No tiers. No packages. No "starter plan" designed to be outgrown. Twelve seats a year, and the only question that matters is whether the room is worse without you in it.
Charged monthly in GBP, VAT where applicable. Residencies at the domaine are billed separately and at cost, itemised. That is the complete list of things you can be charged for.
Members may nominate one person a year. They are not paid for it, they cannot be paid for it, and their own standing is attached to how it goes. It is the single most expensive thing a member can spend, which is exactly why it works.
Not a CV. Not your revenue. One paragraph on where you actually are and what the room gets from you being in it. Six people read every one. We answer all of them, including the noes, which most of them are.
What a seat buys
Eleven people who will tell you the truth about your work.
Eight commitments, written into the member agreement. Enforceable, which is the only reason a promise is worth reading.
There is a very famous version of this business built on recruiting the people it claims to help. It made one man extremely rich and left a great many nineteen-year-olds poorer and angrier than it found them. The underlying idea, that ambition and discipline and taste can be taught, is correct. The execution was a scam. This is the honest version, and the absence of a referral bounty is the whole proof.
The difference is structural, not aesthetic. That model pays members to recruit members, so its incentive is to grow the pyramid rather than improve the outcome. We pay nobody for referrals. Our only revenue is people choosing to stay, so the only thing we can do to make money is be worth staying for. There is also a real estate, faculty who still practise, and assessment you can fail.
Because tiers exist to make the middle option look reasonable, and because a cheap tier is a promise you will get a worse version of the thing you came for. Either the cohort is right for you or it is not. Splitting it into three price points would make us money and make the room worse.
You get a written answer from a person, usually within two working days, saying why. About two in three paragraphs get a no. Roughly a quarter of those are a "not yet" with a specific thing to go and do, and a standing invitation to write again once it is done. Several current members are on their second or third attempt.
Physically, about fourteen weeks before you notice and nine months before anyone else does. Financially, three to five years for a material change, and that is the median rather than the best case. If you need money by Christmas this is the wrong purchase and we would rather you kept it.
No. Two of the longest-standing members never have. The domaine is where Terroir is taught properly and where the annual review happens in person, and it is genuinely the best part, but it is an addition rather than a gate.
Yes, and we would rather you did. Ask, and we introduce you to two: one who is thriving and one who nearly left. Neither is briefed beforehand.
Cancel and you are not charged again, effective immediately, with the remainder of the month refunded pro rata. Residencies are refunded in full up to thirty days before, and at cost after. We have never contested one.