How Circuit works
The network learns from who actually shows up.
Circuit helps rooms reach and invite guests. When people arrive, a Card tap, Block tap or door check-in records who was actually there. That makes the next invitation and the next room better.
Cards are portable. Blocks are fixed. Phones read them. Circuit resolves what the tap means.
Plan the turnout
Estimate. Act. Check.
Set a target. See likely turnout. Approve a plan to address the shortfall. Circuit updates the estimate as guests respond, then records who arrived.
A plan asks open RSVPs to reconfirm first. It can then offer held places to your own guests, the ones who have been before first, and never to anyone outside your list. You approve it before anything goes out.
The estimate rests on attendance history, and says so when there is too little of it to be worth reading.
Estimate
Target120Expected to attend~96Shortfall24Act
Asked to reconfirm31guestsCheck
Arrived on the night104Nothing is sent until you approve.
One record, however it was captured.
Circuit’s foundational record is not an RSVP, a ticket, a purchase or a saved place. It is verified physical presence: this person was intentionally recorded as being in this Room, in this community, at this place.
Circuit does not track location in the background, and it never infers that someone attended because their phone was nearby or because they said they were coming. Saved intent, a recommendation and an actual visit stay three different things.
Rooms → Invitations → Attendance → Learning → Better matching → Better rooms.
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Room
A room appears on Circuit and can reach guests through the guide, invitations and FM allocations.
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Show up
People save, RSVP or claim a place. Circuit keeps those signals separate from the thing that matters most: who actually arrives.
- 03
Learn
Verified attendance tells Circuit what happened in the real world. For recurring rooms, that record gets stronger every time the room happens.
- 04
Next
Organisers make better decisions about who to invite and bring back, while more relevant rooms and invitations can reach guests.
Inside a room
Attendance → Recognition → Action → Stronger room.
A system that only records attendance is incomplete. A system that only reports return is passive. Circuit becomes useful when physical presence changes what happens next. With Pro, that is where a first-timer gets welcomed, a familiar face gets invited back, and early booking opens for the people who have earned it.
Attendance
Someone shows up
Recognition
The room knows who
Action
Welcome, invite, open up
Stronger room
More of them come back
04 feeds 01 and the loop repeats
Your cadence sets the bar · not a flat number
One record. Different views.
The organiser sees their room. The venue sees the building. The institution sees the portfolio.
Community
Who shows up here, and what should happen next?
What happened in this room, and who came back.
Place
What happens here over time?
Which programmes fill the building and build return.
Network
What is happening across the communities we support?
Which programmes and locations build participation across the portfolio.
The trust boundary
Portable identity. Scoped visibility. Aggregate federation.
Circuit holds a richer record than any single participant is permitted to see. Permissions are a product feature, not a reporting preference. That is how presence can compound across a network without becoming a public location history.
Organisers see a person’s relationship to their own community, never another organiser’s guest list.
Venues see what is appropriate to the Rooms they operate, and building-wide patterns across the rest.
Institutions: An institution receives aggregate network intelligence by default; member-level external connection is member-initiated, explicit, purpose-specific and revocable.
Other members: A Card tap reveals only what the owner chose to share. Raw attendance history is never automatically public.
Free runs the room. Pro helps you plan turnout and bring people back.
Circuit never takes a cut of independent organiser ticket revenue.Standard payment processing still applies.