Welcome to the beginning
Every extraordinary journey begins with someone willing to take the first step.
The Pioneer 100 are the first group of people invited to help us discover what OYHI might become.
You won't simply be testing a website or trying a new app. You'll be helping shape an idea built around a simple belief:
Everyone deserves the opportunity to imagine a different future — and the encouragement to move towards it.
We don't expect you to have everything figured out. We don't expect perfection, dramatic transformations or extraordinary achievements.
We ask only that you bring your curiosity, your honesty and a willingness to explore.
We're inviting applications for 100 Pioneer places. Places are limited and subject to selection. Applying does not guarantee selection.
Our promise to you
If OYHI selects you, you accept the offered place and OYHI confirms your acceptance and membership entitlement in writing, we promise:
- A free private 6-week Pioneer pilot, during which you'll be invited to explore and help test the early OYHI experience.
- An additional 12 months of complimentary standard individual OYHI membership, beginning when the full OYHI service publicly launches, subject to the launch conditions explained below. This includes the features normally included in standard individual membership at launch, but not optional extras offered for a separate price.
- An opportunity to help shape how OYHI develops.
- A genuine voice in how the experience evolves.
- Respect for your individual circumstances, ambitions and pace.
- A welcoming environment where progress matters more than perfection.
- Clear communication about what is available, what we're testing and what we're still developing.
Your complimentary membership is personal to you. It cannot be transferred, exchanged for cash or redeemed for an alternative benefit.
No payment details are required to apply, for the free six-week pilot or for your complimentary 12-month standard membership.
Your complimentary membership will not automatically convert into a paid subscription. Any later paid subscription would require your separate affirmative agreement.
We cannot promise that every feature will be perfect or every suggestion will be implemented.
But we can promise that your contribution will be taken seriously.
What we ask of you
We welcome testing and honest feedback when you reasonably can. These are invitations, not mandatory activity targets.
- Explore the OYHI experience with an open mind.
- Participate in testing and feedback opportunities when you reasonably can.
- Tell us what inspires you, what confuses you and what disappoints you.
- Share suggestions that might make the experience better for others.
- Treat fellow pioneers with kindness and respect if community opportunities become available.
Your feedback doesn't need to be polished or positive.
We would rather hear an uncomfortable truth than a comfortable compliment.
Feedback is welcomed, not compulsory. There is no minimum activity requirement to retain your accepted complimentary membership entitlement.
Life happens. Circumstances change. Your participation should never become another source of pressure.
Your journey belongs to you
You choose the direction that matters to you.
It might involve learning something new, developing a habit, rediscovering a forgotten ambition or simply finding the confidence to begin.
For the initial Pioneer application, please avoid sharing medical histories, diagnoses, disability details, addiction or recovery histories, or other sensitive personal information.
A simple description of your hopes and ambitions is enough.
OYHI is not a medical, therapeutic or crisis-support service, and participation should not replace professional advice or care where needed.
If our launch takes longer than expected
OYHI is an early-stage project, and our development timetable may change.
If the public launch is delayed, your complimentary 12-month membership will begin when the full service launches, rather than on the date of your initial Pioneer acceptance.
If OYHI does not proceed to public launch, the complimentary membership cannot be activated. It has no cash value or substitute entitlement.
We will communicate significant changes to the Pioneer programme as openly and promptly as reasonably possible.
If you decide to step away
You are free to reduce or stop your involvement in testing at any time.
If you've already been accepted as a Pioneer, stopping your testing participation will not, by itself, remove your complimentary membership entitlement, provided OYHI launches.
If you wish to leave the Pioneer programme entirely, we'll offer you the choice of retaining your complimentary membership entitlement or giving it up.
You can also ask us to stop contacting you or exercise your applicable privacy rights. We will explain any practical implications for maintaining an entitlement if you request deletion of information needed to identify or administer it.
There is no penalty for choosing to step away.
Your privacy and your voice
Your personal application information will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
We will not publicly identify you as a Pioneer, publish your personal story or use your words in promotional material without obtaining your separate, specific permission.
Any optional public recognition will be your choice.
Building something together
OYHI is at an early stage.
Some ideas will flourish. Others may need rethinking. There may be occasional technical problems, changes or features that aren't ready.
That's part of why the Pioneer 100 matter.
You aren't being invited to applaud a finished product.
You're being invited to help create something worth believing in.
A final thought
One hundred people.
One hundred different lives.
One hundred different starting points.
And perhaps one hundred journeys that will help us understand how to make possibility feel a little closer for thousands more.
Thank you for considering becoming part of our beginning.
Go where it matters.
James Walker
Founder, OYHI