The Solar Guild is tentatively planning to formally launch in mid-August; timing is subject to change. Some features are usable now, and you’re welcome to create an account. We’re still building the platform infrastructure and member tools for the full experience.
Rate My Systems is an instrument of The Solar Guild. It exists because the people closest to a system's failures often have the clearest information and the least power to make anyone act on it.
Entry-level workers, customers, students, patients, residents, and other people inside or dependent on a system can often describe where it wastes time, ignores warnings, or treats reasonable concerns like inconvenience. Official channels can exist without turning that knowledge into durable change. The gap is infrastructure, not awareness.
A rating here is not just a review. It joins a larger signal. The questions ask whether a system delivers, responds, treats people with dignity, explains itself, and gives people recourse when something goes wrong. A subject can show an early signal after its first accepted rating; identities, raw answers, notes, and comments stay off public score pages while repeated patterns become clearer over time.
People inside broken systems are often told, directly or indirectly, that nothing can be done. That the issue is too large, too political, too familiar, or too far above anyone's control. Rate My Systems starts from a different premise: when enough people describe the same friction, the conversation should move from whether the problem is real to what can be done about it.
The best outcome is not a viral complaint. It is someone being able to say: I added my experience, other people added theirs, and something got better. Over time, this should help people see not only how systems are rated, but whether those systems are learning.
We do not claim to know the whole path. We know the direction: better systems, stronger stewards, and more capable people. As patterns emerge, aggregate signal can guide research, outreach, stewardship, and future work by people who choose to take responsibility for improving those systems.
Rate My Systems is not anti-organization. It is pro-system. The people inside a system and the organization responsible for it are not enemies by default. When a system improves, both sides can benefit: less waste, less avoidable harm, better information, better trust, and better outcomes.
This project should never become extractive. It should not turn people's frustration into attention, data, or leverage that only benefits the platform. It has to earn its right to exist by creating value: clearer information, stronger systems, and more durable improvement. No advertising. No data sales. No paid influence on scores. No leaderboards.