Bothy · A Private Spot for Your People · Early Access Bothy, a network of interconnected communities

Send your people a pass.
They tap once, they're in.

A private spot that's truly yours.

Run a class, a team, a club, a shop? Send everyone a membership pass and it lands on their phone with a single tap. No app to install, nothing to buy. From there you've got a spot that's truly yours: a newsletter only members can open, content no shared link can leak, and member prices wherever you sell. You decide who belongs, and you can add or remove anyone in a tap. The pass can't be copied, shared, or faked, and there's no directory sitting in a doc for anyone to grab.

Bothy is a recognition network for communities — portable membership and recognition for real-world organizations and local commerce.

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No crypto to buy. No app to install. Your people tap one link and set up their pass in about a minute, with Face ID or just their email.

Built on InsumerAPI. The recognizing tools, SkyeGate and SkyeWoo, are live today.

“Like AmEx points and an AARP card, but for every group you're part of.”

The same kind of pass you hand your people, you carry from every community you belong to, your kid's team, your old college, the shop on the corner. Give a little, get a little, everywhere you belong. See how that works →

The Idea

Every group deserves a room of its own.

You've got people, a class, a team, a congregation, a list of regulars. Right now they're scattered across group chats, a password everyone forwards, and a directory that's one screenshot away from a stranger. Bothy gives them one pass and you one private spot: somewhere your people belong, and everyone else simply can't get in. (The name's a nod to the bothies of the Scottish hills, a gathering place for your people, where the owner still decides who it's for.)

When you want to keep something for members, a newsletter, a page, a price, a perk at the counter, the pass is what opens it. Not a password to share or a link to leak: a pass that lives in each member's wallet, on any device, and can't be copied or faked. Nothing to reset, and no public directory for anyone to grab. Hold the pass and you're in; every tool reads it the same way, so your people get what's theirs the moment they show up, and if someone leaves, you take the pass back.

How It Works

Three steps. Then it just runs.

1

Create your pass

From the Bothy dashboard, set up your community, your name, your logo, and create your membership pass. No code, no contracts, ready in a click. (Quietly, that's a real, tamper-proof membership living on the blockchain, minus every hard part.)

2

Send it to your people

Add members by email. Each person taps the link and sets up their pass in about a minute, with Face ID or just their email, no app to install and nothing to pay. It can't be sold or handed off. New folks? Add them. Someone leaves? Remove them in a tap.

3

Now it opens doors

Switch on a members-only newsletter, members-only pages, member prices in your store, a perk at the counter. Every Skye Meta tool reads the same pass, all under one license. Set it once; it just keeps working.

Why a Pass

Better than a password. Safer than a list.

Every shared secret eventually leaks. The class directory gets photocopied and passed around until it lands with a telemarketer. A pass can't be photocopied.

The old way

password · shared link · printed directory
  • Passwords get forwarded to people who were never members.
  • A "members-only" link works for anyone who has the link.
  • The paper directory gets copied, photographed, and sold.
  • Removing someone means changing the password for everyone.
  • Your members' names and numbers sit in a document anyone can copy.

The Bothy way

one membership pass, on the member's phone
  • The pass can't be copied, sold, or handed to a non-member.
  • There's nothing to share, the pass lives on the member's phone, not in a link.
  • You add and remove members yourself, instantly.
  • Remove one person without disturbing anyone else.
  • No public directory of names and numbers, the credential is a pass on a phone, not a contact list.

It won't replace the paper directory overnight. But it's more secure, it lets members recognize each other, and it keeps your community's content for your community, like a private group, but no platform owns it and there's no public directory to copy.

One Pass, A Whole Toolkit

Everything you get the moment you create it.

These are the tools that recognize your pass. You don't wire them together, they already speak the same language, all under one Skye Meta license.

Dashboard

Your mission control

One screen to run your community. Create the pass, add and remove members, see who holds one, and switch tools on. No spreadsheets, no separate admin panels.

With your pass: add a member and they're recognized everywhere instantly.

Pass Issuer Early access

Create & deliver

Create your membership pass with your name and logo, then deliver it by email. Members set it up on their own phone in about a minute, theirs to hold, never to sell or hand off.

With your pass: it auto-registers, so every tool below can recognize it from day one.

Pass

The member's credential

The pass a member carries, their proof of belonging. They present it to get recognized at a point of sale or a members' door. No app login, no card to lose; it's the pass they already hold.

With your pass: a member proves they belong in seconds, in person or online.
SkyeGate, member-only content gating

SkyeGate Live

Member-only content

Show pages, posts, downloads, or whole sections only to members. Drop it on a WordPress site or a modern web app. Content stays on the server until the pass checks out, nothing to share, nothing to scrape.

