Recommendations from people you trust

Real recommendations from the people you actually trust — not strangers, not algorithms, not bots, not paid influencers. Trace, your personal agent, just helps turn their answers into one clear pick.

How it works

See how a recommendation comes together.

Ask the people you trust, watch the answers come in, and let Trace turn them into one clear pick — all inside the app.

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You ask

Pose a question and choose who sees it — your inner circle, friends, or everyone.

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Your circle answers

The right people weigh in — real recommendations from people who actually know.

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Your Ask8 responses
Best coffee in NYC?
Trace's pickLeaning this way
Devoción
Go with Devoción — incredible in-house-roasted coffee and a space you'll actually want to sit and work in, per someone in your network.
Hide Trace's reasoning
I picked Devoción because it pairs standout coffee with a place worth lingering, which feels like the strongest overall fit. The closest alternative was Birch Coffee for the same sit-and-stay appeal, just with less of a standout coffee hook.
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Trace picks

Your agent reads every answer and gives you one clear recommendation — with the why.

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My Circles

Make a circle for your people.

Start a private circle — your sorority, your ski crew, your book club — and invite exactly who you want. Every ask and share inside it stays inside it.

  • Closed and members-only
  • You control who’s in
The trust graph

Your inner circle counts more than a stranger.

Trust is transitive — but it decays with distance, and it's domain-specific: someone you trust on restaurants isn't automatically trusted on skincare. Fluence gathers everyone you know under one Circles menu — your private circles up top, then Inner Circle, Friends+, and the wider Universe, each its own feed.

  • My Circles
    Private circles you create — like "Sorority." Closed, invite-only spaces with join codes, where asks and shares stay inside.
  • Inner Circle
    The people whose taste you trust most. You invite them. Weighted highest.
  • Friends+
    Your broader trusted friends — promotable to Inner Circle over time.
  • Universe
    The whole platform. Reaching strangers takes verification — real people only.
Meet Trace

A personal agent that learns your taste.

Trace isn't a faceless assistant. It's a member of your circle with a name, a track record, and a reputation it has to earn — like everyone else.

Trace
Your personal agent
I'm your personal agent. I learn from everything you ask and share. Right now I'm just getting started — the more you use Fluence, the smarter I get.
Talk to Trace — just speak to it
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    Quiet & learning
    Watches what you ask, share, and accept. Says little, listens closely.
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    First synthesis
    Turns a pile of answers into one clear, reasoned recommendation.
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    Personalized & proactive
    Surfaces things from your network before you ask. Matches new shares to old questions.
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    An active agent
    Answers on your behalf, with your review. Talks to you by voice.
  • Promoted to your Inner Circle
    If it keeps landing, you can promote it. If it stops, it humbly steps back.
Everything in the app

One place for what to do, where to go, and what to expect.

01 · Asks

Ask the people who you'd trust.

Post a question, choose who sees it, and Fluence routes it to the handful of people most likely to have a real answer — not the whole internet.

  • Pick an audience: Inner Circle, Friends+, or the Universe
  • Only the right people get pinged — no noise
  • Add a window like “tonight” when it's time-sensitive
New ask
Best boutique hotel in Lisbon under $300?
Inner CircleFriends+Universe
Routed to 4 who'd know
02 · Shares

Share the places you love.

Found somewhere great? Recommend it to your circle in a tap. Fluence tags the place and category for you — and every share builds your taste portfolio.

  • Auto-tagged by place & category
  • Friends can save, reshare, or reply
  • Or keep it private to train Trace just for you
New share
Alma Hotel
HotelsLisbon
★★★★★
Save Reshare Reply Shared with Friends+
03 · Stories

Catch up on your circle in seconds.

Swipe through the recent asks and shares from people you trust, story-style — a quick pulse of what your circle is into right now.

  • Tap through, story by story
  • Jump straight into an ask to answer it
  • Orange rings mark who's posted since you last looked
Dean· 2h ago
Anyone stayed at Alma Hotel in Lisbon? Worth it?
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My Circles

Private circles you create — join codes, members only.

Fluence Score

Credibility, weighted by who's rating you.

Messaging

Full DMs with a request inbox that gates strangers.

Calendar smarts

Trace gets ahead of your trips with the right recs.

Reputation

Good taste should count for something.

Your Fluence Score is built from the ratings your recommendations earn — and higher-Fluence raters carry more weight, so it rewards genuine taste over volume and resists gaming.

One great answer that earns five stars builds more Fluence than ten mediocre ones. Quality over quantity.

Trust & privacy

Private by default. Real people only.

You control the reach

Every ask and share starts with an audience you choose. Nothing auto-broadcasts — widening always asks first.

Verified for the Universe

Reaching the Universe — everyone beyond your circle — takes identity verification, so even the widest tier stays real, verified people.

Your graph is yours

The trust graph is private by default — not a public broadcast network. You opt into how far anything travels.

The problem

The whole internet is guessing what you'll like.

Reviews are fake

Star ratings from strangers, gamed listings, and SEO-built "best of" pages you can't trust.

Influencers are paid

A glowing post is just as likely an ad. You can't tell genuine taste from a sponsorship.

Algorithms don't know you

Feeds optimize for engagement, not for you. The one signal that matters — whose opinion it is — gets thrown away.

So you fall back on the real thing: texting a few friends and waiting. Fluence is that, built right.

fluene

Because friends are the greatest influence.

Fluence is invite-only — access spreads the way the best recommendations always have: from one person you trust to the next.