Relationship intelligence AI
Villages understands you, who you know, how well you know them, and who they know.
https://mcp.villages.work/mcp and give it the name Villages.Villages only answers about people it has context on, so install the Mac app first if you have not already.
Never go in cold
Villages starts from the people you actually know, works out who among them would really make an intro, and then maps who they can reach.
Connect your sources
1,240 people
From email, calendar, LinkedIn and WhatsApp, ranked by real warmth, not by follower count.
Your core circletop 150
150 who would vouch for you
The people who reply within the day, who you have seen this year, who you would call when it is going badly.
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Villages maps who your people really know, from public evidence
For each of your core circle, we work out their relationships automatically
3,900+ warm-reachable people
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Estimate from the averages in our public graph of 4,580 investors and 18,000+ companies they have backed: an investor in it has backed about seven companies, and a funded founder has about three investors behind them. Your real number comes from your real relationships once you connect a source.
The Village Map
The map assembles itself from what you connect. Constellations form around the groups that matter to you - close friends, your community, investors, founders - with size for centrality and position for closeness. Switch lenses to see the same people by company, industry, seniority or where in the world they are.
Click anyone in your core hundred and fifty and the full picture is already there: how you know them, what they have been through, who they can reach. For everyone else, one click gathers more.
Why it matters
Years of email, calendar, WhatsApp threads and call notes. The relationship is in there. No tool pulls it together, so you rely on memory - and memory tops out at about a hundred people.
Twelve mutuals and not one of them would actually pick up the phone. What matters is who has a strong relationship with the person you need - and nothing on the internet maps that.
Founders solve problems alone by default. The right person was two hops away the whole time. Nobody asks "who could help me with this?" unless something prompts them.
Villages turns that context into a network you can actually use.
Where it earns its keep
Raising, hiring and selling are network problems wearing different clothes. Villages answers the same question in each: who do I actually know who can open this door?
Fundraising
"Which investors can I reach warm?"
Every investor you could plausibly reach, ranked by the strength of the path, with the founder they backed who can make the intro.
Hiring
"Who do I know who has hired a first sales lead?"
Not recruiters. The founders in your network who have made this exact hire, and who they hired, so your first conversation is with someone who has done it.
Sales
"Who can get me in front of the COO at Acme?"
The person in your network with a real relationship to the buyer - a former colleague, an investor on both cap tables, a co-founder they built with.
How it works
Villages speaks through your Claude. There is no dashboard to maintain and no CRM to fill in - you connect your sources once and then just ask.
Email, calendar, a LinkedIn export, WhatsApp on your Mac. The desktop app gathers context locally and keeps only distilled signals - never the raw messages.
Every person, ranked by real warmth - who replies fast, who you actually see, who knows whom. Drag people into circles to teach it what the data can't see.
Investors, hires, customers, someone who has been through what you're facing. Ask in plain English inside Claude and get people, not lists.
Villages drafts the message the way you would write it - your sign-off, your nicknames. You edit or approve; it never sends without you.
Sources
Your relationships live in scattered places: inbox, calendar, messages, LinkedIn, the notes from your calls. Villages pulls the signal from each into one private map, so nothing about a person gets lost.
Start with one. Add more when you are comfortable. The map sharpens with every source.
Manifesto
Almost everything good that has happened to us came through a person. A friend who mentioned a name. Someone who had been through it and picked up the phone. Luck, mostly. We think luck can be manufactured.
Not with a bigger database. The internet already knows who is connected to whom, and it has made introductions worse, not better. A connection is not a relationship. The thing that actually opens a door is someone who would vouch for you, and no amount of scraping tells you who that is.
So Villages starts from the other end. Your real relationships, gathered from the context you already have and hold privately. Who replies to you within the hour. Who you have seen four times this year. Who you talk to when it is going badly. From that, and only that, we work outward to the people they can reach.
We also believe generosity compounds. The most valuable people in any network are the ones who give intros freely, and the best way to earn that is to be one of them. Villages is built to make giving as easy as asking.
And we believe the private stuff is where the value is, which is exactly why it is never for sale. No dossiers on people who haven't opted in. Nothing sent without you. A business that runs on you paying us, not on your data paying someone else.
AJ, founder of Villages. London, 2026.
Privacy
Villages only works if you connect the sources you would never hand to a CRM. So the rules are strict, simple and written down.
Every member has a private index. Nothing in it is pooled, sold or used to build a picture of anyone else.
Villages stores distilled facts - "met four times this year", "raised from Index" - not your messages. WhatsApp context is gathered on your Mac and the raw chats stay there.
What Villages knows about someone else comes from your own relationship with them and public sources. Nothing more.
Sensitive things get one plain question: who would you feel comfortable knowing this? Anyone, people I know, just Villages, or no one.
Every message is a draft until you approve it. Villages learns your voice; it doesn't borrow your name.
Data lives in the EU. Erasure means erasure - and we're building toward SOC 2 from day one.
Get started
mcp.villages.work/mcp into Settings → Connectors. From then on, Villages answers inside any Claude conversation you have.Free for the founding cohort while we build with you. Needs macOS and a paid Claude plan. Windows and mobile later.
FAQs
Because the moment you need your network is usually mid-conversation - thinking through a raise, a hire, a hard week. Claude is where that thinking already happens, so Villages meets you there. The Mac app handles the gathering; the map is the one visual surface. There is no dashboard to keep up to date.
Right now Villages needs a paid Claude plan. A search bar in the Village Map - ask your village directly - is on the way for people who would rather not go through a chat.
No, and deliberately so. A CRM asks you to maintain it. Villages maintains itself from the context you already produce, and the value is in what it answers, not what it stores.
The app pulls context from the WhatsApp Desktop database on your Mac to understand who you talk to and how close you are. It keeps distilled signals; the raw messages never leave your machine.
It drafts. You send. Over time it learns your voice well enough that most drafts need no edits, but nothing goes out without your approval.
Nothing for the founding cohort. We're building the paid tiers with you - likely a subscription plus paid corridors for the high-value moments: fundraising, hiring, sales.
Yes. Villages is individual-first - each member owns their own private index - which makes it a very good thing to give a community. Book a call and we'll talk it through.