Project Dave — Human Connections, Automated with Heart ❤️
Inspiration
We built Project Dave because we were frustrated.
Building real relationships is one of the most valuable things we do — but it’s buried under endless repetitive tasks: finding people, cold messaging/Networking on LinkedIn, sending 100s of emails, DM-ing on Twitter/X, following up manually.
It wastes time, feels transactional, and leaves real human connection behind.
As students hunting for jobs, founders growing companies, and creators building communities, we felt the pain ourselves — and Project Dave is our answer:
Let humans focus on humans, and let Dave handle the grind.
Dave isn’t just a CRM or outreach tool — it's your personal agent for real connection.
What it does
Project Dave helps you find, organize, and deepen your professional and personal relationships — across LinkedIn, Twitter (X), Email, and DMs on any platform.
✅ Find anyone, anywhere — LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, websites
✅ Automate cold outreach — LinkedIn connection requests, Twitter DMs, personalized emails
✅ Personalize at scale — Dave crafts individualized outreach at scale (not spam)
✅ Voice-enable everything (multilingual) — Type or talk to Dave in English, French, Hindi, and many more languages
✅ Build relationships over time — Not just one-and-done messaging
Dave empowers you to grow your network like a human, but scale like a team.
How we built it
Frontend:
- React + TailwindCSS + Butterfly UI (DAIN-powered)
- Vercel for fast deployments
Backend:
- Linkd API for Linkedin profile querying
- DAIN For querying endpoints and building the agent
- Fetch.ai’s ASI-1 Mini model fine-tuned for cross-platform people search
- Proprietary search engine (Dockerized, scalable)
- Voice-enabled DAIN agents (multilingual: English, French, Hindi, and more)
- GCP Kubernetes cluster for scalable infrastructure
- GCP Firestore for secure OAuth and user data storage
- GCP Artifact Registry + Cloud Run for deployments
- Gemini models used for email personalization and reply crafting
- CI/CD pipelines with GCP + Vercel
🔥 Already have 20+ users on our private waitlist.
🕵️♂️ Meet Dave — Your Dork Detective
Dave is your people-finding, outreach-sending, follow-up-handling agent, powered by:
- Fine-tuned ASI-1 Mini for high-accuracy people search
- Text command input — talk to Dave and more
- AgentChatProtocol v0.3.0 for real-time DAIN messaging
- Cross-platform reach — LinkedIn, Twitter (X), Email, DMs, Instagram, and websites
Examples of what you can ask Dave:
- "Find startup founders on LinkedIn and send them personalized connection requests"
- "Find travel content creators on Instagram and send them DMs"
- "Find recruiters hiring for data science roles and email them a personalized intro"
- "Connect with freelance photographers in Paris via Twitter"
- "DM hiring managers at fintech companies on LinkedIn"
- "Find tech journalists on Twitter covering AI and send them a pitch"
- "Reach out to podcast hosts in the marketing space via email"
- "Send follow-up DMs to all the people I networked with last month"
- "Find wellness influencers on Instagram in India and connect"
Dave understands exactly who you want to connect with —
whether it's a recruiter, founder, photographer, content creator, hiring manager, or influencer —
and automates the first steps to building a real relationship.
Unlike anything else — Dave isn't stuck on just LinkedIn.
He searches and connects everywhere people are.
Challenges we ran into
- Fine-tuning ASI-1 Mini for multi-platform, non-structured people search
- Automating personalized voice + text outreach across multiple systems
- Handling OAuth security flows across email, LinkedIn, and DMs
- Scaling inference to thousands of concurrent personalized searches
Accomplishments we’re proud of
- Cross-platform people search (not limited to LinkedIn!)
- Voice + Text automation via DAIN across LinkedIn, Twitter, Email, and DMs
- Multilingual voice agent — supports English, French, Hindi, and more
- Scalable search infrastructure — fully Dockerized and deployed on GCP
- Private beta waitlist of 20+ users
What we learned
- Networking sucks because it’s repetitive, not because humans don't want to connect
- Voice + AI + Search together unlock much deeper, more natural outreach
- There’s huge demand for tools that make relationship-building human again — not spammy
- Every student, founder, and salesperson could use a Dave
What's next for Project Dave
- Beta launch with initial users
- Deeper integrations with calendar, events, and messaging apps
- Personalized AI tuning per user’s network preferences
- Expanding voice command capabilities for seamless "talk to connect" experiences — in any language
- Building full-fledged pipelines for sales, job hunting, and community-building
Quick Tech Highlights:
- Frontend: React + Tailwind + Butterfly (DAIN), Javascript, Typescript, NextJs
- Backend: ASI-1 Mini (Fetch.ai), Gemini personalization models, Python, Ingress, Nginx
- Infra: Dockerized, Kubernetes (GCP- We love it), Vercel, Firestore , Artifacts Registry, Redis, OAuth
- Automation: LinkedIn, Twitter (X), Emails, DMs — all voice-enabled, multilingual (English, French, Hindi, and more)
Dave is the next generation of people search and human-first networking.
Because your time should be spent making real connections, not sending cold emails.
✅ Now multilingual voice-enabled: English 🇬🇧, French 🇫🇷, Hindi 🇮🇳, and more coming soon!
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