GuildeHall Network
Your group’s gated community on the internet.
GuildeHall Network is a private website where your club keeps its roster, collects its dues, plans its events, files its documents, and posts its news. Everything you need to function, all in one place. Nobody needs anything more than a web browser and an email address to access it. Simple. Easy. And designed specifically to empower American civil society.
We built it for the small civic groups that keep a town running, and made it plain enough for any volunteer to manage. There are no advertisements and no algorithm, and what your members write is never sold or used to train AI.
Network is open by invitation while we welcome our first groups. If your club would like to be among them, we would be glad to hear from you.
The way it usually goes
Announcements go out on a group text half the members have muted. The newsletter lives in a Mailchimp account the secretary pays for out of her own pocket. Dues arrive by Venmo, by check, and by “catch me next meeting,” and the treasurer squares it all in a spreadsheet come tax time. The bylaws are in somebody’s garage, and the Facebook group is full of spam and AI slop.
None of this is anyone’s fault. Those tools were made for offices and advertisers, and a club is neither. GuildeHall Network was built for you.
What your Guilde gets
On Network, a group is called a Guilde. Every Guilde, on every plan, gets the essential tools of civic life:
Every member in one place, with the details each person chooses to share.
For members to speak and share freely. No algorithm decides who sees what.
A shared calendar with RSVPs and volunteer sign-ups.
Direct notes between members and admins, en masse or private.
Bylaws, minutes, and budgets, filed where all officers can find them.
Longer conversations that deserve more than a reply-all chain, and — through Councils — with nearby groups of the same type.
Smaller rooms for the people doing the work.
Nothing to install and nothing to update. Built for simplicity and usability.
All of it is free for a Guilde of up to 150 members, along with your public page, your Councils, and as many officers as you care to make administrators. Collecting dues online and sending a proper newsletter come with the Standard plan. See what it costs below.
Built for the people who hold it together
The secretary
With GuildeHall Network she imports the whole membership from a spreadsheet in an afternoon, posts the agenda where everyone can find it, and sends the monthly bulletin from the same place the minutes live. The send report tells her it arrived. She can access member data in the blink of an eye and add or remove people with just a few clicks.
The treasurer
Dues season used to mean payment-app screenshots and a spreadsheet nobody else could open. Now the club sets its tiers, members pay online (if they want to), and the ledger keeps itself. He can see who has paid and who has lapsed, record the one check that still comes by mail, and hand the accountant a clean export in April.
The member
She joined by clicking an invitation in her email; there was nothing to download. She RSVPs to the potluck, takes a volunteer slot, and reads the news in the order it was posted. Her phone number stays hers unless she shares it, and nothing she writes is used to sell her anything. She gets what she wants from membership without being inundated with advertising and spam.
As public as you want to be
Every Guilde has a gate, and you decide if it’s kept open.
Public. The gate stands open. Anyone can find your page: your mission, meeting times, officers, coming events, and a way for newcomers to introduce themselves. Public pages are built to be found by neighbors, by search engines, and by the AI assistants people ask these days. Every Guilde has one, on every plan, at no charge.
Private. The gate is latched. Your Guilde is listed by name only, and joining takes an admin’s approval or an invitation. For when individuals must be verified before admission.
Secret. The gate is hidden. Your Guilde has no public footprint at all; to anyone who isn’t a member, it simply isn’t there. Only those who receive an invitation directly can join.
What we will never do
No advertising. Ever.
No surveillance. We don’t track your members or sell their attention.
No algorithmic feed. Posts appear in the order they were posted.
No AI training. What your members write is never used to train AI models.
No lock-in. Exporting your data is free, and so is closing your account.
This is our covenant: how Network is built, and how it will stay.
Councils
A garden club in Ashland and a garden club in Farmville tend different beds and identical problems. A neighborhood association in Church Hill and a neighborhood association in the Fan share the same city. Councils join peer Guildes together with a shared forum and a common page, so groups doing the same work can trade notes, communicate, and coordinate easily. Councils are curated by hand; if your kind of group could use one, say so when you write.
What it costs
Your members pay nothing: belonging to a Guilde is free for an individual, always, and free for as many Guildes as they care to join. GuildeHall takes no cut of your dues. Payments go straight into your own account; about 3% goes to the card processor, as it would anywhere, and nothing is added on top of that.
Request an invitation
We’re welcoming groups a few at a time, so that each founding Guilde gets set up properly: roster imported, officers added, first newsletter out the door. Tell us a little about your group and we’ll write back to arrange a walkthrough.
Starting something brand-new? Founders are welcome too; we’ll help you get started.