Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android
Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android
Mesh：Automattic 旗下人人适用的 CRM 现已登陆 Android
Mesh, the relationship manager and personal CRM acquired by WordPress.com’s parent company, Automattic, last year, is now available to users on Android devices. The software allows users to privately visualize and keep track of the people in their personal and professional networks, add notes to people’s contact information, and be reminded when to reach out. 去年被 WordPress.com 母公司 Automattic 收购的关系管理与个人 CRM 工具 Mesh，现已正式面向 Android 用户开放。该软件允许用户以私密方式可视化并追踪其个人及职业社交网络中的人脉，为联系人添加备注，并设置提醒以保持联络。
On Android, the company customized Mesh’s app to work with key platform features, like split-screen and pop-up views. This allows users to access Mesh while working in other apps, like messages or email. It also supports keyboard shortcuts for foldables and tablets, in-app search, home screen widgets (with Material You colors that match your Android’s wallpaper), and real-time sync across devices. 在 Android 平台上，该公司对 Mesh 应用进行了定制，以适配分屏和弹出窗口等关键功能。这使得用户可以在使用其他应用（如短信或电子邮件）时同时访问 Mesh。此外，它还支持折叠屏和平板电脑的键盘快捷键、应用内搜索、主屏幕小部件（支持与 Android 壁纸匹配的 Material You 配色），以及跨设备的实时同步。
The company’s broader plans for Mesh could eventually see it tied more closely to Automattic’s all-in-one messaging app, Beeper, which offers a way to connect with people across platforms, including through WhatsApp, Instagram, Signal, Messenger, X, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, Google Messages, and more. Already, Mesh and Beeper interoperate to some extent, as Mesh users can draft a text to someone in Beeper or click deep links in the app to visit a Mesh user’s profile. 该公司对 Mesh 的长远规划可能包括将其与 Automattic 的全能通讯应用 Beeper 进行更紧密的整合。Beeper 提供了一种跨平台连接用户的方式，涵盖 WhatsApp、Instagram、Signal、Messenger、X、LinkedIn、Slack、Discord、Google Messages 等。目前，Mesh 和 Beeper 已经实现了一定程度的互操作，Mesh 用户可以在 Beeper 中起草短信，或通过应用内的深度链接访问 Mesh 用户的个人资料。
In time, the company wants to add additional AI features that will make users of both products more productive in terms of managing their personal relationships. “We’re thinking a lot about how can AI help you be a better friend and have better work and personal relationships?,” Mesh co-founder Zachary Hamed told TechCrunch in an interview earlier this spring. “We have users who have ten-, twenty-, or fifty-thousand connections across multiple social media apps, across their work products. It’s an impossible task to think and be conscientious with you, with each of those people, by yourself,” he noted. 未来，该公司计划增加更多 AI 功能，以帮助两款产品的用户在管理个人关系方面提高效率。Mesh 联合创始人 Zachary Hamed 在今年春季接受 TechCrunch 采访时表示：“我们一直在思考，AI 如何能帮助你成为更好的朋友，并建立更好的工作和个人关系？我们有些用户在多个社交媒体应用和工作产品中拥有数万个联系人。靠个人力量去关注并维系每一个人，这几乎是不可能完成的任务。”
Today, Mesh’s Nexus AI is in early access, offering a way to use AI to navigate your network. That means users can ask questions like who they know at a particular company or who lives in a certain city, or who has expertise in a particular topic. The company is also experimenting with using AI technology to provide a voice-based, hands-free experience and an improved business-card-scanning feature. 目前，Mesh 的 Nexus AI 处于早期预览阶段，提供了一种利用 AI 梳理人脉网络的方法。这意味着用户可以询问诸如“我在某家公司认识谁”、“谁住在某个城市”或“谁在某个领域有专长”等问题。该公司还在尝试利用 AI 技术提供基于语音的免提体验，以及改进名片扫描功能。
Importantly, personal information stored in Mesh isn’t shared or used for ad targeting, the company says, as the product is supported by subscriptions. (It’s free for up to 1,000 contacts, then has higher tiers for unlimited contacts and other features.) In time, Mesh may consider a bundled subscription with Beeper or other Automattic products, but has nothing to announce on that front at this time. 值得注意的是，该公司表示，存储在 Mesh 中的个人信息不会被共享或用于广告定位，因为该产品主要依靠订阅费支持。（1,000 个联系人以内免费，超出后提供包含无限联系人及其他功能的高级订阅方案。）未来，Mesh 可能会考虑与 Beeper 或其他 Automattic 产品进行捆绑订阅，但目前尚无相关公告。
Currently, the majority of Mesh’s customers, or around 70%, are using the app for some type of business purpose. Mesh co-founder Matthew Achariam says Mesh’s sweet spot is executives running bigger teams or those who have a tight network to stay in touch with. However, the company still thinks about the consumer use case, he notes. “The beauty of [serving business users] is that the same things they’re using apply to every individual consumer. So every feature that we think about has to apply to both,” he says. 目前，Mesh 大约 70% 的用户将该应用用于某种商业目的。Mesh 联合创始人 Matthew Achariam 表示，Mesh 的核心受众是管理大型团队的高管，或是那些需要维系紧密人脉网络的人群。不过，他指出公司依然关注个人消费者的使用场景。“（服务商业用户）的好处在于，他们所使用的功能同样适用于每一位个人消费者。因此，我们构思的每一个功能都必须兼顾这两类用户。”
Mesh (formerly Clay) for Android will roll out to Google Play for phones, tablets, and foldables as a free download with in-app purchases. Mesh（前身为 Clay）的 Android 版本现已在 Google Play 上架，适用于手机、平板电脑和折叠屏设备，用户可免费下载并支持应用内购买。