My own Century
A private label Century: built to order for a property, a family, a city, an organization or a place of your own, and not sold to the public.
You bring the place, your people and the judgment about what belongs in it. We bring the research, the method, the seven categories, the grades, the training, the review and the objects made to standard. Then we read the Hundred against the Standard and grant the name.
What that costs and what it asks of you depends on what you are founding. Start where you actually are.
The Century System fixes the Standard.
The Founder makes the Century that
satisfies it.
What are you founding?
Ready now
For a general manager, a director of guest experience, or the owner of a group.
Your restaurants, bars, the pool, the beach desk and the operators you already work with are most of a Century already. One person on your staff becomes the Founder. The book is yours, and so is what it earns.
See the hotel edition →Ready now
For the head of a household, for a place the family owns or the towns it came through.
A family's traditions already exist unwritten. This is the instrument that makes them inheritable, and it gives every child arriving at the house something to do and something to earn. See one built from three sentences.
A family Century →Ready now
For a business that owns its Century and builds around it.
The Dark Harbor Century is written for the whole of Islesboro, Maine, and issued at one counter, the Big Tree Trading Company. See a Century a store keeps for its island.
The Dark Harbor Century →By conversation
For a mayor's office, a visitors bureau, a chamber, or a downtown association.
A city already has the Hundred. What it does not have is one book that holds them, a reason to finish them, and a record of who did. The Century puts a visitor on the streets a guidebook never sends them down.
Start a conversation →By conversation
For a director of a cultural body, a conservancy, a heritage center or a garden.
You already hold everything a Century needs — a place, a story, and people who want to be closer to both. Nonprofit terms are waived or set at cost recovery, and the Passbook revenue stays with you.
Start a conversation →By conversation
For the executive responsible for people, for culture, or for brand.
A Corporate Century runs across a year and leaves an object behind. It is one hundred things worth doing inside the company and around it, and a coin at the end of them that an offsite does not produce.
Start a conversation →By conversation
For the keeper of a family name, and for the generation that will hold it next.
An Ancestral Century turns a documented line into a hundred places a family can go and stand. The research is the Hundred. The book is what the next generation inherits.
Start a conversation →Whatever you are founding
The Founder is always yours. Choosing the Hundred is the part we never do for you, because the local knowledge cannot be outsourced. What arrives is the prototype closest to your situation, so nobody faces a blank page.
No provider, no partner, no sponsor, ever. We earn on the license, the objects and the training, so we have nothing to sell inside the Hundred and can leave it alone. That is what a guest is actually trusting.
Every hundred is read against the Standard before your name goes on it, by reviewers who work for us rather than for you. That review is the reason the name is worth carrying.
Do not invent. Harvest.
The first conversation
We look at the place, at what it already offers, at the people you already work with, and at the kind of Hundred that is already there to be found. Within an hour you should have a very good idea whether there is a Century in it.
Talk to us licensing@thecenturysystem.com