Not who you say you are. What you actually did. Cogniscape matches you with people based on the books you finished, the classes you took, and the runs you ran. No bios. No browsing. Receipts.
iOS first. We'll email you when it opens.
Your real life is already on the record. It's just scattered across apps that never talk to each other, and none of them are trying to find you a friend.
knows you finished 14 books this year and abandoned 3.
knows you actually run. Slowly. Every Tuesday.
knows you tried pottery and made one lopsided bowl.
knows about the 400 hours in Stardew Valley.
knows you watched every Miyazaki film, in order, in one month.
knows about the 212-day Italian streak and zero Italian conversations.
knows you tried aerial yoga once and went back for boxing nine times.
knows you played one album 300 times in March and nothing else.
knows you did 11 hikes this year, none longer than six miles.
knows you're rated 900 after 2,000 games and still playing.
knows about Tuesday-night choir, every week since 2023.
knows you started three sweaters and finished one.
Where do your receipts live? A fitness tracker, a library card, a game, a club. Tell us and we'll add it.
Remember Blippy? In 2010 it broadcast your credit-card purchases as a status feed. What you buy turned out to be a thin signal. How you spend your time is the thick one. Cogniscape is Blippy for time.
Aspirations are easy. Receipts are hard. So we match on receipts.
No bio. You log experiences with a status and, if you want, a receipt (a photo, a Goodreads import, a Strava run) and a one-line reflection. The reflection is where the conversation starters live.
There is nothing to browse and no photos to judge. You get one match at a time with a reason: something you share, or something one of you did that the other wants to try. Accept or pass.
Every match starts with a seeded prompt from your overlap. The more you talk, the more of each other's story you see. Ghost, and you learn nothing.
Full profiles open only when you both check in at the same place. Not before. The profile confirms what you already felt instead of replacing it.
Most apps show you a face and ask you to guess. We show you the overlap and let the face come later, after you've actually talked. It's a little uncomfortable. That's on purpose.
The match on the right is an example. The reasons are the kind the app writes.
You're both in Denver. They let go of learning guitar last spring. Same as you.
"Doer" isn't code for impressive hobbies. The bar is that you actually do it, versus all talk. Rewatching Gilmore Girls for the fourth time counts. So does banana bread number 47.
No. It's for finding friends to do things with. Some of those friendships will turn into something else because that's how life works, but nothing in the product is built around it. No swiping, no photos first, no "looking for."
Anything that shows you did the thing. A photo from the class. A finished book on Goodreads. A run on Strava. A screenshot of your Steam hours. Receipts are optional, but matches with receipts are weighted higher, and people can tell.
Not by browsing. You see matches one at a time with the reason you were matched. More of their story opens up as you talk, and the full profile unlocks when you've met in person.
Because the profile is for you first. It's the story of what you've done and who you're becoming, written for you, not optimized for strangers. When someone finally reads it, you feel seen instead of shopped.
Everyone who worries about this is interesting. The people who aren't are the ones who've never thought to ask. Log what you actually did this week. That's the whole bar.
Not yet. iOS first, cities one at a time. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when yours opens.
Join the waitlist. We'll match you with someone whose life rhymes with yours.
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