Professional networking · Invite‑only
Conversation precedes connection
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.
Orbit
Your reach‑outs
Room for two conversations this week
Reach out to someone Coach suggests
Coach found 3
regenerate
Kiran Rao
Founder
Three months into a space she has no network in.
Tara Mehta
VP Product
Two quarters past the pricing change you’re about to make.
Aditya Menon
Founder
Hired his first salesperson the month you’re about to.
Why
More reachable than ever. No closer to anyone.
Your network is enormous and almost entirely silent. Most of it is 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 — and none of it brings you nearer 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
There are two ways in.
Orbit is an app, plus a physical card. Every connection on it starts as a conversation between two people who had a reason to have one.
You met in the room
A tap of your Orbit card — the physical one in their hand — 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 waits until you have actually exchanged something — messages back and forth, a meet that happened — and then asks you both whether to keep it.
The post
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.
Coach
Someone is working on your problem right now.
Once a week you tell Coach what you’re actually working on — there’s no profile underneath that line to optimise. Coach asks one question back, then goes looking for people thinking about adjacent things, and shows you why it picked them in plain words you can argue with.
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 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.
Questions
Asked often.
What is Orbit?
An invite‑only professional network — an app, plus a physical NFC card. You get two conversations a week, and being connected comes only after you’ve actually talked.
Who sees my posts?
People you’re connected to. Replies stay inside the author’s orbit. There are no likes, view counts or public scores anywhere — how you show up on Orbit is visible only to you.
What does the card do?
It’s how you connect in person. A tap opens your page — your name and what you’re working on right now — and if you both confirm, the connection counts immediately. The conversation already happened; Orbit takes your word for it.
What happens to my data?
The product is built so that reputation signals stay private — karma is never public, there are no read receipts, and you cap what reaches you. The specifics are in the privacy policy, written in plain language.
Do I need an invite to try it?
The app is free to install, and while the beta is running testers get in without an invite. Install it below. After the beta, getting in means someone already on Orbit brings you — that part is the design, not a queue.
Two slots a week — and one good conversation is enough. That isn’t a limitation, it’s the whole design.
Free to install. Orbit is invite-only — someone already on it brings you in — but while the beta is running, testers get in without one.