ADD INTEL
MY CIRCLE
Your recommendations travel to these friends and their friends — two degrees, never further. Know someone here already? Open their member page and tap “We know each other.”
THE MEMBERS
NOMINATE
HOW THE TWO-DEGREE RULE WORKS
- Founders and first-degree members may nominate.
- People nominated by a 1° member enter at 2° — the edge of the network. Second-degree members enjoy full access but cannot nominate unless a founder grants it.
- Each member may sponsor three friends. We are limiting numbers to keep this a private club.
MEMBER OFFERS
EVENTS
MEMBER CHATS
MESSAGES
THE PRIVACY CHARTER
TWO DEGREES — NOT THREE. HERE IS WHY.
Every reco you post travels to your friends and their friends — people you could name, or reach through one phone call — unless you choose otherwise. That is the entire point. At two degrees, anyone who reads your tip is accountable to somebody you know personally; a leak is traceable through a single introduction.
At three degrees, the arithmetic betrays you: in a club of our size, three degrees of a well-connected member is very nearly everyone. Abuse does not scale with audience — it scales with anonymity. Two degrees keeps every reader inside the reach of a raised eyebrow. Other networks learned this the hard way; we have chosen not to.
THE OPEN SHELF — YOUR CHOICE, EVERY TIME
When you post, the pen is yours: the default sends a reco to your two degrees and never further, but you may instead place it on the open shelf — visible to every member of the book. Nothing is ever opened up on your behalf, and no setting quietly changes it later. Two degrees unless you say otherwise — one tap, one reco at a time.
A reco posted to your two degrees appears on no extract but your own — it never travels beyond your circle, on paper or on screen. And your name is guarded even in generosity: a member may print a private extract of the book for friends beyond the walls — their own recos, plus the open shelf — and on those pages your name is removed before the ink dries. The intel may travel with a member; your identity never does.
YOUR PAGES ARE WATERMARKED
Every page of the book you open carries your membership number, woven faintly into the page itself. If a reco ever appears where it should not, the founders will know precisely whose copy left the walls. This is not a threat — it is the reason everyone here can write freely. Discretion that cannot be verified is merely hope.
THE DISCREET SECTIONS
Local Guides & Experts goes further: contributors' names are hidden from anyone beyond their closest circle. A recommendation for the person who runs your house is an act of deeper trust than one for a beach club, and the rails respect the difference.
NOTHING HERE IS PUBLIC — EVER
The book does not appear in search engines. There are no public profiles, no share buttons, no links that work for outsiders. What the founders see — and all they see — is an activity ledger kept for the administration of the club: who is feeding the book, and who is only dining from it.
— The Founders
FOUNDER'S DESK
SEAT A MEMBER
The one-button seating: they join the book, they're wired to your circle, and their sign-in key is cut — all at once. Text them their password and they're in.
CUT A NEW KEY
Forgotten or fumbled password? Pick the member, type a fresh one, done — no emails, no dashboards. Text it to them and they're in.
NOMINATION QUEUE
| NOMINEE | NOMINATED BY | VOUCHER | STATUS |
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THE LEDGER — NEW POSTS FOR YOUR EYE
Every recommendation appears here the moment a member posts it — already live on the site, nothing held back. Look each one over; open it to correct a line or add a photograph with your founder's pen, then tick it off. As the book grows, this is how nothing slips past you.
PROOF THE PAGES
One click reads every recommendation the way a printer's proofreader would: does the photograph actually load, is one missing altogether, is a web link too unwieldy for the printed page, is the destination or country blank. Run it once a week — ideally before The Note goes out — and after any big import.
PHOTOGRAPHS — BRING GOOGLE'S INTO THE BOOK
Photographs chosen from Google were kept as links back to Google, which refuses them whenever a phone hides where the request came from — the grey “?” some members see. This copies every such photograph into the Book’s own storage, once, so they load everywhere and never depend on Google again. New recos do this automatically from now on. Takes a few minutes; leave the page open.
THE GAZETTEER — RIGHT RECO, RIGHT TOWN
The audit flags any reco whose address names a different town in the book than the one it's filed under — a Venice address filed in Rome, and the like. Or pick a destination to leaf through everything filed there. Type the right town and MOVE; the reco travels instantly, everywhere it appears.
THIS WEEK'S QUESTION — THE ASK AT THE TOP OF FRIDAY'S NOTE
A narrow ask gets answers; an open one gets silence. Write one question — “the best Sunday lunch within an hour of London?” — and it leads Friday's digest with a REPLY button. Members reply by email; you post their answers under their names from the pen below. Leave it blank and the digest goes out as usual.
THE QUIET SHELF — KEEP IT, DON'T LEAD WITH IT
Some recos are worth keeping but not quite five-star enough to open the Book. Tick DON'T MAKE PROMINENT and the reco stays in its destination and category exactly as before, but never takes a leading slot on the home feed or the fresh strip. Untick to restore.
THE NOTE — THIS WEEK'S DIGEST
The book's week, assembled for you: new recommendations, upcoming events and new members from the last seven days. Add a line of your own, then copy it into a Resend broadcast to send to every member. The founder's weekly note — curated, never automatic.
THE MAP — DESTINATIONS & REGIONS
Tidy the map here. Rename a destination and every reco follows it (typos, duplicates — "Milano" into "Milan"). Give two places the same region — say "The Bahamas" for Nassau and Lyford Cay — and they cluster under one chip on the homepage.
| DESTINATION | REGION (BLANK = STANDS ALONE) | RECOS |
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MEMBER REGISTER & NOMINATION ALLOWANCES
F-numbers belong to the founding circle; members admitted since wear M. F3 to F10 are held back for you to assign personally. PINs are visible only here and in each member's welcome letter.
| MEMBER | Nº | PIN | DEGREE | USED / ALLOWED | ADJUST |
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WIRE THE ROOM
You know who knows whom. Pick a member, then tick every friend of theirs — each tick saves itself instantly, joining the two circles on the spot. Untick to part them again. Filled ticks are connections that already exist.
THE ARCHIVE — EXPORT THE BOOK
One click gathers everything — members, recos, ratings, destinations, events, chats, the friendship graph — into a dated file in your Downloads. Click it weekly and keep the files somewhere safe; it's the club's insurance policy. (Photographs live separately in storage and aren't inside the file.)
MONTHLY REPORT — MEMBER ACTIVITY (LAST 30 DAYS)
Every page a member opens is watermarked with their membership number — if a reco ever surfaces outside the walls, the copy is traceable to its viewer.
| MEMBER | Nº | VISITS | RECOS VIEWED | ADDED (30d) | MESSAGES | LAST SEEN | STANDING (ALL TIME) |
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ADVERTISING — PARTNER SLOTS
| SLOT | ADVERTISER | RATE | ON AIR | PAYMENT | ACTIONS |
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