AgōnWhat a week in the Agōn looks like
About a minute every evening. A short note to your partners. One call a week. Here's each piece, screen by screen.
The screens are illustrations with sample names and data. Your cohort's will look the same, with your partners in them.
The rhythm
For a cohort that meets Tuesdays at 6:00 a.m. Your cohort's week starts on its call day.
- TueThe call, 30 to 40 minutesLast week's recap arrives at 9 a.m.
- WedEvening account
- ThuEvening account
- FriEvening account
- SatEvening account
- SunSabbath, if you keep oneRest. Giving account is optional.
- MonThe board posts at 7 a.m.Last day to hit weekly targets
You choose your Sabbath when you join: Sunday, Saturday, or none. On it your dailies aren't due and your streak holds. Every other day, including call day: the evening account (due by 9 a.m. the next morning) and your note to your partners. Weekly wins, like a workout or a date night, are logged the day you do them.
Give account
At the time you choose, the Agōn bot sends your 12:30+1 in Slack. For each commitment, mark it missed, or say how hard it was to keep: easy, a fight, or barely. Then tap Give account. It takes about a minute.
Why rate how hard? Men fade before they break. When the fight is getting harder week over week, you get help before a streak ends. Your ratings stay between you and your leader.
You have until 9 a.m. the next morning. A day you don't report counts as missed.
Give it to your partners
We keep your numbers. Your account is to your partners. When you give account, you get it written out, ready to paste into your cohort's channel. Add a line about how the day went: what was hard, and what you need prayer for.
We also post a one-line note when each man checks in, so everyone knows who has given account tonight. Hit a weekly target, and your cohort sees that too.
Your cohort is you and a few other men (most cohorts are 3 to 6). The channel is private to them, their captain, and Mark.
Slack for your cohort, the app for everything else
Slack is where the Agōn lives: your evening prompt, your cohort channel, huddles, SOS, and the board. You'll need it for the full experience.
The Agōn app, on your phone or in your browser, is where you manage everything else: your 12:30+1, your Sabbath, texts, contact info, and progress. On a day you're away from Slack, you can give the same account there too. It counts exactly the same. Your membership includes Agōn Premium in the app for the season and two weeks after. Billing is on the website.
Track your habits in another app? Connect Claude or another AI agent with your private MCP link from the app (Me → Developer). It can give account for you from your tracker, and tell you which partners to cheer on.
Log weekly wins
Some commitments are weekly: run three times, a date night, a fast. Type /agon week and tap Did it today. Forgot? Yesterday works until 9 a.m.
On the last day of your week, the evening prompt reminds you what's still short.
- Each man gives accountAbout five minutes each: what you kept, what you missed, what's getting hard
- Pray by nameThe group prays for each man, and for what he asked for
The call
The daily account keeps you honest. The call is where it turns into real partnership. You meet with the same few partners all season (most cohorts are 3 to 6 men), early in the morning, over lunch, or late in the evening.
Your first call is the lock-in call, where your partners help sharpen your 12:30+1 before it starts counting. In week 6, your cohort votes on where the mission jar goes.
Half an hour before each call, the bot posts four questions in your channel to answer before you join: What happened this week? Where was I tempted? What did I actually do? What do I need? It also posts how the time is split, so every man gets his turn.
Your recap
The morning after your week ends, we send your numbers: what you kept, your weekly targets, your streak, how hard it was, and any fines. Your first miss each week is free. Every dollar goes to the mission your cohort chooses.
Help before you break
If your ratings say a commitment is turning into a grind, we send a few practical techniques to try, and your leader knows to check on you. You're still keeping it. This is how you keep keeping it.
On a day when it's more than a grind, press SOS (it's pinned in your cohort channel, in the bot's Home tab, and in the app). Ask your partners to pray for you or call you. Every man in your cohort hears it, and the first to answer lets the rest know he's got you.
The board
Every Monday at 7 a.m., #leaderboard shows the longest active streaks across all cohorts, each cohort's completion for the week, and how much each mission jar holds.
The board shows only top streaks and cohort totals. Your misses and ratings never appear there.
The cost in time
- About a minute each evening to give account
- A few minutes to write to your partners, and to answer theirs
- 30 to 40 minutes once a week on the call
The commitments themselves take what they take. That part is the contest.