Ranji Mercado

Founder of AI Girlfriend Coach. Researching AI companions, relationships, and the businesses behind them.

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AI Girlfriend Coach
Independent research into AI companions, human-AI relationships, and the companies building them.
Active · 2025 – present

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Research, analysis, and things I've learned while building.

AI Companions and Modern Relationships: What 1,709 U.S. Adults Told Usaigirlfriend.coach

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I Paid for 2,150 Survey Responses. Then I Threw 441 of Them Away.

I posted a boring intro in a 456k-person community. One line got all the reaction

Everyone's adding llms.txt. Almost nothing is reading it.

I write SaaS reviews on a small blog, and I kept running into the same annoying problem

Why does the second search result exist? The question that decides what I have AI write

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