Kai agent
Search, orchestration and memory across the member graph, powering intros, events and opportunities.
AI · Professional Networking · Community
Key.ai: your network, working for you
Professional networking, made personal.
Key.ai is an AI professional network that surfaces the right connections and opportunities automatically. Its AI agent, Kai, handles search, orchestration and memory across a member's network to power warm introductions, events and opportunities.
Project overview
Unlock opportunities through the people you know
Cold outreach rarely works, and communities such as alumni networks, accelerators and associations struggle to connect members with the right people at scale.
Key.ai gives every member Kai, an AI agent that knows their network, remembers context from events and past conversations, and turns relationships into consent-based introductions.
- Client
- Key.ai
- Industry
- AI, professional networking
- Platform
- Web
- Scale
- 50+ communities, 500+ events a year
The challenge
Cold outreach is broken
Cold outreach gets low response, and communities struggle to connect members with the right people and opportunities at scale. Context from events and past interactions is often lost.
- 01Cold outreach response rates under 5%
- 02Communities cannot match members at scale
- 03Context from events and conversations gets lost
The solution
Kai, the community agent
Kai powers warm, consent-based introductions, matches jobs, deals and partnerships from a member's graph, and supports events end to end, from pre-event matching to follow-ups.
Operators get branded community spaces with a member directory, a searchable library and Kai available to every member.
What we built
Key features and capabilities
Handshake intros
Consent-based introductions for people, opportunities, events and communities.
Opportunities
Matched roles, deals and partnerships surfaced from the member's own network.
Community spaces
Branded spaces with a member directory and Kai for every member.
Events and calendar
Pre-event matching, in-room introductions and follow-ups that carry network context.
Library
Guides, decks and links, searchable in natural language.
Product design
Save time. Focus on impact.
A clean, focused product where the next best introduction is always one question away, on web and mobile.
Impact and results
Warm intros that actually get answered
100K+Professionals on the platform
45-60%Intro response rate, vs under 5% for cold outreach
12xMore intros per member vs community baseline
$1B+Funding sourced through the platform
Platform figures as published by Key.ai. Communities also see a 3.4x retention lift after a member's first Handshake.
Built for
Who it serves
- Community operators running alumni networks, accelerators and associations
- Members seeking warm introductions through existing connections
- Professionals finding matched jobs, deals and partnerships
- Event hosts running pre-event matching, in-room intros and follow-ups
Tech stack
Built with
- Next.js
- Gemini API
- Headless CMS
- Vercel
- GCP
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