Create the initiative
Define the goal, dates, format, location, minimum threshold, capacity, participation requirements, and verification method. New initiatives begin as drafts.
How Coordinate works
Know when there are enough people to go ahead.
Coordinate gives organizers a clear count of who is committed, when the minimum group has been reached, and what happens next.
The lifecycle
From idea to completed event
Each stage has a clear purpose, from collecting commitments to coordinating the group and confirming participation afterward.
Publish and share
Publishing changes the initiative to open. Public initiatives can appear in discovery views, and the event page can be shared by link, WhatsApp, email, SMS, or LinkedIn.
People commit
Joining counts toward the threshold and gives the participant access to the event group. If the event has a capacity, the commitment also takes one of the available places.
Reach the threshold
When the minimum threshold is reached, the initiative is confirmed automatically. If the event is still below capacity and the deadline has not passed, more participants can continue to join.
Coordinate the group
The event group keeps messages and polls with the event. Organizers can run an open group chat or switch to announcements only.
Verify what happened
Depending on the initiative, completion can use organizer confirmation, QR or GPS check-in, uploaded evidence, completion codes, external confirmation, or other configured methods.
Build reliability
Verified participation and successful organizing update a user or organization’s reliability history. Late withdrawals, confirmed no-shows, and late organizer cancellations can reduce trust.
Commitment threshold
The minimum group needed for the event to go ahead.
The threshold is the minimum number of committed participants needed to confirm the initiative. Capacity is separate: it is the maximum number of people who can join. Reaching the threshold confirms the event; it does not close registration unless capacity is also reached or the deadline has passed.
Neighborhood cleanup17 of 20 committed
3 more commitments needed to reach the threshold.
Set it before commitments begin
Once someone has committed, the threshold, capacity, and minimum trust requirement are locked so the terms do not move underneath participants.
Set the number you actually need
Choose the smallest group that makes the plan workable. Capacity can still be higher.
Confirmation is visible
When the threshold is reached, the initiative is confirmed and participants are notified. Registration can stay open for remaining places.
Event groups
Messages stay with the event.
Every initiative you create or join has an event group in your inbox.
Open poll
What time works best?
Polls are advisory. A poll does not silently rewrite important event details.
Reliability
Reliability reflects what happened on Coordinate.
Reliability changes only from recorded activity such as verified participation, successful organizing, late withdrawals, and confirmed no-shows.
A completed participation with normal verification.
A participation completed with high-confidence verification.
Organizer trust increases after a completed event, with the higher change used for strong attendance.
A participant withdraws after an initiative has already been confirmed.
A participant is resolved as a no-show after attendance or verification review.
The organizer cancels an initiative after it has been confirmed.
New0–24 points
Developing25–59 points
Trusted60–99 points
Highly trusted100+ points
Organizations use the same underlying audited trust history and show a public Organization Trust Index capped to 0–100 for a simpler public presentation.
Subinitiatives
An independent initiative can request a relationship with a parent initiative. The parent organizer may approve or reject the connection; rejection does not delete the child initiative.
Organizations
Organizations can publish initiatives, manage members, build a reliability history, manage participants, review subinitiative requests, communicate with groups, and verify participation.
Notifications
The inbox separates event groups from important updates. Users can configure whether event messages, polls, threshold updates, organization updates, and verification updates are also sent by email.
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