Ecosystem

Four sides. One network.

A night out takes a crew, an artist, a promoter, and a venue. Most apps serve one of them and treat the rest as inventory. We treat all four as participants — and run them on one taste engine, so every side's moves feed the others.

New here? Start with the mission — the why behind all of this.
5 doors open · 1 taste engine
crew · artists · promoters · venues · curators
The stance

One local economy, not four products.

The crew, the artist, the promoter, and the venue are four sides of the same local economy — and they already depend on each other in real life. The crew shows up because the artist plays; the artist plays because the promoter books the venue; the venue stays alive because the crew shows up.

So we don't build four apps. We build one network with four doors, and the same taste engine sits underneath all of them — turning every save, show, and outing into signal that makes the next match sharper for everyone.

every save is a signal — and it travels.

How the sides feed each other

The flywheel.

Follow one action around the loop. Watch what each side hands the next — and why it gets sharper every time around.

01

The crew saves

A friend group saves the wine bar, the rooftop, Thursday's DJ set. Each save is a private signal about taste — not a public star rating.

↓ a behavioral taste signal
02

The taste engine matches

Cosine similarity on those signals finds the people who genuinely share your taste — strangers included — and surfaces what they save.

↓ taste-matched people & spots
03

The artist posts a show

A set goes up and pushes straight to her followers in that matched crowd. No algorithm decides who's allowed to see it.

↓ the right room, no gatekeeper
04

Promoter & venue read it back

The promoter sees who actually saved the night, by neighborhood and cluster. The venue reads the same engine pointed at its door — proof the night landed, and a reason to invest in the scene.

↓ more saves, sharper signal

The loop tightens

Every pass feeds the engine more signal — sharper matches, better discovery, more saves. The flywheel a chain can't buy its way into, because it can't fake the behavior.

Find your place

Five doors into the network.

Same network, different entrance. Pick the one that's you — each opens to the full page.

The crew · the widest door

Going out is the whole point.

Save the spots you love, follow people whose taste actually matches yours, and watch the map fill with places your people rate — not whoever paid to rank. You don't apply. You just start.

You get → save · follow · taste-matched discovery
Start your taste profile →
The artist

Built for the people putting on the show.

A verified badge, a show calendar, and a push to every follower the moment you post — without an algorithm deciding who sees it.

You get → badge · calendar · direct push
Claim your Artist badge →
The promoter

If you put on the night, you own the data.

Post events, tag the artists, and see real attribution — who saved your night, which neighborhoods, which taste clusters.

You get → post · tag · attribution
Apply for Promoter status →
The venue

See who's saving you — and why.

Claim your spot and read the same taste engine the crew uses, pointed at your door: who's saving you, when, and the clusters they come from.

You get → claim · cluster-save analytics
Claim your venue →
Founding Curator · the crew, elevated

We reward taste, not popularity.

Twenty seats per city for the people who already know what's worth doing. A permanent badge, Board of the Week, and a direct line to the founder.

You get → 20 seats / city · permanent badge
Apply to curate →
Built for them, governed by them

The four sides have a seat in the room.

Converge isn't only built for these sides — it's partly kept honest by them. The Community & Cultural Council mirrors the ecosystem one seat at a time, so every door has a voice in the decisions that touch it.

The crew
Crew voice. Does the save → follow → discover loop actually feel good, or just look good in a demo?
The artist
Artist voice. Is the artist side real value, or lip service to people who deserve better?
The promoter
Promoter voice. Does attribution actually help you run a better night — or is it a vanity chart?
The venue
Venue voice. Is the dashboard worth a busy owner's fifteen minutes a week?
There's a path, not just a panel

The most engaged crew become Founding Curators; the strongest curators become Council heads. The same people who use Converge grow into the layer that governs it — which is exactly how you keep a local product honest to the place it serves. See how we're run →

Every side has a door.

Pick yours and step in — the network only works because all four sides do.