after testing the idea in Hack The North, this is what I ended up moving to: autonomous crm idea

Overview

A system designed to help students and young professionals:

  • spark authentic conversations without pulling people away from face-to-face connection
  • A highly proactive memory vault to remember these interactions you have everyday
  • find meaningful connections between you and your friends and also between your friends

How It Could Work

  1. Quick Start
    • Scan a QR code from the phone or tap NFC card 
    • connect platforms like Goodreads, Spotify, YouTube, Letterboxd, instagram, X/Twitter, etc…
    • There’s also the step of explaining it to your friend
    • They can add more information later like:
      • Where they’ve traveled, lived in
      • hobbies, interests, dish, etc…
  2. Personalized Prompts
    • AI generates hyper-personalized questions for both users based on 2 things:
      • what the AI knows about you and
      • the context of where is this interaction happening and how close these 2 people are. e.g.
        • just met in orientation,
        • sitting with a stranger in the dining hall
        • friends taking a break from studying
        • friends who have some freetime between their class
        • first uni club event. e.g. bouldering club
        • party
        • transit
        • before class waiting for professor
        • first date
  3. Conversation Assist
    • The AI transcribes the conversation locally and in real-time update list of conversations
    • One-tap shuffle for a new conversation topic
    • Designed to minimize screen time → the platform is there just to provide a spark and keep the conversation interesting, not a distraction
  4. Memory vault of everyone you know & Follow-Up
    • System saves the conversation and shows a graph of yourself and all your friends
    • you can see how you and your friends connect. e.g. you both like basketball so the basketball entity would be connected to both of us
    • you can see how your friends connect with each other. e.g. Both my friends Toby and Nick are part of the entrepreneurship club. So the system would recommend setting up a hangout with them or joining the club https://devpost.com/submit-to/16115-hack-the-north-2025/manage/submissions/792602/manage-teamub since you also enjoy entrepreneurship
    • ideally this would be stored all locally and would be based on the conversations you have with people
    • After the conversation: Ember can sometimes sends both users memory nuggets (e.g., “You both mentioned hiking before winter begins and you’ve been wanting to visit Kananaskis. Maybe setup a trip this Sunday with Alice and Nicole?”)

Similarities to Gigi (https://heygigi.ai/onboarding/tutorial)

  • Step 2

Differences to Gigi

  • Gigi is for the rich and an exclusive set of people
  • Gigi makes invisible networks visible. I make invisible connections between 2 strangers visible
    • What if I also should sell to the rich

Why this will not work

  • It doesn’t solve the root problem
  • This platform is most valuable for people who love talking to new people and love getting to know their friends more and diving deeper into their lives.
    • For these people, is this really a need? Right now, it feels like a nice-to-have.
    • So does that mean I should switch my target audience to people who want to meet with new people but don’t have the social skills for it?