You’ve never spoken to most of your network.

And now most of what does reach you wasn’t written by a person either. Outreach gets generated at scale, so an honest message looks exactly like all the ones that aren’t.

Orbit gives you two conversations a week. The connection comes after you’ve actually talked.

This week

2 left

Kiran Rao

Three months into a space she has no network in.

Tara Mehta

Two quarters past the pricing change you’re about to make.

Aditya Menon

Hired his first salesperson the month you’re about to.

Pick two. The third one will still be there next week.

Why

Your network is enormous and almost entirely silent.

Most of the people in it are there because you worked at the same company once, or because one of you accepted a cold request years ago. You have never had a conversation with them and you never will.

Meanwhile the feed learned to reward whoever performs best, so the writing turned into hooks and humble‑brags. You are more reachable than you have ever been, and no closer to the one person who already solved the thing you are stuck on.

A network you can’t ask anything of is just a list of names.

How it goes

You talk first. Being connected comes after.

Every connection on Orbit starts as a conversation between two people who had a reason to have one. There are two ways that happens.

You met in the room
A tap of a card at a meetup, a coffee, a hallway at a conference. The conversation already happened, so Orbit takes your word for it — you both confirm and it counts immediately.
You met through something they wrote
You reach out about what someone is working on. If they say yes, what you get is a conversation — not a connection.
Orbit isn’t grading you. It waits until you have actually exchanged something — messages back and forth, a meet that happened — and then asks you both whether to keep it.

Instead of searching

You don’t go looking for anyone.

There’s no directory to browse, nothing to swipe through, and nobody to cold‑message. Once a week you write one line about what you’re actually working on — tell Coach directly, or just post it. Same line either way.

The people already in your orbit see it. Coach reads it to find the ones outside your orbit who ought to meet you, so the introductions arrive instead of you going hunting for them.

Pricing our SMB tier without cannibalising self‑serve. Trying to understand what breaks before we ship it, not after.

One line, text only. It’s the closest thing Orbit has to a profile.

Coach

Someone is working on your problem right now.

Once a week you say what you’re actually working on. Coach asks one question back, then goes looking for people thinking about adjacent things — and shows you why it picked them.

Some weeks it comes back with nobody. Coach would rather tell you it’s a quiet week than invent a reason to spend one of your two.

Coach

Monday · weekly check‑in

Monday — what are you working on?

Pricing our SMB tier without cannibalising self‑serve.

Someone who’s shipped that transition, or someone in the middle of it?

Someone who’s already done it.

Then Tara. She’s two quarters past the version of this you’re about to hit.

Tara Mehta · VP Product

Moved an infrastructure product off seat‑based pricing two quarters ago, and wrote about what broke.

Left out

What isn’t here is the product.

Each of these was considered and cut. They are the mechanics that turned professional networks into places people perform.

No likes
A post says what you’re working on. It isn’t something to perform. Replies only.
No view counts
Nothing about your standing moves because a post travelled further.
No follow
Your feed is people you’re connected to. You can’t subscribe to a stranger.
No read receipts
They manufacture obligation. A reply should stay a choice.
No open inbox
You cap what reaches you — and lower is healthier than higher.
No public score
How you show up matters here, but you are the only person who ever sees it.

One good conversation a week is enough. That isn’t a limitation — it’s the whole design.

Orbit is invite only.