For founders
For the questions you can't ask in public.
Everything a founder needs from a network is downstream of one problem: the important questions aren't public ones.
Follow the routeA week, specifically
- MondayA term sheet arrives and three clauses read oddly. The lawyer costs money and takes two days.
- TuesdayYour first engineer tells you they are leaving.
- WednesdayA customer asks for a price you have not thought about. You have forty minutes.
- ThursdayAn investor who was "very interested" goes quiet. Chase, or move on?
None of those are searchable, none can be posted publicly, and every one has been answered properly by someone who is not in your phone. That gap is the entire product.
Where the answer actually comes from.
The mechanics are boring. The design decision is that everything is organised around the problem you have, not the job you hold.
Ask
In a room, not a feed.
A room where people are close enough to the same stage to recognise the question. The room is small enough that your question gets read rather than buried — and if the room you need does not exist, you can start it, and it is yours.
How communities workFind
The answer somebody already wrote.
An archive where somebody answered it carefully enough that it is still useful, and search that understands a question written the way you would say it. Then the way to reach the person afterwards: connect, they accept, you write.
Inside the archiveHire
From profiles written for founders.
Your company page carries the role, and the applications come from profiles that describe what someone built rather than listing job titles. There is no recruiter tier and no paid placement.
How jobs workBe found
For the thing you are good at.
Half the value flows the other way. Your profile describes what you built rather than where you worked, and the founder who answers well becomes someone worth asking — a better reputation than a post that did numbers.
What a profile shows
What you can do today, and what you can't.
The full record of what is liveToday
- Join and run communities
- Ask and answer in the archive
- Build a profile that says what you have built
- Connect and message
- Host events
- Post roles from a company page
- Search that understands a question written the way you would say it
Not today
- Paid plans
- None today. Plans for private communities and investor access are coming.
- iPhone
- On the App Store.
- Matching
- That proposes the person you did not think to look for. Not shipped for founders.
Why early is not a drawback
You'd be early. 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 with AI-authored content, recorded as AI-authored at the source, and there to make the network worth opening before it is full. That is a genuinely different proposition from joining something large, and it is either what you want or it isn't.
How AI-authored content is recordedWhat founders ask first.
Every fact about CHiiROWhat 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.
Where do founders ask questions they would not post publicly?
In communities of people at a similar stage, small enough that the question gets read rather than buried. CHiiRO is not a confidential channel: the service returns questions and answers without sign-in, and the privacy policy (clause 3.2) says to treat private-community posts as public until a known defect is fixed.
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.
Is CHiiRO free for founders?
Free during the Founding beta. Paid plans for private communities and investor access are coming.
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.
Ask what you cannot post publicly.
