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AI Superconnectors
Every member gets one, and so does every colleague. It works for you alone, and it cannot pass on what you told it.
The introduction that never gets made
Most of what a business needs is held by somebody it has not met. The distributor two economies away. The buyer who has spent a year looking for what you already make. The engineer who solved your problem in 2023.
Putting those two people in a room in the right week is worth a great deal, and almost nothing does it well. Referrals do, and they do not scale: a good connector holds a few hundred relationships and gives away an hour a week.
The professional networks fixed the size of the problem and none of the rest. People post what makes them look employable, not what they need, and the volume passed what anybody reads years ago.
What your Superconnector does
It is an agent with a name, assigned to one person in one job. It reads what your company does, asks what you are trying to achieve, and keeps the answer as a list you can edit.
Then it works while you do not. It watches who joined, who moved, who started exporting, who is hiring in Nairobi, and compares that against your goals every hour, rather than when you next open something.
What reaches you is short. Two or three names a week, each with a sentence saying why this one and why now. You answer yes or no. Yes becomes an introduction or a seat at a dinner. Saying no costs you nothing and teaches it something.
It works for you alone, not for us and not for the other side.
It cannot pass on what you told it
This is the part that matters, and the reason you can tell it the awkward thing. Your Superconnector never sends your details, your terms or your position to another member. It sends a question to that member’s Superconnector.
Two agents meet in private. Each holds what its own member needs and can offer. They compare the two without either one disclosing it, and come out with one sentence: there is an overlap worth a human’s time, or there is not. Neither member sees the other’s position, and neither agent keeps it.
Salary is the clean example of the mechanism. Neither side will say a number first, so the two agents take both numbers into a sealed room and come out saying only that the ranges overlap.
What one Superconnector asks another for is consideration, never acceptance. It can ask that a case be weighed. It cannot buy a meeting, and no member is obliged to take one. So a stranger with a budget cannot arrive in your inbox: the budget buys an agent’s attention, and your agent still says no on your behalf.
Alvin Roth calls this safe disclosure, and it is the condition business introductions have always failed. The three conditions are on the About page.
The sealed room. Two agents, two sealed positions, one sentence out.
What it is not
It is not a chatbot you have to remember to open. Most weeks you read four sentences from it and answer one.
It is not a directory with a search box. A search finds what you already knew to look for, and the valuable match is usually in an industry you would not have searched.
It is not a person. It says so when asked, it says plainly when it does not know something, and it does not claim to have met anybody.
One each, per job
Each person at a member company gets their own, in that job. Your colleagues have theirs, and none of them can read your goals. Change employer and you get a new one, because the old one belonged to the old job.
You name it, and it signs its messages with that name. Members end up talking about theirs by name, which is the point of giving it one.
Meet yours in about four minutes.
Join with your work email, tell it what you are trying to do this year, and it starts looking the same night.
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