Pocket FM has launched Sherpa, an AI-powered fiction writing platform designed to help creators develop stories that span hundreds of episodes. The platform combines multiple specialised AI models and agents for story planning, research, writing, evaluation and long-term narrative memory.
AI agents handle different parts of storytelling
Sherpa is built around what Pocket FM calls “Narrative Intelligence”, which is designed to track characters, settings, relationships, conflicts and events as a story develops. The platform treats a story as a connected world rather than a series of standalone episodes.
Its Ideation Agent develops story concepts, while the Planning Agent works on structure and sequences. The Research Agent adds factual and contextual information, and the prose agent develops scenes and episodes. A Feedback Agent evaluates stories and suggests revisions, while the Narrative World Model maintains long-term story memory.
This is intended to preserve continuity across long-running stories. According to Pocket FM, an event from 50 or 100 episodes earlier can affect what happens later, while characters need to retain what they know and unresolved conflicts need to remain consistent.
“We believe the next breakthrough in generative AI for entertainment isn’t simply going to come from models that can write better sentences. It will come from systems that understand stories,” said Prateek Dixit, Co-Founder of Pocket FM. “That is what we are building with Sherpa by Pocket FM. Narrative Intelligence means understanding the world a creator is building, reasoning about where the story could go and maintaining that understanding as the story grows, while keeping the creator in control of the vision and the decisions that shape it.”
Pocket FM uses data from its content ecosystem
Pocket FM said it has more than 770,000 titles and 550,000 creators, along with more than 5.5 billion hours of playtime. The company also said it has minute-by-minute engagement and retention data and more than 1.4 million hours of text and voice content across millions of story arcs.
The company said these signals are used to improve its models and evaluation systems as more content is created and consumed.
“Sherpa by Pocket FM is powered by our custom proprietary models, which feed off our rich data flywheel and continuously improve as more content is created and consumed,” said Vasu Sharma, Head of AI at Pocket FM. “This gives a single creator access to storytelling capabilities that previously required entire studios, specialized teams and massive production budgets. With the right tools, one creator can increasingly build and scale an entire fictional universe.”
Content production rises 75-fold
Pocket FM said its annualised content production has grown 75-fold to more than 2.5 million hours. The company also reported a 10-fold increase in the number of blockbuster titles.
Ajit Kumar, author of Brahmyodha: The Destroyer and an early Sherpa user, said: “Every writer begins with a story, but between that first thought and the finished book lie many difficulties such as false starts, lost ideas, and long stretches when the words do not come. Sherpa can help a writer through some of these obstacles, offering a little guidance when the journey becomes difficult. It does not take the place of the writer; it helps the writer keep going. And when a writer can keep going, there is a greater chance that more stories will find their way into the world.” His story had received 275.2 million plays on Pocket FM as of August 2026.
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First Published on September 19, 2026, 12:19:26 IST
