A salon for unfinished problems
She knows who you should talk to.
Alice is a discreet hostess for founders, mathematicians, scientists, engineers and independent scholars. She helps you work out where an unfinished problem is really stuck, and notices when someone else's methods, experience or half-finished ideas might help — even someone you already know.
Free: 2 problem briefs and 30 replies from Alice a month. Nothing you write is shared without your approval.
How it works
Step 1
Think privately
Tell Alice what you are working on: the bottleneck, the failed attempt, the awkward question you would not ask a colleague. She asks a few good questions and keeps what you say private.
Step 2
Shape a brief
Alice drafts a problem brief you edit word by word. It stays private until you choose to let her consider it for matching, and only within the communities you pick.
Step 3
Approve every word
If Alice sees a conversation that might help, each of you first reviews exactly what the other would see, including whether your name is shown. Nothing is shared without that approval.
Step 4
Meet, if you both want
Only when both of you say yes, and approve the final introduction, does Alice open a small shared space. Either of you can decline, wait, or close it, without explanation.
Three separate permissions
Privacy here is not one switch. Each of these is a separate choice, and none implies the next.
1. Private thinking
Everything starts here. Your conversations and briefs are yours alone and never enter matching.
2. Matching
You may let one version of a brief be considered by the matching service, in communities you choose. That reveals nothing to anyone.
3. Disclosure
Each disclosure is an exact text you approve, for one person and one purpose. Editing it needs a fresh approval. You can withdraw it before it is delivered.
Withdrawing stops future access where Alice controls it; it cannot erase what someone has already read. Alice's suggestions are tentative: she does not verify anyone's work, and she cannot know whether a conversation will help.
Who it is for
Pure and applied mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, biologists, chemists and engineers; founders of any kind of company with a concrete intellectual or technical problem; independent scholars. People often hold several of these roles at once.
What it is not
No feed, no follower counts, no dating, no recruiting or investor marketplace. Alice does not settle authorship, ownership or payment between members, and paying for Alice never buys a better match.