The Learning Circle: AI Together
One Circle of 2 to 5 people. A monthly Circle Challenge, delivered on the 1st, that the Circle works on together over the month. Tuesday and Thursday Circle texts that support the current Challenge with clues, validators, and approaches. Daily habit messages tuned to each member’s subscriber type. 2 human-reviewed questions a month.
What arrives in your Circle each month
Circles are 2 to 5 people. One person hosts and invites 1 to 4 others. Your Circle owns the subscription, so if someone steps away, the Circle keeps going. Everyone gets:
- A monthly Circle Challenge, delivered on the 1st. A hands-on deliverable your Circle works on together over the month. Something the Circle produces, not something the Circle reads about.
- Tuesday and Thursday Circle texts throughout the month. Each text supports the current Challenge · validating an idea the Circle is testing, dropping a clue the Circle needs, or recommending an approach the Circle can try. By the end of the month, the texts have carried the Circle through the Challenge.
- Daily SMS, WhatsApp, or email habit messages. 7 days a week, tuned to each Circle member’s subscriber type · Weaver, Mason, Smith, or Sage. These run alongside the Challenge.
- 2 Circle questions a month, reviewed by a human within 24 hours. Typically saved for questions that come up as the Circle works on the Challenge. Ask them all as a group or split them across the Circle. Unused questions roll forward, up to 24 banked.
- A monthly Circle progress PDF, delivered on the 5th of the following month. Shows what your Circle built, what the texts covered, and previews the next Challenge. Consider it a report-out you can share with your Circle, your work team, your boss, your accountant, or nobody at all.
How the Circle takes shape
One person signs up, names the Circle, and invites 1 to 4 others with a shared link. When everyone consents, the Circle is set. On the 1st of each month, a Challenge arrives · a hands-on deliverable the Circle will produce together over the month. Tuesday and Thursday Circle texts drop clues, validators, and approaches that support the Challenge. Daily habit messages run alongside for every Circle member, tuned to their subscriber type. At month’s end, the Circle completes the Challenge together, in person or on a call. The monthly progress PDF arrives on the 5th of the following month.
The Challenge is the container
We designed the Learning Circle around one idea · the monthly Challenge is what your Circle is building, and every text supports that.
Circle Challenges are hands-on deliverables. For example · a dashboard, a workflow, a customer-facing tool, an internal automation, or a small process improvement each Circle member takes back to their own work.
Before each month’s Challenge goes out, we break it into small pieces · the specific ideas the Circle will need to test, the mistakes the Circle can avoid, the approaches that work in different operating contexts. Those pieces become the Tuesday and Thursday texts.
When a Tuesday text arrives, it is a piece of the Challenge your Circle is already working on, not a stand-alone puzzle. That is what makes the mechanic hold together. Every text lands somewhere.
Meeting up around the Challenge
Circles are for people who want to talk with each other. The Challenge is the shared project. The texts are the shared thread. Completing the Challenge together is the reason to meet up, in person if you can, on a call if you cannot.
Every Circle we have watched work well has one thing in common · the members already meet up sometimes. If your Circle is 2 to 5 people who can be in the same room once a month, you are going to get a lot out of this. If your Circle is scattered, the Tuesday and Thursday texts still land, the questions still land, and the Challenge completion becomes a scheduled video call.
What a Circle costs
$20 per person per month, or $200 per person per year. Every plan includes the monthly Challenge, Tuesday and Thursday Circle texts, daily habit messaging, 2 human-reviewed questions a month (banked up to 24), and the monthly Circle progress PDF.
Who joins a Circle
Circles work best when members already talk to each other. Friends who work together and still text. Colleagues in a small business. A husband, wife, and two adult kids figuring out how AI fits their family business. A fractional CFO and her three regular clients. Four solo consultants who ran into each other on LinkedIn and stayed friends.
Circles do not work well for strangers who join to network. The mechanic depends on people who trust each other enough to work on a monthly Challenge together, compare what they figured out, and show up to complete it at month’s end without it feeling like a test.
If the Circle you have in mind is 2 people who talk every day, that’s a Circle. If it’s 4-5 people who barely know each other, sit with it for a week and see if the group chat happens naturally before you sign up.
Frequently asked
How is this different from Cut Token Costs? CutTokenCosts.com is a solo subscription for individual daily habit coaching. The Learning Circle adds a monthly Challenge the Circle produces together, Tuesday and Thursday texts that support the current Challenge with clues and approaches, 2 Circle-wide questions with human review, and the monthly Circle progress PDF. If you want AI learning as a group with a shared monthly deliverable, join a Circle. If you want to learn on your own pace, CutTokenCosts.com is the better fit for you.
What if a Circle member wants out? They message STOP. The Circle continues with the remaining members. The Host can invite a replacement when they’re ready.
What if the Host wants out? Host duties transfer to any other Circle member. The subscription and payment method transfer with it. The Circle keeps its name, its history, and its PDF archive.
What happens to unused questions? They roll forward, up to 24 banked. Nothing expires as long as the Circle is active.
Are the answers written by AI or by a human? Both. Every question is answered by AI first, then reviewed by a human within 24 hours before it goes back to your Circle. If the AI answer is right, the human confirms it. If it’s off, the human corrects it. We combine multiple work-based learning templates, personas, models, and a few secret sauce options.
What if the Circle members use different phone carriers or different phones? It works. SMS, WhatsApp, and email are universal. iPhone, Android, iOS, older phones with SMS-only. Everyone receives Circle messages.
Can I try it before committing? Yes. You can sign up for a 14-day free trial. Cancel by messaging CANCEL at the end of the month or purchase a monthly or annual membership.
What if we want more than 5 members? Right now, Circles are capped at 5 to keep the Challenge collaboration workable · above 5 people, the shared deliverable gets harder to complete together. If your team is 6 or more people, either run two Circles side by side or contact us at Connect@TokensHelpdesk.com so we can talk about what makes sense.
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