Nothing is shared by default
Your profile exists for your advisor and the colleagues working on your engagement. It is not circulated, listed, or made searchable — including internally.
Discretion
Not a feature. A standard.
What happens here stays here. It is the first thing we promise and the last thing we would ever compromise.
The principle
Most of our members are, in some part of their lives, publicly visible. Their names carry weight in a boardroom, a family, an industry or a country. A private search is the only kind that is of any use to them.
So we built the house around that requirement rather than adding it afterwards. There is nothing to opt out of, because there was never anything public to begin with.
How an introduction actually travels
You are told first
When we believe someone is right, you hear the case before they hear your name. If you decline, the matter ends there and nothing has been disclosed.
Consent is per introduction
Agreeing to one introduction is not standing permission for the next. We ask again, every time, on both sides.
Only what is necessary
We share what the other person needs in order to decide — not your full portrait, and never details you have asked us to withhold.
Confidentiality binds both ways
Members undertake to hold what they learn about anyone we introduce with the same discretion they expect for themselves.
What we do not do
The absences are the point.
A great deal of our design work consisted of deciding what would never exist.
- No public profiles, of anyone, at any level of membership.
- No member directory, gallery or browsable list.
- No swiping, matching feed, or self-service search.
- No testimonials that identify a member, however flattering.
- No photographs of members anywhere on this site or in our materials.
- No sale, rental or exchange of member information, ever.
- No disclosure that a particular person is a member — including to other members.
Practical handling
Quietly, and in writing.
Confidentiality obligations are set out in writing at the start of every engagement and bind the house, its advisors and its members. Access to a member's file is limited to the advisors working on that engagement.
Correspondence can be conducted through whichever channel you prefer, including arrangements that keep our name out of your inbox and your calendar entirely. Where a member requires it, an engagement can proceed without our involvement being disclosed to anyone.
Our full privacy terms, data handling and retention arrangements are provided with the engagement documentation and are available on request before you apply.
NamedOne advisor, accountable to you
WrittenConfidentiality agreed at the outset
RestrictedAccess limited to your engagement team
What happens here, stays here.