Define the network
Choose the teams, companies and partners who should meet.
RitrovoItalian for a place to meet, and meet again
Your network exists.
Help it know itself.
Create useful encounters across teams, one focused 15-minute Ristretto at a time.
Your organization creates the conditions for people to meet. Ristretto finds thoughtful pairings, protects the time and helps relationships continue, without turning private conversations into company data.
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The opportunity
The next useful answer may sit one introduction away.
Your people already hold the experience, questions and relationships the organization needs. But most useful paths across teams are invisible, and a few familiar connectors carry too much of the network.
In Microsoft’s analysis of 122 billion email interactions and 2.3 billion meetings, connections beyond people’s immediate teams weakened as work became more remote. Ristretto deliberately creates the small encounters that everyday work leaves to chance.
How it works
One thoughtful Ristretto at a time.
The organization creates the Ritrovo. People choose when to take part.
Create useful matches
Ristretto combines roles, goals, language and real availability.
Have a short conversation
A focused 15 minute ristretto is scheduled automatically.
Remember privately
The app, now in the making, will build each participant's private memory on their own device.
The sponsor promise
Enable the relationships.
Do not own the conversation.
The organization can understand participation and aggregate outcomes. What somebody said, noted or remembered stays out of the employer’s hands.
The Ritrovo may know
- Network membership
- Public profile information
- Scheduling and attendance
- Anonymous aggregate results
The sponsor never receives
- Conversation content or transcripts
- Private notes and reflections
- Personal relationship memory
- Individual intelligence surfaced later
The current web experience works without a new employee device. A native memory layer is in the making, but comes later, only on supported personal devices and never as a requirement for the pilot.
What becomes possible
Useful encounters.
Give people a credible reason to meet outside the relationships they already rely on.
Continuity, not networking theatre.
Help a good conversation become a follow-up, a stronger next connection or knowledge in motion.
Learning without surveillance.
See whether the program creates value in aggregate, without access to private conversation content.
Start inside
Prove the rhythm before crossing the boundary.
Begin with an internal learning cohort. Establish safety, useful matching and repeat participation first. Then use a limited invitation pool for selected customers, partners or suppliers.
Internal first
A focused learning phase
- All verified employees can be eligible
- A curated starting cohort
- Several matching and learning rounds
- Aggregate outcome review
- Limited external invitations when ready