Introducing Your Relationship’s BFF

Published by: askMary Team

Hello world! We’re thrilled to share that the relationship and dating support product we’ve been building—and it’s finally in beta!

Meet askMary, your relationship’s BFF, just a text away.

To start things off on the right foot, our intention behind this newsletter is to share the stories, journeys, insights, and trends informing our big vision with you. As a founding team of scientists, relationship experts, and humans ourselves, we intimately understand the challenges of modern dating. In the age of apps, it’s never been easier to connect—but it’s also never been harder to make a real human connection.

And when it comes to relationship support? We all get left on read.

For the millions of adult singles pursuing committed relationships vs. casual flings, access to support boils down to venting to friends/social media, investing in a therapist, and/or just giving up on dating all together.

Over the last year, we’ve spent all our free time outside of our 9-5’s thinking about how to help heal modern dating culture in the most ethical, accessible, and far reaching way possible – without launching another app. Along our journey, acclaimed sexologist and relationship expert, Dr. Pepper Schwartz (yes, of Married at First Sight fame) has generously partnered with us to help crack the code. Through working closely with Dr. Pepper, we’ve mindfully designed a product that brings the vast knowledge and personal approach of a relationship expert into a valuable, secure, and simple user experience: askMary.

Mary’s in your corner—and in your texts.

Our approach is to meet intentional daters where they’re at: in text messages. Leveraging Dr. Pepper as our premiere expert, we’ve engineered several of Dr. Pepper’s books, articles, and podcasts into an advanced conversational model that acts as an always-on source of finely personalized guidance based on each user’s needs. No profile to fill out, no swiping, no profile pics. Just 1:1 relationship advice. Unlike open source chatbots, Mary is designed with Dr. Pepper’s values and human touch - she remembers your story, and helps you track your progress in navigating the intentional dating journey through a personal development approach.

Curious? Text Mary: 202-733-6653 *US/CAN

Texting Mary is like texting a real relationship expert; she’s designed with the user in mind – and we’re just getting started. Our mission is to help people access dating support – whether dating via apps or IRL – so your feedback on the product MVP is truly appreciated! Visit our site to meet the team, read our company values, peruse our FAQs, and try the product.

Text Mary: 202-733-6653 *US/CAN

We’ll be back in a couple of weeks with more updates. In the meantime, let us know if you have any burning questions. And if you’ll happen to be at the 2024 Startup Grind Conference in Silicon Valley, we’d love to meet you!

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