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Context for every relationship

One life. Eight contexts. Zero collapse.

Your boss, your best friend and your favourite café should never live in one flat contact list. LifeSpaces™ give every relationship the boundary it deserves — by architecture, not by folder.

The idea

A LifeSpace decides behaviour, not filing.

Each LifeSpace™ sets the default visibility, communication, collaboration, publishing and commercial behaviour of a relationship. The Identity Permission Engine™ then refines access — without ever making you rebuild the relationship.

Trust is mutual; control is individual. The same relationship may be classified differently by each participant — because what someone is to you is always your call.
The taxonomy

The eight approved LifeSpaces™.

Family

Immediate family and highest personal trust

Broad personal collaboration with user-controlled boundaries

Family Friends

Trusted people closely connected to the family unit

Family-context interaction without Family-level default access

Relatives

Extended family and kinship relationships

Contextual family communication with moderate visibility

Friends

Personal friendships and social relationships

Personal communication and selected sharing

Buddy

Closest friends and highly trusted companions

Higher-frequency interaction and broader authorised sharing

Professional

Work, expertise, institutional and project relationships

Purpose-driven collaboration and professional separation

Network

New, developing and exploratory relationships

Minimum necessary visibility and conservative defaults

Commercial

Businesses, brands, memberships, loyalty and service

Purpose-limited, consent-driven customer engagement

Evolution

A Network contact can become a Buddy. A brand stays Commercial.

Relationships move through a governed lifecycle — Discovery, Request, Acceptance, Active, Evolution, Restriction, Pause, Closure — and can shift between zones as trust develops.

Move without rebuilding

Promote or park a relationship, and the underlying Dynamic ID™ and history never change.

Context never leaks

No relationship inherits access from another zone. Earning your loyalty points does not earn access to your family photos.

Restrict without deleting

Reduce permissions, pause interaction or close cleanly — each is a distinct, reversible-where-possible state.

Context, meet capability.

Next: the seven experiences that every relationship, in every zone, can unlock.