About NSYDR

What NSYDR Is

NSYDR is a place for a small group of people who have decided to show up for one another — and who want that to survive the weeks when life gets in the way.

It holds the few things a group like that needs in one place: why it exists, what everybody agreed to, what each person chooses to share, what the group is doing together now, and how somebody knows when a person could use some care.

A Circle might be friends growing together, a mentoring or peer group, a team, a recovery or support group, a study group, or people around any other shared purpose.

Why It Exists

Groups begin with strong intentions. Then life happens between meetings, and the person holding it together ends up carrying all the remembering.

Most tools answer that with more measurement: who replied, how fast, how often. That turns a relationship into a performance, and people leave rather than be scored.

NSYDR takes the other path. It carries the repetitive part — the rhythm, the reminding, the record of what was agreed — and leaves the relationship to the people in it.

How a Circle Works

A Circle is the whole of NSYDR. This is what one holds.

• One shared place for a Circle: its purpose, its people, and the agreement they all accepted.
• A rhythm — meetings proposed and confirmed, check-ins, commitments people set for themselves.
• A way to ask for care and support, where the person asking chooses who sees it.
• A record of what was agreed and what changed, that belongs to the Circle.

Circle, Steward, Charter

Three words carry most of NSYDR. Everything else is explained in terms of them.

• Circle — The group itself. A Circle has a purpose, the people who have joined it, and an agreement they all accepted. NSYDR recommends 3 to 12 people for a Circle where everybody is genuinely known, and a single Circle holds up to 30.
• Steward — The person who holds the Circle’s rhythm. A Steward is not a supervisor and does not see everything: they keep the agreed rhythm, send invitations, prepare meetings, and see what people have chosen to share with them. Stewardship is always agreed to, never assigned to somebody who did not say yes.
• Charter — What the Circle agreed to, in writing, before anybody joined: why it exists, how people take part, what is shared, and how they support one another. Everybody accepts a version of it, and changing it opens a new version rather than rewriting what people already agreed to.

Privacy and Trust

• You choose the audience before you send anything, every time — not once in a settings screen.
• A Steward sees what the Circle and the people in it have chosen to share with a Steward. There is no hidden view where more of it appears.
• An Organization can see how its Circles are functioning — how many people, whether an agreement is published, what is waiting on an answer. It cannot read conversations, personal commitments, private care details or a Steward’s notes.
• These are not filters applied to a fuller view. The operations behind those screens do not ask for that data at all, which is why the boundary holds whoever is looking.
• Your photo is optional, and your initials are a perfectly good way to appear. If you add one, you say who can see it before it is saved.

What NSYDR Is Not

What a Circle does is above. Each of these is a boundary somebody could otherwise assume the other way.

• NSYDR is not a replacement for the tools you already use. Your documents, boards and video calls stay where they are; NSYDR links to them and coordinates the relationship around them.
• It is not a social network. There is no feed to perform on, no follower count, and nothing public unless you choose to publish it.
• It is not a scoreboard. There is no leaderboard, no reliability figure, no response rate, and no ordered list of who answers most. Quiet is a reason to check on somebody, never a mark against them.
• It is not an emergency service. NSYDR is not emergency monitoring or dispatch, and it does not watch for a crisis. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services.

If Something Doesn’t Feel Right

NSYDR does not decide who is right in a personal disagreement, and it does not mediate relationships.

If what is troubling you is a disagreement between people, or something that happened outside NSYDR, the step that usually helps most is your Steward, your organization, or someone you trust.

If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services.

Who It Is For

• A few friends who keep meaning to meet and want it to actually happen.
• A mentor and the people they are walking alongside.
• A peer group, a team, or a group of people learning the same thing.
• A recovery or support group that needs care to be private and real.
• A church, company, school or programme running many of these at once — that is what an Organization is for.

Organizations

A church, company, school or programme that provides Circles for its people. An Organization can set Circles up and see how they are functioning; it does not get to read what people say inside them.

Common Terminology

The rest of the words you will meet, in plain language.

• Commitment — Something a person decided to do, that they set themselves and answer for themselves. “Late”, “partial”, “blocked” and “I did not do it” are real answers, not failures.
• Check-In — A short, regular moment to say how something is going. It is a question, not a test.
• Care — Asking for encouragement, support or connection. The person asking chooses who can see it, and somebody seeing it can say “I saw this” without promising more.
• Meeting — Times are proposed, one is confirmed, and if it moves, the change is recorded rather than the meeting quietly disappearing.
• Invitation — How somebody joins. An invitation is addressed to one person, it is accepted by that person, and accepting it means agreeing to the Charter. There is no other way in.
• Updates — What has happened that involves you, in one place, each item saying why you received it.
• Passport — A voluntary record of what a person has actually done and taken on. It is theirs, they choose what is visible, and it is never a score. It is not part of the pilot.

Getting Started

There are two ways in, and no third one.

• You were invited — Open the invitation the person who invited you sent. It names the Circle and who invited you, and you read the Charter before you agree to anything.
• You want to start a Circle — You write its purpose and its Charter, then invite people one at a time. Nothing is sent to anybody while the Circle is still forming.

Pricing

A Circle can start free. Larger Circles and Organizations are paid, and every plan is listed in one place.

See Pricing→

If You Have a Question

Write to support@nsydr.com. A person reads it. If something on this page promises more than NSYDR actually does, that is worth telling us: saying less is the intent.