We use AI to get people back in real life.

What we believe.

  • IRL is the new economic gravity.

    As AI makes information and services abundant, human attention and time together do not get cheaper. They get scarcer, and more valuable.

  • Belonging is the scarce resource.

    When almost anything else can be had without leaving home, what is missing is being known, seen and valued by other people.

  • AI should drive people together, not stand in for them.

    We use AI for one job: noticing who should meet whom, and making the introduction happen.

  • People helping people is the only thing that scales.

    One person cannot personally connect a thousand people. A community where people help each other can.

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Who is building it.

  • Jason Basel

    CEO

    Head of Member Experience at OPUS, where he designed and built CommonOS v1.

    Exited co-founder and CEO of EduOne, a 3-million-user edtech SaaS, sold in 2021.

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  • Jono More

    COO

    Built OPUS's data platform and core parts of the agent: orchestration, member data capture, matching logic.

    Founded several businesses, including a 5.5-million-user edu-quiz platform.

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  • Sam Tidswell-Norrish

    Chair

    Founder and Chair of OPUS.

    Founding team and Managing Director at Motive Partners, a roughly USD 8bn fintech private equity platform, 2015 to 2024.

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