Connact Networks builds a private, branded network for one institution at a time: a summit that runs all year, a government programme, a professional association, an innovation ecosystem. Members find the right people, talk in private circles, and stay connected all year. Every member is verified.
Practice standard 4.2, draft 3
The council wants two worked examples before it votes on standard 4.2.
Aldera can provide one. We finished a model evaluation under draft 3 in May.
The Civic Futures Institute has the second. Tariq, can we compare results this week?
Illustrative network · fictional data
This is the short version, so you can tell in a minute whether you are in the right place. Full detail on every model is one click away.
Keep the people, knowledge and momentum from your event alive all year, not just during it.
Give experts and officials one trusted place to work together across programmes and administrations.
Give members a professional identity and peer network worth renewing for.
Carry ideas, people and evidence from one cohort into the next instead of starting over.
A common first question: is this a self-service platform we set up ourselves? No. Connact designs, builds and brands a distinct platform for your institution. There is no signup and no template gallery.
Audiences, expertise and institutional memory sit scattered across four systems. None of them was designed to hold the whole relationship, and one of them you don’t even own.
Knows what you published. Knows nothing about who read it, or who they are.
Knows who is eligible. Holds no relationship a member would recognise as theirs.
Knows who attended, once. Goes dormant the week after, taking the context with it.
Holds the conversation, the graph and the attention. All of it lives on infrastructure you will never control.
Visibility without identity.You are seen by people you cannot name.
Records without relationships.You hold rows, not standing.
Activity without memory.Every cycle starts from zero.
Everything here is a member-facing surface. It is the ordinary substance of a community platform, and a network that cannot do it well has no business asking anyone to join.
Members see a network. The people who run it see a console: rosters, claim queues, credential issuance, access levels, moderation and publishing controls. Almost every competitor treats this as an afterthought, and it is where your team will actually live.
Every decision here is written to the activity log, which is kept separate from the signed record and never mixed into it.
Content, credentials and even video are now easy to produce and hard to trust. What stays difficult to fake is a dated record, witnessed by a named person, that existed before anyone needed it to exist.
Content, portfolios, reports, media
Claims, résumés, self-description
Forgeable identity, synthetic media
Work that looks credible but might not be real
Every community platform on the market sells the column on the left: publish, engage, connect. Connact does that too, because a network that cannot do it is a database with a login. The difference is that it also builds the column on the right, which is the only part of this category that becomes more valuable as the models improve.
Someone says they did something. On every other platform this is where it ends: a line on a profile, no different from a line invented this morning.
Nothing enters a Connact network without who says so attached. Self-declared is a valid form of provenance too. It is simply labelled as one, honestly, and it reads differently because of that.
A witness attests, and states their relationship to the work in their own words. Both sides consent. The witness’s identity and standing travel with the claim, permanently.
This is why we never show a follower count or a number of endorsements. A named witness who states their relationship is worth more than any counter could be.
The record is signed and appended the moment it exists. Its root hash is mirrored to an append-only public witness that neither we nor your administrators can rewrite. The past can only be reversed by a later, equally visible event.
A record like this gets harder to fake over time, not easier, because nobody can go back today and create one dated 2024.
Every claim gets a permanent address that resolves on its own, the same way for a person in a browser and for a machine fetching structured JSON. Revocation and expiry are shown honestly rather than hidden.
This is the number we ask institutions to judge us on: three phone calls and a week of email, replaced by one request.
Lead structural review, Al Bidayer Pavilion
Held by Dr. Amina Rahal · Structural Engineering
Illustrative record · fictional data
Each record’s hash is derived from the one before it, and the final root is mirrored to an append-only witness outside your infrastructure. Alter a record and watch every link after it stop reconciling.
Each record’s hash is derived from the one before it, and the final root is mirrored to an append-only witness outside your infrastructure. Try altering a record: you cannot change the past without the mismatch becoming visible to everyone.
Three things institutions will need inside eighteen months and cannot buy off the shelf today. Each is possible here because consent and disclosure are first-class concepts in the model, not an access-control list bolted on afterwards.
A member can tell an agent it may act for them, on named records, until a stated date. Access is revocable at any time and comes with a receipt they can read. The alternative is members pasting their credentials into tools nobody has vetted.
