How Kept Plans recommends plans (and what it never uses)

When you open Kept Plans, some plans are shown first. We think you should know why. Recommendations shape what people do with their evenings, and that deserves to be explained plainly.

What we are trying to do

The goal is not to keep you scrolling. It is the opposite: to help you find one plan you will actually go to, quickly, so you can put your phone down. A good recommendation is one you join, show up to, and are glad you did.

What goes in

These are the things that decide which plans you see first:

• What you like. The activities you picked when you signed up, and the kinds of plans you join and keep.
• When you are free. The times you told us suit you, like weekday evenings or weekend mornings.
• Where you are. Your home area, rounded to a neighborhood, so nearby plans come first. Never your exact address.
• How you like to do things. Group size, level and vibe preferences, like small and low-key, or big and loud.
• Whether the plan has room. Plans you can actually join rank above full ones.
• How soon it is. A good plan tomorrow usually beats a good plan in three weeks.
• The host’s record. Plans from hosts whose plans reliably happen, and who get good feedback, rank higher.
• People you have met. If people you have kept plans with are going, you may see that plan sooner, with their first name. Familiar faces make a yes easier.

What we never use

Some things are off the table, by design:

• Your messages. Plan chats are for the plan. We do not read them to recommend anything.
• Your contacts. We do not upload your address book or suggest people from it.
• Your location history. We do not track where you go. Location is used for your rounded home area, and during a plan only if you turn it on.
• Photos and faces. We never rank people or plans by how anyone looks.
• Gender, and anything like it. There is no gender field on Kept Plans, so there is nothing to filter on.
• Your age, beyond one rule. We use your birth year to confirm you are 18 or over, and to show 21+ plans only to people who are 21 or over. That is all.
• Data from other apps or brokers. We do not buy data about you, and we never sell yours.

Promoted plans are always labelled

Hosts and venues can pay to promote a plan. When they do, the plan says “Promoted” every time it appears. Promotion can move a plan up; it cannot hide the label or change the plan’s details.

People suggestions

“People you might enjoy” works the same way. It looks at plans you both kept, activities you both like and times you are both free. It never uses your messages, contacts or location history. You can turn it off, and you can hide yourself from other people’s suggestions.

Where AI fits in

Some suggestions may use an AI model to match plans to what you described in your own words, like “something outdoorsy but not too sporty.” When that happens, we send only what the feature needs: your stated preferences and the plan details. Never your messages, payment details or exact location. Every AI feature has a plain version that uses no AI, AI features have strict spending limits, and you can switch them off in settings.

How to change what you see

• Update the activities you like and the times you are free, any time.
• Use filters to search directly by activity, day, group size or level.
• Hide a plan or a host you are not interested in.
• Turn off people suggestions and AI features in settings.
• Tap “I’m bored” to see what has room right now, ranked mostly by time and distance.

What recommendations cannot do

Recommendations only change the order you see things in. They cannot show you a plan you are not eligible for, like a 21+ plan before you are 21, or a plan a host has kept for club members. They cannot override a host’s level or size rules. And they cannot see into a plan’s chat, whether you joined it or not.

How we judge them

We measure recommendations by one thing: whether people went. Not clicks, not minutes spent in the app. If a change makes people scroll longer but join fewer plans that they actually keep, it is a worse change, and we take it back.

Why write this down

Because recommendations are powerful, and people deserve to know how the ones they see are made. If you think we got something wrong, or you would like to know more, tell us. The privacy policy covers the rest of how we handle your data.