Frequently Asked Questions

CLEAR ANSWERS ABOUT SHADCHAN AI

Understand how SAI Numbers work, what the compatibility report includes, how the methodology is structured, and how the analysis should be used in serious shidduch review.

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About the Service

What ShadchanAI is, why it exists, and how it supports the shidduch process alongside human judgment.

What is ShadchanAI?+

ShadchanAI is a structured compatibility intelligence tool for serious shidduch review. It helps move the process beyond surface information by creating a deeper profile, issuing a reusable SAI Number, and generating a compatibility report when two completed profiles are compared.

The purpose is to give singles, parents, shadchanim, rabbanim, and trusted advisors better information earlier in the process.

Why was ShadchanAI created?+

ShadchanAI was created as a proactive response to 25 years of reactive involvement in trying to help address the ongoing shidduch crisis and the growing divorce crisis.

Too often, important compatibility questions are only discovered after significant time, emotion, and family involvement have already been invested. ShadchanAI is designed to bring better information earlier, before confusion has to be repaired later.

What problem is ShadchanAI trying to solve?+

A traditional shidduch resume can show background, age, school, family, basic hashkafah, and general goals. Those details matter, and ShadchanAI adds how two people communicate under pressure, handle conflict, build trust, need reassurance, respond to stress, and want to structure a home.

ShadchanAI helps turn a basic shidduch resume into structured compatibility intelligence, so serious questions can be reviewed earlier and more clearly.

Who the Service Is For

ShadchanAI is built for people involved in serious shidduch decisions who want deeper compatibility clarity.

Who can use ShadchanAI?+

ShadchanAI can be used by singles, parents, shadchanim, rabbanim, counselors, therapists, trusted advisors, or others involved in reviewing a serious proposed shidduch.

The system is most useful when the people involved want more than surface information and need structured insight into compatibility, communication, expectations, and practical fit.

Can parents use ShadchanAI?+

Yes. Parents can use ShadchanAI to better understand important compatibility areas with more structure, sensitivity, and clarity.

The report can help parents identify what should be discussed, what appears aligned, and what may need guidance from a rav, shadchan, or trusted advisor.

Can shadchanim use ShadchanAI?+

Yes. ShadchanAI can help shadchanim review proposed shidduchim with deeper visibility into alignment, concerns, and practical discussion points.

It gives the shadchan a stronger information layer when evaluating whether a proposed direction is worth exploring further.

Can rabbanim or advisors use the report?+

Yes. Rabbanim and trusted advisors can use the report as a structured decision-support tool when guidance requires more than surface information. The report is designed to support human judgment.

How It Works

From guided intake to SAI Number to compatibility report.

How do I use the service?+

A user completes a guided intake that builds a deeper profile. Once the profile is complete, ShadchanAI issues a unique SAI Number.

When two completed profiles are available, ShadchanAI can compare them and generate a private compatibility report focused on long-term marriage fit, alignment, clarification areas, and practical guidance.

What is an SAI Number?+

An SAI Number is a unique number issued after a person completes the guided intake. It represents a completed ShadchanAI profile and allows that profile to be used for compatibility review.

The value of the SAI Number is that it is reusable. A person can complete the intake once and use the SAI Number again whenever a serious proposed shidduch needs deeper compatibility clarity.

What does the guided intake collect?+

The guided intake collects approximately 180 structured data points. These data points help ShadchanAI understand how a person thinks, communicates, bonds, handles pressure, approaches responsibility, builds a home, and prepares for marriage.

Areas covered include personality and temperament, cognitive style, emotional profile, attachment and bonding style, love and connection style, communication, conflict and repair, values, hashkafah, marriage vision, family expectations, lifestyle, stress response, decision readiness, and dealbreakers.

What does 11+ analysis modalities mean?+

It means ShadchanAI reviews a profile through multiple analytical lenses rather than relying on one narrow test, category, or score.

These modalities help the system evaluate compatibility from several directions, including personality patterns, emotional rhythm, relationship dynamics, practical expectations, religious direction, conflict repair, life structure, and supportive profile layers.

What are the 38 relationship dimensions?+

The 38 relationship dimensions are the deeper areas reviewed inside the compatibility report. They give the report more detail than a simple overall score.

These dimensions organize the match into category-level and subcategory-level analysis, including home-building alignment, relational operating system, life structure fit, preference and practical fit, personality layers, strengths, challenges, and conflict repair guidance.

Can I use ShadchanAI if I only have one SAI Number?+

One SAI Number represents one completed profile, and a compatibility comparison requires two completed profiles.

A person can create their own SAI Number first, then use it later when another completed profile is available for comparison.

What happens if one or both profiles are incomplete?+

The report is strongest when both profiles are complete and accurate. If important information is missing, the report may provide less detail or lower confidence in certain areas.

The quality of the output depends on the quality, accuracy, and completeness of the information submitted.

What the Report Means

How to understand the compatibility report and what role it should play in decision-making.

What does the compatibility report include?+

The report includes an overall compatibility score, confidence score, shidduch block status, category summary, detailed category breakdown, top strengths, top potential challenges, conflict repair guidance, and practical discussion points.

It is designed to show both the big picture and the details, so the people involved can understand what appears strong, what needs clarification, and what should be discussed before moving further.

What is a Shidduch Block?+

A Shidduch Block is a serious concern that may make the proposed shidduch structurally difficult, practically unworkable, or in need of significant clarification before moving forward.

Not every concern is a block. Some concerns are manageable with discussion, maturity, guidance, or better expectations. The report distinguishes between serious blockers and areas that simply need review.

What is the category summary?+

The category summary gives a high-level view of the major compatibility areas, including home-building alignment, relational operating system, life structure fit, preference and practical fit, and personality and pattern fit.

