A small offer for Timber Cove · November 19 to 22, 2026
Multitudes at Come Alive
Arrive already seen.
A hundred people who have never shared a room, three days on a cliff above the Pacific. Multitudes helps each of them find the people they most need to meet, and gives every pair a better way in than “so, what do you do?”
“Like-hearted, but not like-minded” is a beautiful way to fill a room, and it makes the first conversation hard. A telomere biologist and a Bön master almost certainly share something rare. Neither of them knows what it is yet, and three days go quickly.
Multitudes is a small app that does two things. It writes each person a short portrait, in their own words, from what they have already put into the world. Then, for any two people, it writes a page about where they meet: what they share, where they differ in a way worth exploring, and a question to ask each other.
You contain multitudes. See them, and see who you fit with.
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How it would work at Come Alive
Before next week
You share the guest list. We prepare a private link for each person, with their public pages already found. Nothing is read until they open it and say yes. A few minutes later they have a portrait they can correct line by line. They can add more if they like: a voice note, an answer from their own AI, a short values quiz.
On the coast
Each guest has a code on their phone. Two people scan, and a page appears that was written for the two of them. It is short enough to read standing up, and it ends with a question.
After
The pages stay. They are a record of who met whom, and a reason to write to each other in December.
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A portrait
A portrait takes about five minutes, and most of that is reading.
A personal mark, drawn from your own data. No types and no scores.A few cards that quote your own words. Tap “So true” or “Not me”.Your edges: the specific, unusual things about you, each with where it came from.
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A pair page
The heart of it is the pair.
Odile & Tobiah
What you have in common
Ely, Minnesota: Odile grew up there, and Tobiah spent summers there as a kid near a creek that sounds like someone shuffling cards.
Odile and Tobiah each keep a weather diary, one line a day. Odile still keeps the one Odile's father taught; Tobiah writes it as if the weather were a character.
Odile and Tobiah both listen to Pēteris Vasks: Odile almost every evening, especially Distant Light, and Tobiah while editing, because the music sounds like water deciding where to go.
Strong here · Your world now
Odile is writing a simple guide for the final two days of life, and Tobiah is writing Ferrymen, about figures in world myth who carry people across water at the end of life.
Worth exploring · Values
Odile values unhurried attention and people who can stay in a hard room without fixing it. Tobiah values play, rigor, kids' questions and people who are not embarrassed by wonder.
You could
Each pick the same week from your weather diaries, then read the lines aloud to each other on a call with Distant Light playing.
Ask Tobiah
What did that creek in Ely sound like to you as a kid, and do any of your sixty three rivers come close?
What you share, rare things first.Where you differ, marked “Worth exploring”.One thing you could do together, and one question for each other.
The people shown here are fictional. The writing is the app's real output.
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What we learned in India
We built the first version for Edge City India, a three-week popup village in Goa this October. Three things stood out.
People used the cards to skip small talk.
One resident was matched with someone she had met briefly on a bus. She read their page and wrote to them with a specific ask.
Rare overlaps mattered most. A shared obscure musician says more than a shared famous one.
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Made with care
Each person sees everything it knows about them, and where it came from.
Anything sensitive stays private by default. People choose what others see, line by line.
No scores, no ranking, no feed.
Anyone can export or delete everything at any time.
It is fine to skip it. Nothing about the gathering depends on it.
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What we would need from you
A yes, and the guest list (names are enough) by Tuesday.
One line in a countdown email, or a few minutes for me to introduce it on Thursday evening.
Nothing else. It is free, we run it, and it can be as official or as unofficial as you like.
Happy to walk you through it on a call, or just reply to my email.
Timour Kosters
Co-founder, Edge City. We run month-long popup villages where people live together and try new ways of living.
