A relationship platform built on behaviour, values and goals — with an optional layer of consumer genomics that belongs entirely to you. Explore your own genome, understand what your markers actually mean, and decide for yourself what anyone else ever sees.
Genetics is optional at every stage. The dating side works completely without it, and nothing you learn about yourself is visible to anyone else by default.
Email, a password, and the basics. No genetic data required, ever.
Photos, interests, lifestyle and what you're actually looking for. This is what compatibility is calculated from.
Already tested with a consumer service? Upload the raw data file you downloaded. Parsing and quality checks happen before anything is stored.
Trait reports with confidence levels and evidence tiers, an interactive genome atlas, ancestry, and an AI advisor that reads your actual results.
Nothing is visible to anyone until you switch it on, one trait at a time. There is no bulk-publish button, deliberately.
Compatibility across six behavioural dimensions, each with an explanation of why it scored the way it did.
Educational probability estimates for a small set of well-understood inherited traits. Either person can revoke it, and the report is destroyed for both.
Most of what follows has nothing to do with dating. It's there because understanding your own genome is worth doing on its own.
Raw data files from major consumer testing services. Format detection, streaming parsing, and four quality-control gates run before a single report is generated — a degraded file produces nothing rather than something wrong.
5 providers supportedEvery marker we read, plotted two ways. As a constellation where each orbit is a category and lines join markers in the same gene — and along your real chromosomes, each dot at its true coordinate. Tap one and its relatives light up.
InteractiveAppearance, senses and taste, wellness, sleep and rhythm. Each with your genotype, the gene and what it actually does, evidence tier, how it's inherited, and every other possible result at that marker.
37 genes documentedAsk "explain my caffeine metabolism" and it answers from your own file — your genotype, what the gene does, and how strong the evidence is. Ask a medical question and it refers you to a clinician instead of guessing.
Reads your genomeSix weighted factors — goals, interests, values, lifestyle, communication and distance — each with an explanation of why it scored as it did. Genetics is a separate educational track and never enters the score.
Explained, not assertedFor matches who both opt in: educational probability ranges for eye colour, hair colour and texture, blood type and freckling, with animated diagrams showing how inheritance actually works. Ranges, never single numbers.
Mutual consent requiredPublish individual traits to your profile, one switch at a time. Expressed traits say what you are; carried variants say what you carry without expressing it. Nobody can search or filter by any of it.
Off by defaultLook up any marker in your own file by rsID and see exactly what we hold. If it isn't there, we say so rather than inventing a result.
Full transparencyContinental and regional estimates, maternal and paternal lines, and migration context — with honest caveats about how reference panels shape the numbers.
Statistical, not absoluteYou cannot reset your genome after a breach the way you can reset a password. It's also partly shared with your relatives, who never agreed to anything. That shapes every decision below.
Photos and conversation still matter most — people are the product. What's added is a layer of self-knowledge that happens to be worth having on its own.
Consumer genetics has a credibility problem, and it's earned. Most of it comes from presenting weak findings with the same confidence as strong ones. Every report here carries an evidence tier, shown before the result rather than after.
A well-replicated single-gene effect. Lactose tolerance, earwax type, ABO blood group. These are the results worth trusting.
Strong evidence, but several genes contribute or the effect varies between populations. Read it as a tendency, not a determination.
Suggestive only. We show these because hiding them would be worse, and we say plainly that habit and environment usually matter more.
No. The dating side is complete without it — profiles, matching, compatibility and messaging all work exactly the same. Genetics is an optional layer, and no feature is locked behind it.
No. We don't sell kits and we don't run a lab. If you've already tested with a consumer service, you can upload the raw data file they let you download. That's the only way genetic data enters GeneMax.
The parser handles raw data exports from the major consumer providers. Each provider is enabled individually once we've completed the legal review of their terms of service, so the supported list at launch may be shorter than the list the parser can technically read. We'd rather be slow than be sued.
Nobody, until you decide otherwise. Every trait starts switched off. You publish them individually, and you can unpublish at any time.
There's also no way for anyone to search or filter people by genetic attributes. Publishing a trait means it appears on your profile — it never makes you sortable.
No, and this is deliberate. Filtering partners by ancestry is ethnic filtering, and appearance markers are proxies for the same thing. Discovery filters are age, distance, relationship goals and verification only.
The restriction is built into the architecture rather than being a setting we could quietly change later.
Genetic data lives in a separate database, in a separate cloud account, with its own encryption keys. The dating application has no route to reach it.
Each person's genetic data is encrypted under a key that belongs only to them. Every access is written to a log you can read yourself.
Deleting destroys your encryption key. Every copy encrypted with it — live data, object storage, and backups — becomes permanently unreadable. There's no recovery path, which is the point.
No. Compatibility is calculated from relationship goals, shared interests, values, lifestyle, communication style and distance. Genotype is not an input.
The system that ranks people has no access to genetic data at all, so it's not a policy we could quietly reverse.
An educational report available to two matched people who have both explicitly opted in. It estimates probability ranges for a small set of traits with well-understood single-gene inheritance — eye colour, hair colour and texture, blood type, freckling.
Everything is a range, never a single number. Either person can revoke it at any time, which destroys the report for both. It is not family-planning guidance and not medical advice.
No. GeneMax is educational. We don't report disease risk, we don't report drug metabolism, and we don't diagnose anything. Consumer genotyping arrays read a small fraction of the genome and aren't clinical-grade.
Anything that matters for your health belongs with a physician or a certified genetic counsellor, and the app says so wherever it's relevant.
It varies enormously, which is why every report shows its evidence tier and a confidence figure before the result. Some traits — earwax type, blood group — are near-certain. Others are weak tendencies, and we label them as such rather than dressing them up.
The core app will be free: profiles, matching, messaging, and your own genome reports. A paid tier will add Future Family reports, advanced filters and other extras. Final pricing isn't set — waitlist members will hear first.
No date yet. There's regulatory and legal work to complete before accepting genetic data from the public, and we'd rather do that properly than ship early. Joining the waitlist is the way to hear when it's ready.
No spam, no sharing your address, and an unsubscribe link on everything. We'll write when there's something real to say.
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