Building friendship technology that respects your relationships and personal boundaries
CompanionSquared is built to be your friendship map and compass, not a digital twin that gets sold to advertisers. Your reflections about the people you care about are sacred, and we've designed every aspect of our platform around that principle.
We believe meaningful friendship technology requires genuine privacy—not privacy theater. That's why we've made choices that prioritize your trust over our convenience, your security over our growth metrics, and your peace of mind over our data collection opportunities.
Yes, this creates some inconvenience. You can't just import 500 contacts and instantly get insights. But that's intentional—we want you to reflect on the relationships that truly matter to you, not optimize a database of everyone you've ever met.
Only what you explicitly share: Your text reflections about friends, your account email, and basic usage information to keep the service running. That's it. We don't scrape your behavior, track your browsing, or collect data from other sources.
Securely and privately: Your reflections are encrypted in transit and at rest, stored on secure cloud infrastructure, and never used to train AI models or shared with third parties. Only you can access your friendship insights.
Transparently and purposefully: We analyze your text to identify friend mentions, shared interests, and relationship patterns—that's it. No sentiment analysis of your emotional state, no behavioral prediction, no cross-referencing with external databases.
Complete ownership: Delete individual reflections, archive entire friendships, or remove your account entirely with one click. Data export functionality is high on our priority list, and we're actively working toward full GDPR compliance.
Working toward full compliance: We're actively implementing GDPR requirements and will provide regular updates on our compliance status. We respect your data rights regardless of your location.
Optional convenience, mandatory privacy: We plan to add basic contact storage (birthdays, phone numbers) as an optional feature—but only for information you manually choose to add, never through automatic importing.
Unlike most apps that ask you to "trust us," we show you exactly how CompanionSquared works. Our complete source code is available at github.com/shudshudshud/companionsqapp.
If you prefer complete control, you can run your own version of CompanionSquared. While we don't publish our specific AI prompts, the core functionality is transparent and forkable.
Privacy shouldn't be mysterious. If you have questions about how we handle your data, concerns about our practices, or suggestions for improvement, please reach out directly:
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I read every email and typically respond within 24 hours. For GDPR-related requests, I'll respond within 48 hours as we work toward full compliance.
Building trust takes time, and I understand that privacy is earned, not declared. My intention is to create friendship technology that genuinely serves you without exploiting your relationships. I hope that intention comes through in how we've built CompanionSquared, and I'm committed to being transparent about our practices as we grow.
Last updated: June 2025 • GDPR compliance status: In progress, updates provided regularly