For members between roles
Great teams are built on skill and seriousness. Not pedigree.
Being between roles is not a status problem, it is a routing problem. The work you can do is fine. What is broken is the path between you and the person who decides — a pile of nine hundred applications, read by a filter, sorted by logo.
The Registry runs one standard for everyone on the register: seriousness and intent, not current title. A candidate here is not a lesser class of member. If a mutual connection will stake their name on your ask, it lands in front of the person hiring, and it gets read.
The pile
Nine hundred applicants, one posting, and a filter reading for keywords before a person ever does. Nothing about that measures whether you can do the work.
The pedigree screen
Logos and titles are a shortcut for people who do not have time to read. It is a bad shortcut, and everyone hiring already knows it.
The open network
When anyone can message anyone, the message is worth nothing. Volume killed the channel; a good candidate now competes with automation.
What replaces the application
A sponsored introduction, not a submission.
Step 01
You state one specific ask
The seat you want and why you can hold it. One ask, one person — not a broadcast.
Step 02
A mutual connection carries it
They endorse it or they kill it. Their standing rides on it, which is exactly why the other side opens it.
Step 03
The hiring member consents
A channel opens between two people who both chose to be in it. That is a conversation, not an application.
One sponsored introduction that gets read beats two hundred applications that do not.
Your record
A candidacy dossier does what a résumé stopped doing.
Members write their own entry. For anyone looking for their next seat, the entry is built around three things a hiring member actually reads.
- What you have actually operated
- Scope, budget, headcount, systems, the messy parts. Not a title — the surface area you were accountable for.
- What you were on the hook for
- The two or three outcomes that were yours to deliver, and what happened. Plain numbers where you have them.
- The specific next seat
- Not "open to opportunities." The role, the stage of company, the scope, and the thing you want to be responsible for next.
No headshot requirement, no "open to work" frame, no years-since-graduation arithmetic. Nothing on your entry is public — it is visible only inside your network on the register.
Coming later — Sponsored candidacy
The paid version will sell the work, not the queue.
We will not sell priority. Paying to be seen first is how the last network broke, and it would make every free member second class. When we open a paid tier it buys labour: an administrator building your dossier with you, and named introductions carried to hiring members on the register.
Entry and use of the register
Free
Permanently. Introductions included.
Sponsored candidacy
Not yet open
Dossier built with an administrator, plus introductions carried on your behalf.
Who we charge first
Hiring
The side with the budget. Candidates are not the revenue line.
There is a box on the application to tell us whether you would want it. That is the whole research method — we will not build it until enough people ask.
Apply as a candidate.
Same application, same standard, read by the same person. Tell us the seat you want and we will read it against who is hiring on the register.