TRYST

Private chemistry. Intelligent discretion. — Discretion is the product.

TRYST is a discretion-first connection platform for attached adults, solo adults open to couples, and couples: one-off and ongoing connections, threesomes and couple-to-couple, for all genders and orientations.

Current specification — v1.3 baseline

Start at docs/spec/00_README.md.

Document	For
01 Product	Leadership, product, investors, counsel
02 Shared Contracts	Backend and frontend — data model, API, enums, schemas, FR/NFR catalogue
03 Backend	Backend, ML, security, SRE, T&S engineering
04 Frontend	iOS, Android, web, design
05 Terms of Service — draft 0.9.5	Counsel (not for publication)
06 Decisions, errata, change log	Product owner, tech leads
07 Source B — founder brief (verbatim)	Everyone — the founder's specification word for word, with traceability
08 Source A — traceability	Everyone — where each section of the consolidated Spec + ToS lives in the spec and code
09 Operating System (internal)	Everyone — agent workforce and governance, command centres, self-managing layer, BitriPay door, connectors, ops/partner APIs, B2B licensing
Combined PDF	Reading and sharing

Consistency check (runs in CI): python3 scripts/check_spec.py

Repository layout

Three parts, each built, tested and deployed on its own. They meet only through shared/.

Path	What	Deploys as	CI
frontend/	Next.js web app (member site; the staff console is the same code built with OPS_CONSOLE=1). Talks to the backend only over HTTP (/v1/* proxied to IDENTITY_URL / SAFETY_URL)	Container on the Google Cloud VM (frontend/Dockerfile); not Vercel (D-66)	frontend.yml
backend/	Go services: identity-svc (the member API) and safety-svc (Trust & Safety), one image, two entrypoints; PostgreSQL	Containers on the Google Cloud VM (backend/Dockerfile)	backend.yml
shared/	The contract between them: OpenAPI and Protobuf contracts, controlled vocabularies, test vectors both sides must pass, brand assets	Nothing to deploy	shared.yml
site/	The public website and journal: one post per feature, selling each honestly, with editorial rules enforced by tests. Static, no cookies, no member data, indexable	Vercel	site.yml
agents/, crypto-core/, mobile/	Later phases, not deployed at launch: Python agent services (P2), Rust media crypto for the native apps, native app requirements	—	backend.yml
deploy/	Google Cloud set-up (gcp/: Terraform, setup.sh, the VM's Compose file and units), the Hostinger uptime check, Prometheus rules	—	integration.yml,

integration.yml runs the browser end-to-end tests against both parts together and scans the images. Run everything locally with make check; go-live: docs/runbooks/go-live.md.

Sources and history

• docs/source/ — founder source documents (consolidated Spec + ToS, 4 Oct 2026; Developer Specification, 17 Sep 2026)
• shared/brand/ — logo (exactly as supplied) and colour tokens
• docs/archive/ — superseded drafts (PRD v0.1 and the v1.0-vs-v0.1 reconciliation)