A week, specifically
Monday you get a term sheet and three clauses read oddly, and the lawyer costs money and takes two days. Tuesday your first engineer tells you they're leaving. Wednesday a customer asks for a price you haven't thought about and you have forty minutes to answer. Thursday an investor who was "very interested" goes quiet and you don't know whether to chase or move on.
None of those are searchable, none of them can be posted publicly, and every one of them has been answered properly by someone who is not in your phone. That gap is the entire product.
Term sheet with three odd clauses — lawyer costs money, takes two days.
First engineer says they're leaving.
Customer asks for a price you haven't thought about. Forty minutes.
Investor goes quiet. Chase or move on?
Where the answer actually comes from
Not from a feed. From a room where twenty people are close enough to the same stage to recognise the question, and from an archive where somebody already answered it carefully enough that it's still useful.
CHiiRO gives you both, plus the way to reach the person afterwards: connect, they accept, you write. The mechanics are boring. The design decision is that everything is organised around the problem you have, not the job you hold.
Being found, not just finding
Profile that shows what you built
Not a job title. What you actually made, broke and fixed — described in your own words so the right people find you.
Reputation from answering well
Not from posting numbers. The founder who answers well becomes someone worth asking, and that's a better reputation surface than virality.
Hiring from profiles written for founders
Not résumé filters. Your company page carries the role and the applications come from profiles that describe real work.
Half the value flows the other way. The founder who answers well becomes someone worth asking, and that's a considerably better reputation surface than a post that did numbers. Your profile describes what you built rather than where you worked, so you're findable by the thing you're actually good at. When you're hiring, your company page carries the role and the applications come from profiles that were written for other founders, not for a résumé filter.
What you can do today, and what you can't
Today: join and run communities, ask and answer in the archive, build a profile that says what you've built, connect and message, host events, post roles from a company page, and use search that understands a question written the way you'd say it.
Not today: paid tiers of any kind. Not today: iOS. Not today: matching that proposes the person you didn't think to look for, which is being built.
What you get
Get a specific answer to the thing you can't post publicly.
Be asked because of what you've built, not because you posted a lot.
Hire from profiles that weren't written to pass a filter.
Start the room you wish existed, and own it.
Questions and answers
Q.What is CHiiRO for founders?
CHiiRO is a professional network organised around the problems founders actually face — fundraising, first hires, pricing, go-to-market — rather than by job title. It gives you communities of people at a similar stage, a question-and-answer archive, direct messaging behind a connection gate, and search that understands a question written in plain language.
Q.How do founders ask confidential questions on CHiiRO?
Inside communities where membership is controlled and the room is small enough that the question gets read rather than buried. Questions that are durable go into the archive; situational ones stay in the room. Neither is published to the open web or indexed by search engines.
Q.Can I hire through CHiiRO?
Yes. You can post roles from a company page and receive applications from profiles that describe what someone built rather than listing job titles. There is no recruiter tier and no paid placement — the role is visible to members and the profiles are written for founders, not for a résumé filter.
Q.Is CHiiRO free for founders?
Yes. There are no paid tiers of any kind today. When pricing is introduced, this site will say what changed and when, and the disclosures page will carry the date.
Q.Why join CHiiRO early when the network is small?
Because the room is small enough that the person you came to meet is reachable, your question gets read rather than buried, and the community you start is yours rather than inherited. The archive is seeded and clearly labelled so the network is useful before it is full.