Portal Doors

The Pudding

In most of the internet, communities are islands. Your Reddit account does not talk to your Facebook groups. Your LinkedIn professional history is invisible on Discord. Your Etsy shop reputation evaporates when you walk into a Nextdoor neighborhood thread. Every platform is a separate country with its own passport, its own currency, and its own memory. What you built in one place carries zero weight in the next.

Liana Banyan is not islands. It is a continent with roads between every city. And those roads have doors.

Portal Doors are the connections between communities on the platform. When you are a member of the Photography Guild and you see a project seed posted in the Neighborhood Improvement Tribe that needs a photographer, you do not create a new account. You do not re-enter your credentials. You do not rebuild your reputation from scratch. You walk through a Portal Door. Your Cue Card — your portable reputation — comes with you. Your ADAPT Score comes with you. Your completed project history comes with you. You are the same person on both sides of the door, with the same track record, the same skills, and the same standing.

The door is not always open.

Some communities set requirements. A Tribe focused on advanced woodworking might require that you have completed at least three woodworking projects with an ADAPT Proficiency score above a certain threshold before you can enter. A Guild for licensed electricians might require proof of certification. A cooperative housing community might require a minimum Dependability score and a verified background check. These are not arbitrary gatekeeping — they are community-defined standards, voted on by the members of that community.

The Portal Door checks your Cue Card against the community’s requirements. If you meet them, the door opens. If you do not, it tells you what is missing. Not “access denied” — “here is what you need.” Maybe you need two more completed projects. Maybe you need to join an introductory Guild first. The door shows you the path, not just the wall.

This creates a natural progression system. A new member might start in open communities — Tribes with no entry requirements, Guilds that welcome beginners. As she completes projects, earns ADAPT scores, and builds her Cue Card, more doors open. The advanced photography circle. The high-trust cooperative housing network. The Guild for members who have completed fifty projects. Each door is a milestone. Each opening is earned.

But progression is not the only pattern. Portal Doors also enable lateral movement. A professional chef who joins the Cooking Guild might discover that her supply chain knowledge is valuable in the Small Business Guild. Her Cue Card shows inventory management skills from running a restaurant kitchen. The Small Business Guild’s door checks for business operations experience. She qualifies. She walks through. She did not level up — she moved sideways, into a community where a different facet of her experience is valued.

This is what makes Portal Doors different from traditional access control. They are not binary (in or out). They are multidimensional. Your Cue Card is a key with many teeth, and each door checks different teeth. You might be locked out of one community because you lack a specific certification, while simultaneously qualifying for another community that values the exact skills the first one ignored.

The nine portal surfaces — lianabanyan.com, .biz, .org, .net, the2ndsecond.com, hexisle.com, hexislo.com, dss.lianabanyan.com, and upekrithen.com — each serve different audiences. The .com is the marketplace. The .biz is for business captains. The .org handles charitable initiatives. The .net is the crew and networking surface. Each surface has its own set of communities, but your Cue Card works across all of them. One identity. Nine surfaces. Hundreds of communities. Portal Doors between them all.

The doors are also bidirectional. If you walk from the Photography Guild into a Neighborhood Tribe to help with a project, the work you do there shows up on your Cue Card when you walk back to the Photography Guild. Your reputation is not siloed. It is cumulative and portable. Every door you walk through, every project you complete on the other side, adds to the same Cue Card. The continent remembers everywhere you have been.

Privacy controls let you choose what is visible through each door. You might want your Photography Guild to see your full portfolio but your Neighborhood Tribe to see only your completed volunteer projects. The Cue Card supports selective disclosure — you carry your full record, but you choose which pages to show.

The proof is in the pudding: a member who has spent six months building her reputation in three Guilds and two Tribes does not start over when she discovers a new community on the other side of the platform. She walks up to the Portal Door. The door reads her Cue Card. She meets the requirements. The door opens. She is not a stranger — she is a known contributor with a verified track record, arriving through a door that only opens for people who have earned the right to walk through it. No cold introductions. No “tell us about yourself.” Her Cue Card already did.

This is NOT Pudding

Portal Doors connect to the Cue Card system (Innovation #2104), the ADAPT Score, the nine portal surfaces architecture, and the Guild/Tribe membership model. The selective disclosure feature is part of the broader privacy architecture. The community-defined requirements system ties into the Star Chamber’s governance model, which ensures that entry standards are set democratically by community members rather than imposed by platform administrators. The full inter-community navigation model is covered in the Portable Reputation paper.

Read the full paper on Cephas → [Portable Reputation]

Depth Layers

By the Numbers

• 9 portal surfaces across the platform
• 1 Cue Card — portable across every surface and community
• 5 ADAPT dimensions that Portal Doors can check
• 83.3% creator keeps — earned on whichever side of the door you work
• $5/year — one membership, every door on the continent
• 0 reputation resets when you move between communities

The Spoonful

Communities are not islands. They are rooms with doors between them. Your Cue Card is the key. Each door checks different teeth. Some open immediately. Some show you what you need to earn. Every project you complete on either side adds to the same record. One identity. Every door. No starting over.

Canonical numbers: 2,161 innovations | 195 Crown Jewels | $5/year | 83.3% creator keeps | Cost+20%