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lightyear · ai residency · san francisco

the front doorfor founders.

Buzz turns Lightyear's network into meetings. It finds the warmest path to the people you need, drafts the email in your voice, and routes the intro to the partner who actually knows them.

Invitation only. Accounts are created by the Lightyear team.

7days in a traction sprint
25people picked for you, warmest first
4meetings: the goal every week
0emails sent without you pressing Send
how it works

three steps from "who do I know?" to a booked meeting.

01

Connect Gmail and LinkedIn

Buzz reads who you've emailed and how often, never what you wrote, and adds titles from your LinkedIn export. In a few minutes it knows your real network better than your contacts app does.

  • Headers only: no email bodies, no attachments
  • LinkedIn zip uploads as is
  • Disconnect and delete any time
02

Run a 7-day traction sprint

Say who you want to meet: design partners, a seed lead, the VP Finance at a 3PL. Every morning there's a short queue of personal emails. Fix a line, approve, and it lands in your own Gmail drafts. You press Send.

  • Warmest people first, from your own network
  • Follow-ups drafted in the same thread
  • Replies and meetings tracked for you
03

Get the intro from whoever knows them

When a Lightyear partner knows someone at the company you're after, Buzz shows you the role ("COO at Northstar 3PL") and sends a forwardable blurb to that partner. They decide. A person reads every request.

  • Roles and companies, never names, until a partner says yes
  • Double opt-in intros
  • See where every request stands
the lightyear social graph

every partner's network, one living map.

Each partner's Gmail and LinkedIn, merged into a single graph of people and companies. Clusters show where Lightyear is strong. Gold paths show who can make the intro. Press Present and it goes full screen with names hidden, ready for a room.

Built to scaleTens of thousands of people and every company they work at, drawn live in 3D.
Present modeFull screen, auto tour, names masked to initials for screen sharing.
Private by roleFounders see their own contacts plus where Lightyear can help, by role only.
for founders

Meetings, not more tabs.

  • A daily queue of emails worth sending
  • Your social graph, with Lightyear's overlap in gold
  • Ask the partners for anything, tracked to done
  • Use it from Claude with the Buzz connector
for the lightyear team

One inbox for every founder.

  • Asks arrive as clear briefs, routed to who knows them
  • The cohort's sprint, live: sent, replies, meetings
  • The whole team's network, searchable
  • A wiki that founders can read and Buzz can quote
how fo uses google data

what we access, and why.

Gmail message metadata

The To, Cc and Date headers of email you sent, plus labels and thread IDs. Used to show you who you know and how recently you've been in touch, so Buzz can suggest the warmest people to contact. We never read or store message bodies or attachments.

Gmail drafts

Founders only. When you approve an email, Buzz creates it as a draft in your Gmail. It never sends email: you review and send from Gmail yourself.

Calendar events, read only

Founders only. Used to notice when a meeting is booked with someone you emailed during your sprint. We use attendee addresses and event dates only, and don't store event details.

Buzz's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We don't sell your data, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. You can disconnect Google and delete your data at any time. Details are in our privacy policy.

your network is bigger than you think.

Invitation only, for Lightyear founders and staff.