Questions, answered.

A community and a method for people who want to do more thoughtful work, more accountably, with the right people in the room. The method is the Mastery Method — seven pillars: Mindset, Planning, Systems, Alliances, Mastermind Groups, Facilitation, and Analytics. The community is 290+ members organized around small mastermind groups that meet on a regular cadence. Free to join.

Yes. The community signup and the 200+ page ebook are both free. There's no paid tier today. If a paid offering ever launches, current members will hear about it first.

Fill out the join form. You'll get a welcome email, links to the community, and an invitation to the next intake conversation where we figure out which mastermind group is the right fit for you — or whether you'd rather start in the broader community first.

The default mastermind group meets for 90 minutes every two weeks. So you're committing to roughly 3 hours a month of group time, plus whatever individual reflection or commitments you make between sessions. The broader community is asynchronous — engage as much or as little as you want.

Five blocks across 90 minutes: a 10-minute check-in, 20 minutes of member updates, 40 minutes of hot seat (one member's problem worked on by the whole group), 15 minutes of next-session commitments, and a 5-minute close. The full walkthrough is here.

No. Groups are organized by stage — founders, leaders, people in transitions, people building specific kinds of practice — not by years of experience. The throughline is that you're working on something real and you want a small room of people working on something real alongside you.

The word "mastermind" has three meanings in this work, and they get conflated. The principle (Napoleon Hill's "master mind") is what happens when two or more minds work on a problem together with a shared aim. The alliance is the structured ongoing form that principle takes between specific people. The group is the format that hosts the alliance — small, scheduled, facilitated. The encyclopedia post unpacks the three senses in detail.

Jeff Hopp. He's been working on the mastermind format since 2017, originally as a SaaS (Mastermind Manager, then Nucleus). When the software chapter closed in 2023, the practice continued — that's what this site is. More background here.

A course teaches you something one-way. A coach works with you one-on-one. A mastermind is neither — it's a group of peers working on each other's actual problems in real time, with the assumption that the room knows things no single facilitator or course author knows. Coaching and courses are complementary, not competitors. Many members run all three at different layers of their development.

A good group can absorb occasional misses. A pattern of misses is a signal the group isn't a fit — either the format isn't right for your current life, or the stage match is off. The honest move when you notice a pattern is to talk to the facilitator. We'd rather rematch you to a better-fit group than have you fade out of one that's wrong for you.

Yes. Most members bring a specific project or decision they're working on — a launch, a hire, a pivot, a relationship, a health goal. The group works on that project across sessions as it evolves. The hot seat is specifically designed for "I'm stuck on X" or "I'm about to commit to X and want pressure-testing before I do."

Right here. "Applying Napoleon Hill's Timeless Principles in the Modern World" — 200+ pages, free download, no signup gate beyond the community signup that gives you access to the actual mastermind groups.