June 4, 2026
Power Map started with a simple belief: relationships are one of the most valuable assets in professional life, yet most people manage them with tools that were never designed for the way careers, networks, and opportunities actually work. Today, Power Map is back with a new vision: to help professionals organize their contacts, separate their identities, preserve relationship capital, and turn networks into opportunities.
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A few years ago, I started working on an idea that felt both simple and ambitious: what if professionals could finally see, understand, and activate their network as a real strategic asset?
At the time, I called it Power Map.
The first version was a prototype designed for tablets. It allowed users to build visual maps from their address book and organize professional relationships in a more intuitive way. It was not a traditional CRM. It was not just another contact app. It was an attempt to answer a deeper question:
How can we help people understand the real power of their relationships?
The prototype received encouraging feedback. It was downloaded in more than 30 countries, which confirmed something important: the problem was not local, niche, or limited to one profession. Professionals everywhere were struggling with the same issue.
They had contacts everywhere.
They had multiple roles.
They had relationships across companies, projects, communities, and personal networks.
But they had no simple way to structure, protect, and activate that relationship capital.
Despite this early traction, I made a difficult decision: I stopped the prototype.
Not because I had stopped believing in the idea. Quite the opposite.
I stopped because the experience was not yet good enough.
The first version was too serious, too limited, and available only on iPad. It proved the concept, but it did not yet deliver the level of experience I wanted to offer. I did not want to build a tool for a small group of early adopters. I wanted to build something larger, more accessible, more useful, and more human.
So I paused the project.
And sometimes, pausing is not giving up.
Sometimes, pausing is what allows a stronger vision to emerge.
During the years that followed, the world of work changed dramatically.
Careers became less linear. Professional identities became more fragmented. More people started combining several roles at the same time: employee, consultant, entrepreneur, advisor, investor, creator, speaker, coach, or fractional executive.
The old career model was built around one job, one company, one resume, and one professional identity.
That world is fading.
Today, many professionals live in a much more complex reality. They operate across multiple networks, multiple opportunities, and multiple versions of themselves.
A consultant may also be a startup advisor.
A sales director may also be an investor.
A recruiter may also be a community builder.
A fractional CFO may work with several companies at the same time.
A freelancer may have personal clients, agency partners, former colleagues, and future prospects all mixed into the same address book.
This creates a new challenge.
Traditional CRMs were built for companies.
Social networks were built for visibility.
Address books were built for storage.
Spreadsheets were built for temporary organization.
But none of them were truly built for the individual professional who needs to manage relationship capital across multiple identities.
That is the gap Power Map is designed to fill.
Most people underestimate the value of their network because their network is invisible.
Contacts are scattered across phones, LinkedIn, email, CRM systems, WhatsApp groups, spreadsheets, old resumes, business cards, calendars, and memories.
Even worse, contacts are usually managed as isolated records: a name, a company, a title, an email, a phone number.
But relationships are not isolated records.
Relationships have context.
They have history.
They have trust.
They have influence.
They have timing.
They have potential.
A contact is not valuable only because of who they are. A contact becomes valuable because of the relationship you have with them, the network around them, the context in which you met, and the opportunity that may appear at the right moment.
This is why Power Map is not just about contact management.
Power Map is about relationship intelligence.
It is about helping people understand who they know, why it matters, how relationships connect, and how to activate those relationships in a respectful, useful, and strategic way.
We believe that relationship capital is one of the most undermanaged assets in modern professional life.
People spend years building trust, working with clients, helping colleagues, advising founders, recruiting talent, selling projects, speaking at events, creating communities, and connecting people.
But when they change jobs, launch a company, become independent, move to another country, or start a new professional chapter, they often lose a large part of that accumulated value.
Their CRM belongs to the company.
Their LinkedIn network lacks structure.
Their phone contacts lack context.
Their memories fade.
Their opportunities become harder to see.
Power Map was created to solve this.
The goal is simple: help professionals preserve, structure, and activate their relationship capital throughout their entire life.
Because when you leave a company, you should not lose your relationships.
When you change roles, you should not lose your history.
When you build a new project, you should not start from zero.
Your network is part of your professional capital.
Power Map helps you take care of it.
One of the most important ideas behind Power Map is the concept of multiple professional identities.
Most platforms still assume that people have one professional profile.
But that is no longer true.
A person may need one identity as a corporate executive, another as a board advisor, another as a startup mentor, another as an investor, another as a community member, and another as a private individual.
These identities should not always be mixed.
The way you manage your former colleagues is not the same as the way you manage prospects.
The way you interact with friends is not the same as the way you interact with investors.
The way you present yourself as an employee is not the same as the way you present yourself as an entrepreneur.
Power Map Contacts is designed around this new reality.
With Power Map, users can create and manage several profiles, separate personal and professional networks, and organize their relationships depending on context.
This is not only a productivity feature. It is a new way to think about identity, trust, and opportunity.
In the future of work, people will not be defined by one title.
They will be defined by a portfolio of skills, relationships, experiences, and trusted communities.
Power Map is being built for that future.
After the first prototype, I knew Power Map needed more than a technical upgrade.
It needed a stronger product vision.
It needed a better user experience.
It needed a mobile-first approach.
It needed gamification.
It needed artificial intelligence.
It needed a broader ambition.
Most importantly, it needed the right team.
That is why the relaunch of Power Map is also a human story.
