Theo Personas
Theo Personas lets you build a deployable, real-time AI video agent — a face, a voice, and a brain you can actually talk to. Give it a look and a personality, choose what it can do, then publish it and share it as a link or embed it on your website. Visitors have a live, face-to-face conversation with it, right in the browser.
What It Is
A persona is a real-time video agent with four parts:
- A face — a photorealistic likeness from the Theo Faces library.
- A personality — a system prompt + greeting that define who it is and how it opens.
- Capabilities — a curated set of things it can do live (search, create projects, and more).
- A way to reach it — a shareable OpenCharts link or a website embed.
Building a Persona
Open Personas from the sidebar and create one. The studio is a simple step-by-step wizard:
1. Identity
Name your persona and pick the face people will see.
2. Personality
Write the system prompt, greeting, and any context.
3. Capabilities
Toggle what the persona can actually do on a call.
4. Publish & Share
Set visibility, publish, then test or embed it.
The Live Call
Once a persona is published, click Preview live (in the studio or on its overview) to open a fully OpenCharts-branded video call — the persona speaks and listens in real time, with your own camera as a small self-view.
- The call opens right inside OpenCharts — no redirect, no third-party chrome.
- Personas know they live in OpenCharts: ask for a deck, a flowchart, or an image and they build it right here with their capabilities — they won't send you off to external tools.
- You control your microphone and camera, and can end the call any time.
- If your camera is unavailable, the call gracefully continues audio-only.
See What Your Persona Is Doing
During a call, a transparent Live activity panel shows everything happening in real time — live captions of the conversation, a “working…” pill while a capability runs, and a result card the moment it finishes.
- When the persona builds something — a flowchart, a deck, an image — the card includes an Open link so you can jump straight to it.
- Generated images render right in the panel as thumbnails.
- The panel opens automatically on the first activity; toggle it any time with the activity button in the call's top bar (it shows a badge while closed).
- On the public share page, visitors see the activity feed too — but links into your workspace stay private to you.
Capabilities
In the Capabilitiesstep you choose what the persona can do during a conversation — nearly everything Theo can do in chat, grouped by category (Knowledge, Create, Edit, Workspace, Teams & community, Memory) with per-category All / None toggles. Highlights:
Capabilities marked owner-only are automatically blocked when strangers talk to a public or team persona — they only work when you talk to your own persona. Already-published personas pick up newly enabled capabilities the next time you publish.
Publishing & Sharing
Publishprovisions the live agent. Until you publish, the persona is a draft and can't take calls.
Share a link— send anyone the persona's OpenCharts page and they can start a live conversation instantly.
Embed on your website — copy the snippet and paste it on any site. No keys, no backend.
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