A transparent discovery experiment

Real connections.
Clear boundaries.

What is live?

Interest searches and venue affinity orders come from Qloo’s hackathon API. Five venue identities were checked using Qloo search names and Edinburgh addresses on 25 October 2026. Each shortlist shows the actual returned venue order, exclusions, fetch time and query fingerprint. Affinity is not a personal probability or an endorsement.

What is fictional?

Every session, date, price, headcount and capacity in this discovery collection is sample data. The venues have not approved or offered these sessions. Historical artwork is decorative. A request is a private demonstration record: it reserves nothing, contacts nobody and takes no payment.

What does Claude do?

The optional bounded assistant can call discover_sessions and get_session, with three tool calls and a 30-second total deadline. The server checks its final session IDs and order. It cannot write requests or change facts. Without a configured Anthropic key, direct live Qloo discovery still works and is labelled accordingly. Invalid model output falls back to verified Qloo results, with that failure shown.

Your data

A random, signed, HttpOnly visitor cookie controls access to your shortlists and requests. Records are stored in the separate discovery PostgreSQL database with row-level ownership policies. Cookies last seven days; shortlists can be used for 24 hours. Clearing the cookie removes access. This is an anonymous demo, not an account recovery service. Use a fictional club name and do not enter personal or sensitive information.

Only selected cultural entity IDs are sent to Qloo. If you enable Claude, the structured constraints and tool results also go to Anthropic. API keys stay on the server. The local setup stores records in a Docker volume until the local database owner deletes it; hosted retention and deletion need to be configured before a public release.

Picture credits

Ernst Haeckel, Actiniae, 1904; Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds, 1797; Albrecht Dürer, Young Hare, 1502 — public-domain works. Dürer’s Melencolia I, 1514, and the Asante kente cloth detail — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access / CC0. Credits follow Sila’s existing artwork catalogue. These decorative plates do not depict the venues.

The Sila pilot remains separate

The pilot uses manual introductions, venue approval and guarded booking rules. This hackathon discovery experiment makes no decisions for live clubs or sessions.