Tribe keeps what you know about the people you work with in one place: how you met, what they like to talk about, what to steer around. It is built and tested, and not running in production yet.
Tribe is built around a simple idea from Harvey Mackay: relationships are built on specifics, so write the specifics down. The web app holds the profiles, the timeline, the groups, and search; an API and 41 agent tools do the rest; and the other fleet tools ask Tribe who someone is.
Identity, contact information, education, military service, family, career, interests, social life, drinking and smoking, personality and goals, and the relationship itself. Open one at a time, and click any field to edit it in place.
Twenty-two profile fields in three tiers (essentials 40 percent, relationship 35, deeper knowledge 25) give each person a score, with a count of what is filled in for each tier.
Politics, religion, drinking, smoking, and health notes are stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM and sit behind a Reveal button on screen until you ask to see them.
Children (with their schooling and interests), schools, jobs, and military service are entries you add and remove on the profile, not one long text box.
Your notes and the email and meeting entries Tribe holds for a person, newest first, filtered by email, calendar, or notes.
Write a note on the Notes tab, pin the ones that matter, and read them newest first after the pinned ones.
Groups (the demo has executive team, board, investors, and more) and tags with counts sit in the sidebar. To list only those people today, search for tag:board instead.
Press Control or Command plus K and type a name, or add operators such as tag:, company:, strength:, completeness:, and last_contact:. Ten operators in all.
A force-directed map of your contacts, joined by shared meetings, email threads, introductions, company, and group. Zoom, pan, and filter by group or tag.
A health tile for every contact, the relationships that have gone longest without contact, birthdays and anniversaries coming up, and a count of open and overdue follow-ups.
On a profile's Insights tab, Tribe asks a hosted language model for five things to raise, based on interests, family, and what you last talked about, and keeps them for a week.
41 tools let a coding or planning agent look people up, add notes, run searches, read the dashboard, import and export, and work the marketing outreach review.
Courier, Slate, Envoy, Beacon, and Chirp ask Tribe who someone is through service-token endpoints, so a contact lives in one place. Cadence's outreach bookings carry a Tribe contact ID.
vCard, CSV with column mapping, and Apple Contacts files. A contact whose email matches an existing one is skipped and listed.
For Beacon's marketing outreach: a gated workspace for deciding who a creator is and what each contact has agreed to, with proof for every change.
Real captures of the running tool, with fictional StrataForge Robotics data. They follow your theme.
Create a contact with a name and a few basics, or import a vCard, CSV, or Apple Contacts file. A contact whose email matches one you already have is skipped and listed.
Open the profile and add what you know, one category at a time. The completeness score shows what is still blank.
Write notes, group and tag people, and watch the dashboard for the people you have not talked to in a while.
Search before a call, ask for conversation starters, or let another fleet tool or an agent look the person up.
Tribe is a web app, and this is what its code and tests show today. It has a skip link, labeled search and filters, keyboard-operable contact rows, and no horizontal overflow at 375 pixels. A real-browser axe-core scan of ten pages in both themes at two widths first found serious problems (low-contrast text, nested buttons, unnamed buttons, names that dropped their visible text); they were fixed the same day and the rescan reports no violations. Automated scans cannot judge keyboard or screen-reader use, and the app has not been tested with a screen reader. We do not claim a conformance level for the app.
Partly supported
A skip link jumps to the main content. Control or Command plus K focuses the contact search. Contact rows in the list take Tab focus and open with Enter, the tiles in the relationship health strip open with Enter or Space, and the profile tabs, buttons, and form controls are real buttons and fields. The network graph is a single labeled image, so its individual contacts cannot be reached from the keyboard. Nobody has walked every flow with only a keyboard.
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The page has a skip link, labeled search and filter controls, and an image label on the network graph. An automated axe-core scan of the whole app and of the contact list, dashboard, network, settings, import, and outreach review routes finds no violations in jsdom, and the real-browser scan, after fixes, finds none either. The profile's tabs are plain buttons without tab roles, so they do not announce which tab is selected. Tribe has not been tested with VoiceOver, NVDA, or any other screen reader.
