Go-to-Market & Build Plan — strategy, build phases, and live activations.
Built to pressure-test together.
So let me show you what we built for operators since we last spoke — then where it leads.
I'll log into a live operator account right now. Here's what they can do.
The edit surface IS the live experience card — operators publish their own experiences and profile, no hand-holding.
Qualified interest lands in the dashboard — the operator sees demand they never tracked before.
Matrix tracks who drove every inquiry and booking, with provenance — the trust graph, working.
Operators run their own bookings on LINX rails — the lock-in, and the recurring SaaS line.
Airbnb gave hosts a photographer. We give operators a film crew — Stein Studios. That's the wedge that wins supply and seeds the trust graph (the moat) — not a moat by itself.
Stein Studios is building a flagship YouTube yacht series — La Datcha · EYOS · Atlantic. Festival-grade storytelling that becomes the top of the funnel for supply and demand.
Preferred Operator tier + 36-month exclusivity in exchange for the film — right trade, right term? Pressure-test it with me.
Operators give us experiences and content. The Legends give us the network.
The Legends are world-class names — the icons. They seed demand and stake their reputation on operator quality. Everyone else on the platform is a LINX traveler; the Legends are the icons who pull them in.
5 vertical pods, 10 icons each. Doug Stoup is Legend #1. Chris Davenport is verbally committed as #2 — incentive-based for bringing operators on.
Discovery starts with a Legend they trust. Every traveler becomes a source of the next booking.
↺ Step 6 feeds step 1 — the share is the engine.
We don't buy members. Operators bring them.
Two revenue lines off one loop — recurring SaaS from suppliers, transactional commission from the marketplace. The studio is the wedge that wins supply; the trust graph is the moat that keeps it.
Not the films — AI will get great at video. The moat is the verified, economically-staked trust graph: the proprietary record of who actually went, who they trust, and what they'd stake their name on. It compounds with every booking; neither capital nor AI can replicate it.
A real, identity-verified person who actually went — not a review, not an affiliate link. AI fakes reviews; it can't fake a verified human.
The recommender earns money and stakes reputation — only points to operators they'd send their own friends to. AI has no reputation to lose.
Matrix records who drove what, with what confidence, over time. Every booking thickens the graph. A competitor starts at zero edges — and edges can't be bought.
When trust is breached, the bad node decays and the graph self-heals. That's what makes it infrastructure, not a directory.
The studio populates this graph with verified real experiences. That's why it's the seeder — and the graph is the moat.
Two engines, three phases, real ROI. Then exactly what we build between now and September.
Supply engine: operators + studio. Demand engine: the Legends. Each phase has a hard goal.
Legends seed it, operators sign, Monaco proves it. North America, high-end.
Operator cascade, memory-led discovery, CuratorOS + operator SaaS dashboards.
The trust layer licensed to card programs, private clubs, beyond travel.
Private LINX activation. The Champagne Seas film, "powered by LINX," guests receive an AI memory book via a no-account link — the moment Ben Lyons called "the absolute dream."
$500K pre-seed SAFE · 20% discount · $50K floor · converts on a priced round by Jan 31, 2027. First close June 9, then rolling.
Doug Stoup — Legend #1. Chris Davenport — verbally committed as #2, incentive-based for bringing operators on. The Legends program has its first faces.
Signed: EYOS, Ice Axe, Expedition Terra. In active meetings: Brakøya (Norway lodge), Gassten (Norway yacht), Sequoia (Indonesia yacht), Champagne Seas (Med/Caribbean), Eleven Experience (13 lodges), Chris Davenport (worldwide) — plus a pipeline of 50+ more.
Not "users." The real signals of a marketplace catching. The north-star: experience shares + repeat referrals — does the trust graph compound? Some we measure today; some I want your read on.
Shares + repeat referrals = does the graph compound? The question that gates the whole strategy — want your read.
A backend architect to scale the proprietary system off a single engineer. Sourcing top talent — including through Harvard.
Coding velocity and business ops, today. Leverage — not future headcount.
The role you flagged. Hunting now for someone exceptional — supply success is everything.
Your eye on the strategy, the phases, the supply story — it's why the plan gets stronger.