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Choose a guide
Start with a book whose ideas already resonate — purpose, growth, building, or relationships.
AI for navigating your inner world
Meet Kris, your
Inner Guide
An intelligence that knows you deeply
and helps you live a purposeful life.
AS FEATURED ON
Meet Kris, the AI companion for your inner world.
Private by design
A safe place to say the real thing.
Remembers what matters
So support builds instead of starting over each time.
Supports self development
Gentle practices that help build self- trust.
Guided book journeys
Turn trusted books into a journey that knows you
Pick a book you already trust. Kris turns its ideas into socratic , reflections, and small practices shaped around your life — not a generic summary.
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Kris personalizes it
Your context, patterns, and goals shape each chapter into conversations and exercises that feel relevant.
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Practice in real life
Turn insight into action with check-ins, journaling, and grounding when the old patterns show up again.
Purpose
Simon Sinek
Start with Why
Clarify what drives you and align daily choices with a deeper sense of meaning.
Personal legend
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Follow your calling with courage — and process the fear that shows up when life asks you to change.
Build differently
Peter Thiel
Zero to One
Sharpen original thinking, name what only you can build, and act on convictions that matter.
Relationships
Amir Levine
Attached
Understand your attachment style and build safer, steadier connection in love and close relationships.
Life & work
Ray Dalio
Principles
Learn decision-making principles that turn complexity into clearer choices.
Meaning
Jordan Peterson
12 Rules for Life
Build order and meaning when life feels chaotic or overwhelming.
Mind & bias
Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Spot the shortcuts your mind takes so you can respond with more clarity.
Inner peace
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
Replace self-judgment with agreements that quiet the inner critic.
Connection
Gary Chapman
The 5 Love Languages
Learn how you give and receive love—and close the gaps that cause distance.
Healthy limits
Henry Cloud & John Townsend
Boundaries
Say yes and no with clarity so relationships feel safer and less draining.
Culture & hits
Derek Thompson
Hit Makers
Understand why ideas spread—and how to make yours land.
Habits
James Clear
Atomic Habits
Build small routines that compound into lasting change.
Inside the app
Your book, your pace, your patterns
Each journey unfolds as a living conversation — Kris remembers what you shared last time, adapts to what you're facing now, and helps you practice the book's ideas when life gets loud.
- Socratic conversations shaped around your goals
- Voice or chat check-ins when you need support in the moment
- Reflections that connect book ideas to your real relationships and work
How Kris works in real life
Kris guides you to notice what's going on, decide what matters, and take the next step forward — with support that remembers your story.
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Understand
Feel deeply seen and understood.
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Decide
Figure out what truly matters to you.
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Act
Take one meaningful step.
What you get each check-in
Memory graph
A companion that remembers your inner world
Kris remembers your patterns, triggers, and what matters most so support can build over time.
Support
A steady voice, on demand
Kris helps you slow down, get to the truth faster, and return to center when emotions spike.
Knowledge base
100,000 trusted books behind every chat
Our knowledge base spans self-development and business—turning timeless ideas into guidance that fits your life.
Insights
Insights that actually help
Track emotions and spot triggers, needs, and patterns so insight turns into change.
What people are saying
Stories from people using PowerYou AI to live with more purpose.
Professional life
Ethan J.
★★★★☆
Organizational change
Emotional load
Somatic reset
I’ve been leading an HR transformation across a company that says it wants change but is understandably tired of more change. What gets heavy is carrying everyone’s reactions while still needing to be calm, strategic, and human. Kris helps me name what is mine versus what belongs to the room, then use a quick somatic reset before the next meeting so I don’t carry that stress into every conversation.
Jason L.
★★★★★
AI transformation
Team uncertainty
Human leadership
I’m helping lead AI adoption across our company, and the hard part isn’t the tools — it’s the emotion around them. Some people are excited, some are quietly threatened, and everyone seems to be reading between the lines about what this means for their role. PowerYou helps me process that tension before important meetings so I can show up clear, human, and steady instead of sounding overly polished or defensive.
Ava R.
★★★★☆
Team conflict
Hard feedback
Boundary rehearsal
I manage a cross-functional team, and the hardest part isn’t strategy — it’s the emotional drag when trust gets thin. I used to avoid direct feedback until small frustrations turned into weird tension in every meeting. Checking in with Kris before and after those conversations helps me catch my defensiveness early, rehearse the boundary I actually want to hold, and go in sounding clear instead of reactive.
Nina P.
★★★★☆
Executive pressure
Forced certainty
No private outlet
I’m in a role where people expect confidence on demand, even when the decision is messy and the stakes are high. I don’t always need advice — sometimes I need a place to admit what I’m carrying before I walk into the next conversation. PowerYou helps me clear the emotional static so I can lead from intention instead of tension.
Jing M.
