Let's Circle Black, the verified home of The Black Experience Index

Everyone else inherits a network.
We're building our own, intentionally.

Let's Circle Black is a private community where Black professionals share what it's really like inside companies, anonymously and honestly, because knowing whether your career will thrive somewhere should never be a guessing game.

Why we exist

The intel everyone else gets for free

Some people are born into networks that hand them career intelligence for free. A roommate who became the VP. An uncle who invested early. A family friend who says don't take that job, trust me. Most of us weren't born into those rooms, so we learn the unwritten rules the hard way and pay for information other people inherit.

So we built the room ourselves.

Inside The Circle, members trade answers to the question we all ask before every offer: how is it there, really? Not the careers page version. The version you'd only tell a friend.


The Black Experience Index

Seven dimensions, one honest picture

Every receipt feeds the Black Experience Index, our score of what it's like to be Black at work, measured across seven dimensions that careers pages never mention.

61Companies tracked
33Companies with receipts
7Dimensions measured
Psychological Safety · Pay Equity & Transparency · Black Representation in Leadership+ 4 more, inside The Circle

Industry-level insights are public. Company-level receipts and the members behind them are inside.

Membership

What membership gets you

Read the receipts

Company-by-company scores and receipts from Black professionals who were actually there, across all seven BEI dimensions.

Ask the person who lived it

Message anyone who's worked at a company you're considering, anonymously, receipt or not. Ask about the culture, get advice on navigating it, or see if they'd put in a referral. Members across the community are ready to talk today.

Bring your own receipts

Share your experience on your terms. Every receipt makes the next member's decision sharper, the same way someone's receipt will sharpen yours.

How it works

Watch the question get answered

Every company page has real people behind it — some who have shared their workplace experience at the organization, or some who marked their affiliation with an organization. Message either one, and neither side has to reveal who they are. It looks like this:

Anonymous threadRe: receipt from a post-IPO fintech company
Member C-417 · Senior IC, Strategy
I have an offer from this company. Your receipt mentioned advancement stalling after the first promo cycle. Was that your team, or is it everywhere?
Verified member · Director+, Operations
Depends on how close you are to revenue. Product org promotes on schedule. The support orgs stall. Ask who owns the number on your team before you sign.
Member C-417
I never would have thought to ask that. That one question just changed my negotiation.
Verified member
That's what the room is for. Good luck, and come back and tell us how it went.
Illustrative conversation. Real threads are member-only and pseudonymous on both sides. Choosing to reveal who you are to a specific member is a control we're building next.
The anonymity promise

Built for the only one in the room

We know why you hesitate. When you're one of a handful of Black people at your company, “anonymous” has to actually mean something. Here's what it means here:

No real names, ever.

Your identity is never attached to a receipt, not in the product and not in the database.

No profiles employers can browse.

Companies cannot look up who said what. There is no company-facing directory.

No detail that gives you away.

Receipts display level bands and functions, not titles and start dates. If a detail could identify you, we don't show it.

Pseudonymous by default.

Every message in The Circle uses a handle, never your name. Choosing to reveal who you are to a specific member is a control we're building next.

Process of elimination doesn't work if there's nothing to eliminate.

From the founder

Made by one of us, for the rest of us

Dabney, founder of Let's Circle Black

I built Let's Circle Black after a decade-plus in corporate, at big-name firms in banking, consulting, and tech, spending every job search asking friends the same quiet question: how is it there for you? When I knew, I positioned myself differently. When I didn't, I paid for it.

Not everyone has someone to call. Now you do.

Dabney J.

Join us

Stop guessing. Start knowing.

The room is open. Come find out what's really inside.

Free to join. Takes two minutes. Anonymous from the first click.

Join The Circle