Real money and a private community demand more than policy. At Club1, trust is architecture. The way the system is built, not a promise on a page.
Members’ game money is held by a licensed custodian, and a member’s stake is set aside the moment a game starts. Settlement is computed on the server, to the cent, and credited to the winners as soon as every player has confirmed the scores. No client can write a balance, no employee can create one, a ruling moves money only through the server with the name of whoever decided it, and every movement lands on a ledger no member, staffer or club can edit.


Club staff cannot open members’ direct messages; a message a member reports is the one a designated staffer sees. Every club’s data is isolated to that club, and member data is never sold, and never shared for anyone’s advertising. The club’s directory, its conversations, and its habits stay inside the gates.
Rulings move money atomically and log who decided what, when. Hole-in-one claims take two independent witnesses and a golf staff sign-off before a dollar moves. When the connection drops, the register keeps selling to house accounts, for cash and on the club’s own card terminal, keeps each sale on the device, up to $2,000 a sale, and posts it once when the connection returns; card payments Club1 runs wait for the connection. The system is built for the moment somebody asks “prove it”, and it always can.

What a board should ask any platform, and our answers.
Of members’ game money held by club staff. A licensed custodian holds it; the server settles it.
Ledgers no user can edit. A correction is a new entry.
Every club’s data, walled to that club.
Member data is not a revenue line. It never will be.
Live status, the support promise as the desk measures it, the policy binder with its dates, the tests that run before every release, and the load report from tournament week. Everything here is written down and dated before a club goes live.
Public monitors check every three minutes, with ninety days of history. Nothing on the page is set by hand. The promise is 99.9% a month.
Open the live status pageEvery ticket carries its own clocks, and a missed target is written down and reported in the club’s quarterly review.
Shared under a non-disclosure agreement. Nothing is downloaded from this page.
A release runs against the test copy before it reaches a club. The counts are test files, read from the code on the day this page is published.
Run against the test copy from many clients, with the books tied out after each run. Last run October 24, 2026: 15 clubs, 620 members, every sale, slip and charge tied out to the cent. The scripts that produced it: e2e/load/tournament.
Questions about any of this: ray@club1.io.
The twelve documents, shared under a non-disclosure agreement. Raymond replies personally.
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A small number of founding slots remain. Every request is reviewed personally.
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