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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.

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

## The creation flow

1. Click **New Mind** in the sidebar. The creation panel slides in.
2. Describe the Mind you want to create (_"Warren Buffett"_, _"venture capitalist, deep tech, Series A"_, _"my ICP: B2B CMO at a Series-B SaaS"_). A plain description is enough on its own.
3. Optionally add grounding material via the tabs in the input:
   - **Link** — a LinkedIn URL, personal website, public social profile, blog, or interview article. The fastest path for real people.
   - **File** — a PDF or document (persona doc, interview notes, research report).
   - **Keyword** — topic terms that trigger targeted web research.
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

You can watch it happen: knowledge sources stream into the panel as they're collected, the thinking-pattern sphere fills in, and the system prompt lands last. Total time: typically under a minute. Closing the panel doesn't stop anything; the build continues in the background and the sidebar shows its progress.

## 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 from the Mind's info panel
- **Voice** — every Mind supports real-time voice conversations (audio call from the chat); custom voice IDs are available on higher plans
- **Discipline** — a short descriptor that appears next to the name (e.g. _"Brand Strategist"_, _"AI Researcher"_); click it in the info panel to edit inline

## 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 info 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._