It helps users quickly see where the proposed shidduch appears strongest and where deeper review is needed.

What is the detailed category breakdown?+

The detailed category breakdown comes after the category summary. It provides deeper subcategory-level analysis, practical explanations, strengths, concern areas, clarification points, and a summary judgment about whether the proposed shidduch appears structurally viable, emotionally containable, and practically livable.

Why do strengths and challenges appear later in the report?+

The report first builds the analytical foundation with scores, blocker status, category summary, and detailed category breakdown. After that, it summarizes top strengths and top potential challenges.

This order helps ensure that the strengths and challenges are grounded in the full analysis, not presented as quick impressions.

What is conflict repair guidance?+

Conflict repair guidance explains what tension patterns may arise, what each person may need during disagreement, which patterns should be avoided, and what repair approach may work best.

Compatibility is not only about whether two people agree. It is also about how they handle tension, misunderstanding, pressure, apology, and repair.

Does ShadchanAI decide whether two people should get married?+

No. ShadchanAI is a decision-support tool meant to inform judgment. Decisions remain with the individuals involved and, where relevant, their trusted advisors.

Should the report be treated as final truth?+

The report should be treated as analytical guidance. Human judgment, real-world interaction, personal knowledge, references, due diligence, and trusted guidance still matter.

Does the platform guarantee a successful marriage?+

No. The platform provides analysis, not guarantees. Real marriage also depends on maturity, effort, communication, family dynamics, timing, middos, and guidance.

Analysis and Methodology

How ShadchanAI approaches compatibility analysis while protecting proprietary internal methodology.

How does ShadchanAI analyze compatibility?+

ShadchanAI uses a proprietary analysis framework to evaluate alignment across approximately 180 structured data points, 11+ analysis modalities, and 38 relationship dimensions.

The system looks beyond surface-level similarity and evaluates whether a proposed shidduch appears workable across home-building alignment, relationship dynamics, life structure, practical fit, and personality layers.

What types of areas does the methodology review?+

The analysis reviews personality and temperament, cognitive style, emotional profile, attachment and bonding style, love and connection style, communication style, conflict and repair style, values and motivations, hashkafah and religious direction, marriage vision, family and children expectations, lifestyle compatibility, preference fit, change and spontaneity fit, stress response, decision readiness, and dealbreakers or shidduch blocks.

Where does ShadchanAI get its guidance from?+

ShadchanAI is built around curated internal knowledge bases designed specifically for frum marriage-focused compatibility analysis.

Do you disclose your full algorithm or internal methodology?+

No. The full algorithm, weighting, and internal methodology are proprietary and confidential. The report explains its practical reasoning, while the internal analytical architecture stays private.

Are the analysis modalities fixed, or do they change over time?+

They can be refined and expanded over time. ShadchanAI is designed as an evolving analytical platform, and the system is regularly improved to make reports more thoughtful, precise, and useful.

Do I have to blindly trust the report?+

No. The report explains its reasoning in practical terms. It highlights strengths, concerns, category-level scores, detailed subcategory review, and the reasoning behind key conclusions.

Does the report only show positives?+

The report is designed to be balanced and realistic. It highlights strengths, and it also identifies risks, tension areas, meaningful concerns, and potential shidduch blocks where they exist.

Is the report just a score?+

Scores are one part of the output. The report also includes structured analysis, explanations, practical reasoning, strengths, challenges, repair guidance, and discussion points.

Privacy and Confidentiality

How ShadchanAI handles private information.

Do you share anyone's private information?+

No. ShadchanAI does not provide one user with another person's private information. The purpose of the system is to generate structured compatibility guidance.

Do you maintain a public database of people for browsing?+

No. SAI Numbers are used to support compatibility review between completed profiles. They are not used to browse or search for candidates.

Can I keep the written findings of my reports private?+

Yes. A member can choose a scores-only privacy setting. When another person views a report involving that member, the report can show the compatibility scores and short summary while keeping the written dimension findings, personality and pattern explanations, astrology and numerology explanations, and AI narrative private.

Written findings are not generated for that report until the member specifically approves the person requesting them. An approval applies only to that approved person, not to everyone. A request can remain pending or be declined, and an approval can later be revoked from Settings.

What happens when someone requests access to a private report?+

The member who selected scores-only privacy receives the request in the app and can approve or decline it. Until approval is given, the requester continues to see the scores-only version. If access is approved, the written findings and AI narrative are prepared for that specific approved viewer.

How are sensitive areas handled?+

Sensitive areas are handled carefully. Preference-related information is summarized broadly and discreetly, with a focus on whether the proposed shidduch is practically workable without exposing unnecessary personal detail.

Accuracy, Verification, and Limitations

What the platform can and cannot verify, and when users should seek outside guidance.

Do you verify that the information in the profiles is true?+

The platform analyzes the information provided. It does not independently verify every fact, statement, or representation in a submitted profile.

References, conversations, real-world observation, and trusted human guidance remain important.

Is this a background check?+

No. ShadchanAI is a compatibility analysis tool, not a background check, identity verification, or investigative service.

Is this legal advice, therapy, or rabbinic guidance?+

No. The platform provides compatibility analysis. It does not provide legal advice, mental health treatment, therapeutic counseling, or halachic rulings.

Can the platform miss something important?+

Yes. Like any analytical tool, it has limitations. The report should be used thoughtfully together with human judgment, real-world due diligence, and trusted guidance.

How should the report be used responsibly?+

The report should be used to sharpen questions, clarify important issues, identify areas of alignment, surface concerns, and support guidance from the people involved.

ShadchanAI provides structured compatibility guidance. It does not replace personal judgment, references, rabbinic guidance, professional advice, or careful human evaluation.