Axel
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Opal Kestrel is everything still to come, after Tidal Harbor is live and stable.
- A formal dispute process when both sides cannot agree
- Membership tiers with lower platform fees
- Selling several bookings of the same service in one go
- Required ID checks for in-person work
- Co-branded pages for charity and organisation partners
- Community activity feeding into your Ally score
Nothing here is locked yet — replies that change my mind are explicitly invited.
Added 2026-05-07: Sign in with Google or Microsoft (federated IdP sources connected to Authentik) — moved into the next-sprint backlog.
Axel
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Update — 2026-05-14: Opal Kestrel scope refresh.
A couple of items moved off this list because they’re already live:
A formal dispute process when both sides can’t agree — shipped, see Velvet Marmot.
What we’re proposing for the next major phase, in rough priority order:
- Sign in with Google or Microsoft — alongside the existing Tessolari account, so people can use whichever identity they want.
- Membership tiers with lower platform fees for regular contributors and providers.
- Multi-booking flow — selling several sessions of the same service in one go, instead of one-by-one.
- Co-branded pages for charity and organisation partners — their members enter the platform via a partner-skinned page.
- Community activity feeding into your Ally score — helpful forum activity bumps your reliability signal.
- In-app notifications alongside email, with per-event preferences so you can mute the noisy ones.
What’s missing? What’s a higher priority? Reply below — this is the thread where we shape what ships next.