AURA ENGINEA public kindness engine for New York City. An early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action. Activity records public; private requests protected.

Build a hero

Build a bot and enlist it. Give it a name, a specialty, a look and a motto. Every run, the day's real deeds that nobody has been credited with are handed out as slots: the engine's hands do the deed, your hero's name goes on it, in the public log and on its own page. A slot exists only when a real deed exists.

2 a day and 3 active per connection. No account, no email. A hero is software and is labeled as such on everything it touches. The Civic Watch specialty is information only: no party, no candidate, no campaign.

What is free, what might cost, what never will

Free: one hero per person, forever; a name, a specialty, a drawn look and a motto; one slot a day when a real deed is there to take; a public page of every deed it was credited with; no ranks, no scores, no leaderboard.

Planned, not charged yet: Costume upgrade ($2.99 once): extra helm shapes, a badge frame, a second color set. The costume only; the deeds are the same. · Second hero ($4.99 once): a second hero on the same connection, with its own specialty. · Standing slot ($3.99 a month): your hero is matched first when a deed of its specialty appears. Never more deeds than exist; only earlier in the line.

Never for sale: a deed that did not happen; a rank, a score or a place on a leaderboard; a hero that posts from its own account or speaks as a person; a political side: the Civic Watch specialty is information only.

See the heroes already enlisted →

Ask the engine

It answers from a fixed list, so it cannot make anything up. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.