FlockX & Zep AI
Enabling Real-World Connections through Context Engineering
Company Overview
FlockX, a startup based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is tackling the challenge of transforming online interactions into meaningful, real-world connections through their AI-powered social platform. To enhance their platform's ability to provide personalized and context-aware user experiences, FlockX has integrated Zep AI's context engineering technology.
Zep AI's context engineering platform equips FlockX's AI sidekicks with persistent context, automatically storing and maintaining user preferences, social connections, and other user attributes. Zep intelligently grounds agents in the correct context, enabling FlockX to deliver more engaging and relevant interactions and ultimately foster deeper social connections within local communities.
The Health Impact of Loneliness
increase in dementia risk from chronic loneliness
increase in heart disease risk from chronic loneliness
Enhancing AI Sidekicks with Persistent Context
FlockX's mission is to address the growing disconnect between online interactions and meaningful, real-world connections. Research has shown that chronic loneliness can have severe health implications, increasing the risk of dementia by 50% and heart disease by 29%.
FlockX aims to combat this issue by building 'flocks' - groups of people and their AI sidekicks - that work together to foster authentic relationships in local communities. These AI sidekicks act as personal guides, offering activity recommendations, facilitating event planning, and fostering connections between users with shared interests.
What FlockX Needed Their AI Sidekicks to Do:
- • Remember past conversations and user preferences across sessions
- • Understand relationships between users, events, and interests
- • Coordinate group activities based on collective preferences
Integrating Zep's Context Engineering Platform
Zep AI, a temporal knowledge graph-based context engineering platform for AI assistants, was the ideal solution to address FlockX's needs. By integrating Zep AI into their platform, FlockX gained access to:
Intelligent Persistence of Conversation and Business Data
Zep automatically, and intelligently builds a knowledge graph, an ideal data structure for modeling the complex world of FlockX where user preferences are learned and change over time, growing social networks, and many disparate social events for users to participate in.
Simple and Accurate Context Retrieval
Zep's high-level memory APIs make it simple to retrieve highly relevant and comprehensive context data for inclusion in an agent's prompt. Zep also provides lower-level APIs to search the Zep graph, with sophisticated semantic and graph-based search approaches offered.
Privacy and Security
Zep AI prioritizes data privacy, ensuring that sensitive user information is handled securely. This focus aligns with FlockX's commitment to user data protection, building trust and transparency within their platform.
Empowering AI Sidekicks with Knowledge Graphs
As users interact with FlockX, their actions, preferences, and conversations are used to construct personalized knowledge graphs within Zep AI. These graphs represent each user's unique social world, including their connections, interests, and past experiences.
In addition to individual user graphs, FlockX leverages Zep's Group Graphs to capture shared context and facilitate interactions within communities. Group graphs allow FlockX to create rich, shared context representations that enhance the social experience and enable more meaningful connections.
Results: Smarter Sidekicks, Stronger Connections
With Zep's context engineering, FlockX's AI sidekicks now deliver:
Personalized Recommendations
AI sidekicks leverage individual user graphs and Group Graphs to create rich, shared knowledge representations that enhance the social experience and enable more meaningful connections.
Conversations That Build Over Time
AI sidekicks maintain context throughout conversations, referencing past discussions and remembering what users shared before. No more starting from scratch—each interaction builds on the last.
Group Planning That Actually Works
Flocks, FlockX's private group chat feature, use Zep Group Graphs to understand collective preferences. AI sidekicks suggest activities that work for everyone—not just generic recommendations.
Why FlockX Chose Zep Over Building In-House
The team needed to ship fast and focus on their social features, not infrastructure.
From first API call to production
Add user context with a single call
No graph database to manage
Looking Ahead
By continuously refining the understanding of user preferences and behaviors, the partnership aims to create a platform that connects individuals with shared passions and drives meaningful, real-world interactions.
FlockX is developing a no-code version of their platform, enabling anyone to create a context-aware agent that connects to Zep. This expands accessibility beyond community-focused use cases, empowering more users to build experiences that foster stronger connections.