Trust.

City leadership

One person leads each city.

Every room here is convened by someone local who was already doing the work — running a mastermind, hosting a meetup, standing in front of a room every month. We do not hand a city to someone who intends to start something. We hand it to someone who already has people in seats.

The first person to claim an open city holds it for fourteen days. Others can still apply during that window and they will be read. At the end of it, one person gets the city.

Open

No one has claimed these. First serious application holds it.

My city is not on this list →

Already running

These cities have a room and a leader. They are not claimable — but leadership changes hands when a room stops running, so tell us if yours is one you would want.

PhoenixSeattleBendPortlandSan Francisco BayNew York CityLos AngelesDallas–Fort WorthChicagoAustinBostonWashington DCHoustonAtlantaDenverSan DiegoMinneapolis–St. PaulPhiladelphiaNashvilleSalt Lake CityRaleigh–DurhamTampa Bay

What you actually get

  • The title, in public. You are listed and featured as the leader of this city — named on the city page, in the newsletter that goes out to the whole metro, and on every room we run here. Not a volunteer badge. The public authority for this city is you.
  • Admin control of the app for your city. Your own console over every networking group, room, and member in the metro. You see who is here, who knows whom, who is showing up, and who is asking for introductions — the whole local graph, from above. Nobody else in your city has that view.
  • The calendar. Every business, tech, AI and investor event in your metro, gathered and kept current, on your page. You tell us where to pull from. It is the thing local hosts spend hours a month doing by hand.
  • The invitation machine. Waitlist, invites, member cards, the referral graph. All of it already built and already running in other cities. You inherit it working.
  • The city page itself. Built from your own answers about your own metro, in your words — not a template with your name dropped into it.

And what we ask

You already run something and you keep running it. No pay-to-play seats, no selling from the stage. Nothing you build goes public until it is approved, and the brand stays ours. If the room stops running, the city goes back on this board.

🐾 The nonprofit initiative behind this network

Every room we open is in direct partnership with Best‑Friend.org

Millions of healthy animals are put down simply because shelters run out of room. Best‑Friend.org is the world’s first decentralized nonprofit with a planned ending: it builds the system any community can install to solve shelter overcapacity, then disappears because it is no longer needed. It doesn’t ask anyone for money. Sharing is the donation.

That is what this network is ultimately for. The rooms build the businesses; the attention they earn goes to emptying the shelters.

See how it works →