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Mitlea connects you with warm, verified companions — for conversation, activities, everyday help, or simply so the afternoon isn’t quiet. From the German mit Liebe: with love.
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Four ways to be less alone
One platform, one standard of verification, four very different reasons to book. Companions choose which categories they work in — and exactly which services within them.
For older adults and the families who love them
Someone to sit with, walk with, and figure the printer out with.
Background-checked companions for conversation, errands, appointments and the small things that make a week feel lighter. Family stays in the loop.
Explore Companion
For adults 18+ seeking social companionship
A great evening, without the guesswork.
Book a companion for dinner, a gallery, a concert or a weekend away. Every companion publishes exactly what they offer and exactly where their boundaries sit.
Explore Companion+
For anyone building social confidence
Walk in with backup.
Hire a wingman to make introductions, carry the first ten minutes of small talk, and give you honest feedback afterwards. Confidence is a skill — this is practice with a spotter.
Explore Wingman
For anyone who'd rather not do it alone
The friend your calendar has been missing.
New city, new hobby, or a 6am run you keep skipping. Book someone to show up — once, or every week until it sticks.
Explore Friend
How it works
Pick the kind of company you're after and when you'd like it. No account required to look — you'll see real companions, real rates and real availability straight away.
We rank companions by what you actually asked for and show you exactly why each one surfaced. Watch a video introduction, read what they will and won't do, then message them.
Agree a time, acknowledge their boundaries, and pay through Mitlea. Money is held until the session is done, and someone is on the safety line the whole time.
Trust & safety
Roughly one applicant in nine becomes a Mitlea companion. Verification is not a badge we hand out at signup — it is six stages, it is repeated annually, and a companion who stops meeting the standard stops being listed.
Every applicant sits a 45-minute video interview with a member of our care team. Roughly one in nine gets through.
Government ID checked against a liveness selfie. No stock photos, no borrowed profiles, no accounts sold on.
Criminal records across county, state and federal databases, plus the sex offender registry — re-run every twelve months.
Two professional references, spoken to on the phone by our team. Not a form. Not an email. A conversation.
A companion cannot go live until they have written what they do, what they don't, and what ends a session. Members acknowledge it before booking.
Session check-ins, message monitoring for off-platform payment and contact-detail sharing, and a 24/7 line staffed by trained people.
Meet a few companions
Nothing here is a stock photo or a placeholder. Every companion writes their own boundaries before they are allowed to list.
“Out-of-state families hire me so they can sleep.”
$32/hr
“Nobody in my care eats dinner alone on a Sunday.”
$28/hr
“Bring me your terrible Portuguese. I'll be kind about it, eventually.”
$30/hr
What members say
“My mother is eighty-eight and had stopped leaving the house. Her companion comes on Tuesdays and Fridays. Last month she asked to go to the garden centre. I cried in the car park.”
“I booked a dinner companion for a work event I'd been dreading. She was warm, funny, completely upfront about what the evening was, and I stopped feeling like the only single person in the room.”
“Six sessions with a wingman and I gave a best man's speech to a hundred and forty people. In January I could not order coffee without rehearsing it.”
“New city, no friends, working from home. Four weekly sessions later I have a run club, a ceramics class, and two people I'd actually call.”
Circle is for members who book regularly — a standing Tuesday, a weekly walk, a Sunday dinner. It takes 10% off every session, waives the trust & safety fee, and puts your requests at the front of the queue.
Circle
$24/month
Pays for itself at roughly two hours of companionship a month. Cancel any time — no notice period, no exit call.
Become a companion
Mitlea companions are retired nurses, improv teachers, art history students, bartenders, chaplains and paramedics. What they share is patience and the ability to make an hour feel unhurried.
Questions
Still unsure? Visit the help center or call us on 1-888-MITLEA-1.
None of the three. Mitlea companions provide non-medical, non-clinical, non-sexual company and practical help. They don't administer medication or perform personal care, they aren't licensed therapists, and Companion+ is social companionship — not dating and not an escort service.
A video interview with our care team, government ID matched against a liveness check, a nationwide criminal background check re-run annually, and two professional references we telephone. Companions who drive members also pass a motor vehicle record check. Roughly one applicant in nine is approved.
Companions set their own hourly rates, shown in full before you book — most sit between $28 and $120 an hour depending on the category. Mitlea adds a 12% service fee and a $2.99 trust & safety fee, both itemised. Circle membership removes the safety fee and takes 10% off every session.
Yes. A Circle Family account lets an organiser book, pay and read visit notes for up to five people. Your parent has to accept the link themselves — nobody can be added to a family account without agreeing to it.
There is a staffed safety line reachable from inside any booking, and payment is held until the session completes, so nothing is released while a dispute is open. Report a concern and a trust & safety specialist picks it up — critical reports are triaged within the hour.
Companions receive the full session subtotal at their own posted rate. Mitlea's revenue is the service fee charged to the member. Platform discounts and promotions come out of our margin, never out of a companion's earnings.
Most members book a single session to see how it feels. Most of them book a second.