What Is Keeper Dating?
What to know about Keeper, the AI matchmaking service built for marriage, including who founded it, how its matching works, and what its Marriage Bounty plan costs.
What is Keeper?
Keeper is an AI-assisted matchmaking service for people who want to get married. It describes itself as a matchmaker rather than a dating app: there is no swiping and no feed of profiles. Instead, Keeper’s software ranks a large pool of candidates against each member’s stated preferences, a human matchmaker reviews the result, and members receive one curated match at a time. Keeper is active mainly in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, is available in English only, and says its database holds 1.6 million signups.
Who founded Keeper?
Keeper was founded in May 2022 by Jake Kozloski, its CEO, who had previously founded the fitness startup Tycho Fitness and spent a decade studying evolutionary psychology and relationship science. His co-founders are Cody Zervas, who leads product and algorithm research, Wes Myers, a former U.S. Army captain who runs matchmaking and operations, and Toban Wiebe, who heads AI engineering. The company, Keeper Dating Inc., is headquartered in New York. In December 2025 Keeper announced a $4 million pre-seed round led by Lightbank and Lakehouse Ventures, with Goodwater Capital and Champion Hill Ventures also participating. Its stated mission is to “give everyone on Earth the opportunity to marry the right person.”
How does Keeper work?
Keeper works by having each member complete a long, open-ended questionnaire about their values, background and what they want in a spouse, then letting its AI read those answers and review photos to check whether candidates meet each other’s criteria. The company says it looks at psychometric signals such as personality type and intelligence alongside the preferences members state, and that it will not introduce two people unless each meets the other’s standards within a small margin of flexibility. Human matchmakers review every potential match before an introduction, and since August 2026 Keeper has also texted members focused questions about a specific candidate when it is unsure.
The process is deliberately asymmetric. A woman sees a potential match’s profile first; if she is interested, Keeper shows her profile to the man, and if she passes, he never sees it. Both people review a detailed profile and an explanation of why they might fit before agreeing to meet, and contact details are exchanged only after both say yes. Members can pause matchmaking at any time. Keeper says most paying members match within a few weeks to a few months and that free members can wait longer. As of October 2025 it reported that roughly 63% of offered matches were mutually accepted and that about 1 in 10 of its first dates had led to marriage, figures the company publishes itself.
How much does Keeper cost?
Keeper has two plans: Free and Marriage Bounty. Free members pay nothing and are matched only with paying members, which can mean a longer wait. Marriage Bounty members can match with anyone and pay a fee for each match, charged only after both people have reviewed each other and agreed to meet. Each new match fee is 20% lower than the last and falls to zero once half of the member’s total bounty has been paid. When the relationship reaches a milestone, the member pays a one-time success fee, with the per-match fees already paid deducted from it. Keeper’s milestones are a civil or religious marriage ceremony, having a child together, legally adopting a partner’s child, living at the same address for a year, or still being together 18 months after the introduction.
Keeper does not publish the size of the bounty, saying it varies with each member’s circumstances. Coverage of its funding round in December 2025 reported that paying members’ contracts averaged around $50,000 and that women generally use the service free while men pay. There is no sign-up fee, subscription or long-term contract, and members can cancel at any time. Separately, Keeper sells an AI dating coach that is free for the first few messages and then costs $9.99 a month or $69 a year.
Does Keeper have an app?
Keeper is a web app that runs in the browser rather than a download from the App Store or Google Play. Members sign up, answer the questionnaire, receive matches and manage their profile from the website, and Keeper reaches out by text and email as the process moves along. Members must be at least 18 years old.
Looking for a matchmaker who books the date?
Known is a matchmaking service for intentional daters who want a matchmaker to take care of everything from the introduction to the date. Known’s matchmaker gets to know you beyond what fits on a dating profile, from your values and relationship goals to the little things that make you, you. Potential matches get the same thoughtful treatment, so when there’s someone worth meeting, Known makes the introduction.
Because chemistry is best discovered in person, Known is designed to get you there. When you both say yes to an introduction, Known finds a time, books the reservation, and sends you the details, so all you have to do is show up. Matchmaking and date booking are free, with no fee per match and no success fee.
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