I had the opportunity to build this new chapter with Olivier Breton, a trusted partner with strong technical expertise and the ability to turn ambitious ideas into concrete products. Together, we created poWer SAS and started rebuilding Power Map with a much clearer vision.
The new version is not just a comeback.
It is a reset.
We are no longer building only a mapping tool. We are building a platform for relationship intelligence, professional identity, contact organization, and future career opportunities.
Power Map is back because the world is finally ready for what it was trying to solve from the beginning.
The first major step in this new journey is Power Map Contacts.
Power Map Contacts is a mobile application designed to help users organize their address book, create multiple profiles, separate networks, invite contacts, and explore relationship intelligence in a more engaging way.
It is built for people who do not want their professional life to be trapped inside fragmented tools.
It is built for consultants, freelancers, sales leaders, recruiters, advisors, founders, solopreneurs, fractional executives, and anyone who understands that opportunities often come from relationships.
Power Map Contacts is designed around a few core beliefs:
Your contacts should be more than a list.
Your network should be easier to understand.
Your identities should be easier to manage.
Your relationships should remain yours.
Your opportunities should not disappear because your data is scattered.
This is the foundation.
From there, we will continue to expand the experience with more intelligence, more automation, more gamification, and more ways to help users transform relationship capital into real opportunities.
Power Map is a technology project, but the ambition is deeply human.
We do not want to replace relationships with algorithms.
We want to help people take better care of their relationships.
We do not want to turn networking into cold automation.
We want to make relationship management more thoughtful, more structured, and more useful.
We do not want to create another endless social feed.
We want to help people build meaningful networks that create trust, business, learning, support, and opportunity.
This is why gamification is important in Power Map.
Professional tools are often boring, heavy, and designed for reporting rather than engagement. But relationships are alive. They evolve. They grow. They need attention.
Gamification can help users rediscover their network, understand their relationship patterns, and take action in a more enjoyable way.
Our goal is not only to make people more productive.
Our goal is to make them more aware of the value they already have around them.
Power Map also introduces Nova, our intelligent guide.
Nova is designed to act like a North Star inside the Power Map experience. Its role is to help users navigate their contacts, profiles, skills, opportunities, and future professional development.
Nova represents the direction we want to take: a more personal, more supportive, and more engaging form of artificial intelligence.
Not AI as a cold assistant.
Not AI as a replacement for human judgment.
But AI as a guide that helps users understand themselves, their network, and their next best actions.
Over time, Nova will become an important part of the Power Map ecosystem.
It will help users manage their relationships, improve their profiles, receive insights, and unlock new opportunities from the data they choose to organize.
Power Map starts with contacts because relationships are the foundation.
But the long-term vision goes further.
Relationships connect people to opportunities.
Skills create credibility.
Profiles create visibility.
Trust creates business.
This is why Power Map is also moving toward skills, resumes, credentials, and professional identity management.
In the future, we want Power Map to help users not only manage who they know, but also what they can do, how they are perceived, what they have achieved, and how they can grow.
This is where our broader roadmap comes in.
We are working on experiences that connect contacts, skills, profiles, resumes, credentials, and career opportunities into one coherent ecosystem.
The goal is to help professionals answer four essential questions:
Who do I know?
Who am I across my different identities?
What skills and experiences define my value?
What opportunities can I create from my network?
Power Map is being built at the intersection of these questions.
The future of work will not be managed only through resumes, job boards, CRMs, or social networks.
It will be managed through trusted ecosystems.
People will need better tools to manage multiple roles, multiple communities, multiple sources of income, and multiple professional identities.
Companies will need better ways to understand relationship capital, expertise, credibility, and trust.
Recruiters will need better ways to identify talent beyond keywords.
Consulting firms will need better ways to activate internal and external networks.
Sales leaders will need better ways to understand influence and generate warm opportunities.
Independent professionals will need better ways to organize their business development and protect the value of their relationships.
This is the world Power Map is preparing for.
A world where professional value is no longer defined only by a job title, but by a combination of skills, relationships, trust, experience, and identity.
Our vision is ambitious.
We want Power Map to become the relationship intelligence platform for professionals who want to manage their network, their identities, their skills, and their opportunities in one place.
We want to help people turn scattered contacts into structured relationship capital.
We want to help professionals separate their personal and professional lives without losing the value of either.
We want to help consultants, sales leaders, recruiters, advisors, freelancers, and portfolio professionals build stronger networks and more resilient careers.
We want to create a platform where professional growth becomes more personal, more intelligent, and more engaging.
And yes, in the long run, we believe Power Map can become a serious alternative to the way professionals currently use traditional social networks.
Not by copying them.
But by solving a problem they do not solve well enough: helping people truly understand and activate the power of their relationships.
Power Map is back, but this is only the beginning.
The website has been relaunched.
The company has been created.
The MVP is being developed.
Power Map Contacts is moving forward.
The roadmap is growing.
The vision is clearer than ever.
We are building step by step, with one conviction: relationship capital will become one of the most important assets of the modern professional world.
The professionals who understand this early will have an advantage.
They will not only collect contacts.
They will build ecosystems.
They will not only manage careers.
They will manage identities.
They will not only search for opportunities.
They will create them through trust, relevance, and meaningful relationships.
That is why Power Map is back.
To help people reveal the full power of their network.
To help them preserve what they have built.
To help them understand who they are becoming.
And to help them turn relationships into opportunities.
Get Power. Build your Map. Unlock your network.
Guillaume Coursin
CEO poWer
poWer map CPO/Designer
