Orca People · Contact intelligence · Mac and Windows
Who you know. What was said. Who's waiting on you.
Orca People is the contact layer under the rest of Orca. Nobody types anyone in. After a meeting the attendees are logged, the facts come from transcripts, mail and the calendar, and beside every email thread a card says when you last spoke, what you promised each other, and whether the reply that is owed is yours or theirs.
Orca People is a section inside Orca, included in the licence. It only ever reads the mailboxes you have connected, and it works from day one with whoever is already in them.
A CRM you never fill in.
The problem with every CRM is the typing. So there isn't any. The record builds itself from the things you were doing anyway.
It builds itself
When a meeting ends, every attendee is logged with a fact that they were there and a link to the transcript. When the assistant meets someone new in a thread, it adds them. Facts carry a category and a source: professional, personal, preference, project or context, from Fireflies, email, calendar, LinkedIn or you.
It reads the state of the thread
Orca looks at the last message in each thread. You sent it and three days have passed: waiting on them. They sent it in the last sixty days: you owe a reply. Open promises, yours and theirs, are listed with the overdue ones first.
It shows up where you are
The card sits beside the email you are reading and inside the calendar event you are about to join. The People section holds the full dossier. Nothing to open, nothing to search, before you reply.
The dossier
What you know about someone, with where you learnt it.
Open anyone in the People section and the dossier groups the known facts by category, shows the first and last contact and the total number of interactions, and gives you three buttons that hand the person straight to the assistant: Email, Prep for Meeting, Full Dossier.
- Facts stay current, or get retired. Each fact is marked current or not, so a role that changed does not sit next to the new one pretending to be true.
- A warmth score that does work. Every contact carries a warmth score, nought to a hundred. Orca uses it when it ranks your inbox and when it checks a contact before acting on their behalf, so the people who matter get treated like it.
- Star the ones who matter most. Starred contacts show the star on the card, and Orca knows a known contact from a stranger when it triages what came in.
For the assistant, too
Ask Orca what you know about someone before you answer them.
The same record is what the assistant reads. It can fetch a contact with their facts, add a fact it just learnt in a transcript, pull a relationship summary of how and when you last engaged, or add a new person when one turns up in a thread.
Which means the meeting brief at 09:00 knows about the promise from May, the follow-up draft after the call knows what they prefer, and the reply the assistant writes for you knows whether this is a warm relationship or a cold one, and sounds like it.
Your Outlook or Google contacts stay where they are. Orca can read and create them, but the intelligence lives in Orca, scoped to your mailboxes and nobody else's.
Other people's details. Handled like it.
A contact record is a record about someone else. These are the rules it is built under.
No data entry
There is no form to fill in. The record comes from the mail you sent, the meetings you sat in and the calendar you keep. If you did not do it, it is not in there.
Only your mailboxes
Every read is filtered to the accounts you have connected. Every write is stamped with which mailbox it belongs to. Nothing from a mailbox you have not connected ever appears.
Every fact says where it came from
Fireflies, email, calendar, LinkedIn or you. A fact without a source is a rumour, so Orca does not store those.
How it fits
People is the layer underneath. These sit on top of it.
Orca People is a part of Orca, the assistant that already runs your inbox, calendar and meetings. The parts below are where you will mostly meet it.
Pricing
Included in the Orca licence.
£250/licence/month
Everything included, Claude usage too
- No separate purchase
- No separate CRM to buy
- Yours while the licence is active
One licence, the whole assistant
This page is one part of it. Every part below comes with the same licence.
- Orca Inbox
- Orca Autopilot
- Orca Calendar
- Orca Book
- Orca Meet
- Orca Post
- Orca Brief
- Orca Notes
- Orca People You are here
- Orca Chat
- Orca Plan
- Orca Clip
- Orca Mobile
- Orca Today
- Orca Screen recording storage
Claude API usage, setup support and updates are in the monthly price. The pricing page has the one-off setup fee and the rate for six licences or more.
Also available: Orca Time, £2.79 per seat a month, with Orca Snap included.
Questions: chris@simmance.ai.
The questions people ask first.
Do I have to import my contacts?
No. Orca builds the record from the mail and meetings already in your connected accounts, and keeps adding to it as you work. Your Outlook or Google contacts stay where they are; Orca can read and create those too.
How does it know I owe someone a reply?
It looks at the last message in the thread. If they sent it, within the last sixty days, you owe the reply. If you sent it and three days have gone by, you are waiting on them. The card says which.
Where do the facts come from?
Meeting transcripts, email, the calendar, LinkedIn where connected, and anything you tell the assistant yourself. Each fact keeps its source and its category, and can be retired when it stops being true.
Is this a pipeline CRM?
It carries a relationship stage and a warmth score per contact, and the inbox uses them. If you run a formal pipeline in ClickUp or Trello, Orca talks to those too. People is about knowing the person, not about moving a card across a board.
Who else can see my contacts?
Nobody. Every read is scoped to the mailboxes you have connected, up to five per licence, and the record stays in your own Orca.
Never ask "where did we leave it?" again.
Orca People is part of Orca · Mac and Windows | Also see Orca Inbox, Orca Plan and Orca Notes