Mark van Ryswyk

I'm Mark Van Ryswyk, CEO & Co-Founder of Catchouse. As CPO at Tinder, I led the AI-first modernization of the world's largest dating app, where I learned that matching is a signals problem. At Catchouse, I'm applying that same thinking to a higher-stakes category: turning professional expertise into machine-readable signals AI can recommend on. AI has rewritten how people search. It hasn't changed how they choose.

Every stage teaches you something different. FT Live taught me how enterprise leaders are really thinking about AI adoption, far more cautious than the headlines suggest. Reuters taught me that consumer trust is the bottleneck nobody's pricing in. The NY Games Conference reminded me that the best product patterns still come from industries outside your own. The common thread: scaling a great product has never been about the tech. It's about the nexus.

Real recommendations sound like this 👇 Not a 5-star average. Not an SEO'd listicle. A person, on a sidewalk, telling you exactly where to go and why. The offline trust graph is the most valuable thing service pros have — and the one the internet has never been able to hold. We're fixing that.

Ask anyone on the street to recommend a restaurant and you'll get a story. A street. A name. A memory from 15 years ago. That's how trust actually works — and it's exactly what's missing when someone asks ChatGPT "who's the best real estate agent in my neighborhood?" The pros who've earned that word-of-mouth trust deserve a home online that reflects it. That's what we're building at Catchouse.

I'm the CEO & Co-Founder of Catchouse, where we're building human-centered AI for the modern consumer. Previously CPO at Tinder, with earlier roles at Glu and EA, I've spent my career working on how technology mediates trust in high-stakes decisions. I care about one thing most: helping professionals get the full benefit of AI — so expertise gets amplified, not automated away.

I'm Mark Van Ryswyk, CEO & Co-Founder of Catchouse. I believe technology should serve humans, not the other way around. The best products amplify what makes us human — emotion, intuition, storytelling, trust — instead of flattening it. That's the lens I bring to every AI product I build. Great AI doesn't replace the human in the loop. It gives them leverage, and it gives the people they serve a reason to believe.