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An algorithm you can read the reasons from.

Behavioural matching gathers real signal, and the common frustration with it is not that it is wrong but that it is unreadable. A person is suggested and there is no way to see what drove it or which differences were smoothed over. DA8N takes the opposite approach to the same problem.

An algorithm you can see the workings of

Questionnaire-and-algorithm products take the question seriously, and a long compatibility quiz does gather real signal. The usual complaint is not that the matching is bad but that it is unreadable: a score arrives, a person is suggested, and there is no way to tell what drove it or which differences were smoothed over. DA8N shows the reasons on every introduction, including the dimensions where two people do not agree, and does not rank anyone by what they paid.

Reasons instead of a score

Every introduction DA8N makes lists the dimensions behind it, including the ones where two people do not already agree. Some of those differences will not matter to you at all; one of them might be the entire question. Either way you are better placed to tell which than an algorithm is, and a visible difference is information in a way that a percentage never is. Nobody is ranked by what they paid.

Verification is mandatory, not a badge

RealMe runs before anyone can message you: a government ID, a liveness selfie and a verification video, checked together. It is not an optional badge that some members carry and others do not, which is the form verification usually takes and the form that does the least good — because the profiles you most want checked are exactly the ones that will not volunteer. A Safety Profile also states what has NOT been checked, since a missing check presented as a clean result is worse than no check at all. This is a statement about identity and nothing more: no verification system can tell you how a person will behave.

Intention is a field everyone fills in

What you are dating for is part of your profile from the first day, rather than something another person infers from your photographs and then raises awkwardly in week three. So is faith, and so is how you think about distance. This costs some of the ambiguity that makes dating comfortable and returns the fortnight people otherwise spend discovering a mismatch neither of them declared.

Introductions that show their reasons

For You explains itself. Every introduction shows the dimensions behind it, including the ones where two people do not already agree — because a difference you can see is information, while a difference hidden behind a compatibility percentage is a number you are asked to trust. Nobody is ranked by what they paid: membership changes what you can see and control, not where you appear.

Distance is a parameter, not an error

Where you live, where you are from and where you are open to meeting are three separate fields doing three different jobs. That is what makes a corridor — Lagos to Manchester, Johannesburg to London, Abuja to Houston — an ordinary case rather than something you have to misstate your location to achieve. Other members see your city, never your precise position.

Questions

Does DA8N learn from what I like?

Introductions are made on stated preferences and profile fields, and they show their reasons. The design principle is that you should be able to see why someone was suggested rather than trust that the system knows.

Is there a long questionnaire to complete?

No. Verification takes about four minutes and the profile fields that do the work — intention, faith, where you live and where you are open to meeting — are short because they are specific.

Do I need to subscribe to message anyone?

Joining is free and includes meeting people, browsing, chat and verification. Paid tiers add visibility and control, and are priced per market in the app.

Is everyone verified?

Yes — a government ID, a liveness selfie and a verification video, checked together, before anyone can message you.

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Last reviewed 2026-10-05.