Love By Design
Relationship Intelligence
for the New Era of Love
LACE™ — Love Alignment & Compatibility Engine
Meeting someone creates a possibility. Understanding the connection asks more of us. LACE™ provides structured, explainable insight across Chemistry, Compatibility, and Conscious Alignment, helping people and relationship professionals explore connection with greater clarity. Technology provides structure. People interpret, experience, and choose.
The Problem
An introduction is a beginning. Understanding the connection is different work.
Profiles, preferences, and matching systems can help people identify someone they may want to meet. They cannot, on their own, establish how a relationship will function or whether two people want to build the same life.
That understanding develops through conversation, observation, lived experience, and discernment. LACE™ adds structured insight to support that process.
"Are we aligned?"
LACE™ helps people explore that question through structured, explainable relationship indicators. It offers another lens for reflection, not a verdict about the relationship.
LACE™ brings structured connection insight into personal experiences and professional practice, supporting better questions, clearer conversations, and more considered decisions.
Human Design provides a reflective lens. Relationship Intelligence guides how the information is interpreted and used.
Three layers of insight. Human judgment at the centre.
WHAT LACE DOES
LACE™ translates Human Design relationship patterns into structured indicators related to Chemistry, Compatibility, and Conscious Alignment. These indicators are intended to be explored alongside behaviour, communication, context, and lived experience.
Human Design is used here as a reflective framework, not established science.
Chemistry
The Spark
Explores patterns of attraction and activation through a Human Design lens. These indicators offer a starting point for reflection on the chemistry people actually experience.
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Compatibility
THE FUNCTIONAL FIT
Offers a reflective view of interaction patterns and potential friction. Use these insights to inform questions about communication, emotional needs, and decision-making, then compare them with everyday experience.
Conscious Alignment
THE SHARED DIRECTION
Offers structured indicators for reflecting on connection and shared direction. Whether values, choices, and future intentions genuinely align must be explored through conversation and demonstrated over time.
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The Output
A LACE Alignment Index and layered Love Alignment Report bring structured scores and explanations into one view. Designed to support reflection, clearer conversations, and more informed personal or professional judgment.
LACE Alignment Index
A summary of indicators within LACE’s interpretive model. The score is not a percentage chance of compatibility or relationship success.
Client-Facing Category
High Alignment, Strong Potential, Growth Required, or Low Alignment.
Chemistry Label
Intense Chemistry, Magnetic Chemistry, Resonant Chemistry, Subtle Chemistry, Initial Spark, or Low Chemistry Signal.
Interpretive Narrative
Premium written analysis across all three layers in clear, user-facing language.
Love Language Compatibility
Pattern Signal Detection
Based on the 10 Love Gates framework from The New Love Languages.
Strong attraction with weak alignment, supportive friendship patterns, high-alignment friction, same-angle different-destination dynamics.
Dynamic Context Line
A single sentence personalized to each pair that explains the story behind the score.
Example: "Conscious Alignment is the strongest indicator in this report. Use it as an invitation to explore whether your values, choices, and direction align in lived experience. The score begins the conversation. It does not settle the question."
How Integration Works
Four pathways.
One engine.
LACE is available through four integration pathways depending on your platform's technical architecture and product goals.
API Licensing
Embed LACE™ into your platform and generate alignment scores and full Love Alignment Reports through a private API. Available at multiple tiers to match your volume and integration depth.
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Per-Report Partnership
Offer Love Alignment Reports as a premium upsell or paid feature. Wholesale pricing per report with revenue share available for qualifying platforms.
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Strategic Platform Integration
Position LACE™ as a core intelligence layer inside your product. Custom integration, co-marketing rights, and commercial terms tailored to the partnership.
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Professional Licensing
For matchmakers, coaches, and boutique agencies who want structured relationship intelligence inside their client process. Monthly report allowance included.
Integration is designed to be clean, private, and protected. User data is encrypted. Reports are individual. The engine runs in the background.
LACE™ is currently in integration discussions with select dating and relationship platforms and is available for a limited number of strategic partnerships.
Partnerships are considered on the basis of product fit, audience alignment, and commercial terms. Not every integration request will be accepted.
All pricing is in USD. Licensing terms, usage scope, attribution requirements, overage rates, and commercial conditions are defined in a License Addendum specific to each partnership. Attribution required on all reports unless otherwise agreed in writing. Prices are subject to change for new agreements.
Structured insight. Human-led application.
Currently in Active Use
Where We Are
LACE™ provides connection insight within MRI and supports curated pairing through LACE™ Events.
Further applications include human-led matchmaking, coaching, dating platforms, and relationship growth. These are potential applications, not a claim that every integration is already live.
The purpose remains consistent: provide structured insight while preserving autonomy, context, and human judgment.
Relationship intelligence layers analyzed per connection
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10+
Years of research at the intersection of HD and relationship psychology
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Active pilot integration with a dating platform
Couple type combinations the engine can analyze
Built from lived truth and structured design
About the Engine
LACE™ was created by Joan Nwosu, Founder of Love By Design and Conscious Love Architect. Joan is the author of The New Love Languages, launching November 2026, which introduces the Love Gates framework that informs part of the LACE™ methodology.
LACE™ is a proprietary system. The algorithm, scoring rubric, and methodology are proprietary and protected as confidential trade secrets. Licensing provides approved usage rights only and does not transfer ownership of the algorithm, methodology, source logic, or underlying intellectual property.
The engine is currently active and available for integration through API licensing, per-report partnerships, and strategic platform arrangements.
The next era of love will be built on relationship intelligence.
The Next Frontier
If you are building a platform for people who want more than a match, LACE™ is the intelligence layer your product is missing. Let's talk about what integration looks like for your specific context.
JOAN NWOSU
Pioneer of Relationship Intelligence. Author. Creator of LACE™
2026 Joan Nwosu. All rights reserved.