How Aletheia works
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Before you match with anyone, you upload a government-issued ID and a selfie. Our verification partner (Persona) checks they match — a process that takes about 60 seconds and happens exactly once.
Your profile photos work the same way: every photo must be taken live with your front-facing camera inside the app. No uploads from your camera roll. No old shots. What your matches see is what you actually look like, right now.
What we keep: a verified flag tied to your account. What we don't keep: a copy of your ID. It's processed and immediately discarded. Your photo is hashed, not stored in plaintext.
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Every morning you receive up to ten new profiles. Not an endless scroll — exactly ten. When they're gone, they're gone. Come back tomorrow.
The curation weights mutual friends in your network, shared interests declared at signup, and geography. We don't use a black-box AI model. We don't claim to predict compatibility. We just surface people who are probably worth five minutes of your attention.
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When two people match, messaging is locked. To unlock it, you have to schedule and complete a short video call — even just five minutes. After that, the chat opens and stays open.
Forced? Yes. That's the point. Research consistently shows that video interaction is a much stronger signal of real-world compatibility than text. We're not being paternalistic — we're removing the scaffolding that lets bad actors hide.
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