Custom third spaces for authentic, lasting connection.
Groucho matches you with a carefully curated group of people who share or compliment your interests and sensibilities. Then we get you together in real life for dinner, drinks, and lasting connection. This is not a one-time, hit-or-miss event. This is a private social club designed for deeply enhancing your daily life in an ongoing way.
Expand your surface area for serendipity. Be with yours.
Eat well in the process.
From voice interview to your private IRL club in four simple steps
Have a natural conversation with our AI. Tell us about your interests, passions, and what you're looking for in social connections. The AI just gets it down and reports it back to us, so we don't have to pay people to do intake interviews, and we can pass the savings to you. Also, they're surprisingly good at it.
Each club is assembled by a human expert. It's worth getting it right. This might take a few days or weeks.
You don't find your people by hitting it out of the social ballpark on a one-time all-or-nothing basis. On average it takes several meetings to form a lasting connection. We take care of the logistics, from restaurant reservations down to conversation prompts.
Then we shake it up. Once you've had the chance to form lasting connections with each of your club mates - typically after 3-6 meetings - we'll shuffle you into a new carefully curated club.
As artists (David a writer, James a painter), we've had a rare opportunity. Before becoming proper alienated adults, we spent a lot of time in the ultimate third space: art residencies.
Cohorts of artists, writers, and musicians gather for a month, coming away with profound, lifelong bonds. David met his wife at one. James now runs one in Virginia.
Groucho brings that curated cohort experience—the fertile social fabric increasingly scarce in real life—to everyone, including our busier selves of today.
Everything you need for effortless, meaningful connection
Each Groucho club has 4-8 members, selected not just for common interests but for social compatibility and potential for genuine connection.
Our conversational AI learns who you really are through natural dialogue, not checkbox surveys. Your personality shines through in conversation.
We coordinate the venues, times, and agendas. We offer the prompts to get things started and keep them going. You just show up and enjoy.
$21.99/month (for a very limited time while we get revved up — lock it in now) covers the assembly of your own private social club and coordinating all of its activities. You don't pay anything until you're actually matched with a club.
Download the app and tell us something about yourself.