The method
A weekly rhythm your team can actually keep.
HopeClose runs on three simple ideas: relationships move through phases, phases close at Decision Gates, and momentum is always visible.
Phase model
Five phases, from first contact to multiplication.
Phase 1
Discover
Bring people in and understand them. Households, venues, partners, and history land in one context.
Phase 2
Engage
Real conversations with real notes. Commitments get recorded the moment they are made.
Phase 3
Invite
Make the ask — to give, to host, to book, to join. HopeClose tracks who owns it and when.
Phase 4
Steward
Keep every promise you made. Thank-yous, updates, and reporting happen on time, not eventually.
Phase 5
Multiply
Turn kept promises into introductions. Connect shows who can open the next door.
Between each phase sits a Decision Gate: a short, explicit checklist of what must be true before this relationship or initiative advances. Gates keep enthusiasm honest.
Momentum states
Stalled, Active, Advancing.
Momentum is calculated from last meaningful contact, open commitments, phase age, and promises your team made — never from activity for activity's sake.
No meaningful contact in the window this relationship needs, or an open commitment is past due. HopeClose lifts it to the top of the guidance bar.
Conversation is alive, a next step exists, and someone owns it. Guidance keeps it warm without nagging.
Promises are being kept and the initiative is clearing gates. Guidance shifts to multiplying instead of rescuing.
Guided next actions
Open HopeClose, do the five things that matter.
Each morning the guidance bar assembles a short list from real signals across your context. Your members spend their attention on people, not on deciding where to start.
Reach the three relationships that slipped to Stalled this week
Clear the Decision Gate holding up your spring initiative
Thank the members who kept a commitment since Friday
Log the venue conversation you had after the show
Ask for one introduction from an Advancing relationship
Start your first context this week.
Start a context for your team, invite your members, and let HopeClose surface what needs attention this week.