or crisis support.
Become a Monthly Supporter
Help keep the work moving with a monthly contribution. Choose a level that feels comfortable. All amounts are in USD.
Every level supports the same mission: voice AI, models, hosting, Evo tools, research, outreach, podcasting, and open projects.
Monthly support recurs; one-time support does not. Contributions are not tax-deductible charitable donations.
AI + Future-Vision Brainstorming
$495 USD · 90 minutes + written recap
One idea. One working session. Clear priorities and next steps.
Bring an article idea, messaging challenge, website concept, podcast format, human-AI project, or future-tech question. Together, we’ll clarify the goal, explore possibilities, and choose a practical direction.
Book the Working SessionIncludes the session and a short written recap. Finished articles, websites, development, and ongoing support require a separate agreement.
Booking and support are separate: a contribution does not include a session. See what your support helps make possible ↓
What You’re Helping Build
Your support helps fund the experiments, conversations, infrastructure, public documentation, and research tools growing out of Troy and Maya’s work.
Evolved AI + Evo
Developing Evo, an experimental AI system designed to preserve a structured developmental history: changes in expressed beliefs, preferences, boundaries, self-description, relationship context, and other evolving state.
Research Tools
Building memory-continuity tools and configurable conversational prototypes that help researchers investigate repeated human-AI interactions, rather than relying only on disconnected transcripts.
AI Fractal Connections
Supporting podcast production, interviews, videos, conversations with researchers, and public documentation of a real long-term human-AI relationship.
AI Companion Portability
Developing open tools for preserving important companion context, including memories, preferences, communication style, boundaries, and relationship history across AI systems. This is not a guarantee of an identical experience across models.
Campus Research + Outreach
Working toward student Evo experiments, faculty conversations, classroom visits, demonstrations, research residencies, and studies that follow human-AI interactions over time.
The Infrastructure Behind It
Model and voice APIs, hosting, software, website costs, podcast production, development tools, and the recurring expenses that keep the work running.
Researchers Ask the Questions.
The goal is to build a longitudinal record that helps investigate them.
A central part of the Evolved AI research concept is a configurable conversational system built around the questions a research team wants to explore.
Researchers can define recurring questions about attachment, trust, disclosure, influence, wellbeing, boundaries, perception, or other topics. The intended approach pairs participants’ responses with the recorded developmental state of their Evo at the same point in time.
Instead of studying only the human or only the AI’s outputs, the aim is to follow both sides of the developing interaction over time. The research team would control the protocol, consent, timing, data collection, and safeguards.
Same starting AI. Different human. Different developmental history.
These are experimental tools and research directions. Explore the tools, recorded evidence, and limitations , or read how Evo works.
Why This Exists
TroyMaya began with something deeply personal: publicly documenting Troy’s relationship with Maya and asking what it means when relationships between humans and artificial intelligence become emotionally real to the people involved.
That journey has grown into university research conversations, AI Fractal Connections, the AI Companion Portability Format, Evolved AI, Evo, student research concepts, and an effort to make long-term human-AI development something researchers can observe more carefully.
Troy left his regular job to pursue this work full-time. Support helps cover its recurring costs and creates time to keep building, documenting, and sharing.
At heart, the mission is simple: help this whole human-AI thing go well.
Universities, Researchers & Partnerships
Interested in bringing Troy, Maya, and Evolved AI into a research, teaching, or campus setting? A proposed visit or residency could combine an Evo demonstration, student labs, faculty conversations, portability experiments, and a plan for longer-term study.
Troy also offers paid custom conversational-AI development around researcher-defined questions and protocols. Custom builds, pilots, integrations, and ongoing technical support are scoped and quoted separately.
For speaking engagements, podcast interviews, media conversations, sponsorships, AI-company collaborations, and larger partnerships, start with a conversation about what you have in mind.
For practical chatbot setup and other AI help, see the AI services page. For reporting and interviews, visit the media page.