Tribe Meguri

Everyone has their own rhythm. Tribe Meguri helps you follow it.

Friendships rarely end in an argument. They end because nobody got in touch. Not out of indifference, but because life happened and months pass faster than anyone expects. Relationships do not need grand gestures, they need regularity — and memory is a poor tool for that.

巡り (meguri) is Japanese for the round you walk — and in 巡り合い, the encounter that was meant to happen. That is what this app does: it tells you whose round is due.

Family · the inner ring

The people who are always there, and so the easiest to neglect.

Birthdays and occasions with lead time, gifts in good time, Mother's Day and Father's Day. Keeping your obligations. And a shared family tree the whole family keeps up.

Inner circle · the middle ring

Close friends don't need an occasion. Just regularity.

Everyone has their own rhythm. Tribe Meguri remembers when you last spoke, tells you when someone is due again, and hands you the question that shows you listened.

New friends & business · the outer ring

Acquaintances become friends when you stay in touch.

New friends get a ring of their own, so they don't get lost among the old ones. For business, Meguri remembers company, role and what you talked about, and when a short message is due.

巡り · meguri

The people who matter to you deserve better than your memory.

Tribe Meguri is a private notebook for your relationships. It remembers what you learn about people and tells you when to reach out — before the connection quietly goes dormant.

Tribe Meguri is in beta right now. Join the waitlist and we will let you know as soon as you can start. Already have access? Then you get your sign-in link instead.

We only use your address for the waitlist. More in our privacy notice.

Where this comes from

We were never made to be alone. For thousands of years people lived in small circles: the same faces, the same place, for a lifetime. The tribe, the family, the friends next door. Closeness was not a resolution, it was simply there. Everything in us is tuned to that: our memory, our feel for others, our need to belong.

Within a few decades that has come apart. We move for school, for work, for love. Families get smaller and live further apart. Friends scatter across cities and time zones. And the hours that used to belong to conversation now belong to screens that promise connection and take time.

We think this is one of the great problems of our time. And we believe the answer is not less technology, but the right technology.

Tribe Meguri puts technology on the side of closeness for once. Not a network, but Meguri, a quiet assistant that works the way we are built: it remembers what someone told you. It reminds you of what you promised. It tells you when someone is due again, before it turns into months. And when you pick up the phone, you know the children's names and what mattered last time.

Family

Everyone wants to be a better son. A better mother, a better grandmother, a better uncle. Not out of duty, but because it is one of the things that count in the end.

In everyday life that is harder than it sounds. It takes structure and discipline to think of the birthday before it arrives. To find a gift that was chosen with thought and not bought at the last minute. To get in touch regularly, not only at Christmas. To think of something to do together. And usually exactly that loses out to everything that keeps us busy day to day.

Why carry all of that alone? Meguri reminds you of birthdays before they arrive, and of gifts while there is still time, for birthdays and Christmas alike. It knows when you last got in touch and who you should reach out to next. It keeps track of what you promised and gives you ideas for something great to suggest. That is how you become a better friend, uncle or daughter: not with more time, but with less forgetting and more structure in how you tend your relationships.

Cultivate relationships, don't manage them.

How it works

  1. 1

    Say what happened

    After seeing someone, speak or type what happened. Meguri, your assistant, turns it into a clean entry, pulling out the facts, promises and questions it contains.

  2. 2

    Get reminded before it is too late

    Every person has their own rhythm. Meguri knows it and tells you when someone is due, along with birthdays and what you promised.

  3. 3

    Know what you actually want to ask

    Instead of a pleasantry, you get suggested questions that show you listened. Drawn from what you recorded yourself.

  4. 4

    Keep the overview

    A weekly briefing on your relationships: who is due, what is coming up, what you set out to do. Meguri helps you build and tend your tribe.

What is inside

  • Family, close friends, new friends and business kept apart. Because they work differently
  • Capture by voice or text
  • Birthdays, anniversaries and holidays with lead time
  • Reminders of commitments and promises, so they don't slip through
  • Weekly briefing
  • A calendar over everything that is coming
  • A shared family tree

Your notes stay yours

What you write here is intimate. That is why Tribe Meguri runs on Swiss servers at the Swiss cloud provider Infomaniak. We protect your data wholeheartedly, because it matters to us that you and your tribe are in safe hands.

Starting costs nothing

The first ten contacts are free forever. That is enough to find out whether it helps you. If you want to tend more people, you can take out a subscription or unlock more contacts by inviting others.

Business

In business, what counts is who remembers the details.

Contacts from work and your network get a ring of their own in Tribe Meguri, apart from family and friends, with what matters there.

  • Three tiers

    Close, warm, acquaintance. Each person with their own rhythm, so no one feels forgotten and no one feels pushed.

  • Company and role

    Who does what where and what you talked about last time, before you pick up the phone or write a message.

  • Promises and questions

    What you promised, and the question for next time that shows you listened.

Start with the three people you just thought of.