What Silvatree does
What is a Capacity Exchange?
A Capacity Exchange is a B2B network where UK SMEs sell spare capacity (unsold time, unfilled rooms, empty seats, surplus stock) for Silva instead of cash, then spend Silva on real business expenses.
Silvatree owns and operates the Capacity Exchange model in the UK, designed as a modern, structurally safer evolution of traditional Trade Exchange models. We match what a member offers to other members who need it, so capacity that used to expire unsold earns Silva that can be spent on real business expenses. Silvatree is not a bank and never lends.
What Silva is
Silva is a unit of account used within the Silvatree network and is not money, e-money or a financial instrument. It records the value of trades between members, with 1 Silva recorded as £1 for your books. You cannot require anyone outside the network to accept it.
Silva cannot be redeemed, exchanged or converted into cash during your membership. It is spending power inside the network, meant to be used with other members rather than banked or withdrawn. Cash settlement only happens if the platform winds down, under the published Wind-Down Protocol.
Why it's safer
Business trading, without the borrowed money.
Most trade exchanges quietly let the owner/operator run up a large negative trade balance it never has to repay — diluting the value of every other member’s credits. Silvatree is built so that can never happen.
We can never owe the network
Silvatree's own accounts have a hard zero floor. We can't hold a negative balance or extend ourselves a line of credit — full stop.
Silva is earned, never printed
A Silva only exists because a real trade happened between two members. It can't be created out of thin air or bought for cash.
A Reserve Fund stands behind you
If a member ever leaves owing, the Reserve Fund absorbs it immediately — so positive balances stay protected whatever happens next.
If we ever wind down, we go last
Our own balance is wiped out first, leaving more in the pot for members. We put the network ahead of ourselves by design.
How we prove it
Our ledger is built so the network always sums to zero.
This isn't a choice — it's how we protect the system, and it's how the ledger was constructed. Here's what that means for your balance.
The network always sums to zero. Every Silva earned is a Silva owed — the whole system balances to nothing, by construction.
No outsized balances. No member is allowed to sit on a large positive or negative position that could destabilise the network.
Silvatree's own accounts are always positive. The company can never hold a negative balance. It can never owe the system. It cannot issue itself Silva — it can only earn it like every other member. Both the rules and the platform architecture enforce this.
These rules are set out in the Silvatree Exchange Terms & Conditions — the rules the whole network runs on.
Who Silvatree is for
One model, told through the spare capacity in each industry. Find the version of the story that fits your business.
- Hotels & staysMidweek rooms, off-season nights and unsold spa slots.
- RestaurantsQuiet midweek covers and dark private dining rooms.
- Salons & clinicsUnbooked chairs, quiet treatment rooms and slow mornings.
- RetailSlow-moving stock, quiet hours and empty shelf space.
- Print & productionIdle press hours, quiet studio and finishing time.
- Media & outdoorUnsold billboards, unbooked airtime and blank pages.
- Trades & servicesGaps between jobs, cancelled bookings and quiet weeks.
- Professional servicesUnbilled hours, bench time and quiet post-year-end weeks.
How to reach us
Questions about the Capacity Exchange, or want to know if your business is a fit? Get in touch directly, or book a free suitability call.
- [email protected]
- Phone
- 0800 970 5188
- Address
- 66 Paul Street
London, EC2A 4NA
Silvatree Exchange Ltd · Registered in England & Wales (13074257).
Find out if Silvatree is right for your business.
Book a free suitability call. We run an expense analysis, share a capacity & profit report, and tell you honestly whether it's a fit — we'll be the first to say if it isn't.
Not ready to join? No pressure. Go on our standby list and we'll get in touch whenever there's business we can send your way.
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Short of time? Talk it through with our AI capacity adviser — available 24/7. It'll cover most of what we'd discuss on the call.