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. Members can have discussions amongst themselves, and communicate with other similar groups in your area.
GuildeHall Network is everything your group needs to function and thrive, all in one private place. Simple. Easy. And designed specifically to empower American civil society. There are no advertisements and no algorithm, and what your members write is never sold or used to train AI.
Open by invitation while we welcome our first users. If you would like to be among them, please reach out.
Technology built for civil society
GuildeHall Network is the only tool built specifically for America’s volunteer-run community groups and civic associations. Previously, those groups—whose important work keeps our society healthy—have had to settle for cobbled-together systems or overpriced, ill-suited software. With GuildeHall Network, the days of misplaced spreadsheets, forgotten checks, and spam-riddled Facebook groups are over.
What your Guilde gets
On Network, a group is called a Guilde. Every Guilde, on every plan, gets the essential tools of civic life:
An always up-to-date list, with names and contact information.
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.
In-depth conversations among your members, and — through Councils — with members of similar nearby groups.
Smaller rooms for those doing specialized work.
Nothing to install and nothing to update. Built for simplicity and usability. A mobile application is coming soon.
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 email newsletter come with the Standard plan. See what it costs below.
Built for the people who hold it together
The secretary
With GuildeHall Network he imports the whole membership from a spreadsheet, posts the agenda where everyone can find it, and sends the monthly bulletin from the same place the meeting minutes live. The send report tells him it arrived. He 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 updated. He can see who has paid and who has lapsed, record the checks that still come by mail, and hand the accountant a clean export.
The member
She joined by clicking an invitation in her email. She RSVPs to the potluck, takes a volunteer slot, and reads the news in the order it was posted. Her phone number stays private unless she shares it, and nothing she writes is used to sell her anything or train AI. She gets what she wants from membership without being inundated with advertising and spam.
As public as you want to be
Make your Guilde public, private, or secret.
Public. Anyone can find your Guilde and join immediately. Public Guildes are built to be easily found and joined by your neighbors. For groups who are eager for new members and want the onboarding process to be as easy as possible.
Private. Your Guilde can be found and has an online presence, but only the authorized can join. Potential members may apply for membership, but can only access the Guilde after approval by an admin. Best for more traditional organizations or groups with specific membership requirements that must be verified beforehand.
Secret. A secret Guilde has no public footprint and is not listed anywhere online. To those who are not members, it does not exist. Only people who receive an invitation directly via email or private link 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 GuildeHall Network is built, and how it will stay.
Councils
Guildes of similar types and nearly identical missions deserve a way to easily communicate and coordinate. With GuildeHall Network’s Councils feature, garden clubs and neighborhood associations in the same city, and historical societies in the same region or state, can come together in a way never before possible. An isolated silo is bad for your group, and bad for a community’s civic health. 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.
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. Members can choose to cover processing fees if they wish.
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.