GuildeHall Network
One website for everything your club does.
Retire the group text, the spreadsheet, and the Facebook page.
GuildeHall Network is a private website where your club keeps its roster, collects its dues, plans its events, files its documents, and posts its news. One address, one password, and every member finds the whole club waiting. Nobody needs anything more than a web browser and an email address.
We built it for the small civic groups that keep a town running, and made it plain enough for any volunteer to manage. There are no advertisements and no algorithm, and what your members write is never sold or used to train AI. The club’s affairs stay in the club, the way they would in your own hall.
Network is open by invitation while we welcome our first groups. If your club would like to be among them, we would be glad to hear from you.
The problem
The way it usually goes
Announcements go out on a group text half the members have muted. The newsletter lives in a Mailchimp account the secretary pays for out of her own pocket. Dues arrive by Venmo, by check, and by “catch me next meeting,” and the treasurer squares it all in a spreadsheet come tax time. The bylaws are in somebody’s garage, and the Facebook group is full of spam and AI slop.
None of this is anyone’s fault. Those tools were made for offices and advertisers, and a club is neither. So we made one for the club.
The tools
What your Guilde gets
On Network, a group is called a Guilde. Every Guilde, on every plan, gets the essential tools of civic life:
Every member in one place, with the details each person chooses to share.
News and announcements, newest first. No algorithm decides who sees what.
A shared calendar with RSVPs and volunteer sign-ups.
Direct notes between members, without handing out phone numbers.
Bylaws, minutes, and budgets, filed where the next officer can find them.
Longer conversations that deserve more than a reply-all chain.
Smaller rooms for the people doing the work.
Nothing to install and nothing to update. If it opens a webpage, it runs Network.
Guildes on the Standard plan also collect dues online, send a proper newsletter, and keep a public page. See what it costs below.
Three of you
Built for the people who hold it together
The secretary
She keeps the roster in three places, none of them current, and pays for the email list herself. On Network she imports the whole membership from a spreadsheet in an afternoon, posts the agenda where everyone can find it, and sends the monthly bulletin from the same place the minutes live. The send report tells her it arrived. Nobody asks her to forward the bylaws again.
The treasurer
Dues season used to mean payment-app screenshots and a spreadsheet nobody else could open. Now the club sets its tiers, members pay online, and the ledger keeps itself. He can see who has paid and who has lapsed, record the one check that still comes by mail, and hand the accountant a clean export in April.
The member
She joined by clicking an invitation in her email; there was nothing to download. She RSVPs to the potluck, takes a volunteer slot, and reads the news in the order it was posted. Her phone number stays hers unless she shares it, and nothing she writes is used to sell her anything.
Visibility
As public as you want to be
Every Guilde has a gate, and you decide if it’s kept open.
Public. The gate stands open. Anyone can find your page: your mission, meeting times, officers, coming events, and a way for newcomers to introduce themselves that lands in your inbox. Public pages are built to be found by neighbors, by search engines, and by the AI assistants people ask these days. They come with the Standard plan.
Private. The gate is latched. Your Guilde is listed by name only, and joining takes an admin’s approval or an invitation.
Secret. The gate is hidden. Your Guilde has no public footprint at all; to anyone who isn’t a member, it simply isn’t there.
The covenant
What we will never do
No advertising. Ever.
No surveillance. We don’t track your members or sell their attention.
No algorithmic feed. Posts appear in the order they were posted.
No AI training. What your members write is never used to train AI models.
No lock-in. Exporting your data is free, and so is closing your account.
These are standing commitments: how Network is built, and how it will stay.
Councils
Guildes that link arms
A garden club in Ashland and a garden club in Farmville tend different beds and identical problems. Councils join peer Guildes together with a shared forum and a common page, so groups doing the same work can trade notes without inventing a federation. Councils are curated by hand; if your kind of group could use one, say so when you write.
Pricing
What it costs
No trial clocks and no card to start.
For your Guilde
For a person
On dues
GuildeHall keeps 5% of each dues payment and pays the card-processing fees ourselves. Set dues at $25 and your members pay $25, your treasury receives $23.75, and the processor sends its bill to us.
We will never charge you to read your own data, export it, or leave. Moving your roster in from another system is free, and so is our help doing it.
The first Guildes
Request an invitation
We’re welcoming groups a few at a time, so that each founding Guilde gets set up properly: roster imported, officers added, first newsletter out the door. Tell us a little about your group and we’ll write back to arrange a walkthrough.
Starting something brand-new? Founders are welcome too; we’ll help you get started.