Liam McGregor
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Matchbox

2024 – present
At any function, who is the one person you should meet before you leave?
With the team at Marriage Pact
Plate 1
A private-chef dinner party we hosted as part of our Matchbox Signature series, at a private members’ club called Maxwell in New York City.
Photograph by Liam McGregor, 8 October 2024.

In any room you walk into, there’s someone you should meet. Matchbox helps you find them. Hosts use Matchbox to match everyone in the room: they pick the questions, set time and the place, and the algorithm does the rest, ultimately revealing everyone’s match at the exact same time.

This was inspired by a common request we’ve received over the years: to let people run their own “mini marriage pacts”—for school clubs, professional conferences, friend hangouts, and even at weddings. It has earned a life of its own, having now matched 100,000s of people in 100 countries.

It’s earned 60 million views, and parties have stretched from private member’s clubs in New York to hotels in Pakistan, and from restaurants in Buenos Aires to the beaches of Tel Aviv. Matchbox parties have been featured on the TODAY show, CNN, Reuters, and the TED stage.

Plate 2
A 10 Chairs Social Club dinner party with Matchbox. This one in particular did 10 million views and launched both of our careers to new heights.
Photograph by Liam McGregor, 12 May 2024.
Plate 3
Cathy Hackl on the TED 2025 stage, describing the matchmaking experiment she ran using Matchbox during the conference.
Photograph, TED 2025.
Press
2026 Jul
For første gang ble konseptet Matchbox arrangert i Oslo tiktok
2026 Apr
Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life book
2026 Feb
Finding love the old-fashioned way at an 'AI matchmaking' party video
2026 Jan
Reinventing the singles mixer
2025 Oct
Olivia Hazlett Facilitates Jewish Gathering in DC and Beyond
2025 Feb
How MatchBox parties are taking dating from the apps to real life television
2025 Jan
Friends bring New York-style Matchbox dating to Dublin for Valentine’s Day
2024 Oct
Are Matchbox Parties the Solution to Dating App Fatigue? How It Went For Me
2024 Jul
Falling out of love with dating apps? Young singles switch to events, other algorithms, old tricks
2024 Jun
More Singapore singles seek ‘meaningful connections’ in dating events and shun matchmaking apps
+ 5 more articles
Viral

Matchbox is what we used to develop our playbook to consistently, systematically go viral. In the first two years, we drew 60 million views across Instagram and TikTok.

Selected posts
2025 Dec
@matchbox.party reel 2.4M views, 150k likes
What other people posted about it
2025 Aug
@matchmaking_irl reel 9.4M views, 396k likes
2025 Apr
@matchmaking_irl reel 4.2M views, 270k likes
2024 Aug
@tooomuchfoood reel 1.9M views, 52k likes
2025 Mar
@matchmaking_irl reel 1.5M views, 83k likes
Notes
2026 Apr
A peek into our relationship science research
2026 Jan
The way you design your product can change how attractive matches are
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