The platformDirectory
A directory built around how members find each other.
For any network where members do business together, the directory is the reason to log in. It should search the way people search, and the reaching out should happen inside it.
What members get
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Search that thinks like a member
By city, country, service, chapter, or a name half remembered. Filters as chips, results as cards, a map when location matters.
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Enough to decide
Each listing shows what a member needs to decide whether to reach out: services, offices, contacts, chapter, how long a member.
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Reach out without leaving
A request or a message goes from the listing, with a record of it on both sides and a reply-by time the network agrees on.
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Control of their own listing
Members choose what is visible to other members and what is visible to the public website.
What staff get
- 01
A directory that is never out of date
It is not a copy of the member list. It is the member list, so a lapsed member disappears and a new one appears the moment status changes.
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Activity you can see
Which members are being found, which requests are answered, where the network is quiet. Useful at renewal time.
The directory
Find a partner in another country, then ask them.
A member in Miami searches for compliance support in Europe, picks Rotterdam, and sends a request that lands on the other member's record.
Sample data for Northbridge Alliance, a fictional association. Any resemblance to real organizations is coincidental.
Try it
Find a partner
3 firms shown
- Rowan & PikeRotterdam
- Aldervane AdvisoryFrankfurt
- Solent GroupSouthampton
Member-to-member request
Member to member
From a search to a reply, without leaving the directory.
Reaching out happens inside the listing, with a reply-by time the network agrees on and a record of it on both sides. Head office is no longer the switchboard.
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Search the way people search
Compliance, Europe
Region: EuropeChapter: Benelux
02
Enough to decide
Rowan & Pike
Rotterdam · compliance, audit · member since 2019
03
Ask from the listing
Need a compliance partner for a client in Rotterdam.
Reply by Thursday
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On both records
- Delmar Partners: request sent
- Rowan & Pike: request received
Sample data for Northbridge Alliance, a fictional association.
AI in this module
Search that understands the question.
On the same record and permissions as the rest of the platform. Nothing reaches members without a person, unless you decide a step is safe to automate.
How AI works across the platformPlain-language search
“A compliance partner in Rotterdam who speaks Dutch” finds the right members, not only a row of filters.
Listings kept current
Members get suggestions for their own listing (a missing service, an office that moved) and approve them with one click.
Introductions suggested
Members whose services and regions fit together are suggested to each other, or to staff, to act on.
What it replaces
No more PDF member list.
Today
In your platform
Today: A directory plugin bolted to the website
In your platform: The directory as a part of the platform, reading the member record
Today: A PDF member list emailed twice a year
In your platform: Search, filters and a map, current at every moment
Today: Introductions by email through head office
In your platform: Member-to-member requests inside the platform, with a record
Also in the platform
What a listing connects to.
- CRMOne record per member organization and person, with everything that happens to it.Open
- Member portalDesigned like a consumer product, so members log in because it is useful.Open
- RenewalsDues, invoices and payments on the same record, with reminders that know what a member has done.Open
- EventsConference and chapter registration on the member's own account.Open
- WebsiteThe public site and the portal from the same system, so nothing disagrees.Open
Make the directory the reason to log in.
Start with a three-week audit: every tool mapped, a blueprint and a fixed quote. No demo, no sales deck.