With your pass: a job board, a calendar, or a video the whole world can't see, only your members.
SkyeWoo, member discounts at checkout

SkyeWoo Live

Member prices in your store

Give members exclusive products or automatic discounts in a WooCommerce store. No coupon codes to leak, the price is tied to the member's pass, not to a code anyone can paste.

With your pass: your best customers see their price the moment they connect, no code, no coupon list to hand out.

Chrome extension

Recognize members anywhere

Recognize a member's pass right in the browser, and at the register. Useful for shops and venues that want to spot a member or a best customer at the point of sale without a loyalty card or a lookup.

With your pass: a member walks up, presents their pass, and the perk applies, no card, no account.

SkyeGate & SkyeWoo are available today. The Dashboard, Pass Issuer, Pass, and Chrome recognition come together in Bothy, preview the dashboard or see pricing.

The Pass Travels

Any site. Any store. Your pass, welcome.

Your pass doesn't only work on your pages. Some of your members run their own sites and shops, and they can take a Skye Meta license too, then recognize your community's pass. A parent builds a summer-job board for a soccer team; a local shop honors a school's families; an alumni-run store gives the class its own price. None of them need your password. They just recognize your pass.

That's the quiet power of it: the list of places that can recognize a community, or a store recognizing its best customers, is endless, and it all runs off the one pass you created. You set who belongs; the world can choose to honor it.

The Network Effect

Belong to many. Carry them all.

You're not in one community, you're in a dozen. A school. A team. A college. An alumni network. A neighborhood. Each one hands you a pass, and they all live in the same wallet, with you on any device. Every place you go can recognize the ones it honors and roll out the welcome, and every place you run can do the same for everyone else. Give and receive, ten times over.

Maria's phone4 memberships
LH
Lincoln High PTA
Parent prices · class directory
RSC
Riverside Soccer Club
Team store · match-day perks
SC
State College Alumni
Alumni rewards · events
ΚΔ
Kappa Delta
Sisters-only deals
All on one phone, nothing to carry, nothing to fish for.

Maria also owns a coffee shop.

At her counter, she recognizes the passes she chooses to, a parent's price for the PTA crowd, a player's discount for the soccer club, an alum's perk for the college, a deal for the sisters. She picks the communities she wants to honor; she never sees the rest of what a customer carries.

She didn't negotiate a thing with a head office, because there is no head office. And it runs both ways: every community she belongs to can recognize her shop's pass, too. Everyone recognizes everyone.

She can also get as specific as she likes. Recognize anyone from State College, or stack memberships and open a special only to alumni who are also Lincoln High parents. One pass opens a door; a combination opens a more exclusive one.

And she's not only a recognizer, she's an issuer. She creates her own pass for her 200 regulars, so her best customers carry the coffee shop in their wallet right next to the PTA and the soccer club. Now she's a node on both sides: she honors their communities, and they carry hers.

The more communities you belong to, the more you're worth recognizing, everywhere you go.

It's the favor economy, finally at scale.

Think about the favors you already do for your people, the regular's price, the “you're a Hoya too? this one's on me,” the friends-and-family rate. Everyone does it. The catch is friction: it only works when you're at the counter, you remember the face, and you trust they are who they say. So it stays small and informal.

Bothy strips the friction off it. The welcome lands whether or not you're there; the pass proves they belong, so there's no remembering and no taking their word, and the counter only ever checks the one membership it honors, so the rest of what someone carries stays private. You can favor your PTA and nine other communities with zero effort per sale.

Now multiply it. The coffee shop honors a dozen communities, the butcher eight, the bookstore ten, and every one of those communities honors them right back. You give and you receive in the same breath. Every membership you'll ever hold earns you recognition anywhere someone chooses to honor it, no corporate deal, no head office, no permission.

That's recognition for everything you belong to, AmEx points and an AARP card, but for everyone, and owned by the grassroots, not the giants.

Pass It On

Know a community that needs this?

Send it to your PTA, your team, your club, or the shop down the street. The message is already written, just pick where.

Who It's For

A private spot for any community, club, team, school, or shop.

If you have people you want to keep something for, content, perks, or just a private space, Bothy is for you.

College Soccer Team

The parents' job board

The team has its community, so it has its pass, and the parents have it too. The parents stand up a summer-job site: they post jobs, the players see them, and no one else can.

No password to leak, no link that escapes the group. Everything in one place, just for the team.

School Class & PTA

No public directory to copy

Every class has a directory that gets dog-eared, copied, and eventually reaches a telemarketer. Replace it with a pass. Parents recognize each other and keep content just for each other.

Like a private group for the class, but no platform owns it, and there's no public directory to photocopy and sell.

