The manifesto
Why we're building Proof.
Strangers' reviews never got us out.
4.7 stars, 2,300 reviews, and it was terrible. We've all had that night. An average score written by strangers, sometimes years ago, sometimes without ever setting foot there, says nothing about where you're about to spend yours.
A rec is only worth something if you know who's talking, and you know they were there.
An address is proven on site, or not at all.
On Proof, the only way to review is the shot: a photo taken on site, the moment you are there. No stars dropped three weeks later from a couch. If it's on Proof, someone was really there.
Your notebook is worth more than a feed.
Proof is not another social network. It's a tool first: your addresses in one place, found in two seconds, ready to send when someone asks where to go. The notebook first, the rest after.
Friends, not an audience.
Your shots are visible to your friends, the people you follow who follow you back. No audience to build, no counters to feed. Good addresses travel the way they always have: from friend to friend.
What Proof will not do.
- Reviews from strangers
- Stars dropped from memory
- Photos pulled from the gallery
- Addresses nobody has tried
- Unverifiable check-ins
Baptiste and Léo, cofounders.
Paris, summer 2026.