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Visibility in the Age of AI
How commerce brands enter consideration when customers delegate more of the decision to AI.
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The private network for e-commerce founders, operators and owners
Peer rooms and operating intelligence, human and AI, for today’s winners who intend to stay tomorrow’s winners: founders with real operating pain, leaders in enterprise-grade e-commerce, business owners and those accountable for owned brands remaining relevant without sales noise.
Why e-commerce, not generic AI transformation
Brand, product and customer value stay at the centre, but AI is rewriting the full retail operating system.
Agents shape consideration before customers reach your site.
Inventory, fulfilment and returns turn AI choices into cash decisions.
Tariffs and border rules can outpace planning horizons.
Customer data and AI governance vary by market.
Better decisions start with better context
The value is not more AI news. It is better context for the commercial and operating choices already in front of you.
Stage-matched peer groups
Work through current decisions with founders, operators and owners facing comparable commercial and operating questions.
Focused events
Take part in small gatherings built around useful exchange rather than open networking or sales access.
Confirmed member benefits
Use practical member benefits only when they are confirmed, available and ready to use.
Insights
Field notes and interactive work for members navigating AI, discovery and operating change: practical context for decisions already in front of you.
Influence Humans and Agents
Discovery is splitting into two audiences. E-commerce brands that optimise only for human attention will lose share of demand to peers who also operate for the agent ecosystem.
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Today's Winners and Tomorrow's Winners
The brands that already won their category still face a modality shift. Staying relevant means upgrading the operating model, not resting on yesterday's playbook.
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Operators behind the Network
Leadership sits inside a full House Operating Bench — commercial, supply chain, e-commerce and product operators available to members on request.
Andrew Doe
CEO
One of the operators behind Confetti, one of Europe's first content, community and commerce businesses. Andrew has since led global digital and e-commerce operations across retail, travel and digital healthcare.
Maz Darvish
CPO & Serial Entrepreneur
Founder and Chief Product Officer of CognitionHub, with more than 25 years of experience driving growth and innovation across digital and e-commerce businesses.
Johan Quintus
Chief Strategy Officer, CognitionHub
Chief Strategy Officer focused on digital transformation, applied AI and measurable operating results across consumer and technology businesses.
Built for candid, useful conversations
Bring a current question, work through it with relevant people and leave with clearer next steps.
Join relevant peers
Applications are reviewed so conversations bring together people with relevant operating responsibility and experience.
Work through live decisions
Bring current questions to member discussions, working roundtables and small-group sessions.
Get focused help
Draw on operators and experts when their experience is relevant, with private specialist matching available on request.
Contribute what you know
Share practical experience when it can help another member, without turning every exchange into a sales opportunity.
Private dinners
18:30–21:00
London or online
Working roundtables
12:00–13:30
London or online
Operator sessions
13:00–14:30
London or online
Focused events for candid conversations
Focused roundtables and private dinners create room for conversations that are difficult to have publicly.
Explore eventsCompany membership priced by size for accurate peering
Open turnover bands from £99 to £999/mo + VAT. Segmentation is deliberate: peer rooms only work when altitude matches. Founding cohort places are currently offered free, by invitation. See landings for founders, owners and leaders.
Base Membership
Free
Verified access to the wider Network, with selected discussions, Insights and open events. Curated company peer rooms are not included.
Emerging
Under £5m turnover
£99/mo+ VAT
Sized for accurate peering, not as a junior product.
Company membership for e-commerce brands under £5m annual turnover, with stage-matched peer rooms for founders and operators at a comparable scale.
Growth
£5m–£25m turnover
£299/mo+ VAT
Company membership for scaling e-commerce brands. This is the core mid-market peer set where most Network matching density sits.
Scale
£25m–£75m turnover
£499/mo+ VAT
Company membership for substantial operators, with peers who already carry multi-channel complexity and organisational AI pressure.
Established
£75m–£200m turnover
£749/mo+ VAT
Company membership for large category players, including enterprise-adjacent brands that need peer rooms at their real operating altitude.
Enterprise
£200m+ turnover
£999/mo+ VAT
Company membership for enterprise-grade e-commerce and owned assets at £200m+, priced for the P&L impact of getting AI-era operating choices right.
Are you a battle-scarred operator?
Experienced operators who have led through growth, transition and difficult times — and got the scars — available for member-requested real work under Network governance. Governed by the Operating Bench terms.
Apply as a Bench OperatorMembers stay at the centre
The Network is designed for useful contribution, with clear boundaries around access, introductions and member information.
Protected peer rooms
No selling, pitching or prospecting in member discussions. These hard boundaries are enforced.
No member contacts to Bench Operators
Bench Operators never receive member contact details. They are not displayed, exported or shared.
Curated entry
Members are vetted into stage-matched micro-communities, not thrown into an open room.
Built by operators for operators
CognitionHub is shaped by people who have built, scaled and exited businesses across e-commerce, community, media and global retail. That operating experience continues through the platforms we build and run today, including Coralbeat.
CognitionHub builds Coralbeat, a branded platform for creating, running and growing member communities.
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CognitionHub operates Home Art Haven, a direct-to-consumer brand for wall art, cushions and blankets.
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One of Europe’s first content, community and commerce businesses, co-built by Andrew before the category had a name.
A £20m e-commerce business, sold to Dyaco in 2021.
A UK affiliate-marketing business acquired by GlobalData.
A digital-advertising business that completed its IPO in 2000.
A premium-denim brand scaled to more than $30m in global sales.
International expansion for the menswear retail brand.
The Network runs on software we build
Coralbeat is live, as the network operating system behind CognitionHub. It runs on Sentient, the agentic operating system our team has been building since before LLMs became a buzzword. Membership is the human room; products are how we deliver the AI edge.
AI credibility
- Coralbeat: live at coralbeat.com
- Sentient: the agentic operating system underneath
- Built in-house: operators shipping production systems, not slideware
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Public applications are not currently open. Join the waitlist to register your interest in the membership that fits.
