KNOW
KNOW before you go.
Go out better. Discover where to go, see who's out, and capture the nights worth saving — answered like a friend who actually knows Dallas.
Invite-only while we're Dallas-first. 18+.
The problem
You don't decide once. You decide all night.
It's 10pm at the pregame and someone finally says it — so where are we going? Two hours later it's whether the room's died and you should move. Later still it's standing outside a packed bar, deciding whether the line's worth it, or whether somewhere better is a block away you just can't see. Going out was never one choice on the couch. It's a dozen live ones, and you make every one of them half-blind.
So you guess. Yelp from last year, Instagram's best angle, a Reddit thread from 2023 — none of it knows what's true tonight, and none of it knows you. You wanted the room full of your team's fans; you got the wrong crowd and the game on mute. And under every guess is the quiet sense that the better night — the right room, your friends two bars over — is happening somewhere you can't see, and you're always a step behind it.
That's the part worth being annoyed about. You only get so many nights out, and spending them tab-hopping and hoping is a waste of every one. A night should know you back — your team, your people, the room you actually like — and it should tell you the truth right now: what's packed, what's dead, what's on, where your friends are. Nothing does that. That's the whole reason we built KNOW.
Ask it anything
The questions you'd text a friend.
Not a search box with filters. You type the way you'd actually say it, and it answers with what's true tonight — or tells you straight when it doesn't know.
"what's got cheap beer right now?"
"what's actually busy tonight?"
"anything on this weekend I'd like?"
"is there a patio open near me?"
"I was thinking Ice House then somewhere after — what's good?"
"where's quiet enough to actually talk?"
It answers from tonight's real deals, venue hours, and reports from people standing in the room right now — not a review someone left in 2023. Ask "what's got cheap beer right now" and you get exactly this:
Real venues. Real prices. Right now.
What a real answer looks like
Every answer carries its receipts.
Unedited screenshot. Look at how much you learn in one paragraph — and at what it refuses to claim.
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Four facts before you've asked a follow-up
How far, how much, how late, and whether it fits you. That's the whole reason you'd text a local in the first place — and you got it in one line.
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The reason is concrete, never vibes
Distance, price band, and closing time — facts you can act on. "1-minute walk, $, open till 2a"
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It admits what it doesn't know
This is the line we're proudest of. The agent had no live crowd data and said so instead of inventing confidence. "I don't have a live crowd read tonight so I can't promise it's packed"
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It offers a specific swap, not "anything else?"
Every plan ends by naming the real alternative it considered — with the constraint that matters attached. "Want me to point you to The People's Last Stand for cocktails instead before it closes at 1a?"
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You are never stuck with the answer
Ask again, ask differently, ask for the opposite. It's a conversation with someone who knows the city, not a recommendation you have to accept.
One vocabulary, learned once
Five states. Same meaning everywhere.
Every venue in the app carries one of five crowd states, and the colors never change meaning between screens. Learn them here and you can read any map pin, any card, any plan at a glance.
The fifth state is the one most apps refuse to ship.
- QuietWalk in, no wait #4caf7d
- ModerateFilling up, still easy #b87c1e
- BusyGood energy, maybe a wait #e07c3a
- PackedExpect a line #c0392b
- No signalWe don't know, and we say so #888888
Where the signal comes from
90 spots, 7 neighborhoods
Not all crowd data is equal. We rank it honestly.
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Strongest
Someone standing in the room
A report from a phone provably inside the venue. We attribute it and age it — "someone there 12 minutes ago said it's packed, long line" — never dressed up as a statistic.
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Currently off
Modeled from historical patterns
How busy a place usually is at this hour on this day. This layer is dark right now. We'd rather run without it than pass a stale pattern off as tonight. When it's back it will be labelled a pattern, never live.
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Absent
Nothing
Then we show the grey dot and say nothing about the crowd. An honest empty state beats a confident guess.
The wait leads. A long line is the single most actionable thing we can tell you, so when we know it, it goes first.
And the loop compounds: every check-in and every report sharpens the next answer. Tonight's crowd data is tomorrow's accuracy — it can't be scraped or bought, because it only exists here.
Wait times
The line, from someone standing in it.
A wait read comes from people actually at the venue — geofence-verified where we can — and it only hardens into "long line" when two people agree, or when one report is verified on-site. A single unverified read softens instead of shouting.
It expires after 90 minutes. A two-hour-old read isn't a wait time, it's a rumour.
