Why we built this
The long answer.
The film says it in ninety seconds. This is the same thing said slowly: what the research found, what we believe about building with AI, and how Juggle came to exist.
The longest-running study of adult life ever conducted found one thing above all keeps people happy and healthy: good relationships. Harvard Study of Adult Development.
The people who have them did not get lucky. They stayed close on purpose.
What we believe
AI that points you at humans, not at itself.
- ‣We value connecting over connections.
- ‣We sell the product and nothing else. No ads. Ever.
- ‣Your data is never sold.
- ‣Nothing ever trains on your relationships.
- ‣The Coach drafts. It never sends. You do.
- ‣The Coach reads who and when. Never what you said.
- ‣Pause reminders for someone and the Coach looks away. Reminders, capture, all of it.
- ‣Success is time with people, not time in the app.
Where the Coach stops
- ‣It never sends. Every message waits for you, in your own Messages, in your own words.
- ‣It reads who and when, never what you said.
- ‣Pass on a suggestion and it stays passed on.
- ‣It writes about a loss only if you wrote about it first.
- ‣Nothing ever goes out in your name.
Organic growth is the fastest growth.
Look at anything alive. A brain wiring millions of connections, a sunflower running the Fibonacci spiral, the stars overhead. The same spiral that builds seashells and sunflowers builds your screen of faces in Juggle. Life organizes itself this way, and nothing grows faster than a living thing that has decided to grow.
From the founder
Some kids collected baseball cards.
I collected business cards. Even as a kid, people were the thing I couldn’t stop paying attention to. Who they were, what they cared about, and how they were connected to each other.
Decades later I watched technology promise connection and deliver the opposite. TV took the front porch, then the phone took the dinner table. So I started building the tool I wished existed. It began as an Excel spreadsheet, because I could not find a contact tool I liked, and it grew into something that treats your relationships like a garden instead of a database. Along the way we patented the idea at the center of it, one next person, sized so you can’t miss them (US 11,328,264).
The goal hasn’t moved since 2014. We want Juggle to improve one billion relationships. Yours would be a good place to start.
John Cornelsen, founder
That is the why. The how is one tap away.