You scroll your phone for somebody else when a name goes past that you do not recognise. You pause, trying to place it, but you have no idea who it is.
At some point, you met this person. You connected, held your phones together, and their contact jumped across in two seconds. You gave about two seconds of thought to what came next.
We have made exchanging contact details almost effortless, whether through a QR code, AirDrop or a photo of a card. We solved the exchange remarkably well, but perhaps we stopped too soon.
Because a contact tells you who someone is, but not why they might matter. What they worked on, what you promised each other, the context that gave the meeting meaning gets left behind.
So you keep the number and lose the context. And the context was the point.
Watch what people have started doing instead. They take a photo together and send it to each other, not for the album, but so that when the name comes up later, a face and a moment come with it.
People only invent workarounds when something is missing.
And it works both ways.
Somewhere out there, someone you once met could matter enormously to what you are doing now. Maybe you are building something, hiring someone, entering a market, looking for an introduction, or trying to solve a problem they happened to know a great deal about.
When you met them, you had no reason to know what would become relevant later. Now something has, but you do not know who to look for.
Their number might still sit in your phone and their name in your contacts, but the conversation that gave that name meaning disappeared months ago.
We made exchanging contacts instant, but the value of a connection might not reveal itself until much later.
You are not careless. Nobody was built to hold hundreds of conversations in their head, so give your memory something to work with. Leave yourself a note while the conversation is still warm: what they work on, what they care about, something they know, something they need, or anything you promised to send. Or say it into your phone in the taxi. It takes seconds.
Then life moves on.
You change jobs, enter new markets and find yourself needing things you did not need before. One day, someone you met six months ago becomes exactly the person you should speak to. You just need to find them again.
You cannot know which connections will matter later, but you can keep enough of the moment to recognise them when they do. Connection runs on memory, ours is small, and a sentence written on the night makes it bigger.
So we built somewhere to put it.
It is called kitakits. Tagalog for see you later, which is what you say at the end of a good conversation and, more often than we realise, the last thing that happens between you.
Photograph the card, or just say who you met. Later, once you have walked away, kitakits asks you one thing:
What do you want to remember about them?
The answer has to come from you.
Once you answer, kitakits goes quiet. No reminders to “follow up,” no message written for you, no attempt to decide who should matter. It simply remembers what you said.
Then, months later, your circumstances change and you find yourself asking, “Who did I meet who knew about angel investing in Dubai?”
And there they are.
Not because you remembered their name, but because you remembered enough about them while the moment was still fresh.
A connection you had almost forgotten becomes discoverable again when your circumstances make it relevant. You can see what they worked on, what you talked about and why your paths crossed in the first place.
When you write, you do not have to reconstruct a relationship from a name in your phone. You already have the context, which means the message could only have been written to them.
That is how you end up with a reply that opens, “How did you remember that?”
We are inviting twenty people to try kitakits first, and they get free access for life. You do not need us for any of this; a note in your phone works. But if you would rather capture the moment in ten seconds and keep it somewhere you can ask later, come and try ours.