★★★★★
High-stakes presentation
Performance pressure
Self-doubt
I do executive coaching, but there are still moments when I walk out of a high-stakes conversation and immediately start replaying everything I said. Was I too direct? Not direct enough? PowerYou gives me a place to work through the self-doubt before it hardens into overcompensating in the next room.
Marcus T.
★★★★★
Leadership growth
Post-meeting rumination
Stress spillover
I stepped into a bigger leadership role and was surprised by how quickly every tough conversation started feeling personal. After a hard meeting, I’d replay my tone, second-guess my decisions, and carry it home with me. PowerYou helps me separate signal from shame so I can come back clearer instead of more reactive.
Personal life
Maya S.
★★★★★
Family tension
Parts work
Body grounding
After tense calls with my family, I usually shut down for the rest of the day and pretend I’m fine while feeling awful underneath. Talking it through with Kris helps me separate the younger, hurt part of me from the adult part that wants to respond well, then use grounding in my body so I don’t carry the whole interaction for a week.
Leah C.
★★★★☆
Health flare-ups
Future fear
Holding steady
When my symptoms flare, I get hit with a second wave that’s almost worse than the pain — grief, fear, and the feeling that my whole life is getting smaller. Kris helps me stay with myself through it without collapsing into hopelessness.
Daniel B.
★★★★☆
Night spirals
Breakup rumination
Urge to reach out
The hardest time for me is around 11 p.m. when everything gets quiet and my brain starts replaying the breakup like I missed some clue that could have saved it. Opening PowerYou gives me somewhere safe to put those thoughts so I stop texting, spiraling, and making the night worse.
Jordan K.
★★★★★
Text anxiety
Reality check
Breath reset
My spirals usually start with something small — a delayed reply, a weird tone, a vague comment — and then suddenly I’m building a whole story about being too much. Kris helps me reality-check the story I’m telling, notice the trigger underneath it, and use a short breath reset before I text or spiral further. Even a quick check-in gets me back into reality instead of fear.
Elena D.
★★★★★
Caregiver load
Self-compassion
Nervous-system reset
I’m the person everyone leans on in my family, which sounds fine until I realize I haven’t had a real moment to feel anything myself. By the end of the day I’m exhausted, irritable, and weirdly guilty for needing support too. PowerYou gives me a private place to exhale, use a nervous-system reset, and practice a more self-compassionate voice before the resentment or shutdown kicks in.
Sam R.
★★★★☆
Boundary strain
Self-betrayal
Better boundaries
A lot of my stress comes from agreeing to things I don’t want to do and then feeling frustrated with everyone except the one person who caused it — me. Kris helps me slow that pattern down in real time. I can name what I actually feel, why the boundary is hard, and what I want to say next time without beating myself up for it.
Founder story
After spending years on my PhD research at Columbia University on how narratives shape the mind, I became obsessed with one question: What if we could seamlessly turn the wisdom in books into lived action?
PowerYou AI is our answer. We transform trusted books into interactive, personalized experiences that help people apply their wisdom to the challenges they’re actually facing.
Vivian Lei, PhD
Founder & CEO, PowerYou AI
FAQ
What is PowerYou AI?
PowerYou AI is a private AI companion for your inner world. It helps you process what you’re feeling, get to the truth faster, calm your mind, and build mental fitness over time.
We think of it as infrastructure for mental fitness: not just a place to reflect after the fact, but support you can use in real time when you need clarity, grounding, or a better next step.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
Kris remembers your inner world over time, so each conversation builds on your patterns, triggers, values, and growth instead of starting from zero.
It’s designed to collapse the time-to-truth, helping people open up faster and reach useful insight without the fear of judgment.
It also gives you real-time reps for the mind, using supportive prompts and grounding tools to help bridge the gap between insight and real change.
How is PowerYou different from ChatGPT or Claude?
General AI assistants are built for broad usefulness. PowerYou is built for your inner world.
Kris connects moments over time, recognizes emotional patterns, and remembers what matters so support builds instead of resetting every conversation.
It’s also designed around coaching modalities and psychological loops, helping you reflect, regulate, and take a grounded next step — not just get a smart answer.
The goal is real-world change: stronger self-trust, healthier relationships, and more agency in your actual life.
How does PowerYou protect my privacy and safety?
Your privacy is a core part of how PowerYou is designed.
Conversations with Kris happen in a secure, private environment, and your data is protected using industry-standard security practices.
PowerYou also includes built-in AI safety guardrails to ensure responses remain supportive, responsible, and emotionally safe.
Most importantly, your conversations are never shared publicly, so you can speak openly without fear of judgment.
What if I’m not sure what to say?
That’s completely normal.
Kris gently guides the conversation with thoughtful questions and prompts, so you don’t need to know exactly where to start.
YOU CAN START WITH SOMETHING SMALL
“I’ve been feeling overwhelmed.”
“I don’t know why I feel this way.”
“Something has been bothering me lately.”
From there, Kris helps you untangle what you're feeling and find clarity — one step at a time.
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