
One introduction, not a list
Most services that help you find a practitioner give you a list. Names, photographs, a column of filters, stars out of five. What looks like help is really the hard part handed back to you. The choosing, and the risk of choosing wrong, are quietly returned to your side of the table.
Stillwater does it the other way. Tell us what you are looking for, and we find one person whose way of working fits it, and we make the introduction. One at a time. If the first is not right, you say so, and we look again.
It is slower, and that is deliberate. A list is quick for us and a chore for you. It assumes you can already tell a real fit from a plausible one, that you have time to interview strangers, and that whatever separates one practitioner from another is legible from a grid. Usually none of that is true, and the list becomes one more thing you mean to get to and never quite do.
Introducing one person is more work on our end. It means understanding what you actually asked for, and knowing the practitioners well enough to make the match ourselves instead of leaving it to you. We think that work belongs with us. You came to be matched, not to run a search.
There is no cost, and no obligation to say yes. A first introduction that misses is useful information rather than a failure. We would rather make a careful second one than hand you a longer list.