Closer helps couples build extraordinary relationships

The quality of your relationship is the quality of your life.

It predicts how long you’ll live, how healthy you’ll be, and how happy you’ll feel along the way.

Footnote to the Harvard Study of Adult Development

Research-backed programs designed for every stage of your relationship

  • Extraordinary relationships don’t happen by default — they’re designed. Architect gives couples the space and structure to step back from daily life and purposefully design their relationship. Depending on what stage you’re in, you’ll create shared mission and values, align on money, create a marriage contract, and/or explore parenting philosophies. Future-proof your relationship by co-creating your ideal partnership instead of drifting into patterns you inherited.

  • Without a map, couples drift. We repeat old patterns, hide behind logistics, and slowly lose the spark that brought us together. Deepen your understanding of the three entities in your relationship: you, your partner and who you are as couple across the 25 most important elements of relationship science. 

    • Raise awareness of the core personality traits you bring to the relationship—and the alchemy of your two individual styles together—that relationship scientists have found to be the most impactful and predictive of relationship satisfaction. Celebrate areas of alignment and navigate where misalignment creates relationship stressors.

    • Explore your relationship culture, or who you are together day to day. Focus will be on the foundational behavior patterns that make you guys love on your relationship + hold you back from reaching your full potential.

    • Analyze your default communication patterns. See where you're thriving and where you're falling into communication pattern traps that are highly predictive (81%+) of a future separation. Upskill how you express love, frustration and fight.

  • Like meditation for your mind or yoga for your body, relationship check-ins create a practice around growing closer to your partner, whether you are newly in love or have been together for decades. They help you zoom out, stay aligned, discuss little frictions before they become big problems, and ground your relationship in gratitude.

Your relationship won’t feel like hard work if you do the right work

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Katherine Krug is Silicon Valley’s Relationship Designer, bringing years of experience translating relationship science into practical, real-life tools. Whether you’re dating, engaged, or decades in, she’ll help you:

  • Get clear on your shared vision and values.

  • Spot blind spots and patterns that may be holding you back.

  • Learn proven frameworks for communication, conflict, and connection.

  • Turn everyday logistics (money, parenting, chores) into sources of alignment, not tension.

Sessions are structured, evidence-based, and deeply human. Think of it as a design sprint for your love life — giving you clarity, alignment, and the change to grow closer.

Built from relationship science

Built from 10,000+ pages of relationship research and proven with real couples

  • “Deep Dates was a game-changer. We learned things about each other we never would have discovered on our own.”

    Aida + Jeff, New York

  • "We’d been together for 12 years and thought we knew each other inside out — until our Design Day. It gave us language for things we’d never talked about and clarity on what we both really wanted for the next chapter. We left feeling EXCITED about your future and more like a team than we had in years."

    Maya & Daniel, married 8 years

  • "Quarterly check-ins have transformed our relationship. They are simple but so shockingly powerful. We tackle issues when they are cold instead of hot, have a chance to dream together and leave feeling SO connected and aligned."

    George and Lindsay, together 7 years

  • "We've learned core insights about our relationship that have changed everything. Equally important, we now have language to talk about our problems in a way that keep us on the same team.

    Leah & Marcus, married 8 years