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Matchbox is the matching algorithm behind your next great event.
We know how to make great matches, but the event is yours.
When you host a Matchbox event, you have complete control over the experience.
Choose a romantic or platonic event
Choose whether to consider your guests’ gender and orientation, or just make great friendships.
Find a time and place and guests
Setting up the perfect environment is crucial for planning any successful party—Matchbox events are no exception.
Build the perfect questionnaire
The key to making great matches is our battle-tested library of questions—written by our team of relationship scientists, and fed into our algorithm to uncover what research says are the most compatible pairs at your event.
Make things between us official
Matchbox is priced based on the number of guests you’ll host, and the feature set you’ll need (more on this in a bit).
The price we charge helps us cover our research, operations, and the cost of running our algorithm.
As each guest submits their answers, their name will appear on your admin view.
The algorithm considers every possible configuration, applying cutting-edge relationship science.
Everyone at your event gets their match at the exact same time.
Matchbox Professional includes the tools professional hosts need to make sure high-caliber ticketed events run smoothly.
Include premium questions from our relationship scientists—questions that spark conversation and make the best matches possible.
Let your guests see under the hood with match insights that reveal why the algorithm made their match.
Built-in age constraints prevent awkward situations at events with a wider age range.
If someone has to leave early, make sure nobody ends up with a missing match.
If you pay for more capacity than you use, save the extra seats for to your next event.
Our permission to charge your guests for tickets to your Matchbox events.
Well-suited for casual events.
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Find everything you need to take your event from idea to reality in our comprehensive guide to hosting.
We provide the matching algorithm, but everything else is up to you. Bring your own location, guests, and vibe.
We’ve seen hosts throw dinner parties, apartment hangs, and cocktail hours—but some are going bigger: we’re seeing art gallery openings, boat parties, and huge summer picnics. Host whatever you’re most excited about!
In general, if you’re hosting a romantic event, any surplus of men or women will receive platonic friend-matches among themselves, instead of romantic matches.
To ensure balance, one good strategy is to request that every guest of yours brings a friend of the gender they’re interested in—this ensures your matching pool is always balanced.
We’ve also seen hosts ask interested attendees about things like age and sexual orientation beforehand, in order to ensure everyone will get a match.
Yes! For romantic matching events, the algorithm takes into account (1) your gender identity, and (2) the gender identity/identities you’d like to match with.
For platonic events, questions about gender and sexual orientation are omitted.
Your guest list is entirely up to you! When we first started, we began by just inviting friends and friends-of-friends—that’s enough for a great party!
More ambitious hosts often organize a waitlist, asking prospective guests for their social media handles, plus a question or two to get a sense of who they are.
Yes, this happens!
Overall, matches are incredible—people make new friends, find people to date, and sometimes even match with exes. But while matches are algorithmically vetted—and they’re always good on paper—sometimes you won’t feel the spark with your match. That’s okay! Our guests enjoy going through the experience—answering the questions, and talking about it with their friends—regardless of how good their match ends up being.