Maitreya builds graduated-trust connection infrastructure for people carrying things most platforms can’t hold. likeu for personal contexts. SlowBurn for professional. Same self, different surfaces, one underlying trust model.
Social graphs connect you to people who share your interests, your employer, your demographics. None of them were designed for the things you can’t easily talk about — the caregiving alone at 2am, the chronic pain you don’t mention at work, the masking, the abuse history, the isolation-by-difference.
Existing infrastructure forces you to pick a context and perform for it. LinkedIn wants the work mask. Instagram wants the performance. Reddit trades anonymity for depth but strips context. None of them carry what you actually carry.
We built the layer those platforms skipped.
Most platforms assume you want the same thing from everyone who connects with you. Maitreya assumes the opposite. You reveal different depths of yourself to different people, at different times, in different contexts. That’s not a design flaw — that’s how human relationships actually work. Existing platforms just never built for it.
Graduated disclosure. You enter at the lowest tier and earn access to deeper connection through sustained engagement. Not pay-to-access. Not follower-count. Trust as the only currency.
likeufor personal sharing and peer recognition — for parents, survivors, neurodivergent adults, anyone looking for people who get it. SlowBurn for professional work and collaborative identity — for people for whom LinkedIn’s social performance is exhausting. Same person. Right depth. Right place.
Dora, our AI interviewer, handles intake across both products. A conversation, not a form. Your profile emerges through dialogue. Human reviewers curate every connection. Dora carries the first-contact cognitive load so humans can focus on what only humans can judge.
Contexts we’re scoping next:
Parents navigating caregiving. Educators building awareness work. Chronic-illness communities. University students. All on the same trust infrastructure. Not new apps — new surfaces of the one underneath.
A connection platform for people the social graph left behind.
likeulinks people based on what they carry and what they’d recognize in someone else. Not interests. Not demographics. Shared weight.
Professional connection on the same trust infrastructure as likeu. For people who don’t fit the LinkedIn mold — who build relationships through shared work and mutual recognition, not cold pitches and volume metrics.
One identity, two surfaces. Your personal conversations on likeu stay personal. Your professional network on SlowBurn sees the version of you that shows up for work.
Relationships form through shared interest and mutual recognition. No cold DMs. No outreach spam. No pitching strangers who didn’t ask to be pitched.
Dora interviews you at intake — the same AI mediator as likeu, tuned for professional context. Your profile emerges through dialogue, not field-filling.
Expertise earns visibility gradually. You reveal more of your work, your ambitions, and what you’re actually building as trust builds — not as a credentials dump on day one.
Beachhead: neurodivergent professionals — people for whom LinkedIn’s social performance is exhausting. Long-term: every professional isolated by systems that optimize for volume over meaning.
Maitreya is incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation. Our legal obligation is to consider community impact, not just shareholder returns. Safety is a bylaw, not a promise. We publish transparency reports because accountability should be the default, not the exception.
Dora handles onboarding. Ananda runs strategy. Wren ships engineering. Barbra produces content. Each agent absorbs the repeatable work of one human role, so one founder ships what a five-person team usually ships, at roughly half the cost. All hires — human or AI — meet an L2 AI proficiency bar. This is how a mission-locked PBC stays lean enough to put capital into safety, not headcount.
Grooming awareness educator, CSA survivor, UCLA data science student. Content on child safety has reached 460K+ views and generated 1,000+ comments from survivors, parents, and educators across six countries. Maitreya emerged from those conversations.
Trauma-informed design in every product decision. Consent, control, and privacy by default.
Public reports on impact, finances, and product decisions. No greenwashing.
Users shape the product. Advisory boards for each population we serve.
Designed for neurodivergent users from day one. Sensory-considerate by default.
No data selling. No attention manipulation. Revenue aligned with connection outcomes.
Legally bound to consider community impact. PBC structure ensures mission permanence.
Maitreya is pre-revenue by design. The first priority was building trust infrastructure that works. Here’s what’s live.
likeu runs with graduated-trust disclosure, AI-mediated onboarding via Dora, consent-based matching workflows, and human reviewers on every connection. Parents arriving organically from Instagram.
Content engagement from six countries — early evidence that demand for trust-gated connection is universal, not regional.
48-page guide, professor-reviewed, with five free mini-guides. Practical grooming prevention resources distributed through organic channels.
We build in the open. Product decisions, mistakes, and what our community teaches us. Published on Substack.
Why we stopped saying “matching” and started saying “linking.” What our first four users taught us about recognition.
What happens when you let a classroom full of teenagers tell the truth about who grooms children. Real data from a real presentation.
Real numbers, real costs, and what we learned building trust infrastructure in our founding quarter.
For investors, press, potential partners, and anyone who wants to learn what Maitreya is building.
Impact investment, grants, accelerator partnerships. Mission-aligned only.
Child safety tech, survivor advocacy, AI ethics. Press kit with founder bio and product details available on request.
Trust and safety advisors, academic researchers, and child safety organizations including RAINN, Darkness to Light, and Stop It Now.