What Is Rivet?
Rivet is an AI-powered Team Relationship Management platform designed to help organizations build and sustain stronger relationships at work. Think of it as a CRM for teams.
Rivet is an AI-powered Team Relationship Management platform, or CRM for teams, designed to help organizations create and sustain stronger workplace relationships through personality science, compatibility, guided activities, and automation.
Companies use CRM software to manage relationships with customers. Rivet applies a similar idea inside the organization by helping people intentionally build, strengthen, and maintain the relationships that make teams work.
Rivet combines personality science, compatibility science, guided connection activities, and automation to make meaningful workplace connection easier and more scalable.
Why Does Rivet Exist?
Strong teams depend on strong relationships, but those relationships are increasingly difficult to maintain.
People are busy. Teams are distributed. Technology continues to change how people communicate. AI is reshaping how work gets done. And even people who work together every day can gradually become disconnected.
The problem is that most organizations don't have a system for managing team relationships.
They have systems for managing customers, projects, tasks, sales, and performance, but the relationships between the people doing all that work are largely left to chance.
Rivet was created to change that.
How Does Rivet Work?
Rivet starts by learning about the people using it through a short personality assessment. It then uses compatibility science to identify colleagues who have the potential to develop strong working relationships.
But Rivet doesn't stop at making an introduction.
It provides guided activities designed to move conversations beyond surface-level small talk, helps schedule time for people to connect, and automates much of the process so organizations aren't creating another program someone has to manually manage.
In simple terms:
Understand the person → Identify the right connection → Create a meaningful interaction → Keep the relationship growing.
How Can Organizations Use Rivet?
Rivet can be used wherever stronger relationships would make work better.
That could mean connecting a new employee with colleagues during onboarding, creating strategic one-on-one relationships, supporting mentorship programs, strengthening remote or distributed teams, or helping employees build relationships across departments and silos.
Rivet can also be used at conferences, company meetings, and corporate events.
Instead of hoping attendees happen to meet the right person during a coffee break, Rivet can intelligently match participants and create a one-to-one connection during or around the event. Ryan also incorporates Rivet into some of his keynote experiences, allowing him to not only talk about connection but actually create it among the audience.
How Is Rivet Different From a Networking Tool?
Traditional networking often relies on random introductions, proximity, or people having the confidence to walk up to a stranger.
Rivet is designed around compatibility rather than randomness.
It combines science-based matching with guided relationship activities and automation designed to help the relationship develop beyond the initial introduction.
The objective isn't to help someone collect more contacts.
It's to help people build relationships that actually matter.
Who Created Rivet?
Rivet was co-founded by Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen, Wall Street Journal bestselling authors of Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In.
Their work has focused extensively on workplace loneliness, connection, belonging, generations, and what makes teams thrive. Rivet was built to turn that research and expertise into a practical tool organizations can use to strengthen relationships at scale.
The Big Idea Behind Rivet
Team connection is often treated as something that will happen naturally.
Sometimes it does.
But as work becomes faster, more digital, more distributed, and increasingly influenced by AI, leaving the strength of team relationships to chance becomes increasingly risky.
Rivet gives organizations a way to become more intentional about those relationships.
If CRM helps organizations manage customer relationships, Rivet helps organizations manage team relationships.
That's why Ryan describes it as a CRM for teams.
Want to Learn More About Rivet?
Whether you're looking to strengthen an existing team, create better one-on-one relationships, improve onboarding or mentorship, or build meaningful connections at an upcoming event, explore how Rivet can help.
Click here to see if Rivet is a fit for your group.
Or contact Ryan’s team directly:
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