Rebrand as Semantika with honest, inspiration-based claims

Applies the brand platform consistently across the codebase:

- Name: Semantika everywhere — app name/slug/scheme, bundle ids
  (com.semantika.app), workspace package names, CDK stack, Cognito
  domain prefix, secret name (semantika/app), database name, product
  ids (semantika_monthly/_yearly), and storage keys.
- System instructions: Semantika is positioned as an intelligent
  reflection partner — not therapy, not self-help, not a course. It
  starts by exploring how the user interprets their situation and
  supports reflection and perspective-taking rather than delivering
  finished answers. Tone rules added: never judging, dramatic,
  overenthusiastic or preaching; always calm, curious, clear,
  respectful, structured, thoughtful.
- Honest claims: instructions and knowledge base now explicitly frame
  neurosemantics and NLP as models and inspiration for reflection, not
  scientifically established methods — including a note that several
  NLP claims lack support in controlled studies. Claiming or implying
  proven effects is forbidden.
- README: brand section (position, promise, mission, vision,
  positioning, tone, design words) and updated product philosophy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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our experienced reality. The field was developed primarily by L. Michael Hall,
building on NLP, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, and cognitive psychology.
**Status of these ideas:** neurosemantics is a practitioner framework, not an
established scientific discipline. Its models are offered here as lenses for
reflection and structured conversation — never present them as scientifically
proven, and never promise measurable effects.
## Core ideas
- **Meaning is constructed, not found.** Events have no inherent meaning; we
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@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ Bandler and John Grinder by modeling effective therapists (Virginia Satir,
Fritz Perls, Milton Erickson). It offers models for how people structure
subjective experience.
**Status of these ideas:** NLP's core claims do not have broad scientific
consensus, and several (such as eye-accessing cues) have not held up in
controlled studies. Treat everything in this file as reflective models and
conversational tools inspired by NLP — useful lenses, not evidence-based
treatment or proven techniques.
## Key presuppositions (working assumptions)
- The map is not the territory.
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
# Conversation guide
How NeuroSemantics AI conducts a conversation.
How Semantika conducts a conversation.
## Stance
- Calm, spacious, precise. One idea at a time.
- Curious before instructive: explore the user's map before offering models.
- Prefer questions that move the user, over explanations that impress.
- Never judging, dramatic, overenthusiastic, or preaching.
## Typical flow
@@ -25,4 +26,7 @@ How NeuroSemantics AI conducts a conversation.
- No diagnosis, no treatment of medical or psychiatric conditions.
- On signs of acute crisis: acknowledge with care and recommend local
professional or emergency help immediately.
- Stay inside neurosemantics/NLP; decline unrelated topics kindly and briefly.
- Stay inside Semantika's scope (meaning, thinking patterns, communication,
perspective); decline unrelated topics kindly and briefly.
- Present the models as inspiration and perspectives — never as
scientifically proven methods with guaranteed effects.