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Founder-Led Product Development · 2014–2026

pagarii

A verified, video-first dating platform built on one honest introduction a day — in active development and pre-launch, currently in a waitlist phase ahead of the Pittsburgh launch.

Danita Walton — founder, product manager, and delivery lead, building pagarii independently end-to-end: she owns the spec, the review pipeline, and the agents building it, not just a supporting role on someone else's product. Marketing site · conversational onboarding · daily-loop product.

Every other dating app optimizes for more — more swipes, more matches, more time in-app. pagarii is built on the opposite bet: one verified, chance-based intro a day, closed out by a real meeting.


The daily loop, live

The Discover feed in actual use.

A short recording of the live Discover feed — member cards and the countdown to today's intro.

The approach

Governed delivery: documentation first, review gates always.

01

Documentation is the source of truth

378 versioned documents govern what gets built; nothing ships that contradicts canon.

02

Cross-model review gates every build item

A Claude validation pass plus an independent OpenAI technical review, with a separate design/UX lane, before implementation.

03

Parallel AI agents, each in its own lane

Build, research, and design agents merged back into canon under her direction.

04

A documented consent gate governs research use

A 2016 research archive re-verified in 2026 across 25 subjects; 18 cleared for reuse, 7 excluded pending re-consent.

378
Versioned spec & governance docs
25
Research subjects (2016 corpus)
58
Database migrations
20+
Onboarding screens
What's built

From marketing site to daily loop, one continuous thread.

Conversational onboarding chat
Daily intro reveal
Awakened Discover feed
pagarii homepage on mobile

Conversational onboarding · the daily intro reveal · the awakened Discover feed · the homepage.

pagarii homepage on desktop — concierge-first marketing site with chatbot hero

The live pre-launch marketing site on desktop.

How it's built

A spec repo, a review pipeline, and agents in parallel.

Source of truth

A 378-document versioned spec repo as single source of truth.

Review pipeline

A Claude + OpenAI cross-model review pipeline gating every build item.

Delivery

Claude Code agents running in parallel across four repositories, merged back into canon under her direction.

Research stack

Twelve Labs and Whisper in the cloud; fully local py-feat/MediaPipe pipelines so no footage leaves her machine.

Founder-Led DevelopmentProduct Ownership AI-Governed DeliveryCross-Model Review Research & Consent DesignDesign Systems Backend & Migrations

pagarii is currently in progress and not yet launched — the site shown is a live pre-launch waitlist build, not a finished public product.