presentsFree live working session · Monday, August 17 · 1:00 PM Eastern
How thoughtful people use AI to build better relationships
The world is busy automating everything. This is 45 minutes about the one place that shouldn’t be automated — and how to use the machines to become more present, more consistent, and more intentional with the people who matter.
free · live · 45 minutes · you leave with a workbook and a 30-day plan
The elephant in the room
The AI-and-relationships debate has two camps. Both are wrong.
Camp one — abstain
“keep that thing away from my friends”
Principled. Understandable. And meanwhile the follow-up you meant to send is eleven days old, and caring quietly stays a feeling instead of an action.
Camp two — automate
“the machine sends 500 messages while I sleep”
Efficient. And everyone can tell. Nothing says “you matter to me” like a message you visibly didn’t write.
Both camps make the same mistake: they think the question is about the technology.
It isn’t. It never was.
The real problem
You didn’t stop caring. You ran out of hours.
Nobody loses a relationship on purpose. They lose it in the gap between caring about someone and doing something about it. You know the inventory:
- the article you meant to send — never sent
- the congratulations you composed in your head — never written
- the follow-up — still open in a tab somewhere
- the introduction two people deserved — never made
None of it happened because you’re careless. It happened because you’re busy.
AI shouldn’t replace your relationships.
It should remove the friction that prevents them.
That single idea is the whole session. Everything else is how.
What we’ll actually build
45 minutes. One framework.
The Authentic Relationship OS.
A practical operating system for relationships in the AI era — six pillars, each with a working exercise. Here’s as much of it as we’re giving away:
Pillar 01
Draw your line
Decide exactly what AI is allowed to touch in your relationships — and what it never gets to. Everyone’s line lands somewhere different. You’ll find yours.
Pillar 02
Build a memory that doesn’t drop people
The names, details, and promises your brain was never going to hold on its own. Where all of it should live — and how it gets there without you typing.
Pillar 03
Draft at machine speed. Send at human speed.
The one principle that resolves the entire authenticity question. Worth the 45 minutes by itself.
Pillar 04
Engineer serendipity
The reconnection, the introduction, the right article to the right person — surfaced on purpose instead of stumbled into.
Pillars 05 + 06
Kept for the live room.
Come find out. They’re the two people ask the most questions about.
The sentence you’ll leave with
I want AI to help me , but I never want AI to .
You’ll finish it yourself, in the room. It becomes your operating principle for the whole AI era — and it fits on a sticky note.
You walk out with
The workbook
Not a pile of prompts. A document you build during the session — your own relationship operating system, on paper.
Your boundary statement
One sentence that settles what AI does — and never does — in your name.
A 30-day reset
Four weeks, one focus each. You can start it the same afternoon.
Five names
And the nudge to actually reach out. That part was always going to be on you.
Your host
Zvi Band
Your hostZvi has spent over a decade obsessing over one question: how do real relationships survive busy lives? He’s answered it in three formats so far.
The book
Author of Success Is in Your Sphere (McGraw-Hill)
The track record
Founder of Contactually — the relationship CRM tens of thousands of professionals relied on, acquired by Compass
The current obsession
Building Relatable, and the question of what relationships become in the AI era
Three fair warnings
Yes, we make software.
Relatable is hosting, and our worldview is baked in. But the framework is tool-agnostic — it works with a notebook, a calendar, and whatever AI you already use. Nobody will make you sign up for anything.
It’s a working session.
There’s a workbook, and you’ll be asked to write in it. Watching passively works. The people who write get more out of it.
If you want AI to do your relationships for you —
this will disappoint you. On purpose.
Save your seat
Monday, August 17
1:00 PM Eastern
Free, live, 45 minutes. Registration runs through Luma — drop your email below and you’re in.
Can’t make it live? Register anyway — registrants get the recording and the workbook. But it’s a working session, and working sessions are better in the room.