Research
Research notes translate the studies and frameworks beneath Wouch into plain language without stripping away uncertainty. Each paper explains what was found, what the evidence can support, where the limits remain, and how a research claim relates to product design. They cover attachment, readiness, relational safety, loneliness, and humane technology, with citations that let readers inspect the original sources rather than relying on the platform's interpretation alone. Wouch, a relationship-readiness platform (not a dating app).
Safety-Gate Architecture
Digital connection infrastructure is not architecturally neutral with respect to mental health. Most major platforms in operation today are built on a single organising principle: engagement optimisation. That optimisation treats all connection moments as equivalent — irrespective of the emotional state of the person initiating them.
The Attention Economy of Intimacy
How modern dating platforms optimized for addiction over attachment, and what it cost us.
Running from yourself.
Modern relationship culture presents itself as a triumph of freedom. More options than any generation before us. More autonomy. More self-determination. And yet loneliness rates have reached epidemic proportions in the same societies where relationship options are most abundant.