The website
City pages, public hosts, programmes, SCENE TV stories and links into a relevant circle.
Working: Lucknow directoryPRODUCT & OPERATING ATLAS / 01—04
One network.
Local scenes.
One member experience, with a different host, calendar, language mix and cost base in every city. Start in Lucknow; test what transfers in El Paso.
Explore the Foundation initiative ↗Newal Kishore Foundation · Culture & Community at Le Press. Read the current programme brief ↗
01 / THE TECHNOLOGY MAP
From a public story to a circle you join.
The website helps someone discover the city through curated creators and local programmes. The member app remembers what they want. The proposed social engine serves both, enforcing who can see or join each network.
The member app
Choose goals and constraints, inspect a match, save it, join an open group or request an introduction.
Working: mobile web appThe social engine
Identity, chapter membership, permissions, availability, ranking, feedback and delivery.
Today: rules on this deviceFOLLOW A REQUEST / PRODUCTION DESIGN
Where decisions happen.
Choose a member or host action to follow the data across the proposed system.
WHAT EXISTS / WHAT TO BUILD
The technology choices.
Start with one API and one relational database. A native app can reuse the same contracts when repeat use justifies a second client.
Why no large language model in the join decision?
The crucial questions are verifiable: which city, what price, what permission, how much space? In a future release, a language model could translate a sentence into editable preferences. Only the social engine would decide eligibility and explain the order.
02 / THE CITY CHAPTER MODEL
Copy the machinery. Rebuild the community.
A chapter is an operating unit with its own people, supply and accounts. A member can explicitly explore another edition; it does not transfer their local memberships, guest lists or private connections.
0522
Lucknow
Programme home: Le Press, with Rangmanch for curated culture. A fourth-Sunday gathering brings local hosts, creators, performers and newcomers together.
- Starting neighbourhoods
- Hazratganj, Chowk, Gomti Nagar, Aliganj
- Language & money
- Hindi / English · INR · Asia/Kolkata
- Launch question
- Do people who come to one gathering return through a smaller circle?
915
El Paso
Proposed focus: independent fan circles, bilingual social groups and study sessions around the UTEP area and Downtown. No university partnership is assumed.
- Starting neighbourhoods
- UTEP area, Downtown, Sunset Heights and other local areas
- Language & money
- English / Spanish · USD · America/Denver
- Launch question
- Do study and fan circles give people a useful weekly reason to meet?
RESPONSIBILITY & MONEY
Who owns what?
Owns identity, product contracts, safety standards, accessibility, recommendation tests and incident escalation. Controls city feature flags and platform costs.
Recruit and train hosts, confirm venue and filming permissions, curate languages and neighbourhoods, review reports and reconcile each programme locally.
Keep restricted cultural grants, unrestricted support and any programme receipts distinct. Charge each cost once under its permitted purpose. Budget shared services explicitly; reconcile cash and in-kind support separately, and never add raw INR to USD.
Portability has a boundary.
In production a global account can opt into a city membership. Each public circle, event, moderation case, settlement and media permission belongs to a city. Private memberships and buddy ties are excluded from recommendations. The two existing sites are independent prototypes; the Matchmaker demonstrates city switching in one browser.
03 / PILOT & EXPANSION
Earn the next chapter.
Run the 18+ Lucknow pilot first. Targets below are proposed management decisions; they are not current participation figures.
Assemble the local supply
Identify a city steward, recruit recurring hosts, agree venue access and contributor payouts, cover moderation and publish sample-to-real listing criteria. Keep the first cohort small enough to support.
Prove the match led somewhere
Instrument eligible impressions → open joins or approved requests → consented attendance → a return on another day. Report no-match and full-group rates by area and language without exposing small cohorts.
Check the Lucknow release gates
Illustrative goals: observe 150 first-time public attendees for a full 30 days; at least 40% return on a later day in that window; at least 9 of 12 onboarded hosts deliver a second session. For the Foundation’s Culture & Community pilot, confirm a funded delivery budget, fair contributor fees, public-benefit evidence, moderation and venue readiness. Free programmes can be deliberately subsidised; their permitted funding and cost must be clear. Review monthly circles against their own cadence as well as the 30-day measure.
Run a separately costed El Paso pilot
Apply the outcome definitions with a separate local funding agreement, USD budget, bilingual operations and independent venue permissions. Turn on city features in stages. A strong Lucknow cohort is a reason to test El Paso, not evidence of El Paso demand.
CFCPD / FIVE OPERATING DECISIONS
The principles have owners.
Local editors credit creators and choose recurring formats with hosts.
The chapter lead reconciles receipts, host dues and delivery costs.
Stewards track newcomer return, host reliability and unresolved reports.
Hosts reuse venues and materials; report observed waste and travel choices.
The product team explains matches, honours consent and tests exclusions.
04 / CONNECTED EXPERIENCES LAB
A wrist for a pass. Glasses for a story.
Keep discovery on the phone. Use a watch for a short, timely action and glasses only where being hands-free improves the experience. Every trial below also has a phone or staffed option.
Design preview. No watch, glasses, camera, wallet, ticket or Meta account is connected. Inputs here do not affect memberships, attendance or Pulse.
DELIVERY SEQUENCE / PROPOSAL
Start where hands-free helps.
Use QR first; make ordinary tickets wrist-ready.
Build a confirmed RSVP ledger, a signed opaque pass and a host scanner. Check capacity, revocation and replay on the server. Offer a phone QR and a staffed lookup. Test Google Wallet on a paired Galaxy Watch8 and Apple Wallet on an iPhone / Watch pair before introducing a native watch app.
Give hosts a glanceable running order.
Test opted-in phone reminders and actions. A dedicated Wear OS tile or watchOS experience comes later if stage managers need offline cues, next-act controls and role-restricted updates. A vibration is a prompt; it does not prove arrival.
Pilot hearable heritage and approved creator recaps.
Try a marked reading or craft stop at Le Press. A member selects a stop, hears a short Hindi or English story, then chooses whether to follow a circle. Test one authorised point-of-view clip in a controlled stage area. An editor clears rights before any SCENE TV or social post.
Reserve display and spatial experiments for justified cases.
Meta’s November 2026 support list includes India for Ray-Ban Meta, but not for Meta Ray-Ban Display. A US partner could trial a small, bilingual display cue in El Paso after verifying hardware and release eligibility. A supervised Quest heritage-room prototype is a separate headset project.
Consent belongs to the activity.
Let two members choose to exchange club introductions at a welcome table. Do not identify strangers through face recognition, discover nearby wearers secretly, or use heart rate, HRV, sleep or location trails to recommend friends or measure heat. Camera permission does not authorise recording a performer or publishing a clip.
PILOT EVIDENCE
Measure the job the device does.
Compare wrist and phone check-in completion, time to check in, replay rejection and fallback use. Compare heritage-stop completion and opted-in onward club joins with the phone-only route. Record cue failures and consent withdrawals. Require zero unauthorised publications before expanding creator capture.