About Kailos
We believe the right intro changes everything.
The problem
Most networking tools match you based on who you've been, not what you need right now. Profiles are stale. Cold outreach gets ignored. The best connections happen when intent aligns at the same moment — but existing tools have no way to detect that.
What we built
Kailos is an AI networking agent named Kai. Kai interviews you about what you're working on and what you need right now. It matches you with people who have live, compatible intent. It explains exactly why you should meet. And it only connects you when both sides say yes.
Built by Kavish Shah
Kavish is a third-year AI & Data Science undergrad from Mumbai, India. He's worked at 4+ AI startups, published research on arXiv, and is applying to YC S26. Kailos is his attempt to fix the networking problem he kept running into — great people existing in the same ecosystem, never meeting because nobody had a way to say “I need this, right now.”
@kavish2509The vision
Kailos isn't a directory. It's not a CRM. It's a live intent graph — a snapshot of who needs what, right now, across the builder ecosystem. The goal is to make warm intros so frictionless that cold outreach becomes obsolete.