The same address can go looking.
Your front desk handles the people who come to you. This is the other direction: one private sentence about what you are looking for, and a ranked list of people whose intentions fit it.
What you write
“Looking for a technical co-founder for an AI startup.”
Private. Matches never see your words.
What comes back
Rahul Kumar
Software Engineer
6 of 7 details
Meera Iyer
Product Designer
5 of 7 details
David Chen
Managing Partner
3 of 7 details
Similarity is not compatibility.
Two people who both wrote “looking for an investor” are no use to each other. A founder looking for an engineer and an engineer looking for a founding role share almost no words, and are a top match.
- Needs a co-founderWants a founding role
- Needs capitalIs an investor
- Needs a customerNeeds a product
- Needs to hireIs looking for work
How much could be compared.
Dotstrap compares the details you each stated, and a result says how many of them it could actually compare. Two compared details are a thinner basis than six. Results are ordered by fit across what was compared — it is not a prediction about how a conversation will go.
Read it this way
A result built on six compared details tells you more than one built on two — even when the second looks like a closer fit.
Everything either of you left unstated is simply not compared. It is not counted against anybody, and it is not guessed at.
It finds people. It does not get anybody past a door.
Connect opens that person’s public page. Their front desk then interviews you exactly as it would anybody else.
Appearing high in somebody’s results gives nobody standing at a front desk. The two systems share no state.
Taking part is one switch. Off means you are not compared and do not appear in anybody’s results; your page is unaffected.
The other direction — the front desk — is what happens when somebody arrives at your page instead.
Take the address. Decide about the desk later.
It is free, it is yours permanently, and it cannot be changed afterwards.