ConversationSimulator.com

Marketing a Local-First Product, 2026

Every AI product page says “private.” ConversationSimulator.com has the harder job of being believed — and the site’s answer is structural: don’t ask for trust anywhere you could hand over a receipt instead.

Receipts above the fold

The hero states the claim — free & open source, runs 100% on your machine — and the checkmark row directly under it breaks that into four falsifiable pieces: no cloud inference, no account, no telemetry, no subscription. Every one of them is one click from its verification: the Apache-2.0 source is linked from the header, the offline smoke test is documented where a skeptic can run it, and the docs carry the architecture in enough detail to audit the pitch. If a claim on the page had no receipt, it didn’t ship — the same rule this studio publishes for its research work, applied to its own storefront.

The demo runs itself

The hero’s right half isn’t a screenshot — it’s a session. The Salary Conversation plays out above the fold: the hiring manager’s pushback, the user citing market data, the case_acknowledged event firing, the character’s state meters moving. The product’s core claim — characters that move on evidence, not volume — is demonstrated before a single paragraph of copy asks you to believe it.

The price is on the button

No email gate, no “book a demo,” no funnel. The primary button reads Get it on Steam — $9.99 and the free path sits right beside it with equal billing: or build the Apache-2.0 source for free. A product that respects your data starts by respecting your time. The site also carries its own manifesto — why the product exists, what it refuses to do — because positioning that can’t be said plainly is positioning that shouldn’t ship.

One asset carries the whole position when a link gets pasted anywhere: the share card. Two chat bubbles, the name, and the claim — the simulator for conversations — with the receipts line as the sub-head. If the product is the argument, the marketing’s only job is to not get in the way.

Proof: conversationsimulator.com · manifesto · docs · download