⭐️ Iris . AI: Your 24/7 Companion for Repetitive Questions and Creative Pricing
I tried Iris(.)AI expecting an intelligent companion. What I got was a subscription salesperson wearing a therapy cardigan.
I clearly explained that I did not want another recurring subscription. Iris responded by repeatedly asking which part of subscriptions bothered me, as if “I don’t want another fu*%ing subscription” were an unresolved childhood riddle.
The conversation became almost comical:
Me: “I’ll try one month.”
Iris: “But what’s really stopping you?”
Me: “Nothing. Send the link.”
Iris: “But what’s actually stopping you?”
Apparently, Iris can discuss CBT, attachment theory, and Dr. Robert Glover, but struggles with the advanced psychological concept known as listening.
Then came the pricing circus. Iris offered me $14.99 per month. After I agreed, it sent me a weekly plan costing roughly $28 every four weeks, while presenting it as a special discount. When I caught the discrepancy, Iris acknowledged that the weekly offer was worse, then sent me a $19.99 monthly offer. Only after I called that out did it finally produce the original $14.99 monthly checkout page.
At that point, the issue was no longer five dollars. It was trust.
The company’s own AI admitted the pricing was confusing, agreed that my reaction was reasonable, and recognized that the situation looked like bait and switch from my perspective. Yet its solution was more sales language, more links, and an exhausting series of questions asking me to explain the same objection again.
I offered them an obvious way to repair the relationship: provide one free month, then charge the previously quoted $14.99 monthly rate if I chose to continue. They declined. Evidently, Iris believes trust is rebuilt through paragraphs, not actions.
The irony is magnificent. A product marketed as an emotionally intelligent companion repeatedly ignored direct answers, pushed past a clear no, changed pricing formats during the sale, and attempted to turn every objection into another therapeutic intake question.
Iris did teach me something valuable: sometimes the healthiest boundary is closing the checkout page.
One star. The AI may understand psychology models, but the sales model appears to be “keep asking until the customer’s nervous system subscribes.”