Door three — the founding cohort

The Founding Partner Program

Founding Partners are the founding cohort building this directory alongside its first listed businesses — operators, agencies, and community builders bringing their clients in at the start, while the directory agents will read is being written.

What founding means

The program is described openly. Partner names are not published.

Founding rates, locked

Founding listings lock founding rates — the terms a founding business joins on are the terms it keeps.

The founding badge

Founding listings carry the founding badge and attribution, marking the cohort that built the directory from its first records.

Reviews from day one

Reviews are enabled from day one for founding listings.

Assisted, person-to-person

Founding intake is assisted and person-to-person — records are built with the partner and the owner, never submitted into a queue.

The same rules hold for partners as for everyone: no listing without owner confirmation, credentials only through the secure flow, and grade and rank are never for sale — to partners or anyone.

By introduction

Founding Partners join by introduction. If we've already spoken, reach us at [email protected].