For group leaders
The group meets once a month. This is the other twenty-nine days.
This is the how, for a leader whose group is sponsored. One evening of setup, and about ten minutes a month after that. You are not building a list somebody has to keep up to date. You are handing every member their own, and then getting out of the way.
Bring your people in
Whatever list you already keep is the starting point. A spreadsheet, an export, the contacts on your phone.
- 1Tap the round plus button, bottom right, and choose Import contacts.
- 2Drop the file in. Juggle reads .csv, .tsv, .vcf, .xlsx and .json, it tells you which export it recognised, and every column gets a dropdown with Skip as the first option. Nothing has to be renamed first.
- 3Beside Add everyone to a group, choose New group… from the dropdown and type the name in the box that appears. Everybody lands in your Juggle together, in one move.
- 4Read the line beside the blue button before you commit — the button counts them for you, Import 24 contactsand so on. That line always tells you that new people start on a 30 day rhythm, and if any of them are already in your Juggle it adds the split and says out loud that those will be updated, not duplicated. On a first import there is nothing to match, so that second half will not be there.
Importing twice is safe
A row matches an existing person by name, by phone, or by email, spare numbers and second addresses included. A match fills in the gaps and joins the group. It never becomes a second copy of the same person.
Two small things it will tell you
New people start on a 30 day rhythm, which you can change per person later. And if your Juggle is still showing the sample people it came with, there is a tick box offering to clear them out. It clears the sample events with them.
Make them a group
If the import made it for you, this is already done. Otherwise the plus button has New group on it. Name the group, search everyone, and tick the people you want. Create group stays faded until the group has a name and at least one person in it. Hover it and it tells you which one is missing.
The group is yours and nobody else’s. The men in it are never told, cannot see it, and never learn a group name off each other. It is a way for you to reach twenty people in one tap, not a room they have been put in.
Typing a name that already exists adds those people to that group rather than starting a second one with the same name. And a free Juggle holds 21 people and 3 groups. A sponsored member never meets either number.
How the sponsorship reaches your members
There is no code. John sends you one link, you send that link to your people, and the link is the whole mechanism. Nobody types anything, because there is nowhere in the app to type it.
Send the link exactly as John sent it to you.
And send it to your men, not to the world. Anybody holding that link gets the free year, and there is no way to take it back from one person, because nothing like that was built. Text it, or put it in a message to the group. Not on a public page.
A member who types letsjuggle.ai from memory, or taps the join button on this website, gets the ordinary price. The whole gift rides on that one address, so paste it, never retype it.
Say the gift out loud in the room
This is the one thing on this page that the app will not do for you. A member who taps the link meets the ordinary welcome, with the ordinary price in the small print underneath it. The free year lands after they sign in, not before. So tell them first, in your own voice, and the screen will catch up in about thirty seconds.
- 1They tap your link and sign in with an email address. Juggle emails a six digit code back. There is no password to invent and nothing else to fill in.
- 2The year lands by itself. No card is asked for and no payment page opens, because there is nothing to pay.
- 3They can check it any time. Profile, then the plan card, which reads full for life with the founding price locked.
Leaving the page for the email is safe. If he taps your link on his phone, goes to his inbox for the code and comes back on that same phone, the free year is still waiting. It is the phone that remembers, so tell him to finish where he started rather than switching to a laptop halfway.
Nothing can bill anybody in month 13
No card is collected, so there is nothing on file to charge. Month 13 is a question we ask, never a charge that arrives.
If somebody is already a paying member
Nothing changes and nothing is lost. They keep the price they already locked, and the app tells them so instead of turning them away.
If a payment page opens anyway
Rarely, the one tap cannot finish and Juggle falls back to a proper checkout page. It is still a full free year and it still asks for no card, but the page will show the ordinary yearly price. That is what happens after the year, not a charge today. Tell them to carry on, and text John if it looks wrong.
The door is open for ninety days from the day it was agreed, which covers the meeting where you announce it and the two after it, where the stragglers are. The membership itself is a year from whenever each member joins, not a year from your first meeting.
Invite them to the first thing
- 1Plus button, then Plan an event. It wants a name, a date and a start time, and Next will say so if one of them is missing.
- 2Before you tap Next, on that same screen, turn on Open event. That is the switch that lets somebody who scans your printed code put their name down, and it is off until you turn it on. Turn on Allow plus-ones too if a man can bring his wife. And under Does this repeat? choose Monthly, which creates nothing but does two things worth having — see the rhythm, below.
- 3Next opens Invite friends. Tap the Groups tab and tick your group. One tick puts everybody in it on the list.
- 4Save. That is the send.
Make the group first, then let it settle
The picker reads the group off the phone in your hand, and the invitations go out from the other end. A group made sixty seconds ago may not have arrived there yet. If that happens the app names the group and tells you to let it sync and invite again, rather than telling you everyone was invited.
The first fifteen go out immediately
The rest go overnight. Until they do, those rows read Link not sent yet, which is the truth and not a fault.
What tapping Invite actually sends
A notification to any member who has let Juggle send them one, whether or not they have it open. An email to everybody else you hold an address for, using the address on your own copy of their card. Never anything to a child. And never a text: every text in Juggle opens in your own Messages, already written, for you to read, change and send yourself.
