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What you are drawn to, held apart
Anchors
What you are drawn to, held as the most protected thing on Semble.
An anchor is one short line about what pulls you: a problem you can't stop thinking about, a craft you practice, a place you keep returning to, the kind of person you want beside you, what you can give, what you need. You set up to twelve. Only the SembleCortex reads them, on Semble's own servers, for one purpose: to find you a room with people on the same page.
The stack
Your anchors sit as a stack, twelve layers deep, the newest on top. The SembleCortex reads the whole stack as one thing. Your line and every layer together become a single direction, and every open Semble is measured against it.
A layer adds weight. The order is only the order you set them in. Lift a plate to change it and the direction moves with it. Remove one and it is gone, the layer and its vector together, in the same second.
What happens to a line
The exact path, from the field on your page to a text on your phone.
- You set a line on your anchors page. Inside the server function, code that ships with the app turns it into a vector. No AI provider is involved.
- The line and its vector are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they are stored. The key lives in the server environment and never in the store. Anyone with store access sees ciphertext.
- Once a day the matching job decrypts your stack in memory, blends it with your line into one direction, and scores that direction against the line of every open Semble. Then it lets go of all of it.
- A score above the threshold becomes one row and, at most once a day, one text: a Semble was found. The text names the room and nothing else.
- The job leaves nothing behind. No log line, no summary, no training, no record of why.
- Delete removes the anchor and its vector at once. Nobody is told who matched to what, or why.
Left out of the scoring: your own Sembles, rooms that are full, rooms that are over, anyone you have blocked, and anyone who blocked you, anything you are already in. The threshold is 0.3, on a scale where 1 is the same line twice.
The Same Page algorithm
The SembleCortex asks one question of you and a room: are you on the same page? It answers with a number, the similarity between what you are drawn to and what the room is about. The number is the whole output.
It is computed by code that ships with the app, on Semble's own servers, from scratch, every day. It gates nothing else on the site and it is read by nobody. The Same Page count on the landing shares the name and the spirit: a warmth gauge with no identity behind it.
Kin works the same way. Each day the job also measures your direction against every other searching builder's. Once three or more are on the same page as you, your stack page says how many. It never says who, and below three it says nothing, the way a room moves at three.
- Your anchors are encrypted before they are stored.
- No human reads your anchors unless you give permission.
- Your anchor data is never sold, and never shared without your consent.
- Your location is read on your device and never kept.
- Delete removes the anchor and its vector together.
Secure By Design
The guarantees, in the order they are enforced. Each one is a property of the code, checked before a deploy.
- 01
Anchors never leave Semble's own servers. No AI company receives them.
- 02
They are encrypted at rest. Anyone with database access sees ciphertext.
- 03
They are decrypted in two places: the matching job, in memory, and this page.
- 04
The SembleCortex only scores similarity. It never writes about you and never trains on anything.
- 05
Delete removes the anchor and its vector at once. Nobody is told who matched to what, or why.
Why anchors are held apart
What you are drawn to is the closest thing to who you are. It says more than a name and more than a résumé. A system that holds it holds a trust, and the trust comes first: the store, the key, the job and the page all follow from it.
So anchors are held apart. One reader, on one server, for one purpose. On show to nobody. For sale to nobody. Yours to change or remove in a second.
When it works, you set a line about the problem you cannot put down, and a week later you are in a room with two people who cannot put it down either. That is as close to magic as this site gets, and it is arithmetic done with care.
Where it goes next
The work ahead for the stack, under the same rules.
A room from the stack
When three stacks point the same way, the SembleCortex proposes a Semble to all three, with a host to be chosen among them.
A weekly note
Once a week, what the stack found, written from the rooms alone. Your anchors stay where they are.
A layer you choose to show
One plate you mark as public, on your builder page, with the other eleven held as before. Your choice, one at a time.
Twelve layers, waiting for your first line.