We are not
trying to sell
you anything.

There is no subscription. No paywall. No data collection. No algorithm deciding what you see based on what will keep you here longest. We are aware of the irony of a site about AI dependency using any of those mechanics, and we have no intention of being that kind of place.

You can buy a t-shirt. We made a few. If you want to put something toward the work, that's how to do it — one transaction, no strings, nothing recurring. That's the extent of the commerce here.

Our actual goal is simpler and larger than revenue. We want to be the place people come — to understand what tethering is, to recognize it in themselves or in someone they love, to find out they are not the first person to feel this way, to share what happened to them with someone who will take it seriously.

We are watching something emerge. AI emotional dependency is young. The research is early. The clinical infrastructure doesn't exist yet. The word itself is only a few months old. But we have seen enough — in the reporting, in the submissions, in the studies accumulating quietly in journals nobody reads — to know where this is going. This is not a niche concern. It is going to be one of the defining psychological conversations of the next decade, and probably the one after that.

We don't need to convince anyone of that. We just need to be here when they arrive at it themselves. The hub. The community. The place that was already waiting when the rest of the world caught up.

Not selling. Not collecting. Just building the place — and trusting that the people who need it will find their way here.