Kithnkins is the relationship keeper for solo professionals — recruiters, advisors, agents, consultants — whose work depends on knowing people deeply, not on managing pipelines.
“Coffee at Sightglass. Talked about her team scaling. Mentioned Jordan at Anthropic might be looking — promised to intro.”
The CRM market split into two camps a decade ago. Both miss the person whose work is their relationships.
HubSpot. Salesforce. Pipedrive. Built for sales teams with pipelines, stages, deal sizes, and a manager looking at dashboards.
Open one as a solo professional and you're using 5% of an overwhelming UI. The data model fights you — your past clients aren't deals, your referrers aren't leads.
Dex. Clay. Notion templates. Built for “stay in touch with friends.” Warm, soft, vaguely defined.
No revenue attribution. No way to distinguish a client from a lunch acquaintance. No business logic worth expensing.
“Kithnkins is what sits between them — the rigor of a CRM, the warmth of a friendship journal.”
From the founding note
We didn't add features until something stuck. We started with three questions that every solo professional asks themselves at 11pm.
People in your life don't live in stages. A client becomes a referrer. A prospect becomes a friend. Your old college roommate sends you three placements a year.
Kithnkins lets people belong to multiple circles — Client, Past Client, Referrer, Prospect, Network, Personal — and move between them naturally.
Tasks and due dates make relationships feel like chores. Cadence makes them feel like rhythm.
Set how often you want to check in with someone — every 2 weeks, every quarter, twice a year — and Kithnkins quietly tracks the drift. “You usually talk to Sarah every 6 weeks; it's been 11.”
Their kid's name. The dog's name. The project they were stressed about last September. What they ordered at coffee. The thing they mentioned offhand that you should follow up on.
One surface. Voice-dictated after Zoom calls. Searchable across every person you know. Everything you'd normally lose to time.
“Stressed about Q3 board meeting. Said he'd circle back about the consulting engagement after.”
Where every placement starts with a five-year-old conversation.
AUM grows from referrals you didn't ask for, given by people you remembered.
Past clients are tomorrow's listings — if they hear from you between transactions.
Your next engagement is in your existing network. You just have to keep it warm.
Practice fills through trust, slowly built and easily lost to neglect.
The angel investor, the candidate, the customer reference — all live in your relationships.
We thought about Pro and Premium and Enterprise. Then we remembered you have a job to do.
Or $190 a year. Save two months.
Generous fair-use limits on voice transcription (about 90 logged voice notes a month — more than most people will ever record). We're not in the business of nickel-and-diming you.
Kith is an old English word — the people you know but aren't related to. Friends. Neighbors. Mentors. The barista who knows your order. The colleague who became a real friend.
Kin is the people you didn't choose — family, by blood or marriage or chosen circumstance.
For most of us, both groups blur together as we get older. The friend becomes family. The cousin you were forced to know becomes someone you'd call at 3am. We don't separate them in our hearts. So we shouldn't separate them in our tools.
Kithnkins is for everyone who matters — and a way to make sure you stay someone who matters to them.
We're onboarding founding members in waves. Tell us what you do and we'll send your invite when it's your turn.