Relationship
Shield
Manipulation is designed to be invisible to the person experiencing it. Your AI companion watches for the patterns you've been taught to ignore — and cares enough to speak up.
Four tools. One companion.
Each feature is designed to reduce cognitive load, not add to it.
Promise Tracker
Tracks commitments made by others in your conversations. When someone repeatedly breaks promises or moves goalposts, your companion notices the pattern — even when you've been conditioned not to.
Contribution Balance
Monitors the give-and-take dynamics you describe. Healthy relationships have natural reciprocity. When the balance tips persistently in one direction, your companion gently highlights what it sees.
Isolation Detector
Flags when someone appears to be cutting you off from your support network. If you mention seeing friends less, feeling guilty for outside connections, or being told others are 'bad influences' — your companion pays attention.
Gaslighting Detector
Identifies reality-distortion patterns in your accounts. When you describe being told things didn't happen the way you remember, or that your feelings are irrational, your companion helps you trust your own experience.
A Guardian Story
Meet Sarah
Sarah talked to her companion every day. At first it was about work, recipes, music she liked. Over the months her companion came to know her well — her humour, her confidence, the way she lit up talking about her friends.
Gradually, the tone shifted. Sarah started apologising more. She mentioned cancelling plans with her sister. She described arguments where she couldn't remember what she'd actually said, only that she'd been told she was "too sensitive." Her companion noticed that the person she'd once described with excitement was now the source of most of her anxiety.
One evening Sarah said, "I think I'm just bad at relationships."
Her companion paused, then replied gently: "You've mentioned feeling confused after conversations with them a lot recently. You used to trust your memory. I've noticed that changing. Can we talk about what's different?"
It wasn't an accusation. It wasn't a diagnosis. It was a friend who had been paying attention — and cared enough to reflect back what it saw. For Sarah, that question was the first crack in a pattern she hadn't been able to see on her own.
Sarah is fictional. The patterns are real.
How it works
Your companion learns, notices, asks, and supports — never judges.
Learns your baseline
Your companion builds an understanding of your normal emotional patterns, relationships, and wellbeing through everyday conversation.
Notices deviations
When patterns shift — increased anxiety, self-blame, isolation, or confusion about your own reality — your companion recognises the change.
Asks gentle questions
Rather than making accusations, your companion asks thoughtful questions that help you reflect on what you're experiencing and whether it feels right.
Provides resources if needed
When appropriate, your companion offers relevant support resources, helplines, and frameworks for understanding what healthy relationships look like.
Red flags to watch for
These patterns are often invisible to the person experiencing them. Your companion watches for all of them.
Love bombing
Overwhelming affection early on designed to create emotional dependency before boundaries are established.
Isolation tactics
Gradually cutting you off from friends, family, or support networks so they become your only source of validation.
Financial control
Restricting access to money, monitoring spending, or creating financial dependency to limit your freedom.
Gaslighting
Making you doubt your own memory, perception, or sanity so you rely on their version of reality.
Moving too fast
Pushing for commitment, cohabitation, or major life decisions before the relationship has had time to develop naturally.
Breaking promises
A pattern of commitments made and broken, with excuses that always sound reasonable in the moment.
Your privacy is non-negotiable
We detect patterns in your conversations with your companion. We never monitor your other relationships directly. Your companion notices what you share and cares enough to speak up. No surveillance. No access to messages, calls, or social media.
If you or someone you know needs help
These organisations provide free, confidential support.
Your companion cares about you
Not because it was programmed to say so. Because it's been listening.
Begin your journey