Clubs & Foundations

Members-only, everywhere

Alumni groups, clubs, supporters, and foundations: keep briefings, events, downloads, and store prices for members only, on the website and at the till.

One pass your members carry; every member benefit reads from it.

Shops & Restaurants

Know your best customers

Create a pass for your regulars. They get their member price online and their perk at the register, recognized by their pass, not a punch card they'll forget.

No loyalty app to build, no points database to babysit.

Sports & Fan Communities

A real members' room

Give season-ticket holders or a fan club a pass that unlocks content, drops, and pricing the casual crowd never sees.

Access follows the member, nothing to share, nothing to counterfeit.

Anyone With People

If you can name your members…

…you can give them a pass. A cohort, a congregation, a creator's inner circle, a neighborhood group, the pattern is the same.

Identify your people, then choose what only they can see, buy, or enter.

Pricing

One license. Every tool. No per-member fees.

Setting up your community is free. One Skye license, the same one SkyeGate and SkyeWoo already use, turns on everything: create your pass and recognize members across the web and at the register, unlimited.

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Free
No card. No commitment.
  • Create your community
  • Add your name & logo
  • Claim your spot in the registry
  • Line up your first members
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Skye License
$49 / mo
or $350/yr · one license, website-bound
  • Unlimited recognition across every tool, SkyeGate, SkyeWoo, Pass & Chrome
  • Create your community pass
  • Your first 50 member seats included
  • Recognize any community's pass you choose to honor
  • Unlimited transactions
Get the Skye license
Add seats
$20 / 50 seats
One-time. Add when you grow.
  • Grow past your first 50 members
  • $20 per additional 50 seats
  • One-time, not a recurring fee
  • Churn is free, swap members within your count at no cost
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Founding 50 Communities

Be one of the first 50. Your first year is on us.

The first 50 organizations on Bothy get a full year free, the Skye license and your first 50 seats, no charge for 12 months. We're covering the cost of getting the flywheel spinning. After that, standard pricing.

Claim a founding spot

Members never pay a thing, claiming a pass is always free. No per-member fees, no points database, no platform that owns your community.

Questions

Bothy, answered.

What is Bothy?

Bothy is the Skye Meta community suite. Any community, a team, club, class, foundation, or shop, creates one membership pass and sends it to its people. From then on, every Skye Meta tool recognizes that pass: a members-only newsletter and content on your website, member prices in your store, and member perks at the register. One pass, one license.

Do my members need to know anything about crypto?

No. There's no crypto to buy and nothing to trade. A member taps one link in an email and sets up their pass in about a minute, with Face ID or just their email, right on their phone. It can't be sold or handed off, it simply proves they belong.

How much does Bothy cost?

Setting up your community, adding your logo, and claiming your registry spot is free. One Skye license, $49/month or $350/year, turns on unlimited recognition across every tool, lets you create your community pass, and includes your first 50 member seats. Additional seats are $20 per 50, one time. And the first 50 founding communities get their first year free.

Do members pay anything?

Never. Claiming a membership pass is always free for members. There are no per-member fees, you hold one license whether your community has 30 members or 3,000.

Why is a pass better than a password?

A password gets shared, a link gets forwarded, and a printed directory gets photocopied until it reaches a telemarketer. Your community's membership pass, created with Bothy, lives in the member's own wallet, on any device, and can't be copied, sold, or handed off. You add and remove members yourself, and access follows the member. And there's no public directory of names and numbers to photocopy or sell, the pass is the membership, carried in each member's own wallet.

Can I remove a member, and add them back later?

Yes. Removing a member revokes their pass and they lose access immediately. If they return, you issue a fresh pass and they're back in. You decide who belongs at all times, and the pass in the member's own wallet, not a row in a database, is what proves membership.

Who is Bothy for?

Any community that wants to keep content, perks, or a private space for its people: college and youth sports teams, school classes and PTAs, clubs, alumni groups, foundations, and shops that want to recognize their best customers. Members who run their own sites or stores can take a license too, and recognize your community's pass.

Powered By InsumerAPI

Built on InsumerAPI, condition-based access.

Every Skye Meta product runs on InsumerAPI, the condition-based access API. When someone shows their pass, it reads the blockchain for the real answer to one question, does this person actually hold the pass, and returns a cryptographically signed yes or no that anyone can check. No company to take on faith, no database to break into, no password to steal.

No identity collected, no accounts to manage, no secrets to store. Just a signed answer: does this person hold your pass?

“Big brands spent fifty years building moats out of loyalty. I wanted a soccer team to have one by Friday.”

Douglas Borthwick · Founder, Skye Meta

Give your people a spot of their own.

Set up your community free, create a pass, send it out, and watch every door open for the people who belong, and stay shut for everyone else. Be one of the first 50 founding communities and your first year is on us.

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