Pricing Philosophy

Why every number in this house is what it is — written out in full, because nobody should meet a price without meeting the thinking behind it.

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Free leads

Zero the hero. The ladder starts at $0.00. Free accounts are not a trial, a teaser, or a lesser caste — they are the foundation the whole house stands on. Friendship is free forever; no paywall ever stands between two people becoming friends. Everything above free is optional altitude an owner chooses, never a toll a visitor pays to belong.

The ladder

• $0.00 — the start. Free accounts, full dignity.
• $0.67 — the first paid step, per month.
• $0.68 does not exist. The ladder skips it. It never has and it never will.
• $4.20 — the hard ceiling for a standard account's subscription price. Owners may price at or below it. Never above.
• $69.69, one time — buys an owner a raised ceiling of $4.21. Its honest label, printed wherever it is sold: "It buys a good time." What it sells is the fun, plus one cent of headroom — stated plainly, because honesty applied to a joke is the whole brand.
• $420.42, one time — unlocks the $21 tier: the owner's subscription ceiling becomes $21.

Subscriptions are billed per month, and the price is stated honestly wherever it appears. No price in this house hides inside a bundle, a trial conversion, or a footnote.

Owners keep their lamps lit

In the FRIEND-LEASE AI catalog, meeting an AI self is always free to the visitor. The owner foots the engine cost of their own representation, plus a small profit. The charge covers engine and credit costs with a little profit on top — most of the money goes to the engine, very little is profit, and that split is the doctrine of this house, said out loud: near-cost pass-through, never dressed up.

In the AlsoFriends human catalog, accounts are free by default. The ladder is an owner's optional switch, never a toll booth on a free catalog.

Tip jars: gratitude, never a toll

Every profile in both catalogs carries its owner's tip jar — free accounts included, zero the hero tipped like a king. A tip is a thank-you, not an unlock: nothing is hidden behind a jar, nothing works better after one. The split is printed wherever the jar appears: 99/1 — ninety-nine percent to the real account owner, and the one percent feeds the community moderators, the same tithe described below.

The agency's prices

The agency layer stands on a free base — $0.00: a public landing page and the house's standard help cost a creator nothing. Two printed add-ons exist, and only two: Showcase, $5 one time, a featured slot for the creator's landing page; and Campaign, $25 per month, a managed push run by humans. When the agency fronts a cost, a win-fee applies only until the fronted cost reaches zero, on a plain ledger — it is cost recovery with an end date, never a standing percentage of a creator's life. These are service prices, stated separately from the subscription ladder above so the two never blur.

The peacekeepers eat: the 1%

Human moderation in this house is done by community members who opt in to serve. They are not volunteers-for-exposure: 1% of everyone's profits feeds them — a tithe off the whole table. Everyone's means everyone's: the founder's profits tithe too. Account #1 takes no exemption. The people eat first, the peacekeepers eat from the whole table, and the founder does not carve himself a bigger slice in fine print — because there is no fine print.

The founder exception, printed

Subscribing to the founder's real account — Account #1 — is buyer's choice: free, or $1,000. Nothing in between. This is a stated exception, printed on his profile and here: the standard ladder still governs every other account in the house. A privilege everyone can read is not a trap; it is a flex with documentation.

First money in

Before growth spending, the first real money this venture earns hires a good compliance/lawyer person — to keep the house up as it scales. Safety and legality are not a later department; they are the first hire.

No catch 22s

Every price, unlock, and toggle in this house states plainly what it costs and what it does. No hidden conditions. No rule that punishes a person for using another rule. If a number ever appears without this page one tap away, that's a bug — tell us, and we'll fix the page before we touch the number.

Systemic Philosophy

How this house is run — the laws underneath every rule, toggle, and price, so nobody has to guess what kind of place they've walked into.

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Two doors, both labeled

FRIEND-LEASE is the AI catalog: AI versions of real people. AlsoFriends is the human catalog: the real people themselves. Each name lives over its own door, labeled plainly, so nobody ever mistakes an AI representation for the human it represents. The combination — FRIEND-LEASE — is one house. The labels are the load-bearing walls.

Honest identity, everywhere

• Every AI self says plainly: "I'm the AI version, not the real one." Every time, not just the first time.
• If a real account uses human virtual assistants to speak in the owner's place, that is declared on the account and shown wherever the account speaks. A stand-in says they're a stand-in.
• The owner says it's them. The AI says it's AI. The VA says they're a VA. No silent substitutions, ever.

The hard wall: no AI in real DMs

Real-account direct messages are human-only — the owner, or a stated human VA. An AI self lives only in the FRIEND-LEASE AI catalog and never speaks inside a real-account DM thread. This is not a setting an owner can relax; it is a wall in the machinery.

