Launching today
Our Alcove
From recurring fights to real understanding
25 followers
From recurring fights to real understanding
25 followers
Our Alcove is an AI-guided coaching app for couples. It helps partners move beyond the same repeating fights by uncovering the deeper emotions and patterns underneath them. Alongside guided conversations for couples, it also offers a private solo space to reflect before bringing something back to the relationship. Instead of generic advice or taking sides, Alcove helps couples reach clearer understanding and take one small step forward.
I’ve been to couples therapy several times in my life. Unfortunately, it was never as effective as I hoped.
That made me think a lot about relationships - why it is so hard to communicate, why two people who care about each other can still misunderstand each other so deeply, and why some conflicts keep repeating even when both people want things to get better.
One thing I kept coming back to is that couples support has not changed that much in decades. A couple sits in front of a counselor who does not yet know them, and in about 50 minutes that person has to understand their story, their patterns, their raw spots, and their deeper forming events - then somehow help them move toward a solution.
That is a very hard job.
So I started wondering: can we do better?
Can we use AI to help couples understand each other more deeply, recognize the patterns underneath their fights, and manage their relationship with more care between therapy sessions - or even before things reach a breaking point?
That is what inspired me and Michael Gezin to build Our Alcove.