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category

market profile

• text: Relationships are scattered across email, calendars, contacts and social networks, making warm connections hard to discover.
• text: AI people search competes with professional networks and automated introduction services for sales, recruiting and fundraising use cases.

personas

• title: Founder raising capital
  pains:

  • Relevant investors may already be reachable through a colleague, but mutual paths are hidden across accounts.
  • Manually asking for introductions and researching investor fit is slow.
• title: Recruiter or talent researcher
  pains:

  • Candidate searches miss qualified people embedded in colleagues' networks.
  • Cold candidate outreach lacks a trusted introduction path.
• title: Sales leader or account executive
  pains:

  • Account teams cannot easily tell who already knows a prospective buyer.
  • Connections are distributed across staff accounts and the team must ask around for introductions.

icp

• text: Individual founders, job seekers, investors, salespeople and recruiters who have relationships across professional and social accounts.
• text: Teams, investment funds and professional communities that can pool member networks for shared warm introductions; free sharing supports adoption before paid seats.
• text: Startups and venture ecosystems are an evident early audience, though the product also advertises broad professional uses.

message pillars

• text: Find people by describing the person needed in plain language.
• text: Bring relationships from different accounts into one searchable view.
• text: See a path through someone who already knows the person.
• text: Extend discovery through friends and groups.

objections

• objection: What happens to my private email and network data?
  response: Review source permissions and profile-sharing settings: the company says email headers are read and model training does not use the data.
• objection: Must everyone pay for the team to share relationships?
  response: The company says sharing is free; paid seats provide unlimited chat and export, while API usage has separate credits.
• objection: Why not use LinkedIn search?
  response: Compare a real search for warm paths across multiple connected accounts and mutual groups, including coverage and permission tradeoffs.

competitors

• name: LinkedIn
  why: Professional graph with AI people search and established recruiting and sales products.
• name: Boardy
  why: AI networking service that makes professional introductions by email.
• name: Series
  why: Professional introductions via text, an adjacent way to discover people.

influencers

• name: Garry Tan
  why: YC president whose user testimonial appears on the homepage.
• name: Olivia Moore
  why: a16z partner featured in a homepage testimonial.

keywords

• AI people search
• search my network
• warm introductions
• relationship intelligence
• investor introductions
• recruiting network search
• team relationship mapping

voice

• Optimistic
• Conversational
• Relationship centered

signals

• text: A founder is raising capital and asking for introductions to seed investors.
• text: A recruiter or sales team wants to share networks and find mutual contacts at target accounts.

stack

• Python
• Postgres
• DynamoDB
• AWS
• Next.js
• Vercel

hiring

• AI Engineer
• Backend Engineer
• Design Engineer

pricing

motion

channels

• Product Hunt
• X
• LinkedIn
• Discord
• SEO
• iPhone app

confidence

Founders

• name: Alex Teichman
  title: Founder/CEO
  role: CEO
  bio: Angel investor & AI advisor Cofounder Lighthouse AI :: "Best AI Camera" - Gizmodo Stanford CS PhD :: Perception systems for self-driving cars