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Arranged · v0 · invite only

Your friends
do the work

A new kind of dating app. Two friends hug on it on behalf of two singles. The single doesn’t swipe. The single doesn’t browse. The single shows up to dinner.

Set someone up→Open the app

0

Swipes you make

2

Friends agree

1

Dinner Thursday

Arranged&Awaiting

From Maya to Jordan

“David is my favorite person. He’s the one for your Sara.”

Hug on itSee pitch

Pitch card · sample

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01 — The manifesto

Dating apps
stopped working

We have spent fifteen years asking strangers to summarize themselves in six photos and a prompt. We have asked them to be witty in 240 characters at midnight. We have asked them to be the algorithm’s problem.

None of this is how anyone fell in love before 2012. People fell in love because someone they trusted said, I know who you should meet.

Arranged is that, as an app. Your friends do the curating, the vouching, the pitching. They know you better than a prompt does. They know the room better than a feed does. When two friends hug on it, the date is on. You show up. That is the whole thing.

Built for the friend who has always been the matchmaker anyway

02 — How it works

Trust
The Arrangement

  1. 01

    Build a roster

    Add the singles in your life you would vouch for. Photos, a few facts, the things you would tell another friend over dinner. You are not making a Hinge profile. You are writing a recommendation letter.

    The friend builds
  2. 02

    Pitch a match

    When you see someone in another friend's roster you would set up with one of yours, you write the pitch. Why this match. What you know. The case for dinner. Send it.

    The friend pitches
  3. 03

    Hug on it, dinner is on

    If the other friend agrees, the date is booked. Both singles get the time, the place, and each other's profile. They can cancel for cause. They cannot swipe. They show up.

    The friends hug

03 — Anatomy of a pitch

The friend
writes the case

Photos. A few facts. A real paragraph from someone who knows the single. Optional voice note from the friend. A proposed time, if you have one. That is the pitch. It goes to one specific friend on behalf of one specific person.

  • Profile, written by the friend not the single
  • One pitch, one recipient, one match in mind
  • Both friends agree, the date is booked
  • The single is told, not asked

Pitch No. 0127 · From Maya

For your Sara,
I have David

Awaiting

David Lao

33 · architect · Brooklyn

Cooks dinner for his friends every Sunday. Reads the kind of novels Sara underlines. Made me laugh at a funeral. Treats his mother well.

“He is the best person I know. I have been waiting two years for someone good enough to send him.”
Maya, his friend of 11 years

Proposed

Thu · 7:30pm

Where

Cafe Mogador

04 — What we replaced

Out with the swipe,
in with the hug

  • SwipingVouching
  • Bios you wrote at 1amA friend who knows you
  • Algorithms guessingPeople knowing
  • Six photos and a promptA real recommendation
  • Endless optionsOne hug
  • Asking the single what they wantAsking the friend what they see

05 — The invite

Bring a friend,
bring a single

Arranged is invite-only. We let in pairs: one friend, one single they would vouch for. Tell us who you would set up and we will send you both a seat at the table.

We will read every entry by hand · This is not a launch list · It is the first cohort