Satisfy a curiosity. Sharpen a skill. Shift a perspective. In person.
Bring a question, a project, or a curiosity. Sit down with someone who's lived it, over coffee, a meal, or a longer session. Walk away with a sharper idea, a new direction, or a discovery you couldn't have made alone.
The internet made people easier to find. SEYA makes them easier to meet.
Time together, face-to-face.
Not every curiosity needs another search. Sometimes the answer needs a person.
Sit down with someone who has built it, lived it, or seen it up close.
You might sit down for:
A game of chess with a grandmaster who narrates their thinking, move by move.
Sit with a 90-year-old New Yorker and ask what mattered.
Sleight of hand inches from your eyes with a working close-up magician.
Bring your pitch deck to a founder who has raised capital, and leave with a sharper one.
Bring your camera roll to a photographer and learn how they see light.
Ask an AI builder what is actually worth using this year.
Ask a city historian what your neighborhood used to be.
Browse by curiosity, not category.
Choose how much time it deserves. Coffee, lunch, or a longer session.
Meet in a public, SEYA-approved place.
Come back for a deeper session, a new curiosity, or a new skill.
Coffee is the simplest social gesture in a city: public, brief, easy to say yes to. It's the easiest way into something more interesting.
Coffee is the bridge. The person is the point. The next reason to meet does not have to look like the first.
A Source is someone with knowledge, craft, perspective, taste, access, or lived experience worth learning from in real life.
You know something the city would make time for. A subject you can teach, a skill you can sharpen, or a story that opens someone's thinking.
If that sounds like you, SEYA is curating its first NYC Sources now.
We've curated coffee shops, public places, and creative corners across the city as your meeting ground. Familiar, public, designed for conversation.
For venue owners: SEYA can give thoughtful guests a new reason to choose your space and return when the fit is right.
Bring SEYA sessions to your spaceTrust means the basics are clear before anyone arrives.
Join the NYC beta to meet someone whose hour could change yours.
You have something worth sharing: a niche skill, a unique career, or a life experience the city would make time for. Apply as a Source and turn what you know into a real conversation.
Thanks — you're on the NYC beta list. We'll email you the moment your neighborhood goes live.
Real people. Real places. Real conversations. Again and again.
Face-to-Face is back.
