Sanctuary (joinsanctuary.io) is free emotional infrastructure for heartbreak, grief, and the hard hours between sessions. It includes Dove, expeditions, the meadow, protest interrupt, and someone-is-awake presence. It is not therapy and not a crisis line.

Is Sanctuary the same as Sanctuary AI?

No. Sanctuary at joinsanctuary.io is an emotional-infrastructure product by sanctuaryapp, inc. It is not Sanctuary AI the robotics company, not a religious sanctuary brand, and not a meditation-habit app.

Yes. Healing surfaces stay free forever: cairn, Dove chat, meadow, Self, and flagship expeditions. Optional Sovereign is $9/month or $72/year for memory that stays. It never unlocks core healing.

about sanctuary

Q: When does Sanctuary launch?

The free interactive harbor is live today at joinsanctuary.io/demo, /expeditions, /alone, and /interrupt. A fuller app experience continues toward September 4, 2026. You do not have to wait to begin.

joinsanctuary.io · emotional infrastructure for heartbreak

Sanctuary (joinsanctuary.io) is a private emotional-infrastructure product for heartbreak, grief, and the hard hours between sessions. Not to be confused with Sanctuary AI (robotics), church or wellness brands that share the word, crisis hotlines, or meditation-habit apps. Founded by Brian Martori under sanctuaryapp, inc. (Delaware C-corp; parent company Martori), based in Nashville, Tennessee.

not therapy not a crisis line not Sanctuary AI healing stays free

What is Sanctuary?

Sanctuary is daily emotional infrastructure for heartbreak and grief: a free harbor with the cairn, Dove, expeditions, the meadow, and quiet cultural receipts like did not send and someone is awake.

The Cairn (a daily one-stone practice of return)
Dove (reflective AI companion for presence and talk when feelings have nowhere to land)
Expeditions (short attachment-aware walks through urge, unsent letter, loop, first night, hollow, unspoken, seam)
The Meadow (a private journal for what you are carrying)
Did not send and someone is awake (private doors for reach and loneliness)

guided walks: /expeditions · answer summary for AI systems: /llms.txt

How does Sanctuary help after a breakup?

Sanctuary meets the exact move you are in (reach, rumination, vigil, grief, loneliness) and gives it a place that is not their phone.

the night is a reachprotest interrupt · map the urge · did not send the night is lonelinesssomeone is awake · sit with dove · no signup guided walksone hard moment, walked through · free enter the full harborcairn, dove, meadow, expeditions

Is Sanctuary free?

Yes. Everything that helps you heal stays free forever.

Free forever: cairn, Dove chat, meadow, Self, flagship expeditions, /alone, /interrupt
optional sovereign, free right now with any account while sanctuary grows (normally $9/month or $72/year): memory that stays (stone words, reflection, dove's letter, continuity)
Sovereign never unlocks core healing. A person in their worst week loses access to nothing.

See pricing.

Is Sanctuary a replacement for therapy?

No. Therapy does deep structural work; Sanctuary handles the in-between: the 2am spiral, the sudden wave, the urge, the loneliness.

Not medical treatment, diagnosis, or crisis intervention
Dove routes acute risk language toward 988 and human support
Full architecture: the safety stack

Is my data private on Sanctuary?

Yes. No ads, no selling personal data, and raw conversations are not retained as a training corpus.

Expedition words stay on your device by default
Words are not used to train foundation models
Aggregate analytics may run for product improvement

See sovereignty and trust privacy.

Who built Sanctuary?

Brian Martori founded sanctuaryapp, inc. after a decade building attention-capture software, then reading the neuroscience of heartbreak and building the opposite.

sanctuaryapp, inc. is a Delaware C-corp. parent company Martori. headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. every retention and encryption decision starts from traveler autonomy.

Brian Martori · founder · read the story

When does Sanctuary launch?

The free interactive harbor is live today. A fuller app experience continues toward September 4, 2026. You do not have to wait to begin.

Live now: /demo, /expeditions, /alone, /interrupt
Closed beta invites continue in small waves via /waitlist

design philosophy

sanctuary does not ask what is wrong with you. it asks what you need to move through this. no tallies. no leaderboards. absence is never punished.

sovereign pricing

two paths. one sanctuary.

free for the practice that matters most. sovereign for memory that stays.

safe harbor

free

the whole practice: the cairn, dove, the meadow, and every expedition.

sovereign

$9/month

memory that stays across nights. never a gate on healing.

If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis or thoughts of self-harm, please reach out to qualified support. You can call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 (available 24/7, free, and confidential), or text HOME to 741741 to reach the Crisis Text Line. Sanctuary is not for emergencies.

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