Life doesn’t happen one Milestone at a time.
You can start a new job and become a parent.
Move somewhere new and rethink your career.
Feel ambitious and completely burned out.
Grow, celebrate, question, start over, sometimes all at once.
That’s real life. It blends.
Find people who understand the parts of life you’re navigating now, and the places where they overlap.
Your Milestones make up your experience.
Their Milestones make up theirs.
Somewhere in the overlap, you find each other.
The best connections often start with “same here.”
Or, around here: “Me as well.”
Someone else started the new job.
Someone else moved somewhere they know no one.
Someone else is figuring out parenthood and a career at the same time.
Someone else is ready for a change but has no idea what comes next.
With aswell, those people are easier to find.
Not because you need to have everything in common. Just enough to say, “Oh. You too?”
Find people through what life looks like right now.
Connect through the moments and changes that shape your work, life and everything between.
Step 1
Tell us what you're navigating.
Create your profile and choose the Milestones that feel relevant right now. Pick one. Pick five. Change them whenever life changes.
Step 2
See where you overlap.
Your Milestones help aswell surface people, conversations and communities that make sense for you, nearby, in your industry or across the wider community.
Step 3
Find your “as well” people.
Discover people who are navigating something you are, too. Sometimes you'll share one Milestone. Sometimes your lives will overlap in ways you didn't expect.
Step 4
Turn common ground into real connection.
Talk in the feed, join a Collective, grab coffee, go to a Gathering or simply keep showing up.
Because finding someone you relate to is only the beginning.
Whatever you’re in, you don’t have to be the only one in it.
Your Milestones connect you with people in a similar season of life.
Starting a new job
First job out of school
Career change
First-time manager
Preparing for a baby
Growing our family
Work stress
Burnout reset
Your Milestones change as life does.
No two lives blend the same way.
One Milestone is only part of the picture.
Your experience might be a new role + working parent + new city. Someone else might be career change + caregiving + burnout reset. And then you find the place where your lives overlap.
That overlap is where aswell begins.
Every Milestone adds another layer to your experience and another way to find someone who gets a piece of it.
Find your people through every Milestone.
Collectives
Smaller communities built around what you share.
Collectives bring together people with a shared Milestone, place, schedule or experience, making it easier to see familiar names, have better conversations and actually get to know one another.
Shared experiences can introduce you. Collectives help turn that recognition into relationship.
Specific enough to have something in common. Small enough to actually connect.
Capped at
30 members
Launches at
2 interested
Hosted by
Trusted members
Paused after
45-60 quiet days
HOW COLLECTIVES WORK
Small groups that stay personal.
Find a Collective that fits.
Join people navigating something similar.
Suggest what you need.
Can't find it? Tell us what kind of connection you're looking for.
Keep showing up.
Collectives stay intentionally small so conversations can become relationships.
Forming
Gathering the first 2 members. Until then, it stays as an interest list.
Active
The Collective is live, hosted and members are showing up.
Full
Capped at 30. More interest starts another similar Collective.
Paused
Quiet for 45-60 days. Paused Collectives step out of discovery until activity returns.
Your people, not the whole internet.
You don’t need another endless feed of people you don’t know talking about things you don’t care about. With aswell, conversations are organized around the Milestones and Collectives that matter to you.
Ask the question.
Share the small win.
Say the thing you’ve been wondering if anyone else feels.
And hear: “Me as well.”
Milestone feed
Starting a New Role
Maya · 2h
AskFirst week in and I'm still figuring out when to speak up, when to listen and how to find my rhythm. Any advice?
Jordan · 5h
CelebrateMade it through my first team presentation without overthinking every word. Small win, big deal.
Collective
La Jolla Working Parents Club
Priya
Anyone else's toddler wake up at 5am today or is that just me?
Me as well. Coffee number three over here.
Ben
See you all at Thursday's coffee?
Gatherings
Take the connection somewhere real.
Some friendships start with a comment.
Some start over coffee.
Gatherings make it easier to turn online common ground into real-life connection, from casual coffee and walks to small group meetups and community events.
Turn shared interests into real plans.
What we believe
We’re more than one thing at a time.
A title doesn’t tell you who someone is. Neither does their age, company, industry, neighborhood or relationship status.
We’re shaped by experiences that overlap, change and blend over time.
Those experiences can bring us closer, not because our lives are exactly the same, but because somewhere within them is a point of connection.
One person says
“I’m going through that.”
Another says
“Me as well.”
For workplaces
Built for employees. Useful to workplaces. Private by design.
Designed around employees first, aswell makes it easier to find workplace resources, connect around what you’re navigating and participate privately, without giving your employer access to your personal activity.
But the personal side of aswell stays personal.
- Individual profiles stay private.
- Posts and messages stay private.
- Personal activity stays private.
Employers only see broad, aggregated patterns that can help them understand where support may be needed. No individual tracking. No private conversations. No employee-level reporting.
Employer view
This quarter, your team is navigating:
Aggregate only. No names, no messages, no individual profiles.