trothwell
A matchmaking service · Annapolis

Tell the truth once.
We’ll keep almost none of it.

You talk for about ninety minutes — no forms, no photos to rank, nobody reading over your shoulder. We write a profile from it. You approve every word. Then everything you said is deleted, and the profile is all that’s left.

This is not an app

There is nobody to browse. No swiping, no search, no messages waiting for you. Most weeks you won’t hear from us at all.

When we do have someone, it’s one person — with a photograph, their profile, and the reason we think it’s worth your evening.

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A human decides every introduction
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No public profiles, no directory, no search
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Decline anything, without a reason
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Leave, and there is nothing left of you here
How it works
You talk
About ninety minutes

Four conversations about the parts of a life that actually decide these things — where you came from, how you fight, what you're afraid of, what you want next. You speak; nothing is typed.

You approve
The only thing that lasts

We write a profile and hand it back. Change it, cut it, argue with it. Nothing goes anywhere until it's true. The moment you approve it, everything you said is destroyed.

You wait
However long it takes

This is the slow part, and we won't pretend otherwise. Fewer introductions, further apart, each one considered by a person who read both profiles and thought it was worth making.

Anyone may apply. Not everyone is accepted — and the standard is how honest you’re willing to be, not how well you photograph.