Ticking a group ticks the people in it. The evening does not belong to the group, so renaming or deleting the group later leaves the event exactly as it was.
The part that builds the group
Print the code and put it on the table.
Every event has a QR code. It is drawn on your own device, out of the link itself, and never posted to a picture service. It points at the evening and names nobody, which is exactly why it is safe to put on a wall.
- 1On the sheet that appears the moment you save the event, tap Show the QR.
- 2Later, on the event itself, the button reads Show the QR and link, and the code is already open when it appears.
- 3Under the code, Download for print hands you a large square PNG named after your event. Print it, or screenshot it, whichever is faster on the night.
The one line under the code is the only promise you need from it. Codes and links you already shared keep working, so a sheet already pinned to a noticeboard does not stop working because you copied the link again.
What a scan actually does
Somebody points a camera at it and gets the evening. What it is, who it is from, when, where, the map link, and the names of everyone who has said yes. Nothing above the answer asks them for anything.
Because you turned Open event on, there is a card underneath that asks whether they are coming along. They type a name and tap yes. No account, no email address, no app. Their own link comes back to them once so they can change their mind later, and you see them on your list. If you left the evening closed, the code still shows the evening and nobody can answer on it: the page tells them to ask you for their own invitation instead. That is the one setting worth going back to check before you print.
Why it compounds
Here is the part worth understanding, and it is the reason a printed square is in this guide at all.
The list they are looking at has names on it. Once they have answered, a small plus sign appears beside each one. Tapping it parks that person on their own phone, quietly. Nothing is sent. The person picked is told nothing. The name never leaves their device. Then, whenever they start a Juggle of their own, the people they met that night are already on their canvas waiting for them.
Someone comes because they saw a sheet of paper. They answer in one tap. They mark three people in the room they actually want to know. The next morning those three are the first faces in their own Juggle. They did not join your list. They started their own.
That is a group growing the way groups actually grow, and none of it passed through you. Once nine names are on the list a Find a guest box appears, so a room of forty is still a room where somebody can find the man they were just talking to. Because you turned Allow plus-ones on, a yes can bring up to five, and you see one more guest and never a name, because Juggle never asks who. One printed code will take up to three hundred names before it says it has taken all it can, and the invitations you send yourself do not count against it.
Open event, or a co-host
Open event lets the people you invited bring others, and it is what makes a scanned code able to answer. It is off unless you turn it on, which is why it is a step and not a footnote. A co-host is the narrow version: one member at a time, already on the list and already signed up, who can invite their own friends without the evening opening up to everybody. Somebody holding the printed code can never invite anyone, whichever you choose.
The rhythm that works
There is no repeating series, on purpose. What there is instead is the Monthly you set on the details screen. That creates nothing and books nothing. It does two things: everyone invited can read on the evening that this is a regular thing, and once the night has passed a Set up the next one button appears on the event itself. Tap it and next month opens already filled in, with the date moved on.
Two things to know while you are in there. Set Monthlyagain on the new one, or the button will not be waiting for you in November. And it deliberately does not carry the guest list, because who was at October’s is a fact about October, nor Allow plus-ones, so turn that back on if you want it. Open event does come along. So each month is its own evening, with its own code to print, and that is about ten minutes.
If your night is a third Friday rather than a date, pick Custom and type it in your own words. Everyone invited reads it exactly as you typed it, and the next one opens with everything filled in except the evening itself, which you pick, because nothing here works out what a third Friday is.
The rest of the month is not leadership, it is membership. You open your own Juggle, you see who you have drifted from, and you reach out to one of them. That is the whole practice you are asking the group to keep, and the only way to lead it is to keep it. If you are on a Mac, connect the Coach and your side of it mostly fills itself in.
What you never see
Leaders ask this before their members do, so here it is plainly, and it is a description of what was built rather than a promise about what we intend.
Sponsorship buys memberships, not visibility
There is no seat count, no list of who used the link, no way to take it back from one person, and nothing anywhere for a sponsor to check. Not because it is hidden. Because none of it was built.
You are a member too
You see your own connections drifting, exactly like everybody else, and nothing at all about how any member is doing with anybody else. No attendance metric, no drift list, nothing to export.
Only you ever see your own next person
Nothing a member does with their own people is visible to anyone else in the group. Not the person who invited them, not you, not us on a report. Their people, their notes and their history sit behind a database rule that only answers to their own account.
There is one thing you see that your guests do not, and it is about the evening rather than about anybody’s life. On your own event you see who has not answered yet, and who said no. Everybody else, including a stranger who just scanned the code off a table, sees the yeses and nothing more. You will never see whether anyone opened your invitation, because nobody can.
One breath, out loud
What to say when you hand it to the room
“I sent you a link. Tap it, put in your email, and it emails you back a code. That is the entire signup. Your first year is paid for, and it will never ask you for a card, because there is nothing to pay. It is not a list of us that I can look at. It is yours, and I cannot see your people any more than you can see mine. Put the people in this room in it, and reach out to one of them before we meet again.”
If you get stuck on the night
Email or text John. A real person answers, usually the one who built this, and most things that go sideways in a room are a two minute fix.