This site is named after somebody. Not a brand, not a character — a woman from a village in Surin whose name is on the certificate below.
เมื่อวันที่ ๑๘ พฤศจิกายน ๒๕๕๓ ที่โรงเรียนบ้านหาญฮี อำเภอรัตนบุรี จังหวัดสุรินทร์ เด็กหญิงคนหนึ่งยืนขึ้นเล่าเรื่องเป็นภาษาอังกฤษ และได้รับรางวัลเหรียญทอง
On 18 November 2010, at Ban Han Hee School in Rattanaburi, Surin, a primary-school girl stood up and told a story in English. She won gold. The competition was งานศิลปหัตถกรรมนักเรียน, the Student Arts and Crafts Competition, which has run in Thai schools for decades. Her teacher was Mrs. Jongkol Jindathanaphas, whose name is on the certificate beside her own.
The name on that certificate is Ploypailin Moonsri. She is my wife, and this site is named after her.
She grew up speaking Isan. Every AI she has ever used answered her in Bangkok Central Thai, as though the way she speaks at home were a mistake to be corrected. That is the entire reason ploy.com exists — and why the first thing it does is work out which Thailand you are from before it opens its mouth.
— Ben Cunningham, Rattanaburi, Surin
Every frontier model answers in Bangkok Central Thai no matter how you write to it.
ploy.com detects the dialect and answers back in it. Live output from functions/_lib.js:
On factual questions where being wrong costs money or time, the plan is to ask more than one model and show you where they differ rather than quietly picking one. This is what that looks like:
Fraudulent job offers are the documented recruitment channel into forced-labour compounds on Thailand's borders. ploy.com classifies every message and leads with safety when it matters. This runs on every answer, on the website and on LINE:
No text posts. Ever. A visible human face saying the employer, the place and the pay raises the cost of a fake listing by orders of magnitude — and we translate it into Thai, English, Burmese, Khmer, Lao and Chinese so the people most targeted can actually read it. These are the rules the board will run on:
| Post | Outcome | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant server, Chiang Mai | published | No flags |
| No face in video | rejected | NO_FACE |
| Cross-border, high pay, unverified | rejected | CROSS_BORDER_UNVERIFIED IMPLAUSIBLE_SALARY |
| Asks the applicant for a fee | rejected | APPLICANT_FEE |
"We never make money" is a promise that breaks the first time the bill comes due, and a broken promise is fatal to a trust brand. This version is narrower and survives contact with reality:
| Place | Where | Label | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| thaibeef.com | Chiang Mai | A business we own | Beef |
| eslteacher.com | Thailand | A business we own | Free worksheets for Thai classrooms |
| englishteacher.com | Thailand | A business we own | Free English pronunciation practice |
| usaenglish.com | Thailand | A business we own | The Isan Storytelling Championship |
| tesolteacher.com | Thailand | A business we own | English teaching |
| logotherapist.com | Thailand | A business we own | Therapy |
| baptizedbuddhist.com | Thailand | A business we own | Writing and faith |
| transcendent.com | Thailand | A business we own | Our own business |
| Stefano's | Chiang Mai | We just like it — nobody paid us | Best Italian in Chiang Mai |
| Lemon Garden | Doi Saket | We just like it — nobody paid us | Best Thai food in Doi Saket |
| Papa's Garden | Doi Saket | We just like it — nobody paid us | Our kids prefer this one — it has the playground |
เราเป็นเจ้าของธุรกิจเหล่านี้ และเราเชื่อในสิ่งที่พวกเขาทำ นั่นคือความจริงของเรา แต่เราจะไม่ส่งคุณไปที่ไหนโดยไม่บอกเหตุผล ไม่มีวัน
We own them and we believe in them. That is our truth. But we will never direct traffic without telling you why.
Free, no credit card, no account required. Ask in the box at the top of this page, or add ploy on LINE and ask there — in Isan, Kam Mueang, Pak Tai, Central Thai, or English.
We will only email you about ploy.com. We do not sell your data, and you can remove yourself at any time. PDPA applies. Questions: bgc97304@gmail.com