AI Product Engineering·Consumer AI·2026

    Helel.ai — Real-Time AI Video Companion

    Helel.ai (AI companion startup)

    A real-time AI companion you meet over live video — not a chat box. Aiwalay built the production backend end to end: live avatar sessions with a text fallback, personality-based onboarding, and consent-gated private memory.

    Shipped to production
    Delivery
    Swappable by config
    AI vendors
    Consent-gated
    Memory
    Full source + runbook
    Handover

    The problem

    Helel.ai wanted an AI companion that feels present — one users actually see and talk to over live video, that remembers them only with permission, and that isn't locked to a single AI or avatar vendor.

    What we built

    Aiwalay built a provider-agnostic core: the language models and the video-avatar vendor sit behind internal interfaces, so switching vendors is a configuration change, not a rewrite. Save/resume personality onboarding produces a profile; consent-gated memory means the companion only ever remembers what the user explicitly approves — un-approving deletes the stored profile chunks — and context is retrieved over the approved profile with vector search / RAG. Per-tenant data isolation is enforced at the DB layer on every table, with schema-validated TypeScript boundaries throughout.

    Aiwalay's role

    Aiwalay designed and built the production backend end to end — the provider-agnostic architecture, live avatar sessions with text fallback, consent-gated memory and retrieval, and per-tenant isolation — delivered to production with CI and a documented go-live handover the client owns outright.

    Helel.ai — Real-Time AI Video Companion — FAQ

    What did Aiwalay build for Helel.ai?

    Aiwalay designed and built the production backend end to end: a provider-agnostic core where the AI models and video-avatar vendor sit behind adapters (swap either by config, no rewrite), personality-based onboarding, consent-gated memory with vector retrieval, and per-tenant data isolation — delivered to production with CI and a documented handover the client owns.

    Is Helel.ai a real-time video experience?

    Yes. Users meet the companion over live avatar video sessions, not a chat box, with a text fallback available so the experience keeps working when video isn't.

    How is user privacy handled?

    Memory is consent-gated: the companion only ever remembers what the user explicitly approves, retrieval runs over just that approved profile, and un-approving deletes the stored profile chunks. Every tenant's data is isolated at the database layer.

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