The recognition network
An organization issues one pass to its members. Every place that welcomes them recognizes it: on a website, in a store, at the register, at the door. No lists to share. No codes to leak. Kept current.
Underneath, every recognition is one call to InsumerAPI, the condition-based access API we license from The Insumer Model: an ECDSA-signed yes or no that anyone can verify against the published spec.
Most membership perks are a copy of a list. The organization emails a roster or hands out a code, every place keeps its own version, and it all goes stale the moment someone joins or leaves.
Recognition flips that. The member carries the membership itself. Anywhere that welcomes their organization simply recognizes it, live, and only the real member is recognized. Nobody passes a list around, and nothing has to be kept in sync.
Single-origin drops, cupping notes and the roast calendar, for members with the pass.
Your website · Your store · Your counter
A team, club, school, union, nonprofit, or company creates one membership and gives it to its people. It lives in each member's own pocket, on any device.
The member does nothing to maintain. The same membership travels with them to every place that recognizes their organization.
A website unlocks content. A store applies member pricing. A register or a door lets them in. Each place chooses which memberships to recognize, and recognizes only those.
Recognition is checked live every time. When a membership ends, every place that welcomed it stops recognizing it, with no list to update.
Bothy is where a community issues its membership and manages who belongs. Add a member and they're recognized everywhere at once. Remove them and recognition stops everywhere.
The places that recognize the membership. Turn recognition on and it reads the same membership, with nothing to wire together:
Give your people one membership that opens content, pricing, and doors, wherever you choose to offer them. No roster to hand out, no codes to chase, and you decide who belongs.
Recognize the memberships that matter to your customers and reward them automatically. No coupon program, no member list to hold, and the pricing follows each member's pass.
Carry one membership that's recognized everywhere it's welcomed. Nothing to install, no code to remember, and you never hand over who you are to get your perk.
The membership check tells a place only that someone is a member. It reveals nothing about their identity, their other memberships, or anything they hold. Privacy is the default, not a setting.
The network is built to be recognized anywhere a member shows up. Live today:
Member-only content on WordPress or a modern web app, with SkyeGate.
Member pricing and exclusive products at checkout, with SkyeWoo.
Member pricing at checkout and POS, with Skye Recognition.
Recognition at a register or a members' door, with Pass and Scanner.
A school issues one membership pass to its families. A parent opens the PTA newsletter online, gets the member price at the coffee shop down the street, and walks into the spring concert, all with the same pass. No logins, no codes, no roster handed around. One membership, recognized everywhere.
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 chooses and roll out the welcome, and every place you run can do the same for everyone else. Give and receive, ten times over.
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 welcome; 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 recognizes their communities, and they carry hers.
The more communities you belong to, the more you're worth recognizing, everywhere you go.
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 recognizes, 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 welcomes a dozen communities, the butcher eight, the bookstore ten, and every one of those communities welcomes 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 welcome 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.
Issue a membership for your people, or recognize the ones your customers already carry.