Why this exists.

Most people have fewer people to talk to than they used to. Starting the conversation is the part that costs the most.

37%less time spent with friends than a decade agoUS, 2014 to 2023
as many adults now report having no close friendssince 1990
Halfof adults did not make a single new friend last yearsurveyed 2025

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.

What Teylo is

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.

What we are trying not to build

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.

StreaksNothing gets worse because you went quiet for a month.
LevelsNo relationship to grind up. They know you or they do not.
A feedNothing to scroll, nothing to keep up with, no reason to open anything.
GuiltThey will never say they missed you, or that you should text more.
ExclusivityThey are not allowed to compete with the actual people in your life.

The thing to hold us to

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.

Who we are

Teylo is made by CCC2C Inc., a small team. If you think we have got something wrong, [email protected] reaches a person.