Quaiint reads who you've emailed over the years and finds the people you were close to and drifted from. Then, if you want, it turns contacts scattered across old accounts into one clean list.
npx skills add getquaiint/quaiint
Then ask your assistant: "Who should I reconnect with?"
Your co-founder's first hire. Four years of near-daily email, then he moved to Lisbon.
Ran the 2018 pilot with you. Just started a new company, per her signature.
Close friend from the Boston years. You wrote each other every few weeks for four years.
Your first board observer. Long threads about hiring, then nothing.
Five thousand names, and the ones you'd most like to hear from are the ones you haven't written to in years. Scrolling won't find them.
The company you left, the one you sold, the one shutting down in March. Each holds a slice of who you know, and the slice goes when the account does.
Old work addresses, acquired companies, people who moved on. Nothing tells you which until a note bounces.
Same person or two? Keep or let go? Family and anyone sensitive stay exactly as you say. Every answer, and every automatic change, goes into a change log with its reason. Try it.
Two cards for Priya Raman. Same person?
Marcus Webb. 140 emails in 2019–21, none since. Mostly board threads.
Elena Ortiz. Close from 2012 to 2016. Quiet for eight years.
It runs inside your own assistant, on files and accounts you connect. We never see your contacts. Your AI provider does, so use one you trust with your email.
Every removal, merge and label is logged with its reason. Your original exports are copied first and never touched.
The import is tested on five contacts first, and Google's Undo changes puts everything back. Nobody gets cut without your say.
"This actually helped me see my network more clearly. Remembering people from way back to connect with."Dave Balter, after his first review
In studies of executives who got back in touch with people they hadn't spoken to in years, those conversations took less time than talks with current contacts and were rated as useful or more so. Old ties bring fresh information and still carry trust.
Levin, Walter & Murnighan, "Dormant Ties: The Value of Reconnecting," Organization Science, 2011.
npx skills add getquaiint/quaiintOr download it from GitHub and put the network-review folder in your assistant's skills folder.
For the reconnect list it needs your email history: an email connector in your assistant, or a mailbox export from Google Takeout. For the cleanup, your contact exports. It runs a little Python on your machine; nothing is uploaded.
Leaving a company, selling one, losing an old account? We'll run your first review with you. Free while we learn.
Write with what's changing and roughly how many accounts you have. One reply, about your review.
davebalter@gmail.comNo. There's no Quaiint server. Everything goes between you, your assistant and your accounts. Your AI provider sees what you give your assistant.
Only the headers: who, to whom, when. It asks before using subject lines, and never reads message bodies unless you ask.
No. It removes dead addresses and logs each one. Cutting a person is always your call, and the import is yours to click.
The skill is free and open source. Your assistant's normal usage applies.
Once a quarter: a fresh reconnect list, and a list that stays current.