Introductions

Overview

People rarely show up in your network out of nowhere. Most contacts arrived via someone else — a friend who put you in touch with a candidate, an investor who sent you a founder, a former colleague who recommended a vendor. Remy lets you record that chain, one link at a time, and read it in both directions.

The link is called "introduced by". It's optional, set per contact, and points to another person already in your Remy.

Setting "Introduced By"

Open any contact's detail sheet. In the Introduced by field, start typing a name. Autocomplete suggests contacts you already have. Pick one, and the link is set.

The connection is one-way per contact — Alice was introduced by Bob, but Alice isn't automatically marked as someone Bob introduced you to. Remy infers the reverse view from the forward links you've set; you don't have to maintain both sides.

The Reverse View

On any contact's detail sheet, scroll to the Introduced section to see everyone they introduced you to. This is the inverse of "introduced by", computed automatically from every contact who lists this person as their introducer.

The reverse view is where Remy starts to earn its keep over time:

• Open a regular contact and you'll see one or two intros at most.
• Open a top connector and you'll see dozens, with patterns: candidates clustered by industry, investors clustered by stage, customers clustered by use case.

You start to notice who in your network consistently sends you the right people. That's signal you can act on.

Setting Intros in Bulk

After a busy week, an event, or a single big intro that produced many contacts at once, set the same introducer on several people in one go.

From the contact list, select the affected contacts and use the bulk Set introduced by action. See Contacts → Bulk Operations for selection mechanics.

Clearing or Changing the Link

Open the contact and clear the Introduced by field, or pick a different person. Both are recorded as separate Activity Log entries so you can audit changes.

Changing or clearing an intro affects the reverse view of the previous introducer — they'll have one fewer person under their Introduced section after the change.

What's Not Tracked

Remy keeps the model simple on purpose:

• Only one introducer per contact. If Carol introduced you to Dan but Eve closed the deal, you record Carol. There's no chain of multiple introducers.
• No timestamps on the link itself. The "introduced by" field doesn't store when the introduction happened. Use a note for that — the note's timestamp is your record of when you first met this person.
• No mutual introductions. The link is asymmetric: Alice was introduced by Bob doesn't imply Bob was introduced by Alice.

If you need richer relationship history, that's what notes are for — see Notes.

What Gets Logged

Every change to a contact's "introduced by" link shows up in your Activity Log:

• Contact Intro Set — fired when the link is set, changed, or cleared. Bulk changes log one entry per affected contact.

There's no separate event for the reverse view, because it's computed, not stored.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I see all my contacts grouped by introducer?

Not as a single dedicated view today. The current path is to open a connector's detail sheet and read their Introduced section. A network-graph or top-connectors leaderboard view is on the roadmap.

What if my introducer isn't in Remy?

Add them as a manual contact first, even with just a name. Then set the link. A skeletal contact still earns the slot in the reverse view of everyone they introduced.

Does "introduced by" sync to Google?

No. Google Contacts has no equivalent field. The link is a Remy-only enrichment that travels with the contact across syncs.

What happens to the link if I delete the introducer?

The introducer's contact gets removed but the link on each connection stays empty. You'll see a blank Introduced by field on each affected contact, which you can re-set if you re-add them.