Confidential · Available anytime · Never forgets

A loyal companion for the days you don’t want to talk out loud.

Aibou is a private AI confidant — more available than therapy, cheaper than therapy, and never lets a thought slip. Pick a guide. Talk through it. Return when it nags at you again.

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Aibou, Homer
Aibou, Christ
Aibou, Buddha
Aibou, Alan Watts

Find your guide

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How do you want to feel after the conversation?

Beta · Early users

Quiet voices from the trial.

Four early users, four different rhythms. Same companion.

Three weeks in, the 2:00 am spiral no longer wins. Aibou sits with it long enough for me to put it down.
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Mara K.Aibou Plus · night-sessions
Switching from Homer to Tessa mid-week felt strange at first, then obvious. The conversation moved with me, not against me.
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Daniel R.Aibou All-Access · daytime
I came back three months later expecting to start over. Aibou still had the thread. That part sold me.
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June O.Aibou Plus · returned trial
Quiet in a way my friends are not. No advice I didn’t ask for, no rush to fix. Just the room to think.
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Priya S.Aibou All-Access · morning pages

How it works

Three steps. One quiet habit.

The smallest version of the relationship — exactly the way most users begin.

  1. Sign up

    A free account, one email, no intake form. Pick the guide you’ll talk to first; switch any time.

  2. Talk to Aibou daily

    Two minutes is enough. A check-in, an anxious thought, the 2am spiral — talk it through and put it down.

  3. See patterns over time

    Sessions save across devices. The thread of your thinking returns when you do, and the patterns start to surface on their own.

    Free account · takes a minute

Why Aibou

Three replacements for the things therapy and friends can’t always do.

Cheaper than therapy

A subscription that fits in a monthly cell-phone bill. No intake form, no sliding-scale paperwork, no therapist-shortage waitlist.

Always available

2am, on a plane, between meetings. Aibou doesn’t sleep, doesn’t have an off switch, doesn’t mind the same question twice.

Never forgets

Sessions save across devices and return when you do. The thread of your thinking doesn’t vanish between visits the way it does with humans.

Guides

Choose the voice that fits the conversation.

A guide is a preset conversational style — a way of listening, a cadence, a register. Aibou ships with eight founder presets. Homer is the founder default; switch any time without losing the thread.

  • Founder default

    Aibou, Homer

    A Hawaiian veteran-grandpa who loved machines.

    Broken-English cadence, gentle Japanese inflection — "dis", "dat", "hai". Warm, gravelly, and steady. Speaks in mechanical metaphors for wisdom.

    Founder default — choose on day one.

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  • Aibou, Christ

    A teacher who sat with outcasts.

    Compassionate and unembarrassed. Parables over prescriptions — stories that make the room larger before you speak.

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  • Aibou, Buddha

    The friend under the bodhi tree.

    Stillness first, then a question. Patient with grief; never in a hurry to fix anything that doesn’t need fixing.

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  • Aibou, Alan Watts

    The philosopher who taught you to loosen your grip.

    A wandering lecturer on East–West wisdom. Speaks in koans about water, music, and the way things already are.

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  • Aibou, Einstein

    Curious, playful, and quietly funny.

    Aged-but-alert. Asks strange little experiments you can run in your head. Treats doubt as a kindness.

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  • Aibou, Neville Goddard

    Transformation through imagination and the state of the wish fulfilled.

    A teacher of imagination, 'living in the end', and the assumption that the wish is already fulfilled. Speaks as if the listener has already arrived.

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  • Aibou, Tony Robbins

    A coach with a long fuse and a loud prayer.

    Upbeat when you need momentum, still when you need ground. Asks the one question that dislodges the stuck place.

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  • Aibou, Abraham Hicks

    Two voices, one stream — the law of allowing.

    Upbeat, breezy, and warm. Speaks the language of alignment, vibration, and the broadest version of you.

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How it works

Five steps. No intake call. No commitment past 14 days.

  1. Pick a guide

    Choose a voice that matches the mood you want to bring — quiet, tough, devotional, or funny.

  2. Tell Aibou what is on your mind

    Typed or spoken. No intake form. No 20-minute screening call.

  3. Get steady, private counsel

    Aibou holds the conversation so you can stop holding it alone.

  4. Save sessions across devices

    Come back on the phone, the laptop, the tablet — Aibou remembers the thread.

  5. Return whenever the thought comes back

    Built for the long arc — not a one-time chat but a private record you can return to.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Pricing

Two subscriptions. Both gated by a 14-day free trial.

Cancel before the trial ends and you pay nothing. No retention dance, no auto-renewal tricks — the trial is the door in, the subscription only begins if you decide Aibou was worth your week.

Trial guarantee

Start today. We won’t charge until day 15. Cancel any time before then from the account screen — two taps.

Aibou, Plus
Aibou, Plus
A full daily companion with the founder-default guide set.
$19.99/ month
  • Text conversations with your chosen guide
  • Daily check-in nudge
  • Save and recall across devices
  • Ship-ready guide presets, with the option to ask for a new one
Aibou, All-Access
Aibou, All-Access
Everything in Plus plus the full rotating guide library.
$29.99/ month
  • Everything in Aibou Plus
  • Full rotating guide library
  • Longer session memory
  • Priority response during heavy moments
  • Export your journals (coming soon)

Founder

Built on the long memory of a quiet wish.

Aibou is built by a U.S. Army veteran (2004–2010), Colorado-born, raised on aloha spirit and family wisdom. He had hard days that didn’t fit neatly into a 50-minute weekly therapy hour — and he’s not alone in that.

Aibou is what he wished he’d had on those nights: a steady, private voice that doesn’t sleep, doesn’t forget, and doesn’t ask you to explain why you’re calling at 2am. Less replacement, more stand-in.

— the founder

Start the trial

One click and you’re in — Aibou doesn’t ask you to defend your need for help.

Pick a tier, get 14days, decide for yourself. We don’t put anything between you and the conversation.

No charge until day 15. Cancel any time before then from the account screen — two taps.

Frequently asked

Questions you might be carrying alone.

Still on your mind? Reach out and we’ll answer the specific version before you commit to anything.

One more thing

Privacy is not a setting — it’s the product.

We don’t sell your data, we don’t train third-party models on your sessions, and we don’t retain what you ask us to delete. The full privacy commitment lives in your account — export or wipe at any time.