ConnectMachine gives interior designers an AI Concierge that searches your contacts and calendar in plain language. Instead of scrolling hundreds of clients and vendors, you ask, 'who wanted the kitchen remodel?' or 'which rep does unlacquered brass?', and it surfaces the right person with your notes attached. It finds people by the project, style, or material you remember, not the name you forgot.
Interior design runs on relationships, and they pile up fast. Every consultation, showhouse, and market trip adds names: the client who wanted the kitchen remodel, the prospect with the spring budget, the tile rep with the perfect zellige, the workroom that saved your last install. Six months later they are all one long list, and the name is the one thing you cannot remember.
The AI Concierge closes that gap. Instead of scrolling hundreds of contacts hoping a name jumps out, you ask a plain question the way you would ask an assistant, 'who wanted the kitchen remodel?', and it hands you the right person with your notes attached. You search by the project, the style, or the material you actually remember.
Why your contact list stops working at three hundred names
A designer's phone is not a tidy address book. It is clients and past clients, prospects who are still deciding, and a whole bench of vendors and trades: workrooms, cabinet makers, tile and stone reps, upholsterers, lighting showrooms, painters, and the one antique dealer who always has the right piece. The name is usually the one detail you did not save in your head.
The trouble is that a contact list only lets you search by name. You remember the project and the person's taste, not how they spelled their last name, so you scroll for five minutes and still call the wrong Sarah. Scrolling is not searching, and by the time you find them the follow-up has already gone cold.
- The project: the kitchen remodel, the loft renovation, the whole-house in Ridgewood.
- The style: warm minimalism, English country, quiet luxury.
- The material or piece: unlacquered brass, reclaimed oak, the zellige tile.
- The vendor's specialty: the drapery workroom, the stone yard, the lighting rep.
- Where you met: the showhouse, High Point Market, a client's dinner party.
Ask in plain language, the way you would ask an assistant
The AI Concierge searches your contacts and calendar conversationally. You type or say a question in your own words, and it reads across every contact and note to find who you mean. There is no filter to set up and no tags to maintain, you just ask.
- Open the AI Concierge and ask, 'who wanted the kitchen remodel?'
- It searches your contacts, notes, and calendar, not just names.
- It hands back the matching people with the notes you saved on each.
- Tap the right one to open their card and see their links, history, and details.
- Pick the conversation up exactly where it left off, months later if you need to.
Because it reads your notes, the answers are only as good as what you saved. A quick voice memo after each meeting is what turns 'I think there was someone' into an exact name in one question.
The Concierge is only as sharp as your notes
The search works because every contact can carry notes and voice memos, and the Concierge reads them. The habit that makes it powerful is small: the second a consultation ends, record a ten-second note while the room is still in your head.
'Loft renovation, loves warm minimalism, spring budget, hated the open shelving.' That one line is what lets you later ask 'who had the spring budget for the loft?' and get a name instead of a shrug. The note takes less time than saving the contact by hand, and it does the remembering for you.
Search your calendar the same way
The Concierge does not stop at contacts, it reads your calendar too, which matters when your week is a mix of site visits, installs, vendor meetings, and first consultations. Instead of hunting through the grid, you ask about your week in the same plain language, and it ties the appointment back to the person and your notes on them.
- 'Who am I seeing at the site visit on Thursday?'
- 'When did I last meet the loft client?'
- 'Which consultations do I have this week?'
- 'Who did I meet at the showhouse in the spring?'
One question covers clients and your whole vendor bench
A designer lives on their vendors as much as their clients, and both sit in the same book. The Concierge does not care whether you are looking for the homeowner or the workroom, it searches everyone you have saved, so sourcing a project is one question instead of a scroll through screenshots and old texts.
Mid-project you can ask 'which rep does unlacquered brass?' or 'who was the tile vendor from market?' and get the contact with your notes on lead times and minimums. The bench you built over years of shows and installs finally answers back, so you spec faster and stop rebuilding the same shortlist for every job.
How every contact gets into the book
The Concierge can only find people you have saved, and getting them in is the easy part. Clients and prospects add themselves when they scan your card, and paper cards from vendors and trades go in with the scanner, so the book stays complete without a night of data entry.
- When a client scans your QR, they can share their contact back and land in your book in one tap, with no app for them to install.
- For a paper card from a vendor or contractor, snap it with the AI scanner, which reads the name, company, title, email, and phone.
- Add a quick note or voice memo on the project, style, or specialty while it is fresh.
- From then on, that person turns up the moment you ask the Concierge for them, by project, specialty, or where you met.
