// Modern Myths · Network Intelligence

Find the people obsessed with your problem

ORBIT maps who you think like — not what industry you're in.

The ones who'll change your trajectory aren't in your field.

You did the networking right. It still didn't work.

You followed the advice. Reach out. Connect. Stay active. Build the network.

And you ended up surrounded by people in your field who are nothing like you.

It's not your fault. The starting point was wrong.

The people who move your work forward are usually outside your category. The author circling the same question from another angle. The researcher ten years deep in a domain you just entered. The practitioner who already failed at the thing you're about to try.

They were never going to show up in a list of people with your job title.

"Proximity isn't alignment."

Find your personal gravity

  1. 01 Fill out your gravity profile. Your mission, worldview, how you think. This is the signal. Everything ORBIT finds flows from it.
  2. 02 Get real people matched to that signal. Authors, researchers, practitioners — confirmed by live web search, with contact info and a specific reason each one belongs in your orbit.
  3. 03 Track them across four stages. From identified to inner circle. Build deliberately, not by accident.

No database. No pre-built lists. Just your gravity, translated into names.

We mistake having a network for being known.

The connections accumulate, the inbox fills, and we tell ourselves we've found our people. But a contact who shares your industry doesn't share your obsession. They never metabolized the question you can't stop asking. They just happened to be standing near you.

ORBIT isn't built to grow your network.

It's built to find the few people who were working on your problem before you knew it was yours — and put you in the same orbit on purpose.