Build Community Around What You Already Do
Claim your Sidekick community – at no cost and with almost no effort
the opportunity
Turn Your Audience Into a Community
You already have the people. What you don’t have is a way to keep them connected to you, and to each other, in between visits.
2-3%
The share of your followers who actually see any given post you make on Facebook or Instagram
100%
The share of your Sidekick community who see every post, every time – there’s no algorithm acting as a gatekeeper
$0
Cost to reach your own community. No ad spend, no boosting, no bidding
10 sec
The entire ask of your staff: “We have a community on Sidekick”
transactional vs relational
The Show Ends. Everyone Leaves.
Today
Someone signs up or buys a ticket, walks in, enjoys your event, and walks back out. There’s no lasting connection. You post about next month and the algorithm shows it to two percent of the people who already chose to follow you. You’re paying to reach your own audience, and still missing them.
With Sidekick
That same person joins your community on Sidekick on the way out. They see what’s coming up next week. They find three other people who love the same thing. They come back, and they bring someone. Not because of a discount or special advertisement. Because they belong to something now.
THE JOURNEY
From first visit to regular in five steps
You make a ten-second ask. Sidekick does the rest.
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They Visit You
A show, a service, a class, a first workout. However they find you.
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They Scan a QR Code
A table card, a poster, a line from your staff. Ten seconds, no app store hunting.
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They Join Your Community
They pick their interests from 2,500+ categories and land in your community.
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They See What’s Next
Every event you post reaches them. All of them. Not two percent of them.
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They Bring a Friend
They found people here. That is what brings them back, and what makes them talk.
your marketing tools
You’re renting access to a relationship you already earned
Every boosted post is a post they already chose to follow
Traditional Social Media
2-3% organic reach. Pay to reach your own followers
An algorithm decides who sees you
Transactional. Sell the ticket, lose the person
Followers, not community. They never meet each other
Your reach can be changed or priced by someone else
Built to hold attention on the platform
Sidekick
100% reach. Every post, every member, every time
People choose you, based on their own interests
Relational. The visit starts the relationship
Real community. Members connect with each other
Your community is yours. Nobody can throttle it
Built to get people out of the app and into your room
Industry Sheets
See What Sidekick Can Do for Your Organization
Each info sheet explains how Sidekick works for your type of organization,
with real examples and a clear path to getting started
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Arts & Cultural Organizations
Turn ticket-buyers into community members. Fill seats through organic word-of-mouth and build audiences that come back because they belong.
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Colleges & Universities
Help students find their people through shared interests, clubs, and campus communities. Reduce isolation and boost loyalty and retention.
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Entertainment Venues
The show doesn’t have to end when the lights come up. Help fans connect with each other and build a community of dedicated supporters.
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Faith Organizations
Strengthen congregation bonds beyond Sabbath day. Help members find shared interests and build deeper relationships.
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Residential Complexes
Increase retention rates by turning tenants into friends and your complex into a community.
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Sports & Recreation
Turn one-time participants into lifelong community members. Classes end, but the connections don’t have to.
what it costs
Free to Start · Never More Than $40 a Month
You’re a channel, not a customer. We aren’t selling you advertising and there’s no per-member fee. You bring your people into a community, and what you get back is a direct relationship with them that nobody can price, throttle or take away.
Always Free
- Your community, for as many members as you can bring
- Unlimited posts, every one reaching 100% of members
- Your events on the Sidekick community calendar
- Free forever for registered charities and nonprofits
- No setup fee · No per-member charge · No contract · No ad spend
Optional, If You Want Them
- Control panel, up to $40 per month scaled to your size
- Marketing, communications and organizing tools
- Audience analytics for your own community
- A verified badge, so members know you’re the real thing – users can limit their searches to verified communities only
We Charge So Little on Purpose
We need users more than we need your money. Every organization that brings its people makes the app more useful for everyone already on it, which is why the reach is free and always will be. The paid pieces are tools you can run the whole thing without. If a price is ever the reason you say no, we’ve designed this wrong.
founding partners
Building This With the Organizations Who Go First
Claim your community now and help shape the tools we are building for you.
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STEP 1: AVAILABLE NOW
Claim Your Community
Free. We help you set it up, give you a QR code and a table card, and show your staff the ten-second ask. Nothing to install and no contract.
✓ Under Way
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STEP 2: ~6 MONTHS
The Control Panel
A desktop dashboard for posting, scheduling, messaging your community and seeing what your audience actually responds to. Up to $40 a month when it ships.
Next
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STEP 3: LATER
Verified Communities
An annual verification of no more than $40, so members searching Sidekick can filter to organizations confirmed as the real thing.
future
Frequently asked questions
The Things We Know You Want to Ask
We would rather talk to you directly, and Laura genuinely will,
but here are the questions every organization asks us first.
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What’s the Catch?
We’d like to say that there isn’t one, but the honest answer is that we need users. Every organization that brings its members makes Sidekick more useful for everyone already here. You get a permanent, direct relationship with your audience. We get people who came to meet each other. Both halves have to work or neither does.
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What Does It Actually Cost?
Claiming your community, posting to it, and reaching every member costs nothing, forever. A desktop control panel runs up to $40 a month depending on your size, and verification is no more than $40 a year. Both are optional. Charities pay nothing at all.
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Do We Need IT to Set This Up?
No. There is no integration, no software to install, and nothing to connect to your systems. You get a QR code and a table card. Your staff learn one sentence.
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What If Nobody Joins?
Some won’t, at least not at first, and that’s fine. The ones who do are the people already choosing to walk into your building, which makes them the easiest audience you’ll ever reach. Start with the regulars and let it build.
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Who Owns the Relationship With Our Members?
You do. Your community is yours, your members are yours, and nobody can throttle your reach or charge you to restore it. That’s the entire difference between this and renting your audience back from a platform.
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What Does Verified Mean?
It confirms that you are the organization you say you are. Members can filter their searches to verified communities only, which matters immensely for churches, schools and anyone whose name could be impersonated.
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How Do You Protect Our Members’ Privacy?
No cross-app tracking, no data sales, no advertising. You see aggregate numbers about your own community and never individual behavior. Our privacy policy is written to be read.
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Is This More Work for Our Small Team?
A poster, a QR code, and one sentence at the door. That’s the whole operational lift. Posting an event takes about as long as posting to Instagram, and reaches everyone instead of two percent.
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What If We Already Have a Facebook Group?
Keep it, for now. This isn’t a replacement for the places you already are – at least not yet. The difference is that everyone here sees what you post, and they’re meeting each other around shared interests rather than scrolling past you.
getting started
You Can Start This Afternoon
There is no approval process, no setup call and nothing to install. You can have your community live before you finish your coffee. And if you need help, just email us.
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STEP 1 · TWO MINUTES
Download the App
Free to download on iOS and Android. Get it on your own phone first, before you point anybody else at it.
Free
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STEP 2 · ONE MINUTE
Create Your Profile
Use your real name. Every community on Sidekick has an accountable human being behind it, and for your organization that person is you.
Free
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STEP 3 · FIVE MINUTES
Build Your Community
Create your community and post your first event right there in the app. No approval, no waiting, and nothing for us to switch on at our end.
Free
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Mission-driven
Built in Eugene, Oregon
Let’s Re-Build the Connection Economy Together
Whether you’re a potential partner, community organization, or someone
who believes technology should bring people together, we’d love to hear from you