# The rules

These are the whole rules. They are short on purpose. None of them can be bought, negotiated, or waived for anyone.

## Getting in

1. You join only when a member vouches for you.
2. A vouch says: *I have worked with this person, and I would work with them again.* It names the voucher. It is public on your profile.
3. There is no waitlist to jump, no referral code to buy, no exception for famous people.

## Members

1. **1 application a week.** The week resets on Monday. An unused application carries over, but you can never hold more than 2.
2. **4 vouches a year.** Use them whenever you like, but no more than 2 in any 90 days. Only for someone you have worked with directly. The year resets on 1 January, and unused vouches do not carry over.
3. **No resume.** Your profile is the people who vouched for you, the work you choose to show, and what you write yourself.
4. Vouch for someone who lied about working with you, and you lose your vouches. Vouch for many, and the pattern shows.

## Companies

1. **Every applicant gets a written reply within 7 days.** Yes or no, with at least one honest sentence about why.
2. Miss the deadline once and we tell you. Miss it again and your listings come down. Ignore it, and you are off the platform.
3. **No ghost jobs.** A listing is a role you are hiring for now, with the salary range written on it.
4. **No sorting by machine.** A person at your company reads each application. We do not rank, score, or filter applicants with AI.
5. Companies cannot search members and message them in bulk. Members come to you, one careful application at a time.

## Money

1. Members never pay to apply, to vouch, or to be seen.
2. Companies may pay us in the future. Paying will never buy more applicants, a member's contact details, or a way around the 7-day reply.
3. If a rule ever has to change, we will publish the change and the reason on this page before it applies.