So I built the room

Five people. One hour. Your thing. Twenty founding seats.

Two weeks ago I wrote that the barrier isn’t AI — it’s finding the right four people to think with.

I got tired of the sentence ending there. So I built the room.

It’s called Podkin. The mechanics are deliberately small: five members, one vetted host, one hour a week on Zoom. A single session or a run of up to six weeks. You leave with a recording, a transcript and a written recap in your inbox by morning — the thinking compounds, the admin doesn’t.

The pods are the point. Understanding your pension, with a chartered financial planner. Planning your Japan trip in one hour, with someone who’s lived there. Your first 90 days as a manager. Breaking into product. Solo travel for women over 40. Not courses, not content, not a Discord with 4,000 lurkers. A room. Five chairs, one host, straight answers.

I wrote in the Airbnb piece that the most valuable thing a company can own is a network of people who trust each other. I’m now trying to build one, and the honest version of that sentence is: it starts with twenty people.

So — the founding cohort. The first 20 members get the Pod plan at £49 a month instead of £99, locked for six months. Signing up takes thirty seconds and no payment; you tell me what you want to get better at, and I match you to your pod personally. Every one of the first twenty, matched by me.

If you’ve read this far, you’re probably one of the five people someone else’s room needs.

Claim a founding seat → podkin.co.uk

Tell me your thing. I’ll find you the other four.

— Talib