Manifesto
Finding your people
The best people in our lives rarely came from a search box. A friend of a friend. The person in the next seat at a meetup who answered one message and then stayed for five years.
Marketplaces turned that into a list. Rating, price, badge, next.
Folkso tries to give it back, with the help of the AI you already talk to every day.
Credentials say little about working together
A profile full of logos tells you where a person has been. It says nothing about whether you will enjoy a Tuesday call with them.
Two designers with the same portfolio can be a joy and a headache. One writes short and decides fast, the other wants to talk it through. Both are good, and only one of them is good for you.
So Folkso reads the work and the way you like to work, side by side.
A job can be the start
On a marketplace the story ends when the invoice is paid. Commission taken, contact gone.
We think the first project is often where it starts. The contractor becomes a co-founder. The mentor you paid for one session becomes a friend.
Folkso takes no commission, so nothing pushes you to keep it to one deal.
Every kind of work
Most people are looking for an electrician, a guitar teacher, someone to shoot a wedding or fix a bike on Saturday.
AI tools for finding people mostly serve recruiters and engineers. Folkso is for any task that needs a person, the most down-to-earth ones included.
Sometimes there is no task
Some people just want company. A running partner for 7 a.m. Someone in a new city who reads the same books.
Those are real searches too. When your AI knows what you care about, it can suggest people who probably share your vibe and leave the rest to you.
People choose to be found
Nobody in Folkso was copied from a social network. Everyone created a profile and chose to appear in AI answers.
Contacts stay closed until both sides agree. Your AI explains why someone fits, and the decision stays with the two of you.
Why now
People already ask AI who to bring into a project. Today it answers with links and guesses. In our test, two answers in three named no one.
We want the answer to be a person who said yes in advance.
Folkso is free. Connect it once, or create a profile and let the right people find you.