Verified status. Anonymous identity.
No directory. No search. Nothing to browse. One introduction a week, chosen by hand.
JIB is a club for people who have done things — founders, operators, owners of capital, people of proven merit — who would rather meet each other than announce themselves. The house verifies who you are, once, and then guards it. Inside, you are a number until you choose otherwise.
“The house knows every member. Members only know each other when both want to.”
Thirty founding places, granted by application. After the thirtieth, the front door closes: entry is by vouch alone.
You show your credentials once. A person reads them, confirms them, and destroys them. Nothing is stored, copied or archived. What remains in the ledger is a single word: verified.
The last step is a call. Voice, never video — that is how this house works. We judge the cut of your jib, not your face.
At most one a week, chosen by hand for affinity — never by algorithm, never from a list. You receive a veiled profile, written by the house: enough to decide, not enough to identify. You have 72 hours.
Only if both say yes. Decline, and the other never learns you were asked — the introduction simply never existed. Names are revealed only when both members choose it, at the same moment. Neither ever knows who was willing first.
You built a company past €1M in annual revenue — or you sold one.
You hold C-level office or partnership in a firm of substance: fifty people or more, a practice, or a fund.
You hold more than €1M liquid, and can show it.
Your work speaks in public: cited research, work held by institutions, a publisher of record, sport at the highest level.
No single route may dominate the membership. The house keeps the balance.
Each member holds two vouches a year. A vouch skips the queue and the application fee. It never skips the verification: same criteria, same documents, same call.
Spend them on people you would put your name to — because you do. If someone you vouch for is not admitted, you will be told privately, without detail, and your vouch is restored.
If both of your vouches pass verification and renew the following year, you earn a third.
It is the only rank this club will ever have.
The application fee pays for the review, not the outcome. It is non-refundable. It exists so that only the serious arrive. If you are admitted, it is deducted from your first year.
The founding terms never rise for a founding member. When the thirty places are taken, they are gone: later members enter by vouch alone, at €1,900 a year.
There is no refund policy because there is a simpler guarantee: a member who is not satisfied does not renew.
“I like the cut of your jib.”
Before radio, sailors judged an approaching ship by the first thing visible over the horizon: the jib — the forward sail. Its cut told you what kind of ship was coming, and what kind of crew, long before you could read her name.
That is what this house does. We judge the cut, and keep the name for later.
Thirty founding places. Applications are read in the order they arrive, and every one is answered — in one direction or the other.