Find the few people you need next.

Every member is a coloured dot in a primary Loop. Selecting a Loop brightens its dots and connects them across the world. Each Loop has its own page and its own chat space — and Hermes only draws a line where there is a real match between what one founder needs and what another already has.

Let’s spark off each other. Be seen.

Join the Loop

Choose your primary Loop when you join. It sets your colour on the global map and your first room.

Connect the dots

Hermes reads profiles, asks what you need next, searches members first, then approved allies and sponsors.

Be seen

A public gallery card, a dot on the world map and a shop window — your work visible to people who can use it.

Stay in the loop

Monthly show & tell, Loop chat, and follow-up until something real happens: a meeting, trial, referral or sale.

Hover a segment to open a loop. Click to keep it open.

Seven loops

Find your loop.

Every member sits in one of seven loops, then adds specialist tags. Hermes scores every pair of founders — 3 points per shared tag, 2 for the same loop, 1 per shared problem word, and 4 when one founder's need is another's offer — and clusters the results.

How a connection is made

One focused connection at a time. Founders Loop is not a mass directory or an automated invitation machine — Hermes recommends, Sara decides, and nobody is introduced without mutual consent.

01
Understand
What you are building, the gap you found, what you need next and what you can offer.
02
Search inside
Members first — genuine fit, common ground, shared challenge or complementary capability.
03
Check the edge
Then approved allies and sponsors, then public sources to identify people worth inviting.
04
Explain the match
Who could help whom, why it matters and what the first conversation should achieve.
05
Ask Sara
Sara approves every invitation, approach and sensitive introduction. Consent both ways.
06
Follow through
Prompt the follow-up and record the result: meeting, trial, referral, sale, partnership — or nothing.

Stronger together: a founder gets little traction approaching a large manufacturer, bank or specialist alone. The same request carried by a focused network is heard.

3 loops · 11 clustered · 3 open to join

Loop

Waste to product

affinity 116

4 evidence-based need-to-offer matches inside this Loop.

Open group

Loop

Monitoring & sensing

affinity 55

5 evidence-based need-to-offer matches inside this Loop.

Open group

Loop

Community

affinity 8

0 evidence-based need-to-offer matches inside this Loop.

Open group

Open field

Still matching

3 founders

Hermes hasn't found a strong enough match for these founders yet. No line is drawn until there is real common ground — they may still be the missing piece for your next project.