Being good with people, written down.
We build the app that remembers people for you, so we spend a lot of time on the question underneath it: what actually makes someone good at this? These are the answers we keep coming back to, plus the comparisons we would want to read before buying anything in this category, Blinq included.
Doing it well
The habits underneath being good with people: where a relationship starts, what to write down, how to know the person before you meet, and how to follow up without a system you hate.
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The accountant who gets the referral is the one who remembered.
An accountant's best clients rarely come from an event. They come from a client who told a friend, or a lawyer who sent someone over. How to be the name that comes to mind.
10 October 2026 · 5 min read
Every new relationship starts somewhere.
A card is a commodity, and that is exactly why the bondai digital business card is free. The scan is not the product. It is the first minute of a relationship bondai then helps you grow.
11 September 2026 · 4 min read
The daughter's name, the knee surgery. What to write down after meeting someone.
All the advice says take notes on people. Almost none of it says what belongs in them. What is worth keeping, what to leave out, and the one line not to cross.
9 September 2026 · 6 min read · updated 11 September 2026
Know the person before you meet.
Most advice about preparing for a meeting is about the meeting. The part you get wrong is the person. Four questions, answered on the walk in, and how to walk in prepared without doing the prep.
9 September 2026 · 6 min read · updated 11 September 2026
Remember every detail. You don't need a better memory.
The person who asks about your daughter's exams six months later does not have a better memory than you. They have a habit that takes about a minute. Here it is.
26 August 2026 · 5 min read · updated 11 September 2026
Follow-up is easy once you have a reason.
Most follow-up advice assumes you enjoy admin. You don't. What keeps a relationship warm is a real reason to reach out, said in your own words. Here is how to make that happen more often.
26 August 2026 · 5 min read · updated 11 September 2026
AI and relationships
What a machine should do around a relationship, and the parts that have to stay yours. We build AI for professional relationships, so we have had to answer this in code, not in theory.
A bot in the room is not a memory.
A bot in every meeting is normal now, and mostly nobody asked. A working etiquette for recording, what to keep and what to delete, and why a transcript is not the same as remembering someone.
9 September 2026 · 7 min read · updated 11 September 2026
The one thing AI should never do with your relationships.
AI can know the person, remember every detail and find the reason to reach out. It should never speak as you. Why bondai drafts and you press send, and why that is the whole product.
26 August 2026 · 5 min read · updated 11 September 2026
Choosing a tool
Comparisons, including the ones that do not flatter us. Blinq is named straight, and so is where it wins.
Blinq, Dex, Mesh, folk, Covve, Monica and bondai, compared straight.
We make one of these, and we say so up front. Who each one actually suits, what happens after the scan, and where the others beat us.
27 August 2026 · 8 min read · updated 11 September 2026
bondai vs Blinq, and the rest of the category.
Blinq remembers what happened. The contact databases wait to be fed. bondai is built to know what matters before you ask. The side-by-side, including where they win.
27 August 2026 · 8 min read · updated 11 September 2026
You don't need a CRM. You need to know the person.
A CRM tracks the account for a manager to look at. What actually costs you is walking into a room not knowing what you talked about last time. Those are different problems, and only one is worth solving.
26 August 2026 · 6 min read · updated 11 September 2026