Stephen Spence

Enki - the AI companion you own, and grow

Stop explaining yourself to your AI every single time. An AI companion you grow and actually own. Honest by design, private by default. British-built.

56, started coding in June, and I've just spent 4 months…

I'm Stephen, founder of Enki Labs in the UK. Enki is an adult AI companion with real memory — it keeps what you tell it, can be told to forget, and you can always export what it knows. I built it with AI coding agents: 14,000+ automated tests, a safety system that has to pass every check before anything ships, and a free open-source tool (enki-harness) that came out of testing my own filters. The honest bit: 4 months building, marketing only just started, and 0 paying customers. Biggest lesson so far: I kept polishing things nobody had asked for. This week I changed the rule — if a fix doesn't help win or keep a paying customer, it waits. What I'd love from this community: - Look at the site and tell me the first thing that would stop you trying it: https://enkilabs.co.uk - If you've gone from 0 to your first paying users, what actually moved it? I'll post what I learn here — including the numbers that don't flatter me.

Stephen Spence just launched Enki - the AI companion you own, and grow.