Partly supported
Tribe's magenta accent measures 5.91 to 1 against white in light mode and 6.69 to 1 against the dark card color in dark mode, both above 4.5 to 1. As small text on the design system's shaded surfaces the kit measured the accent at 4.34 to 1, so this site's links use a slightly darker shade. The rest of the palette comes from the Renkara design system and has not been measured in the app, and the app sets some small text, such as a count beside a group name, in lighter tints that have not been measured. The jsdom scan does not compute contrast. The real-browser scan did, and it found low-contrast text in the dashboard's follow-up queue in dark mode.
Partly supported
The design system's global stylesheet shortens every animation and transition to almost nothing when the system asks for reduced motion, and the outreach review page has its own reduced-motion rule. This was read from the stylesheets and not checked in a browser with the setting turned on.
Not yet tested
Nobody has tested Tribe at larger text sizes or browser zoom. Much of the app is styled with fixed small sizes, so large text may crowd or clip.
Partly supported
Below 768 pixels the sidebar becomes a menu behind a button and closes when you pick a page. The real-browser scan loaded 10 pages at 375 pixels in both themes and none overflowed sideways. Nobody has used the app on a phone or checked that each page is comfortable there, and the profile's tab row scrolls sideways by design.
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| Stands in for | Harvey Mackay's paper Customer Profile, A personal CRM |
Courier looks people up in Tribe by email address or name.
Tribe has a Cadence client for meeting history, and Cadence's outreach bookings carry a Tribe contact ID.
Slate's sharing screen searches Tribe's contacts to pick who to share with.
Envoy looks up contacts and contact cards in Tribe.
Beacon's outreach reads a contact's permissions and relationship summary from Tribe.
Chirp has a Tribe integration for contact lookups.
Tribe ships an MCP server so a coding or planning agent can work your contact book: look someone up, read their timeline, add a note, ask who has gone quiet, import a file, or work the outreach review.
list_contactsget_contactcreate_contactupdate_contactdelete_contactmerge_contactssearch_contactslookup_contactautocomplete_contactslist_groupscreate_groupadd_to_groupremove_from_groupadd_noteget_timelineget_commitmentsget_stale_relationshipsget_upcoming_datesget_relationship_dashboardget_network_graphget_completenessget_briefingget_insightsget_conversation_starterssuggest_enrichmentaccept_enrichmentimport_contactsexport_contactscreate_creator_brandlist_creator_brandsget_creator_brandmerge_creator_brandsstage_creator_importget_creator_importresolve_creator_import_rowresolve_outreach_contactget_outreach_preferenceget_outreach_relationship_summarylist_outreach_reconsent_evidenceupdate_outreach_preferencecheck_service_healthNot yet. Tribe is built and tested, but it is not running in production, and the Aerie launcher lists it as coming soon. This site shows it running locally on a fictional company's data. To ask about access, write to contact@renkara.com.
Every screenshot shows the contact book of Daniel Xu, Chief of Staff at StrataForge Robotics, the fictional company from the novel The Deferral. The people, companies, notes, and dates are made up. No real contact appears anywhere on this site.
Harvey Mackay's Customer Profile is a list of 66 questions about the people you do business with: where they went to school, what their family is like, what they do on weekends, what they care about. Tribe turns the idea into eleven categories of fields you can fill in, with a score for how much you know. It does not fill them in for you.
Not today. The code that would pull facts from email, suggest profile updates, write relationship insights, scan for duplicates, and send reminders is written, but the scheduled jobs that run it are placeholders, so none of it happens on its own.
Only when you ask. A conversation starter request sends a person's name, company, title, interests, and spouse details, plus when you last spoke and how strong the relationship is, to Mercury 3. A briefing request, through the API or an agent tool, sends the profile to Claude Sonnet 5.5, and the fields that Tribe encrypts are left out. Nothing else in Tribe calls a language model.
Not directly. Tribe imports files: a vCard, a CSV, or an Apple Contacts database. Syncing with Google, iCloud, and Microsoft is not built (the Settings switch has nothing behind it), and there is no LinkedIn or Outlook connection.
No. Tribe is a web app with a menu layout for narrow screens. There is no iPhone, iPad, or Mac version.
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