Communication + relationship learning

Understand yourself. Practice what comes next.

SaySimons is a communication and relationship-learning platform. Simon guides you through structured learning, practice, and reflection, so the expectations that usually go unsaid become something you can actually work with.

Designed with neurodivergent adults in mind and open to everyone. Introductions to other people are optional.

Today with Simon, showing a real-world practice to write up and the next lesson to start
The Learning tab, showing a unit of lessons on conversation first steps
Simon and the loop

Simon guides the whole experience, and it starts with you.

Simon is the guide inside SaySimons. It helps you set a goal, works through the Learning material with you, responds inside practice conversations, and prompts you to reflect afterward. Five steps you can repeat as often as you like — all of it works on its own, whether or not you ever meet another member.

01Understand

See how you communicate

Use the Relationship Compass to reflect on how you communicate, handle conflict, make plans, seek reassurance, open up, and build closeness.

02Focus

Work on one thing

Choose one communication or relationship goal instead of trying to improve everything at once.

03Learn

Learn what usually goes unsaid

Work through structured Learning with Simon on the expectations, signals, and unwritten rules that rarely get explained anywhere.

04Practice

Practice before the moment

Rehearse realistic, fictional conversations connected to your focus and get feedback from Simon on how the exchange went.

05Apply

Take it into real life

Try a practical exercise outside the app, then privately reflect on what happened afterward and track it in your Practice History.

Simon is not a therapist, a counselor, or a clinician, and SaySimons does not diagnose or treat anything.

Relationship Compass

Get a clearer view of how you communicate.

The Relationship Compass turns your answers into a clear view of eight areas that can shape how you communicate and relate to other people.

It is based on what you tell SaySimons, and you can update your answers as you learn more about yourself.

The Relationship Compass, showing where you sit across eight areas Simon reads in you

Communication directness

How plainly you tend to say what you actually mean.

Emotional pacing

How quickly you tend to share what you are feeling.

Conflict

How you tend to handle disagreement when it shows up.

Reassurance

How much steadiness you look for between messages.

Social energy

How much time around other people tends to give or take.

Planning

How much structure you like around plans and timing.

Intentionality

How clear you tend to be about what you are looking for.

Closeness

How you build and hold closeness over time.

Your Compass is for reflection. It is not a personality test, a diagnosis, or an objective measure of who you are — and it is not a substitute for professional care.

Goals

You don’t need to fix everything. Pick one thing.

Choose a communication or relationship goal and it becomes the thing your learning and practice are built around. One concrete goal is easier to work on than a general wish to be better at all of this.

You can change it whenever it stops being the thing you actually need.

  • Saying what you mean
  • Setting a boundary clearly
  • Opening up at your own pace
  • Working through disagreement
  • Feeling steadier between messages
  • Turning a conversation into a plan
My Space, showing the current goal, where the Compass places you, and a record of past practices
Learning

The rules nobody says out loud, written down.

A lot of communication runs on expectations people are assumed to already know. Structured Learning works through those with Simon in plain language, one short lesson at a time, connected to the goal you chose so what you read has somewhere to go.

Lessons are grouped into units, you can stop partway through, and you can go back to one whenever you want it again.

A Learning lesson on how conversations take turns, one of four steps

Unwritten expectations

The social rules people are assumed to already know, written down plainly.

Reading ambiguity

What is reasonable to conclude from an unclear message, and what is not.

Boundaries

How to say what you do and do not want without rehearsing it for a week.

Misunderstandings

How they start, how to name one, and how to repair it afterward.

Uncertainty

What to do with the stretch of time when you genuinely do not know yet.

Being understood

Getting what you actually mean across, in your own way of speaking.

Learning is written to be practical rather than clinical. It is guidance you can use, not a diagnosis or a course of treatment.

Conversation Practice

Practice the conversation before you’re in it.

Conversation Practice is a private place to rehearse situations connected to the goal you are working on. Choose a realistic scenario, respond the way you actually would, and get feedback from Simon on how the exchange went and what you could consider trying differently.

The scenarios are fictional. They are separate from any real introductions, connections, and messages.

  • Starting a conversation
  • Asking for what you need
  • Being more direct
  • Naming a boundary
  • Navigating an unclear signal
  • Repairing a misunderstanding
Simon's take after a practice conversation, labelled as not a real person
Real-world Practice

Then try it for real.

SaySimons also gives you practical exercises to take outside the app — at work, with friends, with family, anywhere the skill you are building actually applies. Afterward, Simon asks four short questions so you can privately write up how it went.

  • What you did
  • What went well
  • What you might do differently
  • How the experience felt

No one else can read a write-up. Conversation Practice and Real-world Practice both live in your Practice History, so progress is something you can look back on rather than something you have to remember.

Introductions — optional

Meet people with more context.

For members who choose to meet other people, SaySimons includes optional Introductions. Profiles and questionnaire responses give you more context around a new connection, and Simon helps you prepare, reflect, and apply the communication skills you have been developing.

You do not need to participate in Introductions to use Simon, Learning, the Relationship Compass, goals, practice, or reflection. It is a setting, not the point of the app.

A limited set of optional introductions, each with the context Simon drew on
01

Entirely optional

Introductions are a setting you choose to turn on. Everything else in SaySimons works without them.

02

A limited set, not a feed

There is no unlimited catalog to browse. Participating members receive a limited set of introductions.

03

Open one and read it

Open an introduction to see the context around it: shared interests, communication preferences, and the questionnaire responses each of you chose to share.

04

Request introduction

When someone interests you, you choose Request introduction. If they independently request it too, a connection opens. If either person says no, that decision stays private.

Daily introduction availability and other feature limits may vary by plan.

Connections

Where the practice actually gets used.

If a connection does open, it is the beginning rather than the end. SaySimons helps organize what comes next as a connection develops, so the ambiguous middle part has some structure to it — and so the skills you have been practicing have somewhere real to land.

Simon can point out concrete patterns in the information available to SaySimons, but it does not claim to know what another person is thinking or feeling. You stay in control of your decisions, boundaries, and safety.

Simon answering questions about a connection, from the messages inside SaySimons
  • 01Messaging
  • 02Deciding on a next step
  • 03Making plans
  • 04Confirming a date
  • 05Reflecting afterward

Simon reads the conversation inside SaySimons — not your calls, not what you talked about in person, and not what either of you meant by any of it.

Why SaySimons exists

Communication is a skill. It can be learned.

SaySimons is built for adults who are tired of guessing at unwritten social expectations. It is designed with neurodivergent adults in mind, and it is open to anyone who wants a clearer, more structured way to communicate.

i.

Unwritten rules should not be a guessing game.

Communication runs on expectations almost nobody says out loud. SaySimons is built to add structure where there usually is none.

ii.

The most useful thing to work on is yourself.

Communication habits travel with you. They matter with friends, at work, with family, and in relationships — whether or not you ever meet anyone through SaySimons.

iii.

Practice belongs before the moment.

Most of the time you only get feedback once something has already gone sideways. SaySimons is built so you can rehearse first and reflect after.

What we stand for.

Clarity over confusion
One thing at a time over everything at once
Practice over performance
Restraint over engagement
The whole thing, in order
  • Understand how you communicate.
  • Choose something you want to work on.
  • Learn what usually goes unsaid.
  • Practice it before the moment.
  • Then take it into real life.
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Start with yourself.

Understand how you communicate, choose something to work on, and practice it before the moment.

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