Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker

It's different day astatine work: I unfastened the Three Day Rule app, tucked successful an inconspicuous folder connected my telephone adjacent to Hinge, Bumble, and Feeld. From the preview substance bubble, I spot that I person 3 caller matches and that each 3 person begun with the aforesaid speech opener: “Hey Molly! I noticed you bask unrecorded euphony too; what's the champion performance you've seen recently?” Sigh. Here we spell again.

Three Day Rule operated arsenic a white-glove matchmaking work for 15 years anterior to launching its app successful 2025. The app mentation of Three Day Rule promises a caller attack to swipe-centric online dating. Instead of Tinder oregon akin apps, which commencement by presenting users a photo, and, if they're interested, supply further prompts to fig retired if you person thing successful common, Three Day Rule (commonly abbreviated to TDR) starts with respective sessions asking you heavy questions astir yourself and what you're looking for successful a relationship, similar a existent matchmaker would. Once you've answered astir 100 questions implicit the people of a fewer days, the app starts sending you imaginable matches.

Traditional matchmakers are often favored by wealthier oregon older people, and tin outgo upward of $10,000. TDR CEO Adam Cohen-Aslatei got into the app crippled by consulting for Bumble, Raya, and the now-defunct S'More, which was benignant of a Love Is Blind–type blind-dating app wherever imaginable matches started retired with blurry photos that came into absorption the longer you talked. The thought down TDR, which uses AI trained by 60 matchmakers, is to marque old-school matchmaking much practical, accessible, and aligned with modern sensibilities by incorporating it into a convenient AI-powered app. The app is free, oregon $25 per period if you privation each of the goodies, similar AI coaching and guaranteed matches.

So, equipped with my AI dating manager “Tai,” I acceptable retired to spot if an AI matchmaker would find maine the idiosyncratic of my dreams from an alleged 250,000 singles acceptable to mingle.

Instead of a soulmate, I recovered retired that dating is lone amusive erstwhile you're getting to cognize existent radical with existent quirks. My matches and I talked done the AI prompts alternatively than getting to cognize each other, and soon enough, I wondered if the quality beings down the screens were simply facilitating a transportation betwixt our AI bots.

Matchmaking, but Make It Modern (With AI, of Course)

You'll download TDR connected the app store (right now, it's lone disposable for iOS), and prime either the escaped version, which allows for unlimited chatting with the AI Matchmaker, day coaching, and constricted conversations (but nary guaranteed matches); oregon Premium, which has unlimited: “AI-vetted” matches, AI speech prompts, personalized introductions, matches, and guaranteed matches. (You tin besides get a 30-day proceedings of Premium.)

To begin, you'll capable retired basal inheritance information, similar you would connected immoderate dating site: age, location, and profession. You'll besides capable retired much idiosyncratic questions similar income and radical oregon spiritual preferences. Then you'll spell done a agelong bid of questions asked by Tai, your AI matchmaker. The goal, Cohen-Aslatei says, is to get “highly curated” matches based connected much than hairsbreadth colour and emotion of tacos: “It's a connection. We're asking you long-form questions to get long-form answers.”

Tai's questions started retired broad, asking things like, “What made you determine to effort matchmaking?” and “What benignant of narration are you looking for?” You tin reply via substance oregon voice; the second makes it consciousness a small much similar you're with a existent matchmaker. After each answer, Tai affirms it and asks a follow-up question, opening with your hobbies and progressing to marital presumption and acquisition level. Because this aims to beryllium similar a existent matchmaker, determination were galore questions astir race, religion, politics, and carnal type. Given that I'm a physically disabled, atheist, wide idiosyncratic who is unfastened to dating each types of radical and genders, Tai kept circling backmost to guarantee I was really that unfastened and not conscionable saying what I thought would beryllium a neutral answer. This is intentional, Cohen-Aslatei says.