For designers, specifiers & purchasing
Your calendar. Your terms.
How designers use it
You set the terms.
We keep them.
Publish your formats for the year
Lunch & learn, wine & cheese, in-office happy hour, or a 30-minute virtual — you decide which formats you'll host and when. Vendors only ever see what you choose to publish.
Submit quarterly sourcing priorities
Name what you're specifying this quarter. Matched vendors route to the front of your queue; everyone else waits. The meetings you take are the meetings you need.
Earn for showing up — through the Firm Pool
Points for kept meetings accrue to the firm, not the individual. The pool funds team passes to BDNY and HD Expo, CEU enrollments, editorial features, and awards entries.
Redeem as CEU credits, sample credits, restaurant reservations, or a charitable donation in the firm's name. Nothing changes hands personally.
Rate the room
After each meeting, three honest signals — sample-worthy, spec-worthy, information-worthy. Vendors who waste your time quietly lose visibility. The calendar improves itself.
We don't pay for meetings. We make meetings worth taking.
Firm-level, non-cash rewards keep the arrangement clean inside REITs, public hospitality brands, and policy-strict agencies. No designer is ever paid to sit in a room. The firm earns the right to invest in its own people — and that is a different thing entirely.
The founding firm invitation
An arrangement,
in both directions.
We are recruiting a small founding cohort by relationship. A Founding Firm gives a little, and receives in perpetuity.
- iPublishes its yearA real calendar, open to category-matched vendors across the founding markets.
- iiHosts one monthly Annex windowA single "Parlor Friday" each month — orchestrated end to end by the concierge.
- iiiThree-year exclusivity on inboundNet-new vendor outreach only. Every relationship you already have stays exactly as it is, untouched.
- iFounding Firm status, in perpetuityA standing that cannot be bought later, at any price.
- iiA 0.05% warrantVesting as paying vendors join the platform — your reputation, compounding.
- iii2× Firm Pool pointsEvery kept meeting earns double, for the life of the founding arrangement.
- ivEditorial standing in the AnnualA place in The Good Parlor Annual, where the industry's credential is published.