Private matchmaking
Six months, twelve clients at a time. He learns you across a two-hour intake, searches well past the member base, hand-selects every introduction and debriefs every date.
Meet Samuel
I make introductions for a living, and I meet everyone first.
I am Samuel. I run Aligned Hearts — the app, the matchmaking, the coaching, and the nights. There is no team of associates behind me. When you book a consultation, I am the person you talk to.
How he helps you meet someone worth staying with.
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He learns what you actually want.
Two hours, not a questionnaire. Your history, your real dealbreakers as opposed to the ones you say at parties, and an honest account of what has not been working.
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He goes and finds people.
Members first, then his own network, then the events he runs, then outside all three. The right person is frequently someone who has never downloaded a dating app.
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He tells you why, in writing.
Every introduction he makes carries the reasoning behind it. If he cannot write a defensible paragraph, he does not send the name.
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He debriefs every date.
Same day or next. What worked, what did not, what he should adjust. The second round is always better than the first.
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He works on your side of it too.
Coaching is the other half: your photos, your patterns, your third-date behaviour. Finding the right person and becoming someone they want to stay with are two different jobs.
Two ways to work with him.
Relationship coaching
For singles who keep hitting the same wall and couples who want to be better at this. On video anywhere around the world, or in-person in South Carolina.
Small, on purpose.
Twelve clients at a time, maximum. Some of the large firms carry hundreds of one-to-one clients simultaneously. You can tell, because their clients say so in public. I would rather turn someone away than do this badly at scale, and I turn people away most months.
I meet the people I introduce. Not a phone screen — an actual conversation, and usually an event as well. That is why my client list stays small, and why when I hand you a name I have sat across a table from that person and formed an opinion.
I write the reason myself. For my own clients, every introduction carries a paragraph from me on why I chose it. If I cannot write a defensible paragraph, I do not send the name. It is a good discipline; it kills a lot of lazy matches before they reach you.
I will tell you the unpleasant thing. Once, kindly, and then I will drop it. If your photos are actively working against you, you need to know. If the reason four relationships ended is a pattern rather than four separate instances of bad luck, you need to know that more.
Four things, and they shape everything here.
Most people who think they are bad at dating are fine at dating and bad at apps.
Those are different problems with completely different fixes, and conflating them costs people years.
Chemistry is real, but it is not first.
Compatibility on the boring things is what carries a relationship past year three. Match on the boring things and let chemistry make its own decisions from there. It usually does.
Better people make stronger relationships.
Part of this work is finding the right person. Part of it is becoming someone the right person wants to stay with. I do both.
Nobody should need $30,000 to meet someone decent.
There is a real service in the middle of this market — between a free app optimising for your attention and a firm that quotes six figures — and that is the one I am running.
Why I built the app.
For years, working with me meant hiring me, and hiring me is not cheap. Meanwhile I would meet someone at an event who was exactly right for someone else I had met months earlier, and there was no mechanism to do anything about it.
So the app is the mechanism. It is free, it runs on its own, and it is how somebody who will never pay me a dollar still gets introduced to people who want what they want. That seems like a better arrangement than the one where the only people I can help are the ones who can write a cheque.
Some things I decline.
- I will not guarantee dates. A guaranteed number produces that number, and the quality is whatever it has to be to hit it.
- I will not take you on if I do not think it will work. The consultation exists specifically so I can say no before you commit to a retainer.
- I will not pretend coaching is therapy. I am not a licensed therapist. When something belongs in a clinician’s room, I will say so and help you find one.
- I will not publish testimonials I have not been given permission to publish. Which is why the Results page looks the way it does.
Or talk to Samuel first.
Thirty minutes, on video, nothing to sign. Worst case you get a straight opinion from someone who does this for a living and a clear answer about whether he can help.
Dating, matched on what matters.
Free to download, free to join, and about ninety seconds to set up. Nobody on it is an algorithm’s idea of you.
Free. 18+. No subscription, no paywalled messages, no boosts to buy.