No line info
Grey — not "no wait"
Every other app fills that silence with a guess. We won't send you across town on a number we invented. If nobody has told us, we tell you nobody has told us.
Refine by talking
One sentence edits the plan. It doesn't start over.
Most assistants regenerate from scratch and hand you something unrecognisable. KNOW treats what you say as a diff — it changes the thing you asked about and leaves the rest of your night alone.
$8 domestic pitchers till 9.
Live set at 9:30.
Mezcal, proper little speakeasy.
"swap the last stop for a dive"
Unchanged.
Unchanged.
$4 Miller Lites, no frills. Walk shortened to 3 min.
Ask in your own words
The nudge
A text from a friend, not a marketing push.
When something's actually worth leaving the house for, KNOW texts you like a friend would. The rules that make it work are strict on purpose:
- One venue. Never a route, never a summary of your plan.
- One concrete reason — a price, a game, a DJ. Never a star rating.
- Under 110 characters, so it never truncates on the lock screen.
- No hype. No exclamation marks, no "curated", no emoji.
9:41
Friday, July 24
KNOW
matt — lonnie's is doing $4 miller lites tonight. easy one.
KNOW
three links has a live set at 9:30. four min walk from you.
Once you're out
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Check in without faking it
Check-in needs three things at once: you're within 50m, you've stopped moving, and you've stayed three minutes. Walking past doesn't count.
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Report the vibe, get a ride
Tell the room what it's like, then hand off to Uber, Lyft, Waymo or Fetti — compared on wait time.
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Your crew, on one map
See who's out and where, if — and only if — you've both turned presence on.
Check in, your way
Every check-in asks who sees it and how long it lasts, before you commit.
Out the door, four ways
KNOW never takes payment — it hands you to the app that does it properly.
People
Connection is a by-product, not the pitch.
KNOW is not a room full of strangers you signed up to meet. It's the night you were already going to have, made easier — and the people part happens the way it actually happens, standing next to someone at a bar you both like.
If you want it, KNOW can point out someone you'd probably get on with — same school, same industry, same hometown, mutual friends. Useful in a city where almost everyone moved here from somewhere else.
It is also off until you turn it on, per connection type. And there's a rule the agent cannot break: it will describe a room honestly — loud, mixed, quiet — but it will never advertise the people in it as a reason to go.
Off
By default, per connection type
Hiding a field stops it being shown. Leaving discovery off stops you being surfaced to strangers at all. They're separate switches and neither is on for you automatically.
Privacy, as a feature
Your exact location is never shown. Being out is your call.
Precise coordinates compute distance and walkability, then they stop — no screen, no profile, no export renders them, not to other users, not back to you. If you want your friends to see you're out — so they can swing by — turn on presence sharing. It's opt-in, it's mutual (you both have to enable it), and it's off by default. Either way, before anything reaches our AI provider, your coordinates become a neighborhood name and your date of birth becomes an age band.
Read the full privacy policy — plain language, every field listed.
No one
Not even you — no screen renders them
Zero
Enforced by script-src 'none'
Not a promise in a document — a response header. Open your browser's network tab and check it yourself.
Questions
Is KNOW available yet?
Private TestFlight beta in Dallas, invite-only. Request one above and tell us the neighborhood you actually go out in — that's how we pick the next batch.
Why only Dallas?
Live nightlife data is local. We carry 90 Dallas venues across seven neighborhoods with real hours, real deals, and crowd reports from people who are actually out. Crowd signal, friends who are out, and plans that learn from real nights all need density to work — wide and thin would make every one of those features honest but empty.
What's not built yet?
Two things the app doesn't do today. Comparing nearby venues — so when a room dies you can see what's better a block away — and finding the bar full of your team's fans on a game night. Both are being built. We'd rather list them here than let you assume they're already in there.
Is this a dating app?
No. It can suggest people you'd get on with based on shared background, but that's opt-in and off by default. The core product is planning your night.
Do I have to share my location?
The planner works better with it, but the app works without it. Presence sharing with friends is a separate switch, off by default. You can revoke location permission entirely in iOS Settings.
How does the AI part actually work?
Your messages and a personalization brief go to Anthropic's Claude API to compose the plan. Your raw date of birth and your coordinates never leave our servers — they're reduced to an age band and a neighborhood name first. The privacy policy lists every field that's sent.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta.
I'm already testing. Where do I send feedback?
Head to support for setup help and how to report anything broken.
Dallas first. Then everywhere worth going.
We're taking a small number of people into the beta each week. Tell us where you go out and we'll get you in.
18+ · Dallas only for now