Clay

Clay, which operates its product under the name Mesh at clay.earth, builds personal relationship management software. The product consolidates a user's contacts from email, calendar and social sources into a single, automatically organized and searchable database, keeping contact details current and surfacing changes such as job moves, news mentions and life updates. Features include reminders and intelligent prompts to reconnect, a filtered activity feed covering birthdays, events, news, social changes and posts, business-card scanning that merges scanned details with existing profiles, note-taking that can be triggered from any application, and an AI assistant called Nexus described as an "AI navigator for your network." A Teams offering extends the same data to groups, letting members see who knows whom, route warm introductions and track shared relationships.

The application is distributed as macOS, Windows, web, iOS and Android apps, with integrations to third-party tools including Notion. In the product interface, a home tab aggregates network changes (drawn from sources such as LinkedIn and Twitter) and AI-generated suggestions of a configurable number of people (up to ten) to think about, a concept the company frames as introducing serendipity into a user's relationships. The company positions the product as a tool for managing a personal and professional circle rather than as a networking application, and it lacks sales-funnel functionality typical of sales CRMs.