A private network organized around useful introductions, not audience building.
A mobile-first membership product for alumni and professional communities, built around trusted context, local gatherings, asks/offers, and small groups.
Scale and interface figures on this page are illustrative.
Private communities run on context and consent.
The product avoids public-audience mechanics and instead makes small acts of help, trusted introductions, and real-world gatherings easy to understand and reciprocate.
Fragmented context
A generic social feed rewards visibility while private communities need useful contribution, context, and lightweight reciprocity.
Decision logic
Members need to know why an introduction is relevant—shared institution, city, field, mutual contacts, or stated ability to help.
Operational handoff
An event should persist as a social object before and after the physical gathering rather than collapsing into an RSVP list.
Utility comes before feed mechanics.
The home experience prioritizes bounded asks, reasons to connect, nearby events, and small-group participation.
Today
Curated asks, intros, circles and nearby gatherings rather than infinite feed.
Member context
Affiliations, cities, interests, offers, asks and mutual contexts.
Introductions
Reasoned intro requests with consent on both sides.
Gatherings
Guest list context, seating prompts, logistics, chat and follow-up.
Trust
Membership verification, visibility scopes, block/report, moderation casework.
Relationships are permissioned objects.
Introductions, event visibility, and messaging each respect mutual context and explicit privacy choices.
Representative application states.
Representative application states from the product. Figures shown on screen are illustrative.
For Maya
Brooklyn · Friday
For Maya
Can anyone review a climate-tech pricing model?
Evan Cho ↔ you
3 shared contexts · 6 mutualsSupper · Fort Greene
9 of 12 seats takenPricing model review
Can anyone review a climate-tech pricing model? Looking for someone who has priced usage-based software for utilities.
Priced usage-based at a grid startup
Former pricing lead, energy SaaS
Product, climate · 2 shared circles
A member's home: asks she can answer, introductions waiting on her, gatherings nearby.
Evan Cho
Product · Climate
Evan Cho
Product · Climate · ManhattanGo-to-market, hiring
Looking forGrid software introductions
NYC Climate Circle
Anyone using heat-pump financing data?
Free office hours on utility interconnection
Brooklyn supper · Thu
New member: Halden C.
Members are shown through what they share with you, not a follower count.
Brooklyn supper
12 seats · Fort Greene
Brooklyn supper
Fort Greene · hosted by Nadia R.
Address shared with confirmed guests“What are you building this fall?”
18 messages
Doors at 7. Bring one problem you're stuck on.
Bringing a pricing question. Anyone on climate software?
I'll be there. Happy to trade notes on go-to-market.
Twelve seats, one prompt, and a thread that stays open for two weeks afterward.
Warm introduction
Maya ↔ Evan
Evan Cho
Evan, I'm pricing a usage-based product for utilities and would value 30 minutes on go-to-market.
Maya A.
Maya would like an introduction: climate software GTM advice.
Brooklyn · 3 shared contexts · 6 mutualsMaya ↔ Evan
A private thread is open. Say what you'd like to talk about, then find a time.
Thanks for saying yes. Would Thursday work for a call?
Messaging starts only after both people have said yes.
Moderation case
MC-1182
Group thread report
Reported message original preserved
Message text kept as sent, with the surrounding six messages for context.
Reports · 2
Reporter identity is hidden from the member reported.
Outcome
Audit
- Opened
- Sep 24, 16:20
- Assigned
- Trust team
- Second reviewer
- Required to remove
Failure states are part of the product model.
The cases below are intentionally modeled because real operating software is defined by what happens when data, people, or dependencies do not line up.
One party declines an intro
No thread opens and the decline reason remains private unless the member chooses otherwise.
Event changes visibility
Recompute what non-attendees can see without exposing prior private guest data.
Reported content is deleted by author
Preserve evidence for the moderation case while removing it from ordinary member surfaces.
The data model behind the interface.
The interface follows the domain relationships and rules below.