Kionese is a private relationship clarity AI. You describe one situation in your own words, answer 6 to 8 guided questions, and get a direct read with one clear next step in about 10 minutes. Individual costs $19 a month and Couples $29. It is not therapy. Below are straight answers to the questions people ask most.
Kionese is a relationship clarity AI. You describe one specific relationship situation in your own words, answer 6 to 8 guided questions, and get a direct read: what is actually happening, what it means, and one clear next step. A session takes about 10 minutes. It is not therapy and not a general chatbot.
Kionese Individual is $19 per month with unlimited decision reads and hard-conversation preparation. Kionese Couples is $29 per month: everything in Individual, plus sessions where both partners answer separately. Tax is shown before you pay. You can cancel any time, and access continues until the end of the period already paid.
You can experience the questions for free. A full read requires a paid plan: Individual at $19 per month or Couples at $29 per month. If you email support@kionese.com within 7 days of your first charge and have generated no more than one paid report, that first charge is refunded.
About 10 minutes. You describe your situation in your own words, typed or by voice, answer 6 to 8 guided questions, and get a direct read on screen, with a copy sent to your email as backup.
No. Kionese is not therapy, counseling, or a mental health service. It is an AI guidance tool for reflective and informational purposes: it names what is happening in one specific relationship situation and gives one clear next step. It does not diagnose or treat. If you are in crisis or feel unsafe, contact a licensed professional or local emergency services.
General AI models are built to be neutral and balanced, so they tend to hedge, validate both sides, and end with a suggestion to speak to a professional. Kionese is built to commit: a structured intake asks for the specific details a general chat rarely asks for, and every read ends with a direct answer and one concrete next step.
On the Couples plan, each partner answers the same questions privately on their own device using a shared room code, without seeing the other's answers. Kionese then shows the specific points where your two accounts of the same relationship differ, and which difference carries the most weight. It never tells you to stay or to leave.
Your answers are used only to generate your guidance. Kionese does not share your personal information with third parties, and your data is never sold or used for advertising. Sessions are encrypted in transit over HTTPS, and you do not need to create an account or give your real name.
Anyone stuck in a specific relationship moment: a decision they cannot make, a conversation they cannot start, or a dynamic they cannot read clearly. It works best with a concrete situation rather than a general feeling. It also works for friendships, family, and workplace relationships, though romantic situations are the most common.
Included in both plans. One tap turns a finished session into a one-page brief you can bring to a therapist: your situation in your own words, the patterns you noticed, and what you want to work on. It describes only what you reported and never makes a diagnosis.
If you are in crisis, feel unsafe, or are dealing with persistent emotional distress, contact a licensed professional or local emergency services. Kionese can help you arrive at therapy clearer, but it is not a substitute for it.
Kionese is operated by Kionese LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. It launched in May 2026 and is fully bootstrapped. You can reach the team at hello@kionese.com.
Yes. Kionese is run as a social entrepreneurship initiative, and a share of its revenue funds healthcare and education. Kionese has no revenue yet, so there are no amounts or recipients to report yet; when there are, Kionese will publish them. A subscription is a purchase of the service, not a donation, and it is not tax-deductible.
Pre-therapy is the period that begins when one or both partners privately register that the relationship is in serious difficulty and ends when they first attend a professional session together. It is not a clinical diagnosis or a formal programme. It is the interval between noticing the problem and getting help.
Three things: separate confusion from conflict, write down what you each actually want changed, and decide whether you are going in to fix something specific or to be heard about something general. Most couples arrive with neither clear, which is why the first sessions get eaten by scene-setting instead of progress.
Expect questions, not a verdict. The clinician maps the relationship, safety, and goals. You do not have to over-prepare, but a little thought eases nerves, and a one-page brief helps you skip the recap. Nobody wins the first session; trying to win wastes the hour.
Try alone first, but only with a defined process, a deadline, and a diagnosis you both agree on. If you can name the actual problem in one sentence you both accept, you can work on it without a therapist. If you cannot get to that sentence, the inability itself is your answer.
Ask where the problem lives. Individual therapy treats patterns you carry into every relationship, such as anxiety, avoidance, or old history repeating. Couples therapy treats a specific loop that only exists between the two of you. Choosing by who is more upset is the wrong variable.
Timing matters more than wording. Raised during or right after a conflict, it sounds like an accusation. Raise it in a neutral moment, name what you have noticed rather than what is wrong with them, and frame it as information-gathering rather than diagnosis.
A two-person loop: one partner pursues a conversation, a change, or a verdict, and the other shuts down, delays, or leaves the room. The loop becomes the fight, not the topic on the table, and it escalates because each role confirms the other's worst story.
It works well for organizing scattered thoughts and rehearsing a hard conversation. It fails at telling you what to do, because it only knows the version of events you typed in, and it cannot catch your blind spots unless you ask it to argue against you. Treat it as a mirror, not a judge.
Choose the one that separates what you have observed from what you are guessing, shows recurring patterns, is honest about its limits, protects your privacy, and ends with a next step you can actually take. Be cautious of any tool that claims to diagnose your partner or replace professional help.
An AI read can name the fight and pick one next step when you cannot, or should not yet, pay for a licensed hour. It does a different job: couples therapy is live repair with a trained human across months. If you need that, book it. If you need clarity first, a private 10-minute read is the cheaper start.
Usually both, in different proportions than you assume. Overthinking rarely invents a problem from nothing; it amplifies a real signal you noticed once and dismissed too fast. The useful question is whether the signal underneath the loop is worth acting on, and that needs evidence outside the feeling.
Do not decide from last night or a friend vote. Score the last 90 days of behavior. Stay if repair still happens and both of you can change one thing. Leave if contempt, stonewalling, or a safety problem is the climate. If you only loop, you need one private read, not a longer list.
Before choosing words, get clear on three things: what you are actually trying to communicate, what reaction you are likely to get, and what outcome you are prepared for. Most people wait until unhappiness has become resentment, which is a harder problem, so the sooner and more specific, the better.
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