AI Relationship Coach That Sends You Back to Real Life - Lior Illouz - Bonds

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Oct 13, 2026 · 1h 2m

Lior Illouz once walked fifteen meters, turned around, and walked fifteen meters back. He did it for four hours a day, four days straight, without speaking to anyone. Somewhere around the hundredth turn, a memory from second grade surfaced that he didn’t know he still had.

That was Thailand, right after seven years at Meta across Singapore, London and Tel Aviv. The paycheck was gone and so was the title, and Lior was left with the question every founder meets after an exit or a failed project: who am I when I’m not that company?

His answer became Bonds, an AI relationship coach backed by PhD…