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Verify & build
Confirm your number, pass ID and photo checks, then build a profile with prompts and habits.
Safe. Compatible. Hyper-local.
Verified.
Carrier lookup, Stripe Identity, and photo-safety AI keep bots, burners, and catfish out before they reach your feed.
Compatible.
A granular X-ray scores every match from 35% to 99% across logistics, lifestyle, and habits, so you spot dealbreakers instantly.
Local.
We lock to one neighborhood at a time. Dense, nearby matches instead of a thin, city-wide feed of strangers.
Set up once. Match with intention.
Built around the way you live, so onboarding captures what actually matters before you start matching.
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Strong fitLogistics · Budget & move-in overlap
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Lifestyle · Social tempo, guests, noise
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Habits · Cleaning, dishes, thermostat
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Strengths & friction
✓ Budgets within $150✓ Both early risers✓ Same move-in window! You host guests more often
See exactly why you match, before you message
Jilo's compatibility X-ray scores every profile across four pillars. It surfaces the real reasons you'd click, plus the friction points worth knowing, so you skip the small talk and the dealbreakers.
- Budget overlap, move-in timing, and lease length, weighted automatically
- Sleep schedules, noise tolerance, guests, and partner-stayover policies
- Day-to-day habits: cleanliness, dishes, chores, and thermostat wars
- Dealbreakers like smoking or pets deduct 13% from the score instantly
Built for every kind of NYC search
Whether you're searching solo, with someone, or filling an open room, Jilo adapts to the way you're moving.
Solo seekers
Young professionals, students, and grads finding a roommate to split a lease, matched on what actually matters.
Co-searching pairs
Partners or friends moving together. Link accounts, swipe as a duo, keep separate budgets and neighborhoods.
Room fillers
Already hold a lease with an open room? Post a listing with verified photos and meet vetted, compatible renters.
Liked your prompt
“Best taco spot in Bushwick?” okay, this is the real test 🌮
Like the detail, not just the face
Send a house to like a specific photo, prompt, or habit and add an opener. This Hinge-style liking experience is built for roommates, so first contact starts with something real instead of a flat hello.
- React to photos, prompts, verifications, or lifestyle traits
- Attach a natural icebreaker tied to what you liked
- No more dead chats. Every match has context
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Linked, swiping as a pair
Swipe together, move in together
Co-searching makes it easy to search with a partner or friend. Link accounts with a JILO-XXXX code and browse as a pair, with shared swiping but separate budgets and neighborhood lists.
- Link two profiles during onboarding in seconds
- Find a third roommate, or a unit for the two of you
- Keep individual budgets while matching as a duo
Morning
Quiet coffee before a 9am standup, headphones in, lights low.
Afternoon
Both work from home, but on opposite ends of the apartment.
Evening
Cooks most nights, friends over on weekends, in bed by 11.
Picture the co-living, not the checklist
Jilo turns lifestyle answers into a day-in-the-life narrative across morning, afternoon, and night, so you can feel the fit instead of decoding data points.
- Generated from sleep schedule, work style, and noise level
- Honest about quiet mornings vs. social evenings
- Plain prose, not another row of checkmarks
From download to lease, in four moves
Here's how it works: a focused, intentional flow keeps the feed dense, the matches real, and your inbox sane.
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Get your X-ray
Browse a daily match plus a feed sorted by compatibility and trust, every card scored for you.
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Send a house
Like a specific photo, prompt, or habit and open with a real icebreaker instead of a flat hello.
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Confirm the fit
Chat with up to 5 active matches, tour the place, then confirm fit or decline to free a slot.
A dense, scam-free marketplace by design
Trust and safety are built into Jilo. NYC roommate hunting is full of fakes, bots, and ghosting, so Jilo replaces them with hard trust gates and intentional messaging that keep the people you see real and reachable.
Carrier lookup
Every number is checked against carrier data to block VOIP and landline burner accounts before they ever reach the feed.
Stripe Identity
Government-ID verification is required before posting a listing or sending a first message, so the person you match is the person you meet.
Photo safety AI
Automated Google Vision screening flags unsafe or misleading photos, keeping profiles authentic and the marketplace clean.
5-chat limit
Active conversations are capped at five. Confirm a fit or decline to open the next, with no graveyards of dead chats.
Built by roommates,for better roommates
Founded at Penn State by Parth and Arnav, Jilo started when two college friends saw how frustrating it was to find someone you could actually live with. We started Jilo to make roommate searching feel intentional, transparent, and human.
Co-founder & CTO
Parth
Parth leads everything technical at Jilo, from product architecture and app development to the matching experience that helps people find compatible roommates.
Product engineeringTechnical strategyMatching experience
Co-founder & CEO
Arnav
Arnav leads Jilo’s business growth and marketing, focused on building the community, reaching new users, and turning a strong product into a lasting company.
Business growthMarketingCommunity building
Two different strengths, one shared mission
Parth builds the technology. Arnav grows the business. Together, we’re creating a better way for people to find roommates they can genuinely feel at home with.
Questions, answered
Find answers to common questions about matching, verification, availability, and early access.
Jilo is launching in Bushwick, Brooklyn first. We lock to one neighborhood at a time so the match pool stays dense, meaning more real, nearby roommates instead of a thin city-wide feed. More NYC neighborhoods follow.
Every match is scored from 35% to 99% across four pillars: logistics, lifestyle, habits, and trust signals. We weigh budget overlap, move-in timing, sleep schedules, noise, guests, cleanliness, and more. Violating a stated dealbreaker (like smoking or pets) deducts 13% from the score immediately.
Three gates: carrier lookup blocks VOIP and landline numbers, Stripe Identity verifies a government ID, and Google Vision screens photos for safety. ID verification is required before you can post a listing or send a first message.
You can have up to five active conversations at once. To start a new one, you confirm a fit or decline an existing match. It keeps conversations intentional and prevents the ghost-town inbox of typical swiping apps.
Yes. Co-searching links two accounts with a JILO-XXXX friend code. You swipe and match together while keeping separate budgets and neighborhood lists, whether you want a third roommate or a place for the two of you.
Getting matched and verified is free. We will share details on any premium features closer to launch, and early-access members hear first.
Ready to find your person?
Join the early-access list. We'll email you when matching goes live in Bushwick, with no spam, just your invite.
Launching first in Bushwick · 18+ · ID-verified community