Connecting with Other Chasqui Users

Chasqui gets more useful the bigger your effective network is. Connecting with other Chasqui users lets you both opt in to sharing parts of your networks, so the AI can find warm paths through people you haven't met yet. This guide covers every way to connect, the difference between Groups and Lists, and how Chasqui proactively suggests people worth connecting with.

Lists vs. Groups: Know the Difference

Before connecting with anyone, it helps to know what each organizational tool actually does:

• Lists are private and personal. They organize your own contacts — a contact can sit in any number of lists, they're free and unlimited on every plan, and nothing about them is ever shared with another Chasqui user.
• Groups are multiplayer. Creating or joining a Group shares some or all of your network with other members, and counts against your plan's group limit.

If you just want to organize your own contacts, use a List. If you want to actually connect and share with other people, use a Group or one of the direct-connect options below.

Three Ways to Connect

1. Individual invite — If there's a specific person you'd like to connect with, go to their contact page and click ⋮ → Invite to Chasqui for a one-time link.
2. Multi-use invite link — Going to an event or want to invite several people at once? Create a link from the contact page with ⋮ → Invite to Chasqui, choosing how long it stays active and how many times it can be used.
3. Groups — If you and a group of people want to share your networks with each other, create a Group and invite them to join.

Team vs. Community Groups

Every Group you create has a connection mode, chosen at creation and locked in afterward:

• Team — Everyone who joins is automatically connected and shares contacts with every other member. Joining a Team group shares your contact card with all members, and Chasqui builds full connections between everyone. Best for a small group who all already know each other, like a company or a founding team.
• Community — Members can see each other, but nothing is shared automatically. Connecting and sharing contacts is opt-in: you choose who you actually want to connect with from within the group, using the same Connect flow described below. Best for larger groups, like an alumni network or a professional association.

Leaving a Team group removes the contacts that were synced from it in both directions. Leaving a Community group just removes you from the group — any one-on-one connections you made along the way stick around.

Turning a List into a Group

Already built a list of people you'd like to start sharing your network with? You don't have to rebuild it as a group from scratch:

1. From the Contacts page, open the list and look for "Turn this list into a group." Chasqui shows you how many of the list's contacts are already on Chasqui (e.g. "5 of 14 people in this list are already on Chasqui").
2. Choose Team or Community mode for the new group.
3. Click Promote. On-Chasqui members get a group invitation automatically, and you get a shareable invite link to send to everyone else.

Your original list is untouched — promoting it just creates a new, separate Group alongside it.

People You May Know

Chasqui proactively looks for other Chasqui users worth connecting with and lists them on the Connections tab of the Suggestions page. Suggestions are based on signals like:

• Someone already in your imported contacts is also on Chasqui
• You and they share several contacts in common
• You're both members of the same group
• You work at the same company, or share an email domain
• You have mutual connections through your extended network

Each suggestion shows a short badge explaining why it was surfaced (e.g. "Shared group", "Same company"). Click Connect to send a connection request, or the X to dismiss a suggestion you're not interested in — Chasqui will keep finding new ones to fill the list back up over time.

Responding to Invites

The Suggestions page has two more tabs for incoming requests:

• Invites — Pending connection requests other users have sent you directly. Accept or decline each one.
• Groups — Pending Group invitations, alongside AI-suggested groups your imported activity has surfaced (see Getting Proactive Insights from Chasqui for more on those).

Tips

1. Start with people, not groups — If you only need to connect with one or two specific people, an individual invite is faster than standing up a whole group.
2. Pick Community for anything larger than a close-knit team — Team mode's automatic contact sharing works well for small, trusted groups, but gets noisy fast at scale.
3. Promote instead of recreating — If you've already organized people into a list, promoting it saves you from re-adding everyone to a new group by hand.
4. Check Suggestions regularly — New "people you may know" suggestions appear as you sync more contacts, meetings, and groups.