Gale–Shapley algorithm

[laughs] You rate your date like a Grab driver.

The matching uses the Gale-Shapley algorithm.

Lloyd Shapley shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics for it.

Same family of maths used to match junior doctors to hospitals in the US and kids to school, so your children can now experience a ballot before they even exist.

Users verify themselves through a digital ID system, answer questions about their interests and values, and then receive just one match at a time.

Behind that match is the Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Algorithm, the same framework used to match medical residents with hospitals, which won a 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics.

The goal is to create stable pairings, avoiding a scenario where two people would both rather ditch their assigned partners for each other.

Critics say that the whole thing feels a little dystopian.