Hey folks 👋

We’ve been quiet with emails for 2026 so far. As usual, that’s because we’ve been busy fixing and improving Kin.

But now, it’s time we let you into what we’ve been working on.

What’s new with Kin🚀

The Post Everyone’s Talking About 💻

This week, AI CEO Matt Shumer published an essay that broke the internet: “Something Big Is Happening.”

70+ million views. Trending everywhere (including our own posts here and here). And for good reason.

Shumer compares this moment to February 2020 - right before COVID changed everything. His message: AI disruption isn’t coming. It’s already here. And most people aren’t ready.

He predicts 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs could be eliminated within 1-5 years. He talks about watching AI do his own job better than he can. About the need to adapt - fast.

But here’s what the essay doesn’t fully address: the mental cost.

When your career path suddenly feels uncertain, when the skills you’ve spent years building feel at risk, when “just adapt” sounds simple but feels impossible… it’s not just a professional challenge. It’s an emotional one.

That’s exactly why we built Kin.

Not to replace your thinking. To support it. To help you find clarity when everything feels uncertain. To be the steady presence that helps you figure out who you want to be - even when the old roadmap is gone.

If you haven’t read the essay yet: Something Big Is Happening.

And if you’re feeling the weight of it? That’s what Kin is for.

Insights are here 🔍

You’ve got Insights.

These are daily generated personalised insights across a range of themes, including things like Goals, Connections, Values, and Energy.

There’s even an Easter egg ‘Throwback’ theme in there too, to bring an occasional smile to the face.

We’ve been asked a lot to make Kin better at uncovering patterns in your behaviour and this is our starting point.

We know Kin’s power lies in its ability to notice not just things you’re already aware of, and your behaviour around that, but even more so the patterns that you’ve yet to uncover.

We want your feedback. All of it. Screenshot in-app, post on our Discord server, and email us.. We see it all!

Importing your memory, finally 📚

Many of you have been wondering how to get started faster with Kin - especially when coming from other AI systems.

Last month, we released a step-by-step guide to import your memory from Claude and ChatGPT into Kin to help.

That guide has you generate a super-prompt from your competitor’s memory that’ll feed Kin everything it needs, so you can skip the “getitng-to-know-you” phase.

Not just what your chats have been about - but five in-depth descriptions of you and your habits that’ll supercharge how Kin begins to understand you.

Using Kin your way (the move to credits) 🪙

When it comes to the hard, feature-level usage limits, we’ve heard you:

“I don’t use voice. Why am I paying for voice?”

Fair point.

We began moving toward replacing hard text and voice limits with credit-based system earlier this month, so you can use Kin however works for you.

All voice? All text?

Heavy one week? Light the next?

All your call. Credits can be used for either text or voice services, at your discretion.

Existing paid subscribers will remain on their existing subscription tiers with no need to change anything. You’ll start receiving credits straight away.

As a final top tip - muting on voice chat without hanging up won’t use credits. Voice will only use credits when listening to you, or responding to you.

Health integrations, now landing 🏥

We’ve opened testing for Apple Health integration.

If you flagged interest a few weeks back, check your Discord DMs - we’ll be getting you hands-on very soon.

Internally, it’s looking good. With wearables like Whoop and calendars connected, Pulse is already good at spotting patterns and giving a subtle heads-up before things pile up - and how to deal with them when they do.

This rollout is intentional and careful, which is why it’s not instant. We’re paying close attention to how health data feels inside Kin, not just how it connects.

Android is very close too. We started with Apple simply because it was the easier place to begin.

If you’re curious and comfortable testing, this is the moment - reach out to us on our Discord server.

A clearer look at how Kin thinks 🤔

We also added an optional reasoning model.

This doesn’t expose raw internal thinking - but it does let you peek behind the curtain by providing a kind of ‘train of thought.’

You’ll be able to see that Kin is reasoning, what tools it’s using, and how it’s approaching an answer.

Less mystery, more trust.

And yes, better answers too.

This will be optional at the Advisor level, since reasoning generally uses more credits than shorter replies.

Changing Discussion Times ⏰

Following a poll on our official Discord, the live sessions we run there have changed their timings to better reflect our growing community.

If you’ve not seen our Discord yet, it’s the best place to talk to the Kin development team (as well as other users) about anything AI. Join for free by heading here.

We have dedicated channels for Kin’s tech, networking users, sharing support tips, and for hanging out.

The three casual calls we hold now run as follows - and we’d love for you to join them:

• Monday Calls - 12pm GMT/BST
• Wednesday Calls - 7pm GMT/BST
• Friday Calls - 7pm GMT/BST

We’ve also removed theming from these calls, meaning you can discuss whatever you want at any call. Got a question? Let us know. Want to talk about how others use Kin? Do it! Just looking for a friendly chat? We’ll be there.

For something more formal, the KIN team can be reached at [email protected] for anything, from feedback on the app to a bit of tech talk (though [email protected] is better placed to help with any issues).

You can also share your feedback in-app. Just screenshot to trigger the feedback form.

We need you! 🦸‍♂️

For those of you who have been asking to help Kin, we have something for you. Something we’re always trying to figure out is product reach - Kin being a privacy-first system means virality isn’t the easiest thing for us to create.

So, we’re looking for brand ambassadors to help us share the word of Kin as far and wide as possible. No amount of help is too small, and no potential reach is too large.

If you’re interested, please reach out to [email protected].

Our current reads 📚

We might have been really busy so far this year, but we’ve done our best to keep up. Here are some of our favourites:

Article: ClawdBot has been used to create Moltbook - here’s what that is
READ - The Guardian

Paper: Agentic AI workflow can detect cognitive decline from clinical notes
READ - nature.com

Article: Game studio launches AI-powered player feedback summary system
READ - betakit.com

Article: Anthropic releases Superbowl ads criticising OpenAI
READ - Forbes

This edition’s super prompt 🤖

This time, your chosen advisor can help you answer the question:

“What should I focus on in 2026?”

Try Prompt in Kin

Just make sure your app is up to date, and you’ll be able to start the conversation just by tapping the link above.

We’re all Kin 👥

Everything we’ve built here is about creating a better AI advisor system for people like you and I.

So, please: get involved. Chat in our Discord, email us, or even just shake the app to get in contact with anything and everything you have to say about Kin.

Do big things this year.

With love,

The KIN Team

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