Our Mission
Safety Network exists to support you in the time between losing a job and landing the next one — with a community of professionals genuinely invested in each other's resilience and security.
The Problem
Layoffs don't announce themselves.
You're planning vacations, managing a mortgage, building a life.
A sudden meeting with HR appears on your calendar for later that morning. We all know what that means.
You're calculating how long your savings will last — and trying to stay calm in front of your family.
This is the reality for hundreds of thousands of professionals every year. And over the past year alone, as AI has accelerated workforce disruption across nearly every industry, it's become the reality for more people than ever before.
Most of them are not broke — but they have savings in places they don't want to touch: the market, home equity, retirement. Most of them are not bad at their jobs. Most are exactly who you'd expect to be fine — until suddenly, they're not.
The math that breaks people
The gap between those two facts — roughly four unfunded months — is where the real damage gets done: to savings, to mental health, to families.
Why Nothing Else Works
Designed for a different era. Slow, inconsistently available — especially with a modest severance — and rarely enough to cover the real cost of a modern professional's life.
Where it exists at all, it's expensive, riddled with exclusions, and almost never designed with tech professionals in mind. The products built on guaranteed payouts hit the same wall — the architecture didn't scale.
Invaluable — but only if you've maintained it, only if the right people are in it, and only if someone knows about the right opportunity at exactly the right moment. LinkedIn is a social platform, not a solution.
Most people find out how thin their safety net is only after they've already fallen.
What We're Building
Safety Network exists to close that gap with something more durable: a community of professionals who are genuinely invested in each other's professional resilience and security.
To sign up, you need to be employed. From there, members show up for each other in three ways that compound over time.
Members contribute monthly to a shared support pool — the engine that funds severance support when someone needs it.
They post real job opportunities and offer real referrals — at their own companies and across their primary networks.
When unexpected layoffs hit, the severance support you receive is crowdfunded by members who understand exactly what you're going through.
This isn't insurance, nor is it charity. It's a network that works the way the best professional relationships work — built on reciprocity, trust, and the understanding that investing in someone else's stability is also an investment in your own.
A Note From the Founder
I built Safety Network because I've lived both sides of this story.
Recently — and in one of life's more pointed ironies — right after I started building Safety Network, I was laid off at one of the worst possible moments in my personal life. My wife had recently lost her job too. Our mortgage payment had just gone up. We were weeks away from a summer full of family trips we'd planned and looked forward to. And then, without warning, I was handed six weeks of severance and out of a job at a tech company I felt safe at.
The panic was instant. Even with the few months of emergency cash I had to liquidate from my investment account, the math was brutal. I sat there running numbers, trying to figure out how we were going to cover thousands of dollars in monthly expenses with no quick solution anywhere in sight. I kept thinking about what would happen if the job search dragged on — and given how the market was looking, that anxiety increased by the minute.
What saved me wasn't a product or a policy. It was a person. Someone in my network referred me to an open role at exactly the right moment, and I landed something new in three weeks. Three weeks. I was one of the lucky ones — remember, the five-month job search is the average.
But luck isn't a reliable system. A referral that happens to come at the right time isn't always something you can count on.
That's what Safety Network is. A place where the referral finds you when you need it. Where the people around you are already invested in your ability to land on your feet. Where contributing to someone else's stability today is the same act as protecting your own tomorrow.
I can't imagine going through what I went through without that one person who showed up for me. I built Safety Network so that nobody has to. I'll be honest: this thing is going to take a lot of sustained commitment from you to work. Refer your friends to the network, continue giving when asked, post job opportunities for the network. And I promise you'll receive a return on your investment if the time comes for your severance support or a much-needed job referral.
So thanks for being here — let's build this community together.
Join a community that's invested in your stability — and in everyone else's.
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