Years ago, while sitting at a café in Hollywood, California, our founder realized that the people around her probably worked in the same industry and, like her, were always looking for clients. They could probably use one another’s services, but everyone was staring at their computer screens, and no one knew what the others did. But what if they could find out?

As she continued working remotely around the world, the idea didn’t die. What if there were an app that didn’t just show you who was nearby digitally, but who was in the exact same space and could hire you, or whom you could hire? Could it do that without compromising your privacy, wasting your time, reducing you to a single profile or making you talk to people you didn’t want to?

The idea started with finding clients and hiring others, but blossomed into social uses as she saw how much people struggled with in-person interaction. No algorithm can tell you whether there’s chemistry; that understanding comes from meeting in person. Why not have a tool that creates a low-stakes, efficient way to find out?

Thus, Met came to be: a platform that doesn’t need the artificial digital boundaries of either professional or social. Instead, it’s a technology tool built for the real world, where people decide for themselves what a connection can become.