People
People is Zimac's grounded relationship workspace: roles and contact identities, source-backed observations, open commitments, private 1:1 notes, related mail and documents, and the history that connects them. The roster also shows who may need attention and what meeting is next.
Useful because it is traceable. People is not a hidden score or a personality dossier. Important observations keep their source, unsourced observations are withheld from timeline and prep, and a privacy ledger shows what is on file and where it came from.
☺ Relationship health
Last touch, expected cadence, next meeting and open loops at roster level.
☺ Grounded context
Profile fields, observations and commitments with visible source discipline.
☺ One timeline
1:1 notes, mail, linked documents, meetings and commitments in date order.
☺ Private & portable
Inspect provenance, merge duplicates, group people, and import or export your data.
/people, say “open People,” or follow a person link from chat, Calendar or another Studio.What it is#
People keeps relationship context attached to the person it concerns. It combines a searchable roster with full profiles and related work, while keeping personal notes local. Profiles can represent coworkers or candidates, and filters separate your team, leaders, peers and candidates without turning any profile into a performance score.
Roster health & organization#
Search names, roles, notes and observations, or filter the roster by relationship and by your own segments. Each card can show the last grounded touch, the next calendar meeting and open commitments. A quiet relationship is marked overdue against a visible default cadence — roughly weekly for direct reports, every two weeks for leaders, every three weeks for peers and monthly otherwise — so the signal is understandable rather than a hidden judgment.
People also flags conservative possible duplicates. You choose whether to merge them or dismiss the suggestion; a merge preserves the kept identity and folds in the other profile's context. From any roster card or person link, open the full profile.
Grounded profile#
A profile starts with practical identity: name, role, relationship, email and Slack identity, plus a short working summary. Below it are observations and commitments. Observations are useful only when their source is present; commitments also track direction — what you owe or what they owe — and whether the loop is open or closed.
The profile can also show typed “works with” relationships to other people and membership in your segments. This creates a lightweight org graph from links you can inspect and edit, not an inferred org chart you cannot challenge.
1:1 continuity#
Each profile carries private 1:1 docs for running agendas, notes and decisions. When a connected calendar shows a 1:1 with someone on file approaching, Joy can automatically file a concise prep pack on that profile from its sourced observations, open commitments, recent notes and recent mail. If the source material is thin, the pack says so.
After a matching 1:1 ends, Zimac can ask for a one-line debrief. Saving it creates a dated 1:1 note; dismissing it records nothing. Together with open commitments, this keeps the thread from one conversation to the next without requiring a separate system.
Timeline & related work#
The profile timeline merges sourced observations and commitments, 1:1 notes, related mail, calendar-linked documents and the next meeting into one reverse-chronological thread. Mail appears when the person's editable email identity matches messages already available to Zimac; Calendar can attach relevant meeting documents to the same person. Opening an item takes you back to the original message, document or event when possible.
Privacy & portability#
Open a person's privacy ledger to inspect their profile, observations and sources, private docs, linked documents, relationship edges, segment membership and the amount of recent mail found. It is the answer to “show me everything on file about this person and where it came from.”
You can export one profile or the entire People store as a portable Zimac JSON bundle. Imports accept contact CSV, vCard and Zimac bundles; contact imports create source-marked identity material rather than fabricated summaries. Export preserves provenance.
How profiles are built#
People follows a no-blank-profile principle. Paste an introduction thread, email signature or meeting notes into Add from material; Joy identifies real people, attaches the material as a source, and creates or updates the matching profiles. You can also begin from a contact import or connected work source. Joy is instructed not to invent traits or fill gaps with confidence.