How Circuit works
Circuit makes physical presence carry forward.
Cards identify people. Blocks identify places. Phones read them. Circuit remembers the connection.
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 at this event, 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.
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.
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Attendance
Someone shows up and is recorded as present, by whichever method suits the room.
- 02
Recognition
The room can tell whether this person is New, Returning, a Regular, or has gone quiet. That reading is scoped: someone can be a Regular at one room and New at another, and there is no universal label following anyone around.
- 03
Action
With Pro (£20/mo), the organiser welcomes a first-timer, invites a familiar face back, marks a milestone, reaches people who have drifted, or unlocks early booking and private invitations for those who have earned them.
- 04
Stronger room
More of the room is made of people who chose to come back, and the member’s own Circuit grows with it.
The same system, read at three scales.
These are scopes over one presence system, not three products and not three databases.
Community
Who shows up here, and what should happen next?
The organiser sees participation inside their own community.
Place
What happens here over time?
A building understands recurring activity across the programmes it hosts.
Network
What is happening across the communities we support?
An institution understands aggregate participation across the communities it supports, including ones it does not own.
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 events they operate, and building-wide patterns across the rest.
Institutions receive aggregate evidence by default. An institution receives aggregate network intelligence by default; member-level external connection is member-initiated, explicit, purpose-specific and revocable.
Other members tapping a Card see only what its owner chose to share. A Card tap reveals only what the owner chose to share. Raw attendance history is never automatically public.
Free helps you run the room. Pro helps you build the relationship.
Circuit never takes a cut of independent organiser ticket revenue. Standard payment processing still applies.