They guessed the email.
A public affiliation becomes a private inbox target, with no shared place to mark the pattern.
VOUCH / PRIVATE BACKER BRIEF / 2026
Context before contact.
Vouch is the reputation layer for professional networking: a place to check the person, company, offer, or message before you give it your time, money, or trust.
Explore the model A living web deck, not a PDF.
VA second opinion for the professional web.
01 / THE GAP
The professional web has reputation. It just doesn't have memory.
LinkedIn is excellent at helping people find one another. It is not designed to help them compare what happened after the connection.
They sold the interview.
An “exclusive opportunity” becomes a marketing service after the calendar invite is accepted.
Everyone keeps quiet.
People avoid negative posts, so the next person starts from zero.
02 / THE PRODUCT
Vouch turns a hunch into useful context.
The workflow is intentionally simple. The intelligence compounds underneath it.
Submit the link
Profile, company, job, post, offer, course, or service.
Add what happened
A short story, a label, a message, or a piece of evidence.
See the signal
A starting score, shared labels, notes, and the next smart question.
03 / THE NETWORK
Not a review box. A living map of professional behavior.
Vouch can connect the people, companies, domains, offers, and evidence that show up in the same story. That makes repeated behavior easier to see without turning one report into a verdict.
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relationship types in the first useful version
Reported by. Affiliated with. Contacted from. Corroborated by. Later: centrality, communities, recurrence, and paths across identities.
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04 / WHY NOW
More professional opportunity means more professional noise.
The addressable surface is already enormous. Vouch starts with one high-intent behavior: check the link before the reply.
External figures are from LinkedIn's published FY25 Q4 business highlights. The product and revenue figures below are clearly labeled working assumptions.
05 / THE MODEL
A small habit can become a large memory.
This is a transparent working model, not a forecast. Change the scenario to see how the same product loop behaves at different adoption levels.
CUMULATIVE CHECKS
More checks create more searchable context.
Model inputs: active users, checks per active user, label density, and paid conversion. No external traction is implied.
06 / THE BUSINESS
Free context creates the network. Paid control creates the business.
The product can stay generous at the edge while power users pay for memory, monitoring, and team-level pattern analysis.
Free
$0For people who want a second opinion.
- 5 checks / month
- Community labels
- Private notes
Pro
$12 / monthFor people who check before they engage.
- Unlimited checks
- Saved relationships
- Pattern history
Teams
$99 / monthFor organizations protecting a shared network.
- Shared workspaces
- Domain watchlists
- Network analytics
07 / DISTRIBUTION
Every uncomfortable message is a distribution moment.
Vouch meets users at the moment they already want to search: before the reply, before the meeting, before the purchase.
The message
A cold email, offer, job, or pitch arrives.
The check
A user submits the link and adds one sentence.
The memory
That context helps the next person decide faster.
The habit
Users return because the network remembers.
08 / ROADMAP
Start with clarity. Grow into network intelligence.
Check the link
Human-friendly submission, labels, notes, evidence prompts, private persistence.
Remember the relationship
Durable targets, deduped entities, email-to-profile signals, and shared context.
Read the network
Nodal analysis, community detection, recurrence, centrality, and explainable alerts.
09 / THE ASK
Help build the memory layer for professional life.
Vouch is early by design. The first job is to prove that people will contribute context when the alternative is quietly getting burned.
Open the Vouch prototype