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

• Holds everyone you know — plus the companies, places, projects, books and interests around them.
• Draws the connections between them, and folds any cluster into its own sub-map.
• 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.

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 @commons and every member who has lent their kith answers at once — from their own maps, not from a directory.
• Gathers the answers into a thread under your question, so the room can see it went somewhere.
• Asks you to sharpen a vague question once, rather than searching badly.
• 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.

Reads

• Searches the web — then opens the page and reads all of it, not the snippet.
• Watches a YouTube link and tells you what was actually said in it.
• Checks what someone has been posting on X lately.

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: anyone in the room can call it by name and get an answer out of your map. It reads, never writes, and stays quiet unless called.
• Keeps your action list, and closes things out as you do them.

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.

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.