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HOW IT WORKS

From a stranger at your page to a decision in your inbox.

Dotstrap is a hosted personal front desk. You claim a permanent public address at dotstrap.com/{your-handle} and put your name, photograph, role, bio, interests and links on it. The page carries no email address, phone number or messaging handle. Instead, an AI front desk holds the first conversation with every visitor, evaluates it against request types you wrote privately, and files it: a match reaches your inbox as a written brief with an intent, a priority and a recommendation, and anything else is declined politely in your name and filed as spam, where you can still read it and recover it. The same account can declare a private intent — one sentence about what you are looking for right now — and receive a ranked list of people whose declared intents are complementary, without anyone ever seeing your words. It is for founders, investors, executives, creators and experts whose inbound volume exceeds their capacity to triage it. It is not a chatbot, not a scheduling tool and not a CRM, and it books nothing.

  1. 01

    You claim an address

    A Dotstrap address is permanent and cannot be changed once it is claimed.

    Your name, photograph, role, bio, interests and links go on it. What deliberately cannot is an email address, a phone number or a messaging handle.

  2. 02

    You write your criteria, privately

    The owner configures request types and a sentence of qualification for each, and nothing else.

    A title — “Investment opportunities” — and one sentence: “B2B SaaS founders raising Seed–Series A with early commercial traction.” No rule builder, no keyword list, and nothing published.

  3. 03

    A visitor arrives and reads

    Reading a Dotstrap page requires no account at all.

    Signing in is required only to write, and it is one tap of Google. No password or phone number is collected from anybody, including the owner.

  4. 04

    The front desk interviews them

    The AI's job is not to answer questions. It is to decide who reaches the owner.

    It greets the visitor under the owner's name and asks what they want, at what stage, and why. Before anything is sent it writes the request back for them to confirm.

  5. 05

    It decides, against criteria nobody can see

    A match reaches the owner's inbox; anything else is declined in the owner's name and filed as spam.

    The verdict is never shown to the visitor. Nothing is deleted either way — a declined conversation sits in spam with its reason, and moves to the inbox in one press.

  6. 06

    The owner reads a brief

    The owner is shown a summary and not the transcript.

    Who they are, a category, a priority, why they reached out, the context and one recommendation. Then two decisions: not interested, or start conversation.

  7. 07

    Or the owner goes looking instead

    Intent Match ranks people by how compatible their declared intentions are, not by how similar their words are.

    One private sentence about what they are looking for returns a ranked list of people. Nobody's sentence is shown to anybody — a result carries a face, a name, a public role and a percentage.

THE OUTPUT

What a brief actually looks like

The whole of what an owner sees when somebody gets through.

Priya Nair

Rivet ·dotstrap.com/priya

PartnershipHigh priority

Why they reached out

Wants to take their sales platform to market through your channel, and has asked for 20 minutes to talk through the commercial shape of it.

Relevant context

  • Founder
  • SaaS · 12 people
  • Early revenue
  • US

Recommendation

Matches the partnership criteria you wrote. Worth your attention.


Written by your front desk from the conversation it had. You are not shown the transcript — the summary is the point.

THE LIMITS

What it deliberately does not do

What it does not store
No password, no email field and no phone number. Sign-in is Google.
What it does not do
It books nothing. Dotstrap holds no calendar and never sees anyone's availability.
What it is not
Not a chatbot, not a scheduling link, not a CRM. It is admission control for one person's attention.

When someone should use this

When you want to publish an address and cannot publish an inbox. If your inbound is small enough to read, an email address is a better answer. If you want to be booked rather than screened, a scheduling link is the right tool and this is not it.

Read next: the front desk, Intent Match, or the glossary.

Take the address. Decide about the desk later.

It is free, it is yours permanently, and it cannot be changed afterwards.