You live your love life once.
Zilli runs it a zillion times.
Finding love isn’t always straightforward
— explore all the possibilities.
Meeting your person can be a winding road and there’s no clear
map for the path ahead. We all approach dating differently —
whether it’s in the number of people we try to meet, the number of
dates we go on, or how long we spend trying to make relationships
work.
While the little decisions we make affect the shape our love lives
take in the years ahead, it’s not always clear how the numbers pan
out.
Based on your answers to a few questions, Zilli simulates your
dating life forward one day at a time for 10 years, then does it again
and again to show you the range of how things might play out. Stop
guessing when it comes to love,
let Zilli do the math for you.
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Where is this headed?
The pipeline ends at a goal. For this first edition,
that goal is marriage — other endings come in a later printing.
The kids preset assumes a
healthy, uncomplicated path to a first child — in the model,
conception and pregnancy always succeed and only take time. Real life
is less obliging; those risks are deliberately not counted here.
What does your calendar hold?
The calendar is the scarce resource — every simulated
relationship competes for these slots.
How do strangers become dates?
The top of the funnel: how often an opener goes
anywhere, and how long a spark keeps without a plan.
How do the dates tend to go?
For each early date: the chance it leads to another,
and what the evening costs you.
How long is the long game?
Past the third date the calendar stops being the story
and time takes over. These chapters are measured in months.
How hard should we run the numbers?
Reading your futures…
The running estimate and its 95% band, drawn as futures
accumulate — the baseline fills toward the total.
When will you find your person?
Each simulated decade either arrives or it doesn't. The curve is the
share of futures that have arrived by each year; the shaded band is how
sure this many simulations let us be.
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One future, up close
How spread out are the outcomes?
No single future is the forecast. These are the distributions across
every simulated decade — time, money, and people met along the way.
Total spend per future
People met per future
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Where does the funnel narrow?
The average number of relationships, per simulated decade, that reached
each stage. The scale is logarithmic — every big step down is a
conversion worth a look.
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What if you don't get there?
View as table
Interrogate your assumptions
The chapters above show what your assumptions do.
The interrogation asks where they stick: it reads the baseline for
bottlenecks, then re-lives your decade under each plausible change
to see which one actually moves the odds.
Where it sticks
What would move it
Your decade, read back
The whole sitting in one closing chapter: what the
numbers said, where they stick, what would move them — and a card
to carry out.
I · The decade in numbers
II · Where it stalls
III · What would change it
IV · Keep the card
A pocket edition of the whole decade —
clean, unwatermarked, and your odds stay off it unless you say
otherwise.
Keep the card
A pocket edition of this page — your archetype,
your destination, the shape of your curve. Your odds stay off it
unless you choose otherwise.
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