Help your city get discovered.
Navi is building the live map of what is happening in Houston, Dallas and Austin. We are inviting the people who already know these cities best to help build it. Applications are open until October 1.
Apply to the CouncilYour best work should not disappear in three days.
You find a place worth going to. You shoot it, post it, and it does well. Then the feed moves and it is gone, and the next week you start again from nothing. The restaurant got a spike. You got a spike. Nobody got anything that lasts.
Inside Navi, a recommendation does not expire. It sits on the map with your name on it and keeps sending people there, months after you posted. Your work stops being content and starts being infrastructure.
Access to the venues
We are signing hundreds of bars, restaurants, clubs and venues before launch. Council members get introduced to them for content, comped experiences, and first look at openings. Nobody else in the city is holding both sides of that.
Reach at the moment of decision
Your collections surface to someone deciding where to go in the next hour, near them. Not a feed impression. A person who is about to walk out the door.
Founding Creator status
Verified badge, Founding Creator on your profile, and your name in the Houston launch. Limited to the first hundred, permanently. It cannot be bought later.
Free to join. Reviewed individually.
Founding Creator
Everyone accepted before October 1
- Verified Creator badge and Founding Creator status, permanently
- Introductions to Navi partner venues for content and comped experiences
- Featured profile and featured collections at launch
- Navi Premium free for life
- Early access to features before public release
- Direct input on what we build next
Applications close October 1, and Founding status closes with them.
Straight answers
There is no follower minimum.
A coffee account with 2,000 locals who actually go where you send them is worth more to us than 200,000 people who will never visit Houston.
You build, you do not advertise.
We are not asking for a promo post. We are asking you to make collections, guides, hidden gems and itineraries inside Navi, where they keep working.
This is not a sponsorship.
Nothing here is paid today. Paid campaigns begin after launch, and Council members are first in line for them.
A person reads every application.
No automated filter, no follower threshold. Most decisions come back within a week.
Tell us what you cover.
Two minutes. We read every one.
Application received.
Before you apply.
Is this paid?
Not right now, and we would rather say that plainly than dress it up. Founding Creators receive access to our partner venues, verification, featured placement, lifetime premium, and early features. Paid campaigns begin after launch and Council members are first in line. If you are only interested in a cheque today, this is not the right time to apply.
How many followers do I need?
None. We care whether people act on what you post, not how many see it. A coffee account with 2,000 locals who actually go where you send them is more valuable to Navi than a national account whose audience will never visit Houston.
What are you actually asking me to do?
Build inside Navi rather than advertise it. Collections, guides, hidden gems, weekend itineraries, neighborhood rankings. The things you already make, in a place where they keep working instead of disappearing.
What does venue access mean?
We are signing hundreds of businesses before launch, and many of them want content made about them. We make the introduction. What you agree with a venue is between you and them, and we do not take a cut of it.
When do I hear back?
Most applications get a decision within a week. Navi launches publicly in Houston on October 1, followed by Dallas and Austin, and Founding Creator status closes when applications do.
Questions first? Email team@letsnavi.com