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Neighbors arriving for a warm evening gathering around shared tables.

United States founding membership is live

Build a real life again, one room at a time.

Polis turns a 10-minute intake into city by city invitations, backed by public build evidence, private citizen pages, and formats designed for durable offline ties.

Cost: $96/yr standard membership or Solidarity free when money is the blocker.

Exit: cancel anytime and request private-state deletion within 24h.

No ads: no data sale, no pay-to-play matching, and no attention marketplace.

What changes

The product is a sequence of real invitations, not another place to perform.

Citizen intake interview captures interests and constraints.

Tell the truth once

A short intake captures what you care about, how you move through a week, and what would make a room feel safe enough to enter.

A new citizen joins a first gathering around a shared table.

Meet in bounded rooms

Small formats keep gatherings specific: a shared text, a civic question, a meal, a walk, a festival, or a pure-lot meeting.

A citizen records whether a meaningful tie continued after thirty days.

Measure what matters

The signal is whether a tie still matters after time has passed. The system is built around durable human contact.

Six ways back into civic life

Different rooms for different kinds of serendipity.

Symposium table for five to seven citizens with a leitmotif card.
Symposium
Agora circle with a wooden speaking token in the center.
Agora
Gymnasium gathering with movement lanes and no headphones.
Gymnasium
Theater gathering with pre-read pages and a small audience.
Theater
Festival commons with many citizens and no commercial sponsor signs.
Festival
Aleatory pure-lot gathering drawn from a simple civic urn.
Aleatory
Verifiable sortition draw selects an assembly panel.

Why people can believe it

The institution is constrained before it asks for trust.

Citizen governance and sortitioned oversight.

Encrypted private state and public audit evidence.

No ads, no data sale, no pay-to-play matching.

United States first

The national launch begins as local city cells, not endless scrolling.

Start intake from anywhere in the United States, name the city where you want real rooms to form, and help gather the first people willing to meet offline.