--- type: WebPage name: "You're known by the company you keep. So are they." id: "https://selfe.ai/solutions/groups-and-curators" url: "https://selfe.ai/solutions/groups-and-curators" publisher: "did:web:selfe.ai" description: "Selfe for groups and curators: the area and the property answered together, the way somebody actually asks about a place." --- # You're known by the company you keep. So are they. > Selfe for groups and curators: the area and the property answered together, the way somebody actually asks about a place. The area and the property answered together, the way somebody actually asks. Nobody else can do both, because a property cannot vouch for the ground it stands on and an area cannot list what is inside it. Selfe connects your places to the AI agents people increasingly use to choose and buy. **Visit Keswick** The Keswick Tourism Association is becoming a Curator, verifying and connecting its own members so an agent can find and buy from any of them. **Keswick Cottages** A cottage agency representing around 94 owners around Keswick, connecting through its own booking system, via Visit Keswick. ## The best place to stay, in the best place to stay. Somebody planning a trip is doing two things at once. Choosing where to go, and choosing where to sleep once they are there. Almost everybody who answers one of those is guessing at the other. You hold both. Which part of the coast suits a family with a toddler, and which of your places there has the flat garden with a gate on it. Nobody who only knows the area can put those two together, and nobody who only knows one property can either. And a property is not entitled to the claim anyway. A cottage saying the beach is safe for toddlers is a cottage vouching for itself. You saying it is somebody with the whole coast to answer for, which is the only kind an agent can lean on. That judgement is the whole point of a collection, and at the moment it reaches nobody. ## The place, and the places in it. What you know about the area is worth as much as what you know about any one property in it. ## Worth reading next The latest on how agents actually work, written as it happens. **Can an agent actually buy from you?** *(coming soon)* The foundational question, answered plainly: what has to be true before an AI agent can complete a booking rather than just mention you. **Being found is not the same as being bought from.** *(coming soon)* An AI agent can mention your business and still never send it a booking. What closes that gap, and where most of the work actually happens. **Your booking button is not the point.** *(coming soon)* A link back to your site is not something an agent can act on. What it actually needs to make the booking happen itself. ## Bigger than the sum of your places. A collection has a character. The sort of building you take on, the standard you hold them all to, what you would never put your name to. It is why somebody who liked one of yours will book another without looking too hard at it. None of that is visible from one property, because it is the thing they have in common. Your Selfe holds all twelve to the same depth, and the pattern comes out of the set. And the places are what make the area believable. Anybody can call a stretch of coast good for families. Saying it with sixty gardens behind you, the gradients, and which ones have a gate on them, is the same claim with the evidence attached. So you get asked for by name instead of turned up by location, and a guest who liked the one in Wales books the one in Northumberland without going back out to look. That is a second booking you never had to win twice. ## Three easy ways to get started, take your pick. Whether you just want to get on with it or learn more about agentic commerce, there is a route to get started with Selfe that's just right for you. All you need to do is click. ## Does every member have to connect separately? Not necessarily. A group or curator can make one connection while each member keeps a record, availability and rules of its own underneath it. The exact setup depends on where member data is held, but the goal is to add each place rather than rebuild the whole group every time. **Does company size decide which route we need?** Complexity matters more than headcount. A large catalogue with standard rules may suit Self. A smaller business with several systems, approval layers or important exceptions may need Assisted or Selfe-Made. The route changes the help around the platform, not the platform you end up running. **What does Selfe connect to?** Usually your website, the system holding your calendar or stock, whatever takes payment and the important places where you are already listed. It only needs the connections required for the actions you choose to allow. If a system is not listed, we check the available connection before recommending a route. **Who owns what Selfe knows about us?** Your business data and the Echo built for your business remain available to you and can be exported. Facts taken from public or third-party sources remain attributable to those sources rather than becoming ours or yours by repetition. Nothing in the working record is hidden from you or held back if you leave. **Should we choose Self, Assisted or Selfe-Made?** Choose Self when the standard connections and playbook fit. Choose Assisted when you want us to check the setup or the systems are less straightforward. Choose Selfe-Made when the difficult part is agreeing custom rules across people, properties, products or approval layers. You end up on the same platform in all three. ## Act on this - [Check whether an agent can buy from you](https://selfe.ai/agentic-commerce/buyability-check) — the free readiness scan. - [Discover venues](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/discover) — `POST`, semantic browse across the registry. - [Match a bookable answer](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/match) — `POST` with dates and party size. - [Verify Selfe's identity](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/did.json) — `did:web:selfe.ai`. - [Agent card](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json) — how to connect over A2A or MCP.