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Field notes from the linQ team

Three drafts in flight right now. Subscribe and we'll send the first one the day it ships — usually within a week or two.

• Product story·6 min read·Shipping this month

  Why we built linQ around 'one-tap matching' instead of swipes

  Swipes optimize for volume, not fit. We wanted the opposite: a slow, deliberate, weekly cadence that respects both people's time. Here's the thesis behind the Wednesday match.

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• Engineering·9 min read·In review

  How AI profile inference actually works (and why we forbid verbatim quotes)

  The hardest part of the AI profile isn't structure — it's teaching the model to see what the user didn't say. A walk through the prompt, the patterns array, and the 'why' behind each dimension score.

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• Trust & safety·4 min read·Draft

  Privacy by default: what we DON'T collect

  Most platforms brag about what they encrypt. We'd rather list the data we never touch — your social graph, your contacts, your location history, your photos. The shorter this list stays, the better the product gets.

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