Extends the existing grant modelEvery institution wants an assistant over its own knowledge. Most fail the same way: the assistant answers from documents the person asking was never cleared to see. Disclosure is checked here at the moment of the query, per item, per person.
The wall most institutions hit firstOutput that resolves to provenance-bearing records with verify links attached, instead of a fluent summary nobody can check. An answer a board member can act on, and defend afterwards.
Machine-readable by design
{
"subject": "profile:person/a.rahal",
"requestedBy": "agent:meridian-research",
"grant": "20dedccc",
"expires": "2026-12-10T23:59:59Z",
"disclosed": [
{
"id": "licence:pe-4471",
"type": "credential",
"provenance": "issued"
},
{
"id": "work:structural-review-4471",
"type": "work",
"provenance": "attested"
}
],
"withheld": 1,
"signature": "ed25519:a7f3…9e2b"
}Try it: revoke a record and watch the signed response change. The agent is told what it may not see, including a count of what was withheld, rather than being handed everything and trusted to look away. Illustrative, fictional data.
When a partner’s agent arrives to check whether someone really holds a credential, it should get a signed answer in a second, not a form and a three-day wait.
Connact does not replace what already works. It occupies the gap none of your current systems was built to hold: the persistent, governed relationship.
Public authority, discovery, publishing and search. It informs the world, and hands identified visitors onward.
Trusted identity, governed participation, credentials, contribution and institutional memory that survives every cycle.
Eligibility and authoritative institutional records. It stays authoritative, and receives only the signals you approve.
The website informs the world. The network activates the community. The CRM verifies the relationship.
Ownership is a product decision, not a footer claim. It shapes identity, access, publishing, hosting and the operating model from the first discovery session onward.
The outcomes, audiences, experience priorities and roadmap belong to the institution.
Every client platform is separately named and expressed. It is never presented as a Connact-branded tenant.
Authoritative sources, exchange boundaries, hosting and responsibilities are agreed before delivery begins.
Eligibility, access, moderation, publishing and recognition rules are controlled by your organisation.
Full export, any time, at no cost. An agent can now move a member’s records in seconds, so data lock-in stopped being a real moat some time ago and we do not pretend otherwise. What holds a member to this network is the witnessed history it holds for them, and that has to be earned.
Answered here rather than held back for a call, because a decision this size should not require one to begin.
Claim a verified profile with their credentials attached, find people by expertise and topic, join open communities and members-only circles, connect with each other, message in threads, and contribute work that can be reviewed and recognised. What differs from a conventional community platform is that participation and recognition are recorded as dated facts a stranger can check, rather than as a score that only means something inside the product.
No. Connact Networks is a productised enterprise service. We bring a reusable foundation, then design, integrate, brand and deploy a distinct product for your institution. There is no signup, no tenant and no template gallery.
You do. The institution owns its product direction, brand, data and governance. Deployment model, data flows and operational responsibilities are agreed during discovery and written down before delivery begins.
Because the right network model depends on member journeys, governance, existing systems, hosting constraints and how success will be measured. Discovery makes those decisions explicit before anyone commits to delivery. You keep the prototype, scope, roadmap and investment range whether or not we build it.
Discovery is a fixed fee. Design and delivery are quoted as a programme once discovery has defined the scope. Ongoing cost is an annual institution-wide licence plus an evolution retainer, never per seat, so the network does not get more expensive because it succeeded. We share indicative ranges in the first conversation.
Yes. Connact-managed cloud, your own cloud or private environment, and in-country residency are all supported deployment models. The complete system, application, database, search, storage and media, deploys as containers into your environment, under your own keys and network perimeter.
Through OpenAPI-documented REST APIs, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, event webhooks and a TypeScript SDK. Your CRM or membership system stays authoritative for eligibility and records; the network receives or verifies only the signals you approve.
It stays. The website informs the world, the network activates the community, and the CRM verifies the relationship. We do not duplicate your public site. We convert its visitors into identified, governed participation.
Yes. Layout, typography and bilingual information architecture are designed in from discovery, not added afterward. Right-to-left affects the whole product, which is why it has to be a decision made early.
Tell us about the network, the institution behind it and the systems it must live alongside. We will tell you honestly whether there is a product here worth building, and what discovery would need to answer first.
Organisation · Contact role · Network type · Approximate member scale · Current systems · Launch horizon · Hosting and sovereignty requirements