You did not spend years mastering your craft to sell it for $50 on a platform that does not know your name.
Somewhere, right now, there is a chef who spent twenty years perfecting a dish that takes six hours to prepare. She sells a two-hour class for $65 on Viator. Thirty tourists cycle through her kitchen every week. Most of them are on their phones. She goes home exhausted. She used to love this.
ALIVE exists so she never has to do that again.
A chef in Oaxaca had spent 31 years making one mole. On Viator she charged forty dollars a head for a group of twenty-eight. The first ALIVE table she ever hosted was twelve guests at $3,400 each. She wrote us afterwards: "I forgot what it felt like to cook for people who wanted to be here."
- 200 tourists / month
- $40–65 / person
- Platform takes 20–30%
- You cover all costs
Exhausting. Repetitive. Forgettable.
- 12 guests per weekend
- $2,400–$4,500 / person
- ALIVE takes 20%
- Pricing covers everything
Guests who write you thank-you letters.
We write your listing. We package your weekend. We bring you guests who value your work and pay what it deserves. You do the thing you were born to do, for people who actually care.
You tell us about your craft. We turn it into a page that does it justice — words and editorial direction included.
Multi-day experience design. Accommodation, meals, activities, arrival ritual, the toast. Complete, considered, small.
A vetted, affluent audience that already values what you do. Tables of 6–20. Hand-matched by interest.
No discounting. No mass groups. No race-to-the-bottom. Your name on the door, our 20% on the receipt.
Every application is reviewed by hand.
We are building slowly and intentionally. We do not need many artisans. We need the right ones. If you have spent a life on one craft, and you have at least one weekend a quarter to do it for a small group who will arrive ready — we want to know you.
Apply as an Artisan