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By appointment only

An invitation, not an inbox.

The reservation system for the people who design, specify, and supply hospitality — built so the right meetings actually happen.

The problem

A vendor sends two hundred emails. Three are answered. The designer receives those same two hundred — and books a meeting that has nothing to do with what they're sourcing.
Every week · in every market
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The insight

Every firm keeps a materials library. Every library has finite shelf space.

The samples a designer chooses to keep — and later writes into a specification — are the most honest measure of a vendor's worth the industry has. No one ever counted them.

The Good Parlor does.

Two sides · addressed distinctly

One reservation,
two kinds of relief.

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Your calendar.
Your terms.

  • iPublish the windows you wantLunch & learn, wine & cheese, in-office happy hour, or a 30-minute virtual — on the dates that suit your year.
  • iiState what you're sourcingSubmit quarterly priorities; the vendors who match route to the front of your calendar.
  • iiiEarn for the firm, not yourselfKept meetings build a Firm Pool — non-cash, clean inside policy-strict houses.
  • ivStop replying to cold emailThe room comes to you, already relevant. You decide who is worth the hour.
For designers  →
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Real meetings.
No cold pitches.

  • iSee live availabilityThe firms you've tried to reach for years, with their windows open in front of you.
  • iiBook the time that matchesFilter by current project priorities, segment, region, and format — then reserve it.
  • iiiWalk in already briefedA pre-meeting brief arrives before every booking, so the conversation starts in the right place.
  • ivFollow the thread to specTrack attribution from introduction to confirmed specification — the line item that's working.
For vendors  →

How it works

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Movement i

Publish

Designers open their calendar and name what they are sourcing this quarter.

Movement ii

Match

Vendors are gated by category, so only relevant meetings can ever be booked.

Movement iii

Meet

Both sides arrive briefed, on the format the designer chose, at the time they kept.

Movement iv

Concierge

A real person handles the follow-up, the no-shows, and the windows worth protecting.

The concierge

A real human,
on your side.

When a designer goes quiet, someone calls. When a calendar slips, someone rebooks it. When a meeting cannot be saved, someone makes it good. It is the Amex Centurion experience, designed for the hospitality sales cycle — and it exists because the inbox does not.

Meet the concierge  →
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The founding cohort

We are opening in South Florida.

A small, curated group of founding firms, recruited by relationship. If your work belongs in that room, we would like to hear from you.