Origin
Johnny's instinct: "There is room for a travel companion, narrator, guide, curator — maybe even for all of life and not just trips."
What It Is
A context-aware, personality-switchable, location-intelligent life narrator. Not just navigation. A presence that knows you — your interests, your pace, your depth preference — and interprets the world around you in real time.
What Makes It Different
- Google Maps tells you where. Wayfinder tells you why it matters
- Knows the user personally — their interests, what depth they want, what lens they see through
- Personality modes — not a gimmick, but personalization at the layer that actually matters: voice and lens
- Grows with the user over time — the more you use it, the better it knows you
- Responds to spontaneous questions: "What's that mountain?" "Why is this street named that?" "What happened here?"
Personality Modes
- 📖 Fact-dense historian — information heavy, dates, costs, names, context
- 👻 Macabre / haunted / gothic — for the goths, ghost hunters, dark history lovers
- 🎬 Epic narrator — Charlton Heston energy, biblical scale, cinematic
- 🗺️ Dense travel journalist — "how much did it cost, what's over that hill"
- 🧭 Quiet guide — minimal, just answers when asked
- 👤 You mode — fully calibrated to the individual user's known preferences
The Headstone Connection
This is the companion layer, alive and active during your life — building your story as you move through the world. Every hike, every road trip, every question asked — that's data, memory, legacy being built in real time.
The user isn't just consuming the world's information. They're leaving their own trail through it. That trail becomes part of their Headstone.
Why It Matters for Distribution
This is the product that gets Headstone into people's pockets on a Tuesday afternoon with no pitch required. No need to explain data sovereignty or blockchain. Just: "It's like having a brilliant, funny, knowledgeable friend who knows everything about everywhere you go."
The deep platform is underneath. Wayfinder is the front door for the curious.