Frequently Asked Questions

Question 1

What is Tides?

Accepted Answer

Tides is a relationship intelligence platform designed to help people better understand themselves, understand others, improve relationships, and navigate difficult conversations with greater clarity. Tides combines communication styles, relationship insights, coaching, relationship health tracking, and guided conflict resolution tools.

Question 2

What is Relationship Intelligence?

Accepted Answer

Relationship Intelligence is the ability to understand yourself, understand others, recognize relationship patterns, communicate effectively, and navigate conflict in healthy ways.

Question 3

Who is Tides for?

Accepted Answer

Tides is for anyone who wants to improve relationships with partners, family members, friends, coworkers, managers, or other important people in their lives.

Question 4

How is Tides different from a personality test?

Accepted Answer

Personality tests typically provide a result and stop there. Tides uses communication styles as a starting point, then helps users understand people, track relationship health, receive coaching, and work toward resolution.

Question 5

Is Tides therapy?

Accepted Answer

No. Tides is not therapy and does not replace licensed mental health care. Tides is a relationship intelligence platform designed to help people better understand themselves and others.

Question 6

What communication styles does Tides use?

Accepted Answer

Tides uses four communication styles: Driver, Connector, Stabilizer, and Analyst.

Question 7

Can communication styles change over time?

Accepted Answer

People can adapt and grow, but communication preferences tend to remain relatively stable over time.

Question 8

Can different communication styles have healthy relationships?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Many healthy relationships exist between people with very different communication styles. Understanding those differences often reduces misunderstandings and conflict.

Question 9

What is the People feature?

Accepted Answer

People allows users to create profiles for important people in their lives and better understand communication patterns and relationship dynamics.

Question 10

What is Relationship Pulse?

Accepted Answer

Pulse helps users track relationship health over time and identify patterns, improvements, challenges, and recurring themes.

Question 11

Can Pulse predict relationship problems?

Accepted Answer

No. Pulse is designed to help users observe patterns and trends, not predict outcomes.

Question 12

What is Tides Coach?

Accepted Answer

Tides Coach is an AI-powered coaching experience designed to help users think through communication challenges, relationship concerns, and difficult conversations.

Question 13

Can Tides Coach help me prepare for a difficult conversation?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Tides Coach can help users organize thoughts, consider different perspectives, and prepare for conversations with greater confidence.

Question 14

What is Tides Resolve?

Accepted Answer

Tides Resolve is a guided conflict resolution experience that allows two people to privately share perspectives, identify common ground, and work toward understanding.

Question 15

Does the other person need a Tides account?

Accepted Answer

No. Participants can contribute to a Resolve session through an invitation link.

Question 16

Does Resolve decide who is right?

Accepted Answer

No. Resolve is designed to help people understand one another and identify common ground. It does not determine winners or losers.

Question 17

Can Resolve be used by couples?

Accepted Answer

Yes.

Question 18

Can Resolve be used by family members?

Accepted Answer

Yes.

Question 19

Can Resolve be used by coworkers?

Accepted Answer

Yes.

Question 20

Is my data private?

Accepted Answer

Tides is designed with privacy in mind and provides users control over their information.

Question 21

Is my information sold to advertisers?

Accepted Answer

No.

Question 22

Is Tides free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Tides includes a free plan with access to core features.

Question 23

What is included in Premium?

Accepted Answer

Premium includes expanded access to People profiles, coaching, Resolve sessions, and other advanced features.

Question 24

How do referrals work?

Accepted Answer

Successful referrals permanently unlock additional People profile capacity.

Question 25

Why was Tides created?

Accepted Answer

Tides was created to help people better understand themselves, understand others, reduce unnecessary conflict, and create more peace, understanding, and connection.

Question 26

What is the mission of Tides?

Accepted Answer

The mission of Tides is to help people understand one another, reduce unnecessary conflict, and create more peace, understanding, and connection in the world.

Frequently Asked Questions

About Tides

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People & Pulse

Coach

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Mission