AI-native character studio + platform

Characters people fall for. Ours, and yours.

tsayvish runs its own cast of original characters, and gives anyone the tools to create a character and spin up everything it needs to scale: legal, likeness, storefront, payments, merch, media and fans.

Pudding
Gus
Pip
Dot
zz
Sorrel
Bramble
Two ways in

Bring a character, or partner on one of ours.

For creators & brands

Build your own character

Start from a sketch, an idea or a character you already have. Design it with our tools, then switch on the infrastructure to grow it into a franchise.

  • Creation tools that keep your character on-model
  • Trademark, likeness and legal handled for you
  • Storefront, payments and merch ready when you are
Try the builder
For partners & licensees

Work with our originals

We create and run an in-house cast, testing them in public and backing the breakouts. Brands, licensees and manufacturers can partner on them.

  • Characters with audiences you can see
  • Brand partnerships and co-branded drops
  • Licensing for plush, apparel, books and more
Meet our cast
Why now

Hello Kitty took decades. The next one won’t.

Character IP has always paid off across entertainment, merchandise and licensing. It also used to cost years of animation and production before anyone knew if audiences cared. Generative AI makes characters cheap to create, and social feeds put them in front of millions without a network deal.

The old way
The tsayvish way
Cost to test
Animation budgets and years of development
A generation pipeline and a few weeks of posting
Distribution
Networks, publishers and toy buyers decide
Algorithmic feeds reach millions directly
Strategy
One expensive bet at a time
A portfolio, where audiences pick the winners
Proof before spend
Very little until launch day
Engagement and purchase intent from day one
The engine

Ours or yours, the audience decides what scales.

The same engine runs our in-house cast and every character built on tsayvish.

Step 1

Create

Design a character with a personality, a voice and a running joke. Start from scratch or bring your own.

Step 2

Post

Publish daily across social platforms, testing formats, tones and audiences side by side.

Step 3

Listen

Read the signals that separate a viral clip from a character people want to keep.

  • Organic engagement
  • Repeat viewers
  • Fan participation
  • Purchase intent
Step 4

Franchise

Switch on the infrastructure for breakouts: brand partnerships, merchandise, storefronts, events and standalone consumer brands.

Our in-house cast

Cute on the outside. Painfully relatable on the inside.

Made in our studio and open to partners. Stylized animals skip the uncanny valley: nobody needs a capybara to look real, they need it to feel exactly like their Tuesday.

Frog

Pudding

Says she’s fine. Is not fine. Rehearses every phone call twice.

Breakout signal
Capybara

Gus

Color-codes his calendar. Still twenty minutes late to everything.

Testing
Hamster

Pip

Romanticizes errands. Main-character energy in the cereal aisle.

Testing
Otter

Dot

Sends seven-minute voice notes. Never listens to yours.

Testing
zz
Cat

Sorrel

Cancels plans and feels wonderful about it. Patron saint of staying in.

Breakout signal
Bear

Bramble

Training for his first 5K. Mostly by buying the gear.

Testing

Early character concepts, shown for illustration.

Build your own

Make a character. Switch on what it needs to grow.

A virtual influencer, a monster, a robot, a talking cupcake. Make any kind of character or persona, give it a personality, then choose the infrastructure behind it. Start small and turn more on as your audience grows.

Kind of character
Color
Personality
Dreamy · Person

Mango

Romanticizes doing laundry. Narrates life like a film.

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What we handle

Everything between “that’s cute” and a checkout page.

A character becomes a business through dozens of unglamorous jobs. The same infrastructure runs our cast and yours, all under one roof, so nothing falls between the agency, the lawyer and the factory.

Create

3 services

Character creation

Personality first, then the face. Every character starts with a want, a flaw and a running joke.

Personality bible · visual spec · voice

Creative management

A writers’ room and production calendar for daily formats across every feed.

Series formats · posting cadence

Technology

Our generation pipeline keeps characters on-model across thousands of clips and shows what’s working.

Model tuning · consistency · analytics

Protect

3 services

Likeness

A locked look, voice and set of mannerisms, with clear rules on who can use them and how.

Style guide · voice lock · usage rights

IP & trademark filing

Names, marks and designs filed in the classes where the revenue is.

Nice classes 9 · 16 · 25 · 28 · 41

Legal paperwork

Licensing deals, brand partnerships, creator agreements and takedowns.

Licenses · contracts · enforcement

Grow

3 services

Audience management

Comments, community, fan art and the inside jokes that turn viewers into fans.

Community · moderation · fan programs

Media budgeting & management

Paid spend goes behind what already works organically, tracked to the dollar.

Budgets · paid amplification · reporting

Live events

Pop-ups, meet-and-greets and launch drops where fans meet the character in person.

Pop-ups · appearances · drops

Earn

3 services

Storefront

A shop for every character, from the first pre-order to a full catalog.

Pre-orders · drops · catalog

Payments

Checkout, payouts, royalty splits and licensing revenue, all in one ledger.

Checkout · royalties · payouts

Physical goods

Plush, blind boxes, apparel and books, from first sample to the customer’s door.

Sampling · manufacturing · fulfillment

Start with one character. Turn on the rest as it grows.

Get started
Who it’s for

Cute is a serious business.

Labubu and Jellycat proved that adults will line up for cute, collectible things without an elaborate backstory. We think characters with real personalities go further. They become entertainment people share, and an identity people wear.

Our first audience is Gen Z and millennial women, who already treat the characters they love as a way to say something about themselves.

Shareable

Personalities built around feelings people send to their group chat.

Collectible

Designed from day one to work as plush, blind boxes and apparel.

Ownable

Every character is original IP, filed and protected before it scales.

For creators

The studio behind our cast is yours to use.

Everything we use to run our own characters is open to creators and brands: the tools, legal cover, storefronts and payments to build a character franchise of your own.

Create your account
DevelopDesign, write and produce with tools that keep your character on-model.
ProtectFile trademarks, lock likeness and sign deals with templates that hold up.
ManageRun media budgets, posting calendars and your community in one place.
MonetizeOpen a shop, take payments, make merch and split royalties.
Say hello

Got a brand, a factory or a character? Let’s talk.

We’re working with brand partners, licensees, manufacturers and creators. Write to us and Vish or Alexa will reply.

hello@tsayvish.com