AI describes people every day, and gets plenty of them wrong.
Someone just asked AI who you are.
Did it get the story straight?
AI will answer questions about you using whatever information it can find. soloTHING— gives it one clear, structured profile built from the work, credits, projects, and links you maintain. When shared work matters, Handshakes let the people involved confirm their part too.
1. Scattered information
Pieces live everywhere.
- Website bioSenior Product DesignerDesign systems, UK.
- LinkedInProduct Designerat Acme
- Project creditRedesigned website UI/UXand prototyping
- Outdated roleUX Designer2018 – 2020
- Missing collaboratorWorked with Alexand team
- Portfolio linkSelected work
2. Your soloTHING— profile
One clear, structured source.
Role
Product Designer
Summary
I design digital products and systems that are useful, usable, and thoughtful.
Projects
Led end-to-end UX, research, and design systems.
Credits
Design, Research, Prototyping
Collaborators
Links
Machine-readable
3. AI reads it right
Accurate answers, every time.
AI answer
Who is Avery Chen?
Avery Chen is a Product Designer based in San Francisco.
They led the Acme Redesign in 2023, owning UX, research, and the design system.
They collaborate with product, engineering, and design teams including Alex Kim and others.
Source: soloTHING— profile
Give AI a clear source
Bring scattered professional information into one structured public profile.
Confirm shared work
Use Handshakes when another participant’s confirmation matters.
Connect your professional record
Bring projects, credits, links, roles, and collaborators together.
Keep it current
Choose what is public and update it as your work changes.
Old jobs, abandoned projects, outdated biographies, namesakes, and disconnected credits can all become part of the answer. The more varied your path is, the easier it becomes to mix up your roles, miss important work, or confuse you with somebody else.
- 01
Build your profile
Add your work, projects, credits, roles, and professional links to one clear, structured public profile.
- 02
Share your link
Add your soloTHING— address to LinkedIn, Instagram, your website, and other public bios so search engines and AI systems can find the source you maintain.
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OptionalConfirm shared work
Your profile works on its own. When a collaboration or shared credit would benefit from another participant’s confirmation, send a Handshake so they can review and confirm the project, roles, and dates.
Bring your work, relationships, credits, and supporting context into one public record.
Avery Chen
Product Designer
Lisbon, Portugal solothing.com/avery-chen
Avery designs interfaces and design systems for small product teams, with a focus on mapping tools and field research software. Ten years of practice across studio and in-house work.
Projects & credits
- Northline AtlasWeb app · 2023 — 2025Lead designerConfirmed by both collaborators
- Field Notes AppMobile app · 2022 — 2023Design system
- Harbour TypeType project · 2021Contributor
Collaborators
- Rhea PatelCartographer
- Tomás LindqvistFront-end engineer
Connected links
- averychen.studioConfirmed link
- LinkedInAdded link
- GitHubConfirmed link
The same public profile can be understood as a professional page and as structured information in the raw HTML.
Readable for people
Lisbon, Portugal solothing.com/avery-chen
- Northline AtlasLead designer
- Field Notes AppDesign system
Structured for machines
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Avery Chen",
"jobTitle": "Product Designer",
"url": "https://solothing.com/avery-chen",
"address": "Lisbon, Portugal",
"sameAs": [
"https://averychen.studio",
"https://github.com/averychen"
],
"subjectOf": {
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "Northline Atlas",
"contributor": {
"@type": "Role",
"roleName": "Lead designer",
"verificationStatus": "mutually-confirmed"
}
}
}- Names and roles
- Projects and credits
- Collaborators
- Organisations
- Connected links
- Structured relationships
Example data. Every public page carries the same structure in its raw HTML.
When confirmation matters, invite a collaborator to review the project, their role, and the dates before it appears as confirmed on both profiles.
- Step 1You add a shared project
Northline Atlas
2023-04 — 2025-01
Proposed role: Cartographer
- Step 2They receive an invitation
New Handshake request
Avery Chen invited Rhea Patel to review a shared project.
- Step 3They review and confirm
- ProjectNorthline Atlas
- RoleCartographer
- Dates2023-04 — 2025-01
- Supporting source: northline-atlas.example/credits
- Step 4It appears on both profiles
Avery Chen · Northline Atlas
Rhea Patel · Northline Atlas
Confirmed by both collaborators
Sources are shown as “Supporting source”. soloTHING— does not verify their contents.
Invite colleagues, collaborators, clients, production partners, and other creative professionals. As shared projects are confirmed, your profile becomes a clearer record of what happened, who contributed, and what each person did.
Every public soloTHING— page is server-rendered with Schema.org structured data in the raw HTML, giving crawlers direct access to essential public information instead of requiring them to interpret everything from scattered text.
- Server-rendered pagesEssential public information is included directly in the page HTML.
- Schema.org structured dataPeople, projects, contributors, and roles are described using recognised standards.
- Clear professional relationshipsProjects connect to the people involved and the roles they performed.
- Public canonical URLsEvery public profile and project has a stable, shareable address.
- Accessible without JavaScriptCrawlers can reach essential information without waiting for browser scripts.
- Confirmed collaborationsThe public page states when a collaboration was confirmed by both participants.
FAQ
Questions people ask.
soloTHING— is a public, structured professional profile designed to give search engines and AI systems a clearer source about your work, credits, projects, and professional relationships.
LinkedIn is a professional network and publishing platform. soloTHING— focuses on creating a clear public source that machines can read directly, including structured projects, roles, credits, and confirmed shared work.
A Handshake allows another participant to review and confirm a shared project, role, and date. It is optional and only applies when confirmation from another person adds value.
Your public profile contains only the information you choose to publish. Private account information and pending Handshakes remain private.
Yes. You can update your public information or delete your account through the existing account controls.
Give AI a source worth reading.
The next time somebody asks AI about you, give it a clear, current, structured source built from your real work and strengthened by the people involved.