Kinship is built for people who have learned — the hard way — that their contact history lives in systems they don't control. Here's how we fix that.
Step 01
Export your connections from LinkedIn as a CSV — no API access, no OAuth integrations, no employer permission required. Drop the file in. Your network populates in seconds.
Kinship de-duplicates, cleans, and prepares your contact list for the next step. You don’t have to start from scratch. You start from where you already are.
Also works with contact exports from Google Contacts and Apple Contacts.
Step 02
Your relationship map shows everyone you know, organized by relationship strength — not alphabetical order or last-email-date. Strong connections near the center. Dormant ones at the edges. Professional contacts in blue. Personal connections in green.
You can see at a glance who you’ve been neglecting, who you should re-engage, and who’s drifting. It’s the first honest picture most people have ever had of their own network.
Step 03
After every conversation, log what was said. The detail they shared about their next career move. The lunch you promised to schedule. The project they mentioned offhand.
Kinship keeps your notes private and separate from any AI processing — your raw notes stay yours. AI can surface patterns (“You haven’t spoken to Marcus in four months — he mentioned a board decision in January”), but only on what you’ve asked it to look at.
AI features can be disabled entirely if you prefer to keep it simple.
Step 04
When you move on — voluntarily or not — your Kinship data goes with you. Not to HR. Not to your replacement. Not to the cloud infrastructure your employer controls. To you.
Every note. Every contact. Every history. Exportable, portable, and private.
This is what it means for a relationship system to be yours.