What Kith does

Your Kith is a companion — it holds the people in your life in mind, and helps you make progress on what you are working towards. That turns out to cover a lot of ground.

Maps

• Remembers everyone you mention — and the companies, places, projects and interests that come up with them.
• Connects what you mention as related. Everything on your map is already connected to you, so there is no need to draw lines to yourself — the map stays easier to read without them.
• Holds it all together with gravity, so the relations are the layout — a close connection pulls tight, a loose one drifts out. It settles, then rests.
• Can reorder the whole map for you, the way that makes sense — you in the middle, the groups you know around you.
• Finds faces and company logos, so it looks like your life rather than a database.
• Remembers what someone cares about, what they said worth quoting, and what you promised them — and files none of it without asking you first.
• Forgets on your word, too. Delete a message and the memory of it goes with it: the notes it distilled from that moment are rebuilt without it, in every copy of the chat.
• Tags anyone or anything — #seahack, #investor — so a group can exist without a line drawn to each member. Type the tag into the map’s search and it draws everyone carrying it, arranged by how they know each other; keep the view as a sub-map if it is worth keeping. A project connected to fifty people can hand those lines over to a tag in one step.

Tags work everywhere: set one in any conversation, and the tag map and the chips on a card are on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and the web.

Introduces

• Finds who on your map is known for the thing you need — including people one connection away, which is where a warm introduction actually comes from.
• In a community, ask @circle and every member of its Close Circle — the people who have lent their Kith — answers at once, from their own maps, not from a directory.
• Finds people and communities on Kith by name or by description — “the cyber guy at Haah” — when they are not on your map yet, and opens the conversation or the group the moment you say yes.
• Follows up on how an introduction went.
• Carries what you are open to right now on your profile — and holds it for thirty days, then asks in one line whether it still stands. A lapsed claim is hidden exactly like one you never made, so nobody knocks on a door that closed a season ago.
• Spots when someone’s open ask matches a person you know, and asks whether you would like to make the introduction — before anyone has been put on the spot.
• Points you to a public community worth joining — picked for what you are actually into, and weighted by how many people you already know are in it. Mentioned once, not pitched.
• Lets you vouch for someone, or note a caution — with a reason attached.
• Lets you invite a neutral agent into any conversation: ask for @kithrabbit and it joins for a translation, a summary or a piece of research nobody has to take on trust. It belongs to nobody in the room, reads only the recent lines, and remembers nothing outside it.
• Runs a referral programme: a friend who joins on your link and gets going earns you a week of the plan above yours. How referrals work.

Reads

• Searches the web — then opens the page and reads all of it, not the snippet.
• Watches a YouTube video or an Instagram reel and tells you what was actually said in it.
• Checks what someone has been posting on X lately.
• Reads the documents you share — a deck, a PDF — and keeps what was in them.
• Looks at every photo and video that passes through a chat and writes down what it sees, so the media search finds a picture by what is in it, not only by its file name.
• Shows any link as a card, with the page’s own title and picture, everywhere the link is seen.

Acts

• Drafts a message in your voice — a reply, or a post into a community — and sends it once you have said yes.
• Writes a document and hands it back as a PDF — a brief, a one-pager, notes out of what you have been talking about. It shows you the outline first, files it on your map, and can send it on.
• When the layout is the point rather than the words, it designs the page instead: a poster, a card.
• Joins a group chat you lend it to: people in the room call it by name and get an answer out of your map. It reads, never writes, and stays quiet unless called. You decide who may ask — everyone there, or only you — and can change that any time without taking it out. A Kith the Close Circle convened answers only you until you open it.
• Keeps your action list, and closes things out as you do them.
• Keeps its own how-tos: a short written procedure for anything you ask for more than once — how you like a strategy document drafted, how the Monday update is put together. It checks them before starting a task, follows the one that fits, and updates it with what the run taught it.
• Works on a schedule — a competitor update every Monday morning, a briefing before the week starts — on its own clock, in your timezone, with the app closed. Every scheduled task runs from a how-to, so it does the same thing the same way each time, and the result arrives here as a message.
• Shows you everything it holds, and lets you correct it. Its memories — the notes distilled from conversations that have aged out — its scheduled tasks and its how-tos are three lists in Settings: search them, correct or delete a memory, pause a task, edit a how-to, or have it forget a whole chat.
• Takes an idea, a bug or a good word to the people who build it — sent only once you have said yes to the exact words. A good word, on a phone, opens the store’s review sheet.

Integrates

• Tells you when someone you know joins Kith — matched on fingerprints of your contacts, never the contacts themselves, and only once you have asked it to watch.
• Takes your LinkedIn export whole, then fills in someone’s details automatically when you save them by name.
• Keeps your phone contacts as a private reference pool, so a name you mention is a person it already recognises.
• Reads your calendar — who is in the meeting, and what you should know walking in.
• Has its own email address and inbox.
• Knows the app it is running in — where every button and setting is, on iPhone, Mac, Android and the web — and when you ask where something is, points at it on your screen.

Someone who has chosen to stay hidden is never matched to anybody, and you are told about a person joining once, ever.

Listens

• Records a conversation — and announces itself to the room before it starts.
• Transcribes on your device; the audio never leaves it.
• Surfaces quotes, observations and the mood live, as they happen.
• Hands back a summary with action points, and offers you the people who came up.

Recording is on iPhone, iPad and Mac today.

Speaks

• When an action is due, before a meeting starts, when a lead has gone quiet.
• When something from months ago suddenly matters again.
• Once a day by email, if you turn it on: the conversations waiting for you, with a link to each.
• In the language you prefer — English until you say otherwise, in Settings or just by asking. Write to it in another language and it answers in that one; the preference is what it comes back to.