ConnectMachine
A private AI agent that manages your network and connections
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A private AI agent that manages your network and connections
1.2K followers
ConnectMachine is a privacy-first AI Agent that elevates how you connect. Craft bespoke digital business cards, share only what you choose, and explore your network with intuitive voice or text queries. It replaces social broadcasting with intelligent contact management, auto-categorizing connections, and add in an AI Agent to query your network. A refined, intelligent contact layer created for those who prefer intention over noise and elegance over excess. Available for both, iOS and Android.
Private AI agent for network management is interesting. Does it run fully local or hybrid? Curious about the security model for sensitive connection data.
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@lakitu001 Private AI agent for network is exactly why we’ve been obsessive about the security model.
Today it’s hybrid:
Storage: connection data + notes are encrypted at rest and in transit, with access scoped to your account.
AI Concierge: when you ask a question, we assemble a small, relevant slice of context (not your entire address book) and send only what’s needed to generate the answer.
Training: your private notes and connection context are not used to train a general model.
Local-only inference is attractive, but it comes with tradeoffs (model size, latency, battery, reliability). We’re exploring ways to push more processing on-device over time, but we’re designing the system so that privacy and least-privilege context are the defaults even in the hybrid setup.
I like this a lot in principle! This "where did I meet this person" or "who was the person I went to lunch with in LA" problem is real.
Curious about that context - it looks like the primary way that context is added is when the other party is using the app? And that secondarily, you can add context directly if the other party isn't using the app?
This is the kind of app where network size matters a lot of course - it would be INSANELY valuable if everyone was using it, and of course that's hard to achieve. I'm curious about how to think about using it in the meantime. Right now when I meet people, I put notes about them in the contact note in ios contacts - can you walk me through how connect machine improves on this workflow / pattern for contacts of mine that don't (yet) have CM?
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@john_girard
Great question and you’re absolutely right that this only becomes magical at full network scale. But we designed ConnectMachine to be genuinely useful even before that point.
Today, the primary value comes from how you capture and recall context, not from whether the other person is already on the platform.
Here’s how it works in practice:
When you meet someone, you can add them manually or scan their card. At that moment, you can attach structured memory - where you met, why it mattered, what you discussed in notes.
That context is stored in a way that’s searchable and retrievable later (“who did I meet in LA about X?”, “who was the VC I spoke to at that dinner?”), which is something iOS Contacts doesn’t really support beyond free-text notes.
If that person later joins ConnectMachine, the context links automatically. If they never do, nothing breaks - your personal memory system still works.
So the upgrade over native contacts isn’t just where the data lives, but how it’s structured, recalled, and surfaced at the right moment - powered by an AI Concierge that helps you remember what actually matters.
@syed_shayanur_rahman Makes a lot of sense - thank you.. Anything that improves the workflow of capturing context when meeting people is a big deal. Like the way you guys are thinking!
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I'm curious about the "bespoke digital business card" flow. The point of failure for most of these apps is usually the receiver. If I send a card to someone who doesn't use ConnectMachine, what do they see? If they have to download an app or sign up just to save my details to their phone, that's going to be a huge friction point for adoption.