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
Enter the Name your twin will be called. It defaults to “Pria” if you leave it blank, and you can change it later. The name you type here also pre-fills the “What should your digital twin be called?” question in the personalization interview.
There’s no longer an interview-type choice on this step — every twin is now personalized through the same guided Persona Builder interview (Step 4). Just name your twin and continue.
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.
Appearance
Set how this twin looks. Two parts:
UI Theme — choose User Directed (let each person use their own light/dark preference), Dark, or Light.
Background images — optional light-mode and dark-mode backgrounds that appear behind the chat surface. Click a background tile to upload a local image (cropped to a wide 16:9 frame), or paste an Image URL (publicly reachable HTTPS).
Everything here is optional — leave the backgrounds blank and click Next to use the defaults. You can always change the theme and backgrounds later from the Edit page.
Personalization Questions
This is the Persona Builder — one curated 14-question interview grouped into five sections (Basic Identity, Role and Primary Use Case, Audience, Communication Style, Advice Style and Guardrails). Questions are shown one at a time with prev/next controls and a progress bar.Most questions are plain text, but two use richer controls:
A personality slider group — seven traits (tone, energy, detail, feedback, humor, thinking, warmth), each a 1-to-7 scale; click one square per trait.
A single-choice tile question for how your twin gives advice (Direct, Encouraging, Analytical, or Balanced).
Six questions are required (your name, email, the twin’s role, what it helps with, its audience, and its advice style). The Next button stays disabled until every required question is answered — it reads “Answer N more required to continue” until then. The email question pre-fills from your account, and the twin-name question syncs with the name you set in Step 1.
Be specific. Detail in the answers translates directly into detail in your twin’s voice — the answers become the personalization context behind your twin’s Instructions. See Onboarding Questions for the full question list.
Review Instructions
When you reach this step, Pria automatically generates the twin’s instructions from your interview answers (the Generate Prompt step) and shows them in an editable editor. You can:
Edit directly to fine-tune phrasing
Click Regenerate from answers to discard your edits and rebuild from the questions
Instructions are required — the Next button is locked while the draft is generating and stays locked if the field is empty (it reads “Instructions required to continue”). 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 plays a short full-screen creation animation (~5 seconds — Seeding Digital Twin… Infusing personality… Shaping voice & tone… Awakening consciousness…) while it creates the twin, 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, UI theme, light/dark backgrounds
Generated/edited instructions
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.
All six required questions must be answered before the wizard lets you advance — your name, email, the twin’s role, what it helps with, its audience, and its advice style. The button label shows how many remain: “Answer N more required to continue”. Optional questions can be left blank.
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.