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Vouch for someone you trust. Three honest picks beat five anonymous stars.

Know a Guy · our trust layer

Not reviews.
Vouches.

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Vouch slots
0 used · 10 open

Pick up to 10 businesses you'd recommend to a friend moving to town. The cap exists because in Iowa, if you try to vouch for everybody, you vouch for nobody. No stars. No ratings. Just neighbors who got the job done.

Trust actions

Build a small, useful map of who you would actually call.

Pick trusted businessesAdd the people you would actually send a friend to, then keep the list tight.Manage your slotsEdit labels, reorder picks, and keep your public trust card current from your account.Share your trust cardGive newcomers and neighbors one link to the businesses you stand behind.Business owner bridgeClaim your profile before asking customers for genuine vouches or feedback.

The privacy rule

  • Vouches are recommendations, not anonymous star ratings.
  • Businesses do not receive private supporter contact details from a vouch.
  • Marketing offers require separate opt-in; Know a Guy starts with trust, feedback, and referrals.
Iowa-wide
Choose a town, county, or Iowa-wide mode before loading vouch rollups.
Resident to business

A vouch should become a useful local action

Choose your Iowa town
1. NeedScopeChoose where this belongsThe platform waits for a town or explicit Iowa-wide mode before loading notices.2. TrustScopeRecommend someone worth callingKnow a Guy keeps recommendations capped and public rollups private until enough people agree.3. HelpScopeOffer or find helpVolunteer and service needs live on the board, close to the people who can respond.4. GatherScopeTurn community into a dateEvents and calendars keep real-world meetings, school nights, and deadlines connected.5. RespondClaimBusinesses answer through the platformClaiming creates a safe bridge for feedback and supporter care without exporting private contacts.

Protected supporter channel

The relationship is useful because the customer stays in control.

A digital business card shares a person's contact info. Know a Guy shares the Iowa businesses a person would stand behind, then keeps any deeper business-to-customer relationship inside Every Iowan until the customer chooses otherwise.

Customer-to-business firstFree for the customerNo private contact handoff by defaultFeedback before marketingSupporters before one-off sales

Vouch

Customer: Pick a business you would send a friend to.
Business: Earn public trust through service first.
Live now

A vouch points to a public profile; it does not hand over your private contact details.

Feedback

Customer: Answer a lightweight prompt only when it is tied to a real relationship.
Business: Ask for useful feedback, preference signals, or service gaps. Do not treat the response as marketing consent.
Allowed after claim

Feedback is not marketing consent and should start with the customer's service experience.

Supporter care

Customer: Receive thank-you or referral context without joining a public coupon feed.
Business: Reward the supporter relationship and make it easier for one customer to bring two or three more.
Allowed as supporter care

Supporter offers must reward the relationship, not buy a review or scrape a contact list.

Private reply

Customer: Start the thread yourself before a business can answer privately.
Business: Reply through Every Iowan only after the consumer starts the thread. Do not ask for private contact details by default.
Customer starts

The business replies through Every Iowan; the channel does not expose your email or phone.

Marketing opt-in

Customer: Join only through a separate explicit marketing channel.
Business: Use a separate explicit opt-in marketing channel. Know a Guy is for trust, feedback, and supporter relationships.
Separate channel

A vouch never subscribes the customer to ads, blasts, or campaign lists.

Contact export

Customer: Keep private contact details under your control.
Business: Do not export consumer contact details from Know a Guy. Consumers control what they share and when.
Blocked here

Know a Guy is not a lead sale and does not export supporter contact details.

What this deliberately refuses to become

No raw lead sale: a vouch points to a public profile and keeps the supporter's contact details private.

No fake inbox: private replies stay framed as customer-started until the signed-in channel is ready.

No hidden marketing consent: offers and campaigns require a separate opt-in outside the vouch.

Your first three.

You haven't vouched for anyone yet. Start with one business you would confidently send a neighbor to, then keep the list honest.

Find someone to vouch for ›Edit slots

Most-vouched in Choose your Iowa town.

Public counts only show when there is enough signal to avoid exposing one person's private recommendation.

How businesses use this

Choose a town, county, or Iowa-wide mode to see public vouch rollups.

Owner actions

Claimed businesses can turn trust into better service, not spam.

The business side starts after a claim: see aggregate supporter impact, ask for feedback, run surveys or polls, and offer private supporter care through Every Iowan. Raw customer contact details and marketing consent stay separate.

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