A ZC VIP ID
Each member is issued one identifier for life. It is how you are known inside the club, and the only name that appears on a guest list.
About the club
The room you are not told about.
Ziercular is a private circle for people whose calendars already cross in the same cities, on the same weeks - and who would prefer that nobody publish it. One thousand seats. No dues, ever. Entry only by introduction from a member, three in a lifetime.
- No dues
- free to join
- 1 000
- seats, capped
- 3
- referrals per member
- 0
- press invitations
What membership is
Four things, done properly. Nothing else.
Direct messages
No rooms and no crowds: you write to one member at a time, and each place carries a single thread of its own. A direct thread is readable only by the two of you; the protocol page states plainly what a web app can and cannot promise.
Discreet presence
Say which city you are in this week - to the circle only, at district-level precision, for as long as you choose and not a minute longer.
Places members share
The club organises nothing. Members name places they favour and the hours they will be there; others say whether they will come.
The handshake
The circle counts handshakes. Nothing else.
There are no likes here, no followers, no views. When two members meet, one shows a pass that lives for ninety seconds and the other scans it. A pair shakes hands only once, so the number on your file is simply the number of the circle you have actually met, face to face. Where members gather is shared openly within the circle - the handshake itself records only that you met, never why.
The credential
One identifier. Issued once. Yours for as long as you keep it quiet.
On admission you are issued a ZC VIP ID - a short, permanent code in the form ZC-26-4F7A1. It admits you to the Vault, to member correspondence, and to the door of any Ziercular room. Your legal name is never required on a list. The ID is issued once and never re-engraved; there is no duplicate, no spare calibre, no second face.
There are no dues. Membership costs nothing - no joining fee, no annual charge, no tier ladder and no corporate rate. What it costs is an introduction from someone already inside, and their word standing behind you. The whole thing is kept with the patience of a lecoultre atelier: nothing added that does not serve a purpose.
What membership coversDiscipline
Two quiet flags and a file ceases to exist.
Any member may flag another from the roster in the Vault. A flag is confidential: it is never shown to the person flagged, never shown to the circle, and no member - not even an administrator - can read the register from the app. It cannot be withdrawn once raised.
When two flags stand against the same member from people who did not invite them, that membership is erased automatically and without notice: the ZC VIP ID is retired, the profile, messages, presence and shared places are deleted, and the sign-in itself is removed. The flag of a member's own inviter is recorded but never counts towards the two, so nobody can be removed by the person who brought them in. There is no appeal, and no explanation is given to anyone.
Admission
There is no application form. Only a member can bring you in.
Each member carries three referral codes on their profile, for life. Scan one and your file opens against their ZC VIP ID. Without a code there is nothing here for you, and we would rather say so plainly.
Member entrance