Where you're going, not just where you've been

Flynt's biggest addition so far

Flynt is built on a simple principle: meeting the right person is the best route to wherever you want to go next.

A lot of technology sits under that. It picks the match, surfaces what you have in common so the first conversation is easy, and keeps you in touch with the people you rate.

This month it gets its biggest addition so far. You can now set goals, and talk to Flynt directly about where you want to go. Over time we see Flynt becoming a career companion as well as a network. The end goal doesn't change: putting you in front of great people whose perspective you don't have yet. The companion is how we find them.

What the algorithm was missing

Until now, matching worked mostly from where you've come from: your role, your industry, your seniority and the aspirations on your profile. For most members that works well. People in data meet people in data, designers meet designers, and a head of product meets another head of product.

It misses something important, though. What if the person who could help you most is in a completely different field? And even inside your own field, what if you need one very specific kind of person, and Flynt has no way of knowing?

Two examples:

• You're a data scientist building an agentic chat product, and you want an hour with someone in human–computer interaction to think through how call and response should work.
• You're a product designer who wants to meet someone working as a design consultant, because that's the move you're weighing up.

A great match is as much about where you want to go as where you've been.

Until now there was no way to tell Flynt that.

Goals and priorities

There are two new things in Grow, the new space in Flynt where you can also talk to Flynt directly (more on that below).

A goal is where you want to be in two to three years: "running my own company", "leading a design team". Flynt keeps it in mind in everything it asks you and suggests to you from then on.

A priority is sharper: the one kind of person you want to meet next month. "Someone who has scaled a team." "A service designer who has built systems used by hundreds." Flynt looks for that person when it picks your next match, and the match still has to work for both of you.

Priorities are an Expert feature. Your first one is free, so you can see what it does before you pay for it.

Talking to Flynt in Grow

Grow is where you talk to Flynt directly.

Flynt already learns from how you use it: the people you rate, the feedback you leave after a match and your profile. Grow is where you fill in the rest, in your own words. Flynt builds up a picture of you in six parts:

• Where you've been
• Where you're headed
• What you're into
• What you can offer
• Who you want to meet
• What you value

You can see the whole picture under "How Flynt sees you", and correct anything that's wrong.

That picture is your flame. The more Flynt knows about you, the brighter it burns. People change, so it dies down over time too. When it dims, it's time for a quick catch-up.

Where this goes

In the long term, we want Flynt to be your guide through a career that changes faster than it used to: a place to set goals and priorities, and to steer the matching towards the people who matter most for where you are right now.