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Minds Team

# **Creating a Mind**

Build a Mind in under a minute from any signal — LinkedIn, website, PDF, notes, or a plain description. Then tune the knowledge base, voice, and personality.

# Creating a Mind

Every Mind starts as a short prompt and turns into a fully-formed persona in about 30 seconds. This page walks through the full creation flow and the knobs you have afterward.

## The 4 creation methods

1. Click **+ Add** in the sidebar.
2. Give the Mind a name (e.g. _"Warren Buffett"_, _"My ICP"_, _"Brand Strategist"_).
3. Pick a creation method:
   - **From a profile** — paste a LinkedIn URL, a personal website, or a public social profile. Fastest path for real people.
   - **From keywords** — describe the persona in a sentence (_"venture capitalist, deep tech, Series A"_). Best when you're modelling a target segment, not a specific individual.
   - **From a link** — any URL with relevant content (blog, about page, interview article).
   - **Manual** — define everything yourself. Useful for fictional characters or tightly-specified test personas.
4. Click **Create**.

The platform runs a deep scrape and analysis pass, extracts the psychological signal, and generates:

- a system prompt that captures personality, tone, values, and domain knowledge
- a knowledge base seeded with the source material
- a profile image
- a default voice

Total time: typically under a minute.

## Tuning your Mind

### Knowledge base

Add more grounding material at any time:

- **Links** — articles, documentation, blog posts
- **Files** — PDFs, text, and other documents
- **Keywords** — topic terms that trigger web research on demand

Every source is listed in the Knowledge Base panel. Review, re-process, or remove individual items. Sources with the watch icon are monitored for updates.

### System prompt

The system prompt defines who the Mind is:

- their background and identity
- how they communicate (tone, style, formality)
- what expertise they bring
- how they approach ambiguous questions

Click any section to edit inline. Changes save automatically.

### Profile and voice

- **Profile image** — upload your own or regenerate
- **Voice** — pick a voice for voice chats (real-time conversation works end-to-end)
- **Discipline** — a short descriptor that appears next to the name (e.g. _"Brand Strategist"_, _"AI Researcher"_)

## Good use cases to start with

- **Clone an expert** — paste a thought leader's LinkedIn and get instant access to their perspective.
- **Model your ICP** — build a Mind that matches your target customer to test messaging, positioning, and product ideas.
- **Build an advisor** — a CFO, legal advisor, or creative director you can consult anytime.
- **Fictional characters** — roleplay, storytelling, product testing personas.
- **Historical figures** — talk to Marie Curie, Marcus Aurelius, or Ada Lovelace about their worldview.

## Sharing

Share a Mind with others:

- **Private link** — a unique URL anyone can use to chat with your Mind
- **Team** — available to all members of your workspace
- **Public** — surface it to the Minds community

Sharing lives in the Mind's settings panel.

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_The better you define a Mind, the more useful it becomes. Start simple, then layer in sources and refine the system prompt as you learn what you want from it._