A step-by-step guide to the 8-step Digital Twin creation wizard — from name and avatar through personalization questions to file upload and launch.
Creating a Digital Twin takes about 10-20 minutes from the self-service wizard, or 24-48 hours if you want our team to build one for you. Pick the path that fits.
The self-service wizard walks you through eight steps. You can always go back to a previous step using the stepper at the top or the Back button.The Cancel button (or × on the modal) closes the wizard. Up through Step 6 nothing has been saved, so cancelling discards the in-progress draft. Once you click Create on Step 6 the twin is created — cancelling on Step 7 (file upload) or Step 8 (success) just closes the wizard; the twin stays.
Click your profile icon in the top navigation to open the Digital Twin Gallery.
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Click Add, then Create
Click the + Add button on a gallery card, then choose the Create option. The wizard opens in a modal.
Navigate to /my-profile/create directly. The wizard opens as a full-page experience instead of a modal — useful for bookmarking or sharing the link with team members.
Faculty creating a course-specific Digital Twin should follow the Faculty Onboarding Guide. The LMS path uses a slightly different launch flow tailored to course context.
Administrators creating institutional Digital Twins with custom entitlements, AI models, or branding should go through Admin → Instances. See the Admin Guide for the full configuration surface.
A stepper across the top of the wizard tracks your progress. You can click any previously-visited step to jump back to it.
Name & Type
Two fields:
Field
Notes
Name
What the twin will be called. Defaults to “Pria” if left blank. Changeable later.
Interview Type
Full Interview (≈30+ questions, deep persona) or Short Interview (5 focused questions, quick expertise definition).
Pick Short Interview if you want a working twin fast and plan to refine the personality later. Pick Full Interview if you want the richest persona up front.
Profile Picture
Upload an avatar via the picture-upload widget. You can:
Upload a file from your device
Take a snapshot with your webcam
Paste an image from the clipboard
The widget includes a circular crop tool so the avatar fits the gallery card. You can leave the picture blank and click Next — twins without an avatar fall back to the default Pria image, and you can set or change the picture later from the Edit page.
Backgrounds
Optional light-mode and dark-mode background images that appear behind the chat surface for this twin. For each mode you can either:
Paste an Image URL (must be publicly reachable HTTPS), or
Click Upload File to upload a local image
A live preview appears beside each input. Both fields are optional — leave them blank and click Next to use the default backgrounds. You can always set or change them later from the Edit page.
Personalization Questions
The wizard loads the question bank for the Interview Type you chose in Step 1. Questions are shown one at a time with prev/next controls.
Required questions are flagged in amber; Optional in grey.
A green Answered badge appears once you type something.
A progress bar shows answered count and percentage.
The Next button stays disabled until you’ve answered at least five questions. Once five are answered you can proceed even if other required questions are blank.
Be specific. Detail in the answers translates directly into detail in your twin’s voice. The first answer pre-fills with a friendly stub (e.g. “I am Pria, and people describe me as …”) — replace it with something real.
Review Instructions
Pria generates the twin’s GPT instructions from your answers and shows them in an editable textarea. You can:
Edit directly to fine-tune phrasing
Click Regenerate from answers to discard your edits and rebuild from the questions
Leave the instructions blank if you prefer to write them by hand
The instructions are what the underlying model receives as its system prompt — every conversation with your twin starts from this text.
Configuration
Three groups of settings.Conversation Access — who is allowed to chat with this twin:
Option
Meaning
By Invitation only
Default. Only people you explicitly invite.
Members of your account
Shown when you belong to a parent account. Anyone in that account can converse. The option label includes the account’s actual name.
Anyone (public)
Public access. Selecting this automatically switches Credit Management to Personal Credits and shows a warning recommending that — you can switch back to Pool Credits if you really want, but it exposes the pool to credit farming.
Convo Mode — toggle to enable real-time voice conversations with this twin. Off by default.Credit Management — pick one:
Option
Meaning
Pool Credits
Conversations draw from the institution’s shared credit pool. Recommended for most setups.
Personal Credits
Each user pays from their own credit balance. You set a one-time Credits awarded per user stipend (default 50) so new users can try the twin before topping up.
Click the Create button (its label includes your twin’s name) when you’re done. The wizard runs a short summoning animation (~5 seconds) while it creates the institution, saves your question answers, and refreshes your profile.
Build Knowledge Base
Optional but powerful. Upload documents to give your twin domain-specific knowledge that is referenced in real time during conversations.You can:
Drag and drop files onto the drop zone
Paste files from the clipboard (e.g. a screenshot you just took)
Click Choose Files to Upload to pick from your device
Supported formats include PDF, DOCX, TXT, CSV, images, audio, video, and more. Uploaded files appear in a list below with their processing status (Processing / Ready / Error).Click Finish to skip or move on; you can add more files at any time from the admin Files page.
Done
Success screen with your twin’s avatar, a confirmation that it’s been added to your Gallery, and credit-related guidance:
If your parent account has auto-transfer enabled, you’re told credits will refill automatically when low.
Otherwise, an Add Credits Now shortcut takes you to the Pricing page.
Two action buttons close the wizard:
Edit — opens the full admin edit page for this twin (instructions, AI models, files, members, etc.)
Converse — jumps straight into your first conversation with the new twin
When you click Create on Step 6, the wizard sends a single create-institution request that captures everything from Steps 1-6 in one shot:
Name, picture, light/dark backgrounds
Generated/edited GPT instructions
Interview type
Conversation access mode and credit policy
Voice (Convo Mode) toggle
Your answers to the personalization questions are saved as separate institutionQuestion records linked to the new twin so you can revisit and edit them later from the admin page.File uploads on Step 7 are independent — each file is processed asynchronously, and you can close the wizard before processing finishes without losing them.
You need at least five answered questions before the wizard lets you advance to Step 5. The button label shows how many more you need — “Answer N more to continue”.
My background image URL won't load
The URL must be publicly accessible (no login wall), served over HTTPS, free of CORS restrictions, and link directly to the image file (ending in .jpg, .png, .gif, or .webp). If in doubt, use the Upload File button instead — uploaded images are served from our CDN.
The generated instructions don't sound like me
On Step 5, edit the textarea directly to rewrite phrasing, or click Regenerate from answers to rebuild from the questions. You can always refine the instructions later from the twin’s Edit page.
Creation failed with a rate-limit error
Pria limits Digital Twin creation to one per minute per user to keep the system stable. Wait a moment and try again.
I cancelled mid-wizard — did anything save?
Nothing is saved until you click Create on Step 6. Steps 1-5 live entirely in the wizard’s local state — closing or cancelling discards them.
I can't find my new Digital Twin
Check your Gallery (profile icon in the top nav). Newly created twins appear there immediately. If a twin was created through Canvas LMS, it may be linked only to that course context.