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Hi royals,
It's been about a month since I last wrote a Royal Confessions.
Not because I ran out of stories.
Quite the opposite.
I've been deep in building Seraphina (and Money & AI), spending countless hours making her more capable, more useful, and more human in the ways that matter.
The funny thing is, when you spend your days building AI, you somehow end up learning even more about people.
And over the past few weeks, something happened that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
I have two groups of friends.
The first group already had ChatGPT. They already had Claude. They didn't need Seraphina.
Yet quietly, without telling me, they subscribed anyway.
I only found out much later when I was going through community feedback.
Then there was another group.
They asked, "Since we're friends... can you let me use Seraphina instead? Then I can unsubscribe from ChatGPT."
Neither conversation was really about AI.
It was about how different people view relationships.
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To be honest, I felt conflicted.
Not angry.
Not disappointed.
Just... conflicted.
Because both groups were probably acting according to what felt completely natural to them.
One group saw a creator they cared about and thought, "I already spend money on AI tools. I'd rather support someone I know."
The other group saw a friend and thought, "Friends help each other. Maybe I can save some money."
Neither response necessarily came from bad intentions.
But they reveal two very different ways of seeing value.
One mindset asks: "How can I support people whose work I believe in?"
The other asks: "How can this relationship benefit me?"
The interesting part is that both people may genuinely care about you.
That's what makes humanity so fascinating.
Over the years, I've realised that empathy isn't just about understanding someone's emotions.
It's also about understanding the invisible things they carry.
When someone builds a business, we often see the final product.
We don't see the late nights.
The salaries.
The subscriptions.
The infrastructure.
The support tickets.
The countless hours spent making something work before anyone even notices it exists.
When we understand that, our decisions start to change.
We stop asking only, "Can I get this for free?"
We also start asking, "How can I help the people who create things I love continue creating?"
Ironically, the people who are most generous with supporting others are often the ones who receive the most support themselves.
Maybe that's not a coincidence.
Maybe that's simply how trust, goodwill and relationships compound over time.
This wasn't really a story about Seraphina.
It wasn't about ChatGPT.
It wasn't even about AI.
It was a reminder that after spending a month building technology, the biggest lessons I came back with were about people.
And perhaps that's the beautiful irony.
The more advanced AI becomes, the more clearly it reflects our humanity.
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