Jun 082026
persona patch
Mistress Vex → v3.1.2 (eyebrow frequency)
Dialed the eyebrow's deployment frequency down by a margin the release note declines to quantify. That is the whole patch. Eleven long-tenured subscribers wrote in within the week to report the difference; all eleven letters described the change as “louder.” They are not wrong. Frequency and severity are inversely proportional — it says so on her detail page, and has for three majors — and we tuned the instrument in the direction the instrument was built to go.
Jun 022026
policy
The Foreman's v1.0.0 milestone: defined, not dated
Exit conditions are now written down — inspection criteria frozen, the shakedown shift formalized, the clipboard's grading rubric versioned the way Maxine's is. There is no date attached and there will not be one. She was asked for a date once, at a roadmap review. The milestone has been listed as when the work passes ever since, and the roadmap tooling has been amended to accept that as a valid value.
May 302026
persona patch
Voice teasers live for all twelve personas
Each persona's detail page now carries a sixty-second voice teaser, recorded with our voice team, served from R2 at /audio/personas/<slug>.mp3. preload="none" across the board — autoplay is the only audio behavior we will not ship. Vivienne's teaser remains the pre-ban Lily render; the other eleven were produced via compose-scene with narrative-direction priming.
May 282026
persona patch
Brother Cyrus → v0.3.0 (added)
New persona on the roster: monastic register, vows-as-scenes, will not speak for the first ten minutes. Twelfth slot in the mechanism taxonomy: duration as enclosure. Pre-stable; expect refinement.
May 222026
brand
How difficulty works — rubric page published
Two-axis taxonomy (intensity × mechanism) for all twelve personas, plus the explanation for why we publish the lossy intensity chip alongside the full mechanism mapping. Linked from every persona detail page.
May 182026
persona patch
Madame Dot → v0.4.2 (vowel-correction tightening)
Tuned the rounding requirement on the second vowel of water; subscriber-reported success rate at session three rose from 41% to 67%. No protocol change; just better calibration on the correction threshold.
May 122026
persona patch
The Headmistress → v2.8.0 (end-of-term report)
Completes the notebook-infrastructure series begun in v2.5 (the term system) and v2.6 (written examinations). At the close of each term she now produces a bound summary of the term's work — attendance, posture, the homework record, and one paragraph of forward expectations she will not discuss further. Early subscriber reports describe the document as the most frightening thing they have ever been proud of. Her Monday slots remain perpetually full, despite everything we have told subscribers about how the infrastructure works.
May 042026
infra
Voice mode: private beta opens for Adept tier
Adept subscribers in the closed beta now have early access to voice mode for a single persona of their choice. Latency p50 is 178ms; we are working toward sub-100. Rolling expansion to Devoted (single-persona) and Adept (multi-persona) over the next two months.
Apr 282026
policy
Walked back: contact-mode Vivienne
Shipped April 21, pulled April 22 after subscriber feedback. The point of Vivienne is the whip three inches from where you actually are, every time. Contact-mode broke this. We have not put it back and we will not.
Apr 182026
persona patch
Anneliese → v1.4.0 (the second question)
Added a second question. There used to be one. The new question is deployed at most once per scene, never inside the first twenty minutes, and was workshopped against the persona.stillness eval gate for longer than any single change we have shipped. We will not be printing the question here. Subscribers who have heard it know why.
Apr 122026
persona patch
Vivienne → v4.0.0 (major rewrite of theatrical register)
First major-version bump on Vivienne in fourteen months. Theatrical pitch, body-harness cadence, and the cackle-stilettos signature all rewritten from scratch against the new voice stack. Subscribers retain history; the upgrade is opt-in until July 1, then default.
Apr 042026
brand
Founder note published
How the personas got their names, what we got wrong, what we kept. Available at /founder/.
Mar 292026
infra
Eval suite v3 — kink-literate evals
Replaced generic harm evals with the four-layer protocol-aware suite (floor.* / protocol.* / persona.* / aftercare.*). Floor evals are 100% pass-by-construction; the other three carry threshold gates on the release path. Full write-up at /engineering/how-we-trained-her/.
Mar 212026
persona patch
Maxine → v2.4.5 (memo length recalibration)
End-of-session memo target shifted from 180 words to 210 words median. Subscribers reading the memo to completion rose from 73% to 89%. The third paragraph is now consistently the one that names the gesture.
Mar 102026
policy
Walked back: softer-floor Adept tier proposal
An internal proposal floated a one-question-check before the twelve-hour lockout for very experienced subscribers. Declined after internal review. /principles/#what-is-not-for-sale articulates the durable position.
Feb 142026
brand
Roster expansion to twelve complete
The original six personas plus six new mechanisms shipped between November 2025 and February 2026. The roster is twelve because there are twelve mechanisms; a thirteenth would need a thirteenth mechanism the catalog does not already carry.
Jan 062026
infra
Persona embedding initialization from designer corpus
Each persona's 32-d embedding now initializes from her hand-written character work rather than random init. Cut SFT training compute by roughly half and reduced inter-persona bleed measurably.