How it works
Two people, answering honestly, on their own.
The whole method is that you never see each other’s answers until you are both finished. Everything else follows from that.
The shape
Eight things, and where you overlap.
Each of you answers ten questions. Every answer moves one of eight lines — how full the days are, how much open space, how much comfort, how much of the scene, how much is new to you, how much is planned, how much the food matters, and how deep in it you want to be. The same eight, every time, for both of you.
The two outlines are each of you alone. The filled shape in the middle is where you agree, and it is the only part we design against. Where the outlines diverge is not a problem to fix — it is where one of you gets a day the other sits out.
It does not score you. There is no better end of any line, no compatibility number, and no percentage. A number would imply a precision none of this has.
Four steps
01
Honesty
Twenty visual choices, taken separately on your own devices. Separately is the point: it captures what each of you wants before the negotiating starts.
02
Alignment
Your two shapes are laid over each other. The overlap is what we design against; the gaps tell us which day should be optional.
03
The search
We look for places that satisfy both of you at once rather than splitting the difference. Three of them, ranked by name.
04
Your volume
A magazine made for the two of you: three places, the specific rooms, the days and their reasoning, what it costs, and the trades.
Ten questions each.
Separately, then together. Under twenty minutes each — and you can stop halfway and come back. At the end we show you your shape and offer ten more, if you want it sharper.