The Host Playbook

Tap Host a session. Give it a clear title, pick a time (shown in your timezone), choose a shape (one block, with breaks, or pomodoro), set how many people can join, and optionally pick music and add a welcome note. Want it every week? Turn on weekly repeat and choose the days - we schedule the next few weeks for you.

Aim to be in your room a few minutes before the start. Showing up early sets the tone and means the first arrivals are greeted, not left in an empty room. The lobby lets you check your camera, mic and background first.

Open warmly. Say hello, say what the session is for, and invite everyone to share the one thing they are working on. Greet people by name where you can. You do not need to perform - a genuine, calm welcome is the whole gift. Keep it short; people came to work.

When focus starts, everyone is muted automatically. You can also tap Mute everyone any time to settle the room - but remember you can never un-mute someone, that is always their choice. Then let the quiet do its work. Chimes mark the changes, so you do not have to narrate the clock.

If your session has breaks or pomodoro cycles, the timeline and chimes handle the pacing for you. A light word at a break ("stretch, grab a drink, back in five") is a nice touch, but you do not have to fill the silence.

You can play a built-in station or share your own music by sharing a browser tab's audio (the Spotify web player, say) - that part works in Chrome or Edge on a computer, and you should use an ad-free source. You can pause it for the room any time without stopping your own tab. Members always control their own volume and can mute it just for themselves.

Your job is to keep the room safe. From the ⋯ menu on anyone's tile you can, in order of firmness:

1. Mute their mic - for someone who forgot they were unmuted.
2. Turn off their camera - a softer step if something on camera is not okay.
3. Remove them - they cannot rejoin that session, and it sends us a report automatically.

Use these only when the room's safety needs it, never to shut down a disagreement or someone you do not click with. For anything serious, remove the person - removal sends us a report automatically, and urgent reports are reviewed within 24 hours. You can add detail via the "Something urgent" tab in Settings → Safety tools. You are held to the same Community Guidelines as everyone.

At the end, celebrate. Ask what people got done, cheer the wins, and send everyone off feeling good. A genuine "nice work today" is what people remember - it is why they come back to your room.

Life happens. If nobody has booked yet, you can simply cancel the session. Once a member has booked, do not just vanish - open the session and tap I can't make it. The session stays on the schedule and a booked member can step in to host it, so nobody is left in an empty room. You can undo this until someone steps in.

If a session you booked has no host - the scheduled host said they cannot make it, or has not arrived a couple of minutes in - you will see Step in as host. Tap it and you run that one session with the full host controls. It changes nothing on your profile, you can step back any time, and it is a lovely thing to do for the room (though it does not count towards your own host meter).

Host 10 sessions in a month - meaning you created them and showed up while they were live - and your host benefit unlocks: your membership drops to half price. There is no attendee minimum and no penalty for a quiet room; filling rooms is our job. A quiet month keeps your benefit; two in a row pauses it until you host 10 again. Your host status never goes away.