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They do. Sea otters sleep floating on open water, so they hold hands to keep the current from pulling them apart. Whole rafts of them drift together through the night, nobody lost, nobody alone. It's one of the most quietly romantic things in nature, and it's where this company begins.

That's why. Sea otters know what some people spend half a lifetime learning: finding someone is only part of it. Holding on is the rest.

Gladly. A group of otters floating together is called a raft. A sea otter carries a favourite rock in a pocket of loose skin under its arm. And when it finds a rock that works, it keeps that same one, sometimes for its whole life.

Because unlimited swiping trains you to skim, and people deserve better than being skimmed. On Otter you answer what matters and meet a few people for real reasons, each one worth an actual look.

No.

Because a person doesn't fit in a percentage. We show you where your answers truly line up, and where they honestly differ, and the rest gets figured out the way it should be: in person.

Never. When you're stuck, it might point you somewhere, a thing to ask, a thread to pull, but every word is yours. If an AI does the talking, it isn't really the two of you talking, and the two of you talking is the whole point.

Because subscriptions quietly bet on you staying single, and we refuse to take that side of the bet. You pay once, your membership renews yearly for free, and our interests point exactly where yours do: out of the app and into a relationship.

You delete Otter, and we count it as a five-star review. The best thing anyone can say about a dating app is that they don't need it anymore. We built this whole thing hoping you'll say it.

The last Wednesday of May, and yes, it's real. We've already decided it's a company holiday. What we'll do for it is still undecided, but it will be wholehearted and slightly too much, which is the only way we do anything.