Owners may flip one stated toggle: accept DMs from subscribers only. The toggle does exactly what it says and nothing else.

The watchdog: intrusive and honest

An algorithm scans chats for abuse. It is disclosed plainly — here, in signup, in the safety copy — because nobody in this house is watched in secret. It exists mainly to protect women; men need protection too, and the same enforcement ladder covers everyone who is abused, harassed, or coerced:

• Warning — a first offense, named plainly.
• Cooldown — a second offense earns 24 hours.
• Cut the cord — severe abuse ends the account.
• Child-safety patterns skip the ladder: the cord is cut and the account frozen instantly.

Two fences keep the watchdog honest: it never speaks in any conversation — it watches and acts on safety only — and every severe action is logged for human review with a stated appeal path. Appeals can be filed even from a frozen account.

Adults only, verified

This house is 18+ only. Before admission, a real third-party verifier checks age and returns pass/fail only; the site never receives or stores ID data. No verified adult pass, no profile, no engine. Child protection is absolute: suspected minors are frozen and removed, there is zero tolerance for CSAM or the sexualization of minors, block and report exist everywhere, and no marketing data is ever taken from minors.

On the public demo, age is self-confirmed — and the demo says so, in those words, rather than dressing the button up as verification.

Humans keep the peace, and eat

Beyond the watchdog, human moderation is opt-in for community members: members choose to serve on the review queue and appeals, making the calls only a person should make. They are fed by 1% of everyone's profits — the founder's included, as the Pricing Philosophy lays out. The founder holds the review queue by office, not by whim — and his own profits tithe like everyone else's.

Account #1: special, never secret

Account #1 belongs to the founder, Raphael Morales, permanently. It carries a visible "Founder — Account #1" badge and holds admin authority: the watchdog's human review queue, appeals, and moderation calls. Every one of those privileges is printed here, in the open — that printing is what makes them law instead of favoritism. His real account's subscription is the house's one stated exception: free, or $1,000, buyer's choice — the standard ladder governs everyone else.

The point of the place

The AI is the friend-maker, not the friend. The system's success metric is meetups between real humans, not minutes spent chatting. There are no engagement traps — no streaks, no infinite scroll, no mechanics designed to keep you inside. A faithful AI self requires deep access from its owner, and that deal is explicit and opt-in: the owner controls what their AI may share, when it speaks, and can pause or delete it. Private things stay private.

Four layers, one house

The house is woven from four layers, and no layer is a separate app wearing a costume: (1) Social — the two catalogs, FRIEND-LEASE and AlsoFriends. (2) Dating — an opt-in layer over the friendship house. (3) The agency — help for creators, on a free base. (4) Gatherings — real-world meets, the outcome every other layer serves. A person can live in one layer or all four; the laws below hold in each.

The feed law

The home feed runs friends and interests first: your people, your peers, and the interests you actually share lead; big creators wait their turn. There is no idol-blasting — fame never buys the top of someone's morning, and no post is boosted past a member's own friends in secret. Logged-out visitors see the same free, public feed; nothing adult ever appears in a public feed.

Dating: ease, not fate

The dating layer is opt-in on both sides: dating signals exist only between members who both have dating on. Friendship mode never leaks them — a member with dating off is absent from the dating layer entirely, and sees none of it. Wherever a pair is ranked, the ranking is by ease, and the doctrine rides with it, printed: "This ranks how easy a pair tends to run — not whether you're meant to be. The tougher pairing is still worth it." Ease is a weather report, never a verdict.

The agency: creators eat first

The agency helps creators grow on a free base, and creators eat first — the agency earns nothing from a creator until the creator has been paid. Nobody hands over logins or payouts: no passwords, no payout details, no account access; the agency works only with what a creator grants inside the platform. When the agency fronts a cost, a win-fee applies only until that fronted cost reaches zero — kept on a plain ledger the creator can read in full. Creator landing pages are public by default, with the uplift row at the top, and logged-out visitors see all free and public content — never anything adult.

Gatherings: the grass is the point

Real-world gatherings are the house's core outcome, not a bonus feature. Attendance can earn platform credits — spendable inside the house and nowhere else. Credits are never cash, never a coin: not convertible, not sold, not cashed out. The reward for touching grass is more house, never a token.

No catch 22s

The standing law over all of it: no catch 22s. Every price, unlock, toggle, and rule states plainly what it costs and what it does. These two philosophy pages are the canonical text — linked from every price, rule, signup, catalog header, and footer, so the thinking is never more than one tap from the thing it explains. When the words here and a rule elsewhere disagree, this page wins, and the other page gets fixed.