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In the room or not at all
Every feature anchors to a physical place. If you’re not in the room, you’re not in the chat. No workarounds, no lookalike modeling.
About Peek
Built by the team behind Butterfly.
The third place is back. We're building the room around it. Peek is the chat for the place you're actually in. Café, coworking, bar, restaurant, hotel lobby — the room opens when you walk in and closes when you leave.
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Venues live in Miami
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Third spaces · café to lobby
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Archived chats · ever
10K+
Verified users via Butterfly
Our storyA folding table
A folding table
to a city.
Tap a chapter to open it.
2024A folding table on move-in day
Butterfly launches on a college campus. The premise was small and stubborn: students wanted the chat to already exist when they walked into the dorm — not another app to download. Schedule-aware, location-aware, real names.
2025USC saturates. UCLA goes live.
10,000+ verified students across two campuses. 4.4★ on the App Store. The "room shape" — location-gated, time-bounded, real-name — worked at every density it was tested at.
2026 · SpringWhat if the room shape worked everywhere?
The same students who used Butterfly at school were graduating into cafés, lobbies, coworking floors, restaurants, bars. The room they wanted on campus, they wanted in the city. We started building.
2026 · SummerPeek opens in Miami
Twelve venues running their own rooms. Branded chats above the bar. Order-to-seat tied to the POS. The first guests started peeking each other across the room within the first weekend.
2026 · LateBrand marketplace opens
Spirits, coffee, naturals, and snack brands started placing campaigns inside the rooms their customers were already in. Native to the moment. POS-tied. Zone-exclusive.
NextWherever people walk into a room
Peek expands city by city, the same way Butterfly expanded campus by campus. Density first, scale second. Every new city starts with one room.
What we believeFive things we
Five things we
hold to.
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The night ends when you leave
No archive. No screenshot threads. No notifications from rooms you’re no longer in. The chat closes with the room.
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Real names, real accountability
One account per person. One chosen name and face in the room. Phone-verified, human-moderated, two-tap block. The opposite of anonymous locker-room apps.
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Built with operators, not against them
The venue owns its room. Pinned messages get a verified VENUE badge. Orders route to the seat. The host’s voice is the loudest in the chat.
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Quiet over loud
We don’t chase the algorithm. One-message peek mechanics. No infinite DM slides. The win is the room — not the time spent staring at it.
What’s next
Walk in. Peek. Say hi.
Tonight there’s a room you don’t know about yet. We want to be the reason you walk into it.