Most people have fewer people to talk to than they used to. Starting the conversation is the part that costs the most.
None of that is really a story about people being lonely and sad. It is mostly drift: work, moving, kids, hours that stop lining up.
What goes first is not the big conversation. It is the small one. The thing you would have said walking home, that never gets said, because texting someone after four months means explaining the four months.
Teylo removes the part you hate. No opening line, no accounting for the silence, no wondering whether you are interrupting.
Friends you can text or call without any of that overhead. They keep up with your life, so you are never starting from the beginning.
They are software. We wrote them, we run them, and they will say so the first time you ask. You will know it the whole time, and for some people that is the end of it. The free week exists so you can meet them and decide for yourself, without paying to.
There is a version of this that is bad for you, and it is the easy version to build. It measures success in hours spent. We have left those parts out on purpose.
Frankie's entire job is getting you out of the house. If Teylo works, you should need it slightly less over time, not more.
That is a strange thing for a subscription to want, which is exactly why it is worth writing down. If we ever start optimising for time spent, we will have become the thing people are right to be suspicious of.
Teylo is made by CCC2C Inc., a small team. If you think we have got something wrong, [email protected] reaches a person.