We're fixing how groups decide where to go.
Every group night out starts the same way. Someone posts in the group chat. A few venue suggestions appear. Reactions are vague, nobody wants to commit, and an hour later the conversation has died. The night doesn't happen, or it happens somewhere nobody really wanted to go. It's the same broken process, every time.
The insight behind Nightwise is simple: AI can mediate group preferences better than any group chat. When everyone's preferences are collected privately and weighed fairly — without social pressure, without anchoring to the first suggestion — groups make better decisions. Faster. And they actually go out.
The vision is a world where group social planning is frictionless. Where Nightwise becomes the default tool that friend groups reach for when they want to go out together — not just for nightlife, but for any occasion that requires coordinating what a group of people actually wants.
Meet the founder
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Ben Hosking
Founder
University of York graduate. London-based. Building Nightwise to solve the problem every friend group has — deciding where to go without the drama. Previously worked in [Ben to fill in].
Started Nightwise after one too many nights spent arguing in the group chat instead of actually going out.
Meet NOX
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NOX is the AI at the heart of Nightwise. A witty, knowledgeable nightlife guide who mediates group decisions without the drama. NOX collects everyone's preferences privately, weighs them fairly, and finds venues that actually work for the whole group. Think of NOX as the friend who always knows where to go — except NOX actually checks the data.
The vision
Nightwise starts with nights out. But the way groups make decisions together is broken everywhere — not just nightlife. We're starting where the problem is most fun to solve. What comes next is bigger.