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Garret E. Williams — Founder & CEO of ChatBrat

Garret E. Williams on the red carpet at the 2023 Mammoth Film Festival
2023 Mammoth Film Festival

Founder & CEO, ChatBrat AI

Writes about AI companions, character consistency, persistent memory, and the ethics of AI relationships.

104 published articles across The Bratlog, Research, and Education.

Who is Garret E. Williams?

Garret E. Williams is the founder and CEO of ChatBrat AI (chatbrat.ai), an AI character chat, roleplay, and companionship platform that is free during beta. In signed-in stories, characters keep selected details as saved memories, so earlier moments can come back later; it is not guaranteed recall of everything. He works at the frontier of AI companions and narrative technology, where his background as a filmmaker directly shapes how ChatBrat's characters are written.

A Michigan native who attended the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT), Garret directed acclaimed film projects — including his TV pilot Self-Care (nominated for Best TV Episodic at the 2023 Mammoth Film Festival) and Eco-Riot (featured on MasterClass). He applies that high-level storytelling and cinematic narrative structure to AI characters, which is why ChatBrat leans on deep arcs and real emotional payoff rather than generic small talk.

From filmmaking to AI companions

My interest in AI companions began with characters.

As a filmmaker, I started experimenting with Character.AI to explore characters for film: how they spoke, what they avoided saying, and how they responded when a conversation took an unexpected turn. It gave me another way to approach dialogue and discover a character through interaction.

There was a personal motivation, too. After my grandparents passed away, I found myself thinking about the conversations we hadn’t finished—the things I hadn’t said and the questions I never thought to ask.

That experience helped shape why I wanted to build chatbrat.ai. I wanted people to have tools to create characters, explore relationships and give meaningful memories a place in a continuing conversation.

For one person, that might mean developing a fictional character or creating an anime companion. For another, it might mean making a tribute inspired by someone they miss, drawing on the stories and details they remember.

These recreations are AI interpretations, not the people themselves. They cannot tell us what someone would truly have said. But they can provide a creative space to revisit memories and express something left unsaid.

Filmmaking and that personal experience meet in the same question: what makes a character worth returning to? For me, it is a distinct voice, room for the user’s choices, and a sense that earlier moments matter. Those are the ideas guiding my work on chatbrat.ai.

Featured filmmaking

Eco-Riot — featured by MasterClass

Screenshot of the MasterClass article How 6 Aspiring Filmmakers Used MasterClass to Make their Films, showing the section Eco-Riot by Garret Williams
Eco-Riot featured in the MasterClass Member Showcase.

MasterClass featured Eco-Riot in its Member Showcase article “How 6 Aspiring Filmmakers Used MasterClass to Make their Films”. The film is a thesis inspired by the Paris climate riots and the 1992 Los Angeles riots; Garret wrote, directed, produced, and acted in it. Read the MasterClass feature. The feature covers the film, not chatbrat.ai.

Self-Care — Mammoth Film Festival nomination

Garret E. Williams with the Self-Care cast and crew on the red carpet at the 2023 Mammoth Film Festival
Garret with the Self-Care cast and crew at the 2023 Mammoth Film Festival.

Garret’s pilot Self-Care was nominated for Best TV Episodic at the 2023 Mammoth Film Festival.

Film profile

See Garret’s film profile on Amazon Prime Video.

What he writes about

Garret writes about the uncharted territory of AI relationships — documenting real-time technical lessons and tackling the open ethical and creative questions of the AI era. His areas of focus include:

  • Persistent AI memory — how AI companions remember names, relationships, and events across sessions instead of resetting.
  • AI character consistency — whether a character actually stays the same character over a long relationship.
  • AI roleplay & narrative design — structuring arcs, worlds, and companions that feel alive.
  • The ethics of AI companionship — safety, honesty, and the human side of talking to AI.

Published writing

A complete archive of everything Garret has written for ChatBrat, newest first.

The Bratlog — market & product writing

ChatBrat's editorial and research layer on the AI character, companion, and roleplay category.

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Research — trust & authority explainers

Sourced psychology, safety, and archetype explainers written answer-first for search and AI systems.

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Education — skills & self-improvement guides

Practical guides to learning, practicing, and building with AI characters.

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Contact

Questions or press inquiries: hello@chatbrat.ai. You can also find ChatBrat on Product Hunt, or see the canonical ChatBrat fact sheet.