The Spark
The idea must come from you.
A Spark is the thing you already carry. A question you cannot drop. A sound you imagine. Something you wish existed. Something that annoys you. A flavour. A story. A feeling you want someone else to have.
Before your Spark is locked, Eolari’s AI runs in a deliberately constrained mode. It can ask what you noticed, reflect your own words back, and help you say what you mean. It cannot suggest an idea, complete a half-formed thought, or hand you a project.
A separate system reads every one of its replies before you see it, and rejects anything that puts an idea into your head.