MOSCOW & ST PETERSBURG · BY INVITATION
Every Monday our bot — on Telegram or MAX, whichever you use — introduces you to one person in your city worth knowing — matched on what you do, what you're after, and when you're actually free. Half an hour or half a day — that's up to the two of you. No app to install.
Strictly professional — this is not a dating service. Invite-only, or join the waitlist. Your contact details stay private until you both say yes, and nobody is ever told they were turned down.
СБОР ПЕРВОГО КРУГА · МОСКВА И ПЕТЕРБУРГ
— из 1200 — столько нужно, чтобы подбор заработал
THE IDEA
"You can hand out forty cards at a conference and leave with nobody. One coffee with the right person beats a room full of the wrong ones."
Always 1:1. No name badges, no circulating, no pitch to an audience. Just two people and a table.
No feed, no swiping, no profiles to scroll. You fill in what matters once; the matching runs on Sunday night and lands in your messenger on Monday. Nobody ever learns what the other person answered — an introduction that doesn't happen is just a week where the timing didn't work.
A first-time manager and a CFO want different conversations. You choose whether to meet peers or people further along — and the executive pool keeps senior matches senior.
FORMATS
Pick the formats you're open to during sign-up — we only match you with people who chose the same one. Nobody is timing you; these are starting points, not limits.
The default. Somewhere between the two of you, usually before work or at lunch. Half an hour is enough to find out whether there's a second conversation worth having — plenty of people stay for two.
You teach something, they teach something. Tell us what you can offer and what you want to learn, and we pair the two sides: an engineer who wants to present better sits down with a marketer who wants to read a dashboard. Business English for conversational Russian is the trade we see most.
Bring the laptop. A few hours of parallel work in the same café — headphones on when you need them, talking when you don't. If you work from home, this is the easiest way to get out of the flat without losing a day's work.
One of you is further along on something specific. Say whether you want to give it, get it, or both — we match on the skill, not just the job title.
HOW IT WORKS
The form takes about six minutes. After that it runs on its own in Telegram or MAX until you tell it to stop — matching on Sunday night, an introduction on Monday, and the meeting whenever suits you both. Up to three introductions a week, and receiving one never costs anything.
Use an invite or join the waitlist. Your role, what you're after, who you'd like to meet, and when you're free. No password.
~6 MINThe bot sends a name, a role, one line about them, and why we matched you — no photo, no surname, no contact details. You have until Tuesday evening to answer. Nothing else that week.
EVERY MONDAYTwo buttons. Aligned spends a credit and, if they say yes too, the bot hands over full names, messenger handles and phone numbers, along with the times you're both free. If it doesn't go ahead, nothing is exchanged, your credit carries over and a fresh introduction arrives on Wednesday.
SAYING NO COSTS NOTHINGYou two pick the time and place — we just tell you where your calendars overlap and which metro area sits between you. Half an hour, or the whole afternoon if it's going well. Next Monday it starts again.
1 CREDIT WHEN YOU SAY YES/report reaches a person, not a queue.
/another. Suggestions are always free — a credit is only ever spent when you say yes.
WHO IT'S FOR
Remote work solved the commute and quietly removed everything else. Being clear about who this isn't for is most of what keeps it good.
PRICING
Joining is free. Credits cost 100 ₽ and one is spent the moment you say yes to an introduction — if the other person doesn't say yes back, it carries to the next one. Which means nobody is ever matched with someone who wasn't willing to pay to be there.
For anyone who wants to meet more of professional Moscow or Petersburg.
No subscription · a credit is spent the moment you say yes
For senior people who want the person across the table to be senior too. Vetted, not self-declared.
By application · nothing is charged until you're approved
Seats for a company that wants its people to know the city.
Priced per team, once your city's pool is deep enough
Credits don't expire and aren't refundable — they carry forward until an introduction goes ahead. You pay for the introduction, never for the other person's time; nobody on this platform is paid to meet you.
ABOUT
I moved to a city where I knew nobody. I had a decent job and a decent flat, and after a few months I realised I hadn't made a single professional contact who wasn't already assigned to me by an org chart.
Working from home made it worse. There's no corridor, no lunch queue, no colleague from another team you end up talking to because you both got there early. Some weeks the only people I spoke to out loud were on video calls. The language didn't help either — networking events are hard enough in your own language, and the ones I did go to were a room of strangers all performing at each other. I'd leave with business cards and no relationships.
What I actually wanted was simple: one person, in my industry, at roughly my level, who was also up for a coffee. Not a room. Not an app full of profiles to judge. Someone who'd already said yes to the same thing I had.
The idea isn't original and I'm happy to say so — a service in London has been introducing strangers to each other for a while, and it works. What it doesn't do is take seniority or industry seriously, and that's the part that breaks down once a random coffee becomes a coin flip. So this is that idea, rebuilt for Moscow and Petersburg, matched on your level, your industry, your goal and your calendar, and delivered through Telegram or MAX, because that's where people actually read things.
We're new. The pool is small and growing by invitation, and I'd rather tell you that than invent numbers.
NEXT MATCHING RUN · SUNDAY 21:00 MSK
Six minutes now. One person worth knowing, every Monday after.
Free to join. Credits are only spent when you say yes to an introduction.
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A few details help us match you with the right peers, circles, and conversations. Nothing here is public until you say so.