For the people who have to say yes

Everything you need to make the case.

The honest version. What a host can see, what a host can't, what we do with data, and what happens when a round doesn't fill. Written to be forwarded.

The part everyone asks about

What a host can see. What they can't.

A host can see

  • Who is a member, their role, and whether they're invited, active, paused, or gone
  • How many introductions someone has had, and when they were last active
  • How the program is going overall: participation, which departments are connecting, feedback ratings as a distribution
  • The round itself: who's included, how often it runs, what it's for
  • Member email addresses are hidden by default. Revealing one is a separate, logged action

A host can't see

  • What you talked about. We don't store conversation content anywhere
  • Your notes. They are yours, and there is no setting that shares them
  • What you wrote in feedback after a coffee
  • Your personal network, and anyone in it
  • Passport fields you haven't chosen to share
  • Who you were matched with in a coffee round
  • Your coach and relationship history

Your relationships are yours. Running the program never means reading people's conversations.

Three things we won't pretend about

  • Live events are different. If you run a live event, whoever organizes it sees that event's pairings by name, and whether each pair met. Seating a room needs it. Weekly coffee rounds are not like this, and never have been.
  • Host activity isn't fully logged yet. Today, one host action is recorded: revealing a member's email address. Making all host access to member data least-privilege and auditable is work we haven't finished, and we'd rather say that than imply otherwise.
  • This describes our tools, not a vault. The boundaries above are what our host tools show and don't show. We're telling you how the product behaves, not claiming a database that makes misuse impossible.
What it asks of your people

Almost nothing, and never a demand.

  • Two minutes, once

    A few interests and what they're hoping for. That's the whole profile.

  • One introduction

    At whatever cadence you set. Never a queue of strangers.

  • Out whenever

    Pause or leave without explaining themselves to anyone.

What it takes to run

One afternoon.

Pick who's included, choose how often people meet, invite them by email or a single shared link. Matches go out on their own after that. There is no rollout project, no integration to schedule, and nothing for you to chase week to week.

The question nobody likes asking

What if people don't show up?

Then the program has told you something, and it isn't that your people failed. Low participation is a design signal: the cohort may be too small, the timing wrong, or the reason to meet unclear. We will never shame anyone for not taking part, never name them to a host, and never manufacture a bad introduction to keep a schedule looking healthy.

We would rather make no match than a bad one.

Today you can widen who's eligible when you set a round up, and talk to us if one isn't filling. Richer controls, including pausing a round in place, extending enrollment, and adjusting cadence after launch, are being built. We'd rather list them here as work in progress than let you assume they already exist.
Where the details live

The rest of the diligence

On keeping data. We keep information only as long as we need it to run the service and meet our security, contractual, and legal obligations. Members can ask us to delete their data, and an organization can close its space. We may keep de-identified, aggregate information. What we will not do is treat someone's private relationships as organizational property.

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