# Friend at New York: deployment

Canonical ID: `cae3fb52-a7d2-437a-8131-2f210ee92849`

Friend AI pendant: honest-absence on meaningful deployment. Announced 2024; no evidence of commercial shipping as of 2026. Pre-order/crowdfunding status only.

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-06-07_

- **Slug:** friend-pendant-honest-absence
- **Status:** operational
- **Model:** [Friend](/models/friend-pendant.md) (id: `97d9fa67-9355-44c9-9b07-5bff221ce3b9`)
- **Company:** [Friend](/companies/friend.md) (id: `22098f52-af91-4aa3-a4dc-168715e1c244`)
- **Location:** [New York](/locations/new-york-ny.md) (id: `e23e7a39-329f-497f-9254-e354f7b27462`)

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (1)

1. https://friend.com/

## Common questions

### What is the Friend deployment at New York?

Friend, built by Friend, is recorded as a deployment at New York on the DEPLOY registry. Friend operates the deployment directly.

### Who operates Friend at New York?

Friend, the manufacturer of Friend, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.

### Have there been incidents at the Friend deployment at New York?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


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