From your first request to your weekly Quint, one step at a time.
Seven steps, and nothing happens at any of them without you. Pick a step to see it through an example.
The journey, step by step
Step 1 of 7 · Getting in
An invitation from a member, or a request a person reads.
There is no open sign-up. A member can give you their invitation code, or you can request an invite: a person reads every request, and approved founders receive their invitation by email. Money cannot buy a way in.
A person reads every request, and approves it or not
Approved founders receive their invitation by email
A member you know can invite you directly with a code
Your requestInvitation emailed
Example: a request, as it travels
Your request
Request
Sent from this siteName, email and company
Read by a personEvery request is
3Invitation emailedNow
4Sign in, then the paperwork with NallyNext
Approved founders receive their invitation by email. There is no other way in.
Or, with a codeFrom a member you know
A member gives you their invitation code
Enter it with your work email, and you go straight to the paperwork with Nally.
Your company is checked against a government registry.
While Nally takes you through the paperwork, the Bouncer looks your company up in the government company registry of the country where it is incorporated. If the registry can’t confirm it, a person on the team reviews your certificate of incorporation instead.
Registered name, number and status have to match
No match? A person checks your certificate instead
Every founder you meet has been through the same check
Example: a company verification
Verified
Your company
As it is registered, in the country where it is incorporated
Registered nameMatches the registry
Company numberMatches the registry
Company statusActive
Email domainMatches the company
Checked against the government company registry of the country where the company is incorporated.
Step 3 of 7 · Talking with Nally
Nally learns your burdens: what you need, and what you can give.
You talk and she listens. Each need and each offer becomes a burden, in your own words, and matching runs on burdens rather than on profiles.
She sets a short agenda and asks one thing at a time
You can read everything she knows, and have her forget any of it
Until you choose otherwise, other founders see only a masked description of you
NeedGive
Nally
listening · an example
You mentioned hiring your first salesperson. Who would they be selling to?
Retail chains. Ideally someone who has sold to them before.
Noted. And what could you offer another founder in return?
What Nally knows now
NeedA first salesperson who has sold to retail chains
GiveSetting up payroll in a second country
You can read everything she holds, and have her forget any of it. Matching runs on it, both ways.
Step 4 of 7 · Routed Asks
Ask a question, and it reaches people who can answer.
Nally routes each Ask privately to members whose burdens say they can help. There is no public feed of Asks, and nobody browses them.
Answers come back to you, privately
Useful answers and confirmed referrals build your Ally Score, your own trust score
There are no leaderboards and no public rankings
?0123answers
Example: Asks, as a member sees them
Your AskRouted privately
Who has hired a first salesperson for retail?
Answers come back to youFrom the members it reached
Routed to youThe asker stays masked
What did your first payroll provider abroad get wrong?
From your QuintOnly your Quint sees it
How did you choose your first auditor?
Your Ally Score+3for each useful answer
Step 5 of 7 · Introductions
An introduction needs two yeses.
When a burden of yours fits one of theirs, in both directions, Nally proposes an introduction. Each of you sees only why it may help you, and names unlock only after both of you tap Accept.
If you pass, the other founder is told only that the timing isn’t right
After a pass, Nally waits before she proposes the same two of you again
Everyone meets the same two-way test, on either tier
Example: one introduction, seen from both sides
What one founder sees
You said “a first salesperson who has sold to retail chains”. I’ve found someone who may be able to help with exactly that.
Tap one: accepted
What the other sees
You said “setting up payroll in a second country”. I’ve found someone who may be able to help with exactly that.
Tap two: waiting
After both taps
Names, companies and a room unlock for the two of you, and for no one else.
If either of you passes
Nothing about either of you is revealed. The other is told only that the timing isn’t right.
Step 6 of 7 · Rooms
A room to talk in, for the two of you.
Every accepted introduction opens a room for the two of you, and for no one else. It is where an introduction becomes a conversation, and where you can say so when it turned into business.
Only the two of you can read it
Log a referral when one of you sends the other business, and they confirm it
Report or block from inside the room, at any time
Example: a room for the two of youYou · Your company, and your match · Their companyIntroduced by Nally
In the room
MessagesOnly the two of you can read them
Log referralThey confirm it, and it counts toward your Ally Score
Report or blockAt any time, from the room
Deal rooms Coming soon
Step 7 of 7 · Quints
And every week, your Quint.
A Quint is five founders who meet weekly: a standing table for the week’s hardest problem, and a place where an Ask can begin.
The same five founders, one call a week
The five of you pick a time, and your representative confirms it
An Ask from inside the Quint stays inside the Quint
Every weekOne call
Example: your Quint
This weekSoon
Once a week, at a time the five of you pickIn your own time zone · the weekly call
Each of you says if you’re coming
On the table this week
How did you choose your first auditor?
An Ask from inside the Quint. It reaches your Quint, and nobody else.
The five of you pick a time together, and your representative confirms it.
Sarudo Coming soon
Promises
What Nally will never do.
Let anyone browse you
There is no directory, no search and no "people you may know". Nobody learns who you are unless you choose it: an introduction you both accept, or a Quint you ask to join.
Sell what you tell her
Your burdens are used to route Asks and propose introductions. They are never sold, and you can delete any of them.
Write to anyone in your name without you
Nally proposes and you decide.
It starts with a conversation.
Request an invite and a person reads it, or use a code from a member. Then Nally takes you through the rest in a conversation.