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Cohort coaching is a product. Ad-hoc emails make it a group chat with invoicesPayment is the start. Day 0–7 decides whether they become a case study or a refund conversation.

Cohort brands leak when onboarding is a welcome PDF, kickoff no-shows are personal texts, community and email fight, and launch week tramples the people already in the cohort. This vertical wires access automatic, kickoff recover, community vs email jobs, completions with an alumni path, and suppressions so evergreen and launch coexist.

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The short version

Intern through CEO

Cohort brands leak when onboarding is a welcome PDF, kickoff no-shows are personal texts, community and email fight, and launch week tramples the people already in the cohort. This vertical wires access automatic, kickoff recover, community vs email jobs, completions with an alumni path, and suppressions so evergreen and launch coexist.

  1. 01

    The weekly number is kickoff show rate and % of paid with access before day 1. Refunds follow those.

  2. 02

    Community without CRM state is a Slack you cannot renew from. Join/leave write GHL.

  3. 03

    Launch that mails in-progress cohort members 'join the new cohort' is how you look like you do not know your customers.

  4. 04

    Failed payments on payment plans: one dunning owner, human on high ticket.

  5. 05

    Curriculum quality is blamed for week-one drop that was actually onboarding.

Who

Same system. Three jobs.

Read your row

Intern

What you actually do

Access, kickoff, count match. You are onboarding ops, not a community manager posting prompts.

Operator

What you protect

Cohort as product: access, kickoff, state, suppressions, alumni. Reuse the rail.

CEO

What you refuse to fund

Week-one drop is usually onboarding. Kickoff and access are the numbers. Until they exist, curriculum arguments are a distraction.

Wire

How to connect it

Objects, then edges

Cohort instance, seat, access, kickoff event, community member state, email spine, failed payment, completion, alumni, launch suppression.

  1. 01

    Paid → access + cohort tag + kickoff book

  2. 02

    Kickoff no-show → recover automatic

  3. 03

    Community join writes member; launch acquire excludes in-cohort

  4. 04

    Complete → alumni; not dumped into the next launch as cold

Steps

Do this in order

Why, then done when
  1. 01

    Access on paid

    Same day. Campus or community invite. Acquire off.

    Why: PDF in a thread is not access.

    Done when: Test pay has access without a hero.

  2. 02

    Kickoff object

    Event, reminders, recover, show rate.

    Why: No-show to kickoff predicts drop.

    Done when: Show rate named.

  3. 03

    Community state

    Join/leave in GHL. Members off prospect launch.

    Why: Two truths.

    Done when: Count match or a ticket.

  4. 04

    Launch suppressions

    In-cohort and just-paid excluded.

    Why: Trample.

    Done when: Segment test.

  5. 05

    Alumni on complete

    Tag, next offer or referral with stop.

    Why: Silence is ads forever.

    Done when: Completer not in acquire.

What an intern should wire first

Pay→access. Kickoff recover. Community count vs GHL. Launch exclusion. Completer alumni. You are not rewriting curriculum.

What the operator should refuse

A new cohort date, a bigger community tool, or a launch until access and kickoff show exist. More seats into PDF onboarding is more refunds.

The usual failure

Welcome PDF. Kickoff in a personal calendar. Launch hits the current cohort. Community is the CRM. That is a group chat with invoices.

The weekly number

Kickoff show, access-before-day-1 %, in-cohort excluded from acquire. Protect those.

Why

Questions people actually ask

Pushback is normal

The community is the product. Why GHL?

Because billing, applications, and launches live outside the community. State must meet.

Can we onboard in a Google Doc?

You can. Then GHL still needs kickoff and access flags or you cannot see who is in.

Every cohort is different.

Dates differ. Objects do not. Reuse the rail.

This week

This week: access on paid, kickoff recover, community write-in, launch exclusion. No extra community tool.

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Working notes

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