About
The first Networthy didn’t work. This one has a filter.
In 2023 this was a networking group for freelancers, coaches and course creators. It had a good name, a real idea, and no way to tell who belonged in the room. It quietly stopped in 2024. This is the second attempt, built around the one thing the first one was missing.
What broke — the same section we require on every build page
Anyone could join, so nobody could tell who was worth knowing.
The events were free and open. The testimonials on the old site were still placeholder text when it shut down, which tells you how closely anyone was reading. There was no proof of anything — no way to see what somebody had actually done before you gave them an hour of your evening.
A networking group with no filter is a mailing list with a calendar attached. People showed up, were pleasant to each other, and left with nothing, because nothing in the room was specific enough to act on.
What’s different: one entry requirement, and every member’s work is on a public page with their name on it. You can read the room before you join it — that’s this whole site.
Who runs it
Adam Cortez.
He runs ARC Creative Co, where he builds and operates AI systems for a portfolio of businesses — agents, reporting pipelines, and around twenty internal tools that run unattended on his own infrastructure. He’s on the Wall like everyone else, and presents a teardown like everyone else.
“I’d rather have forty people who can show me something than four thousand who can explain something.”
What we believe
Four things, and we enforce all of them.
A screenshot isn’t a build
Anyone can produce a good transcript. The question is whether it still runs on a Tuesday when nobody is watching it.
Publish what broke
Every build page here carries a failure section — including this page. It’s the part other builders learn from, and the part everyone else leaves out.
The room owes you an answer
A question sitting unanswered for two days means the room isn’t working. If you ask one, answer one.
Small on purpose
Forty is the number where everyone still knows what everyone else is working on. Past that it stops being a room and becomes a feed.
How it’s paid for
Membership. That’s the entire business model.
$250 a month from members, and nothing else. No sponsors. No affiliate links. No vendor slots at Demo Day. No recruiter access, and nothing about you is sold to anyone.
If a model provider wants time in front of the room, they can apply like everybody else and show us something running.