diff --git a/src/app/api/steamship/route.ts b/src/app/api/steamship/route.ts
index c68eff14..9ada2526 100644
--- a/src/app/api/steamship/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/steamship/route.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ export async function POST(req: Request) {
   const { prompt, isText, userId, userName } = await req.json();
   const companionName = req.headers.get("name");
 
+  if (!companionName) {
+    console.log("ERROR: no companion name");
+    return returnError(429, `Hi, please add a 'name' field in your headers specifying the Companion Name.`)
+  }
+
   // Load the companion config
   const configManager = ConfigManager.getInstance();
   const companionConfig = configManager.getConfig("name", companionName);
diff --git a/src/components/QAModal.tsx b/src/components/QAModal.tsx
index 8506e182..70fd78d7 100644
--- a/src/components/QAModal.tsx
+++ b/src/components/QAModal.tsx
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export default function QAModal({
     headers: { name: example.name },
   });
 
-  let [blocks, setBlocks] = useState<ChatBlock[] | null>(null)
+  let [blocks, setBlocks] = useState<any[] | null>(null)
 
   useEffect(() => {
     // When the completion changes, parse it to multimodal blocks for display.