Business discovery without public listings or forced disclosure
FoundBefore separates storage, anonymous matching and disclosure into distinct controls, so companies can participate in B2B discovery without creating a public operational profile.
Private Business Matching Network: what it means in practice
A private business network enables participating organisations to discover and evaluate potential relationships within controlled information boundaries. Privacy is not simply an invisible directory: the system must define what can be stored, what may enter matching and what can be disclosed to another participant.
FoundBefore applies those decisions at different stages. General profile answers stay in the organisation workspace. Economic items have matching preferences. Opportunity APIs remain anonymised. Identity and selected contact fields appear only after every participant is interested and has granted current consent.
How it works
- 01
Keep an organisation-owned profile
Each item belongs to one organisation and server reads and changes require an active membership with the necessary role.
- 02
Choose matching eligibility
Items can be private, eligible for anonymous matching, revealable after consent, restricted to verified organisations or public where supported.
- 03
Review without identity
Before consent, participants see anonymous roles, the opportunity summary, factors, questions and response state—not counterparty IDs, names or email addresses.
- 04
Control disclosure
Interest does not imply consent. Each participant previews its own required and optional fields and can grant or revoke disclosure separately.
Privacy controls that affect real workflow
The product’s privacy model is enforced in server routes and data boundaries, not only described in marketing copy.
Private by default
Operational profile data is not published as a marketplace listing, and there is no public organisation-profile endpoint.
Tenant isolation
Organisation data requires an authenticated user and current membership in that organisation; unknown or removed access fails closed.
Consent-gated identity
A secure introduction re-checks every participant’s interested response and consent before reads or messages.
Data-minimised analytics
Analytics accepts named events and allowlisted values, not profile text, questions, message bodies or hidden counterparty details.
Private matching versus public discovery models
Public marketplace: listings expose an offer or request so the market can browse it.
Eligible information is compared privately and participants see an anonymised candidate.
Member directory: profiles identify organisations inside a gated community.
Membership does not automatically make operational information or identity visible to matching counterparties.
Contact database: access begins with identifiable people and companies.
The discovery stage intentionally withholds counterparty identity and contact fields.
Automatic introduction: the system decides whom participants should meet.
Every participant independently controls interest and disclosure before an introduction opens.
Hypothetical example: confidential excess capacity
A company has spare production capacity but does not want customers, competitors or the public to see an availability listing. It confirms the capability as eligible for anonymous matching inside its organisation workspace.
Another company with compatible demand may receive an anonymised opportunity. The first company name remains hidden while both parties review the fit. If either side declines or withholds consent, no identity introduction opens.
Illustrative scenario, not a customer claim or guaranteed outcome.What FoundBefore does not promise
- Revocation cannot make information that a participant already viewed unseen; it pauses new access and disclosure.
- Current safeguards do not by themselves constitute jurisdiction-specific legal compliance or replace customer legal review.
- Private binary document exchange remains disabled until the required scanning and parsing controls are enabled.
- FoundBefore remains a controlled pilot and openly documents launch-readiness work that is still required.
Common questions
Does FoundBefore publish company information publicly?
No public organisation-profile endpoint exists, and operational data is not turned into public marketplace listings.
Can companies match without revealing their identity?
Yes. Opportunity review is anonymised. Counterparty identity appears only through the mutual consent workflow.
Is interest the same as consent?
No. A participant first responds to the opportunity and then separately chooses disclosure fields and grants consent.
What happens if consent is revoked?
The introduction is paused and new workspace reads, messages and disclosure are blocked. Previously viewed information cannot be retracted.