The whole product is built on one observation: your friends already know.
Most apps for finding people are built around reviews from strangers. Refind is built around something quieter and stronger — the fact that the same plumber's phone number keeps showing up in the contacts of the people you trust.
A trust graph builds itself, one quiet save at a time.
You save the people you already use.
In Refind, you scroll through your contacts and tap the ones whose work you already trust — the plumber you call every spring, the dog walker, the moving company that didn't break anything.
Refind quietly notices when two friends save the same phone number.
Saved phone numbers are normalized and matched by a one-way hash — never by readable number or name — and Refind surfaces the overlaps. When Maya and Sam both save (510) 555-0144, that number becomes a known worker in your network.
When you need a roofer, your roofers are already ranked.
Type the trade, see the names. Each result shows exactly who in your circle vouched and how recently. No reviews, no star averages, no SEO. Just shared phone numbers.
You ask. The worker pays — not you — only if they accept.
A short note carries the names of the friends who vouched. If the worker accepts, they pay a small flat lead fee, and Refind keeps it.
Reviews can be bought. Phone numbers in your friend's address book can't.
The reason fake reviews work is that strangers have no way to check. They read what's written and trust the average. Refind throws all of that out: the only signal it cares about is whether multiple specific people you know have a worker's number saved.
To fake that, someone would have to get into your friend's phone — twice, from different friends — and add the number. The cost of forgery is the cost of theft. The system can't be gamed.
Your contacts are encrypted, and only ever visible to you.
Refind matches people by a one-way hash of phone numbers — never by name. Your contacts themselves are stored encrypted and shown only to you.
What we never do: sell or share your contacts, or show them to anyone else. There's no public directory, and matching is by hashed number, never by name.
Common questions
Does the worker know who vouched for them?
Do I need everyone in my contacts to be on Refind?
Why hash numbers instead of matching on them directly?
How do you handle bad workers?
What's stopping a worker from gaming this with friends?
Ready to see your network as a map?
Sign up and add the four people you'd already call back. The graph builds itself from there.