Most networks know who joined. Almost none know what anybody needs. The map is the second thing, kept in public.
Every entry comes from a person who told us directly, in their own words, what they are working on and what they are missing. Most file a Propel Card. Some just reply to the newsletter and answer the same questions by hand, which counts exactly the same. Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or bought.
This is the connecting layer, not a list. Every need and every offer gets typed the same six ways, so a need for money and an offer of money can match before the two people have ever heard of each other. That is what turns separate cards into one graph: the same structure underneath the marketplace, the card, and everything posted in the community, instead of four different lists that happen to share a website.
The six things the map holds
1. What the network needs. Money, people, customers, expertise, a specific introduction, or somewhere to start. Counted, never named without permission.
2. Where the clusters are. A cluster is two or more people who picked the same problem without knowing about each other. That is the single most useful thing this record produces, because those people should be talking and currently are not.
3. What people are offering. Every card asks what you can give, not only what you need. A network where everybody only takes is a mailing list.
4. Who is here. Founders, investors, operators, service providers, supporters, and who is hiring right now.
5. How urgent it is. Within a week, this month, this quarter, or no rush. Urgency changes routing order.
6. What closed, and what it took. The part almost nobody publishes. When a loop closes, the card can record what it actually cost in money and in weeks. Published only where the person who closed it opted in, and never with the closer named.
Why the last one matters most
Every network can tell you that something worked. Almost none will tell you what it took. So the same founder solves the same problem from scratch every year, pays the same amount to learn the same thing, and the knowledge dies with the deal.
The map keeps it. Not as a case study written for marketing, but as a line: this is what the problem was, this is what fixed it, this is what it cost, this is how long it took. That is the difference between a routing log and something worth reading a year from now.
Consent is explicit and defaults to no. Silence is never treated as permission.
The closed loops live on their own page now. The Ledger is every introduction Propel has made, with the date, what was needed, and what it turned into, including the ones that went nowhere.
What the record already holds
The map is fed by cards, and the cards are not the only thing in the open. Some of the network is already public on propel.earth, and it is worth seeing what that looks like before you file anything.
What people need, in the open
The marketplace carries real asks with real budgets. Legal work, manufacturing, paid founder calls. As of September 9, 2026, the marketplace lists seventeen products, six jobs and seventeen open asks, each waiting on an answer. That is the clearest picture of what this network is short of, and the count changes daily, so see it directly rather than trusting a screenshot.
Seventeen open asks, each with a budget and a person behind it.
Everything the network is posting
The Explore feed puts community posts, impact projects, jobs, resources, listings and asks in one place. It updates as people post, which makes it the closest thing to watching the record fill in real time.
Explore. Everything the network is posting, in one feed.
Who is already on the map
As of today, eighty three founders are listed, each with a stage, a funding goal and the problem they are solving. Seventy six service providers are listed with what they charge and how long they take. This is the supply side of the record.
Eighty three founders, each with the problem they are solving.
What none of that shows you is what anybody needs this week. That is the gap the card fills, and it is why the map exists.
What the record holds, dated
September 9, 2026. Three cards in the record: two filed through the form, one filed by reply to an edition. One cluster: two people are working on health and care, and both need money, one for a director level role in healthcare tech, one for a pre-seed raise. Two closed outcomes reported. Nobody needs anything within a week right now, so that number is zero. Eleven people have also tapped the one question poll inside an edition, mostly for money and expertise. A tap is signal about what type of need is out there, not a card, and it is not counted above.
These numbers are pulled by hand each time this page is checked. Nothing on this page updates itself yet. Propel.earth's own map will, once it ships. Until then, refresh this page for the real count, or add your own card to change it.
September 15, 2026, the introductions. Introductions made: 5. Offered in a room, not yet made: 2. Met: 2. Closed: 1. Open needs waiting for a match: 1. Each row with its source on The Ledger, updated every Monday.
How to get on it
File a card, or reply to any edition with the same answers in your own words. Both count. A card asks what you are working on, what you need, what you can offer, and when you need it by. Four minutes on the form, free either way, and a person reads every one.
If none of the categories fit what you do, write it in. That is a real field, not a dead end. When a written-in problem comes up more than once, it becomes a category, which is how this list grows.
What happens after you file
I read it. If somebody else in the record is working on the same problem, I introduce you. If somebody needs exactly what you offer, I introduce you. If neither is true yet, your card stays in the record and gets re-read every week as new cards arrive, so a card that has no match today can still get one in a month.
If you want that to happen three times a month rather than whenever the match appears, that is the Private Network.
A card is one door. For every other way to put something in front of Propel, a job, an ask, an offer, an introduction, see Submit anything to Propel.