It says what it is, first.
Lewis introduces itself as an assistant in its opening message, in its own bubble, ahead of any work, on every thread. There is no setting for this.
Its own bubble, and that is the point
The disclosure could technically be a clause inside the first sentence. It is not, because folding a legal notice into a pitch makes the notice read as a feature: “hi, I’m an AI assistant that can help you find a home!” is a sales line that happens to contain a disclosure, and nobody reads it as the second thing.
So it is a separate message, it comes before any work, and the sentence that follows it does the introducing.
The first message is a reply, not an opener
Nothing is written at signup. There is no greeting sitting in an empty thread waiting for somebody to arrive, and Lewis does not open a conversation with a stranger: the product’s whole argument is that it answers.
So the first bubble is a response, and it answers what was actually said. Somebody who opens with “YOOO” gets “yooo. i’m lewis…” rather than “hey”, and the echo is theirs rather than generated: an echo cannot invent a register the person did not use, and the sentence it opens carries the assistant’s name and its purpose, which is not somewhere a model gets a vote.
What the lead is told, and when
- What it is. An assistant, named, in its first message.
- Who it is for. The agent it is working on behalf of, by name.
- That a person is coming. The whole point of the conversation is a handover, and the handover is named when it happens: “passing you to Dana. she’ll call thursday.”
What it will not claim
It does not claim to be the agent. It does not claim to have seen a property, and it cannot make a factual claim about one, those are blocked on the way out. It does not commit to a time or a figure on the agent’s behalf; every one of those is held for a human.
This is a product behaviour rather than a legal page, which is why it lives in the footer next to the copyright rather than three clicks into a policy nobody opens.
The shape of an opening
Two bubbles, in that order, every time. The disclosure is not in the second one.