¶ THE HOUSE METHOD
Matched once,by a recipe you can read.
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No feed to swipe, no black box. You tell us a few true things, we seat you with compatible people nearby, and we bring the same table back every week. Here is exactly what we weigh, and the one line we will not cross.
¶ WHAT WE WEIGH
Eight signals,
in the order they pull.
The matcher scores everyone against everyone on the things you actually declared. Proximity leads, because a friendship you can walk to is the one that survives. The rest shape the table from there. We publish the order; the exact weights stay in the back room.
Where you are
Your neighbourhood, by real walking distance. The dominant signal: a table you can get to on a Tuesday is a table you keep.
What you are into
The interests you picked. Enough overlap to have a first conversation, not so much that it is an echo chamber.
Your vibe
How you actually like to hang, loud and out or quiet and regular, so the table feels like your kind of night.
What you are here for
A crew, a standing plan, acquaintances who become yours. We seat people who want the same shape of thing.
The night you can keep
A weekly slot everyone can actually protect. A shared free night is what turns a plan into a habit.
Roughly your life stage
Kept loosely in range so it feels easy. A gentle tiebreak, never a wall, and never a hard age band.
A balanced table
We balance on gender so no one is the only one of theirs at the candle. That is the one and only thing we balance about who you are.
New faces
We favour fresh tables over reunions, so you meet people you have not sat with before.
SCORED EVERY CYCLE · TUNED FROM WHAT ACTUALLY STUCK · WEIGHTS KEPT PRIVATE
A table seats up to five.
We open it the moment there are enough compatible people near you to protect the night, then keep filling it toward five. Five is the ceiling, because conversation splits at six. If your table is not right, tell us and we will re-seat you, no awkwardness, no starting your account over.
¶ THE MONEY, PLAINLY
Dues hold a seat,
nothing sneaky.
Free to join
Joining and intake cost nothing. Dues unlock the member seating lane, then hold your recurring seat once the matcher places you.
Six weeks covered
The first 100 in Melbourne get their first six weeks of member dues on us, so you can feel the rhythm before you pay for it.
Cancel anytime
You can cancel from your account before any dues are charged, and any time after. No call, no retention maze.
No table yet? No rush
We keep matching and re-seating until one sticks. You decide whether to stay in the paid pool while a table forms, with self-serve cancellation in your account.
DINNER IS ALWAYS YOUR OWN BILL · WE TAKE NOTHING FROM VENUES · WE SUGGEST THE SPOT, THE TABLE CONFIRMS IT
¶ WHY ONCE
We match once, then get out of the way.
You cannot swipe your way to 200 hours. The whole product is the repeat: the same five, the same night, until acquaintances quietly become friends. Match once, seat well, then let the table do the rest.