Friends laughing together around a candlelit table with an open chair in the foreground
BeThere

Make real life
happen.

Real life happens in real life.

BeThere turns good intentions into time actually spent together — with the people who already matter to you.

How it works

See it in action

  • Technology made communicating effortless.

  • It never made getting together easier.

  • The people who matter most became the hardest to actually see.

“We should get together” should not be this hard.

We communicate constantly, yet turning “we should get together” into a real plan is still harder than it should be. The group chat agrees, the someday stays a someday, and the people who matter drift to the bottom of the feed.

How it works

  1. 01

    See the possibility

    BeThere surfaces who you've been meaning to see and when it could actually work.

  2. 02

    Start the plan

    Turn a vague someday into a plan everyone can respond to.

  3. 03

    Make it real

    Everyone confirms in one place, so the plan holds and the evening happens.

See it in the hand

BeThere

You’re already going to Chicago.

We’ll help you make more of where you’re already going.

Chicago skyline at dusk
Elevate Conference
May 22 – May 24
Chicago, IL
See who’s there
HomePeopleGet TogetherPlacesGatherings

Plan your trip.

BeThere
Lincoln
Park
River NorthWest LoopSouth LoopChicago
Elevate ConferenceMay 22–2420 people you know are attending

Around your time in Chicago

People you also know will be in Chicago.

Some live there. Some are visiting too.

Find time together
HomePeopleGet TogetherPlacesGatherings

See your connections.

BeThere

You made time to see them.

Four friends toasting over dinner
Dinner after ElevateChicago · May 24
4 people together
MPNew

BeThere remembers who was there—and why it mattered.

Next opportunity

Sarah will also be in Nashville in two weeks.

Make the next moment
HomePeopleGet TogetherPlacesGatherings

Make it happen.

Social enough for Saturday night.
Credible enough for Monday morning.

For friends and families, travelers passing through, hosts pulling people together, professionals staying in touch, teams and communities — anyone who wants the time together to actually happen.

Friends around a candlelit restaurant table, a woman reaching her hand out in invitation

Privacy by design

BeThere is a private place for real relationships. That means what we leave out matters as much as what we build.

  • City level, never precise location
  • You share future plans deliberately
  • Nothing about you is visible automatically
  • Proximity never creates a connection
  • No followers, no likes, no public feeds
  • Organizations never see your wider relationships

The BeThere Card

Your identity layer, not a business card. It's how people find the real you inside BeThere — who you are, how you like to be reached, and what you're open to — shared deliberately, one person at a time.

BeThere

Sarah Kim

Reach meText first · sarah@kimstudio.co
Open toDinners, long walks, and Sunday coffee

Bring BeThere to your community

Help your members meet, gather, and continue the relationships your community made possible.

BeThere

The people are already in your life.
BeThere helps you be with them.

Early access is opening soon.

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