Every memberis a neuron

Here is the thing

Someone posts in one of our groups. Does anyone know a good accountant? How do I get a BSN? Which neighbourhood should I move to?

And then whoever happens to be awake and in the mood answers. Sometimes one person. Sometimes ten. Sometimes nobody, and the question just scrolls away.

The knowledge is in there. Forty thousand people who have already figured out the exact thing the next person is about to struggle with. It is just scattered across thousands of messages that nobody can find again.

So we are building the AIC brain

Every week or two, ツAIC asks you one question on WhatsApp. Just one, and it takes about ten seconds to answer.

• What is your favourite restaurant in Amsterdam?Our first question. Yes, we are starting with the important stuff.
• What is the one thing you wish you had known before moving here?The answer nobody tells you at the gemeente.
• Where do you actually go when the weather is horrible?Asking for 40,000 friends.

Every answer becomes part of a shared memory that any member can ask about later. Not one person's opinion, but what the whole community actually thinks. The restaurant that wins is the community's restaurant.

And the best part: the next person who arrives in Amsterdam, lost and jetlagged and googling how to open a bank account, gets the answer in seconds. Because you took ten of yours.