Be the person who remembers everything that matters.
Vellaci quietly maps everyone you’ve ever cared about — six months of calls, emails and conversations — then, every Friday, names the few who are slipping away. No lists. No reminders to set. Just the rare luxury of never letting a friendship fade by accident.
Sarah Chenyesterday · Mike & the kids over Sunday0.92
Father (Joseph)3 days ago · Birthday in 7 days0.88
Tomás Vargas9 days ago · Talked Berlin trip0.61
Priya Anand62 days ago · Was your manager at Stripe — moved to Singapore
Marcus Llewellyn84 days ago · Co-founded the side project that didn't ship
Emi Tanaka171 days ago · Roommate from Brooklyn — last seen at her wedding
Why Vellaci exists
No one drifts away on purpose.
It’s never a decision. It’s the reply you meant to send. The birthday that quietly passed. The friend who — across a year of good intentions — became someone you used to know. Vellaci exists for one reason: so that never happens to the people you’d be devastated to lose.
Connect three things. Then never think about it again.
No importing. No tagging. No “let’s get you set up.” Vellaci reads the life you’ve already lived and hands it back to you — organised, weighted, and quietly watching for the friendships that need you.
- 1Connect Gmail
One click. Vellaci learns who you actually talk to — the names, not the noise. It reads who and when. Never a word you wrote.
- 2Connect Calendar
Every dinner, every coffee, every meeting becomes a moment that counts. Time spent face to face is weighted like it matters — because it does.
- 3Add iMessage, on your Mac
An optional helper that lives entirely on your laptop. It counts the conversations. The words themselves stay yours — always, by design.
“Five people are slipping away this week. Say hello?”
One email. One tap. The opener is already written — warm, specific, unmistakably you. It remembers the last thing you talked about, and the kids’ names you’d be embarrassed to forget. Send it from Gmail or Messages. We never keep your reply.
Hey Priya — saw your post about Singapore. How’s the move treating you and the boys?
Everyone else built a tool for closing deals.
Dex, Monica, Clay, Notion — capable software, all of it. But each was built to help you sell. Vellaci was built to help you stay. Here is the comparison without the spin — and why Vellaci, the Swiss-made personal CRM, feels different the moment you open it.
| Tool | Pricing | What's broken in 2026 | Where we win |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dex | $13/mo · auto-renew | Slack import broken since 2024. iOS/web sync delays 15-30min. Opaque annual billing. | Same band, transparent monthly. iMessage native day 1. No broken integrations. |
| Monica (OSS) | Free / $9 cloud | No AI. No auto-logging. UI from 2020. No family-shared mode. | AI-first openers. Family graph. Same band as cloud Monica. |
| Clay (2024) | $20/mo · $200/mo Pro | Sales-operator positioning despite 'personal' name. Aggressive enrichment feels creepy. | 10× cheaper. No social-stalking. Built for 'remember the spouse,' not 'close the deal.' |
| Notion-as-CRM | $10/mo Plus | Manual logging. No mobile capture. Performance dies past 500 contacts. | Auto-logging is qualitatively different. Notion-as-CRM users churn — we know, we were one. |
| Cloze | $17–25/mo | 2014-era UX. Email-only auto-logging. Heavy email-marketing features personal users don't want. | Modern native app + iMessage. Simpler pricing. Less feature soup. |
| Vellaci | $5–39/mo | Single platform. No iOS app yet (PWA only). | The auto-logging that survives past month 3. |
People who had quietly given up on staying in touch.
Every one of them burned a year on a manual personal CRM before this. These are notes from the founding design partners building Vellaci with us — early, honest, and the reason the founding circle is still open. Verified public reviews land as the first cohort renews.
Three years of Notion-as-CRM, dead by month 5 every time. Aside is the first one I haven't closed.
MRMaya R.Founder · indie consultingiMessage native + family-shared mode were the unlocks. My wife and I share the contact graph for our kid's school parents.
PAPriya A.Parent · design partnerThe Friday digest is the only product email I read on a Friday. The opener drafts feel like me, not GPT.
DLDavid L.Eng lead · climate startup
The best things are kept private.
Vellaci never stores the words you write — only the shape of your relationships: who, when, how often. Email bodies are never persisted. On macOS, iMessage is read locally and never travels. OAuth refresh tokens are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, behind a key that lives in the deploy environment, not the database.
contacts: who, what tier, what notes you wrote
interactions: when, what channel, direction, weight
(no body, no preview)
reach_outs: suggestions + your edits
data_sources: refresh tokens (encrypted)
imessage: counts only, parsed locallyBuilt in Switzerland. Headed for Europe.
Vellaci is the personal CRM for households and founders who refuse to hand their relationship memory to a US data broker. Payment in CHF or euros, written in three Swiss languages, and built to meet the revised Federal Data Protection Act (nLPD, September 2023) and the GDPR from the very first line of code. Data residency is moving into the Swiss + EU perimeter — Vercel already runs in EU regions; the remaining sub-processors are migrating now. We track each one openly in the hosting & nLPD policy.
Target architecture: database and processing inside the Swiss + EU perimeter. Migration status detailed in the hosting & nLPD policy.
Standard DPA on request, sub-processor list public, right to export / delete on a single click.
Pay in CHF or EUR with the methods you actually use. Stripe-secured. No US-only checkout.
Français · Deutsch · Italiano in the marketing site, in the dashboard, and in the AI-drafted openers — du / Sie / tu / vous handled per contact.
Native integrations on the way for the messengers and inboxes Switzerland and Europe actually use — not just Gmail. Content stays end-to-end encrypted.
Family plan up to 4 members with per-contact privacy opt-in. Designed for Swiss households, not sales teams.
Founding circle · now open
Some people you simply cannot afford to forget.
Fourteen days free, no card. After that, less than a good coffee a month — and the friendships, the part that was always priceless, finally looked after. The Family plan keeps your whole household close for $14.