Fair questions
Questions and answers
Answers for the open beta: joining a cluster, arranging meetings, taking part in the project and managing your data.
Who can listen to a meeting recording?
Everyone currently seated in your Cluster can listen to the whole meeting recording while its audio is retained, under the same access rule as transcripts and notes. Audio is deleted after transcription. Withdrawing participation consent ends your seat. Use account erasure to delete past recordings and transcript lines.
Why are some parts of my portal empty?
The beta is open for the first eight groups of eight. You can apply for individual placement or start a cluster with friends. Your portal fills with your cluster's meetings, intentions and records as you take part. Empty sections mean there is nothing there for you to see yet; they are not a count of activity across the project.
When will I be put in a cluster?
Ordinary automatic matching starts after 1,000 members have finished onboarding. Separately, you can apply individually for manual beta placement, or apply to start your own Cluster. With your explicit admission and recording consent, your Cluster is created immediately and its page shows a link for seven friends. Each friend signs in and gives their own consent before taking a seat. We are not going to give you a date, because we would be guessing, and a missed date costs more than no date.
Why wait for a thousand people?
The thousand-member gate applies to ordinary automatic matching for the research comparison. Beta clusters can form and meet before that gate under the separate beta admission rules. They are excluded from the research comparison, and every participant still gives their own admission and recording consent.
Is anything I can do now going to move that number?
Completing onboarding counts towards the ordinary matching threshold. Your availability is used to book meetings once your cluster is ready; it does not raise that count.
What is a cluster, exactly?
Eight people, in whatever timezones they are in. Meetings are booked from the times everyone marks as available over the next eight weeks, one meeting at a time, so there is no fixed slot and nothing to agree in advance; any of the eight can also start a session there and then. Nobody in it is in charge. There is no host, no facilitator, and no founding member with a casting vote: the eight deliberate, and the app decides what follows. That is deliberate, because a group with a leader mostly measures its leader.
Who decides what my cluster does?
The cluster deliberates and the app decides. Some things are fixed on purpose and are not anybody's to change, including how long and how often the practice runs, because clusters on one cadence have to be comparable with clusters on another. What is genuinely yours is the timing, and the choice of whether to do any of it at all.
What are you actually testing?
Several things, and none of them is settled. Whether groups composed one way do measurably better than groups composed another way. Whether a stated intention has any measurable effect on the thing it names. Whether the practice cadence matters. These are hypotheses under test, which is different from a belief we are asking you to hold.
Do you claim any of this works?
No. Nothing here is a medical, clinical, therapeutic or diagnostic claim, nothing is a treatment for anything, and no outcome is guaranteed. Remote viewing, healing, muscle testing, telepathy and the effects of intention are treated as open questions being measured, never as established facts. If we ever have an answer, you will get it in the same form whether it is the answer we hoped for or not.
What happens if the results show nothing?
They get published anyway. That commitment is written up in Why We Publish Nulls, which you can read in Resources today. A result that goes nowhere is the cheapest thing in the world to bury quietly, and burying it is what makes most claims in this field worthless.
What data do you hold about me, and can I get it back?
Your survey answers, your birth details if you gave them, your availability, and anything you write to us. Your consent page explains the four consents and how to withdraw, export your data, or ask for your account to be erased. Withdrawing recording or research participation consent ends your cluster seat. The page is linked in the footer, and you do not have to explain why.
Is this the same thing as Spanda?
No. Spanda is a separate app: a guess-who-is-calling game for a circle of five friends. It is playable in a browser at its own site and is not part of your membership here. For current iPhone availability, check Spanda's own site. The two are related in spirit and are not the same product.
What are the tokens I keep seeing?
A count of referrals, and nothing more. They cannot be spent, exchanged, transferred or cashed out, there is no payment system attached to them, and they are not an investment or a return of any kind. They exist so that bringing people in is visible, since bringing people in is what the thousand-member threshold needs.
Something is broken, or wrong, or badly worded.
Tell us. The feedback page in the member area takes anything at all, from a typo to a disagreement with the research design. Send a quick message from the Feedback button in the member area, or use the full feedback page to attach files. Submitted messages are saved in your feedback history, where you can also see any replies.
Longer answers are in the five member documents: read them in Resources. For how the whole thing is meant to work, start with how it works. If your question is not here, ask us directly.