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Vigor only has a handful of concepts, and once they click, everything else is obvious. Here's the whole mental model: how you sign in, what a squad is, who can do what, how people join, and — the important one — how anonymity actually works.


the quick start

Four moves to your first result

You can be looking at real results before your coffee's cold.

  1. Sign in with a magic link

    Vigor has no passwords at all — there is nothing to remember, forget or leak. Enter your email and we send you a one-click link plus a 6-character code you can type instead. Your account is created automatically the first time, as a Member.

  2. Create a squad

    A squad is your team. Create one, give it a name, and add teammates to the roster by email — or share a join link and let them request in.

  3. Run a check or a Spark

    Start a 2-minute Health Check, or fire a live Spark on the big screen. Share the code; people join in seconds, no account needed.

  4. Act on what you find

    Close the session to reveal aggregate results, then turn any weak signal into an owned action item — and watch it close before next round.


core concepts

The words we use, defined

Six terms cover almost everything you'll see in Vigor.

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Squad

A team. Health Checks, trends and action items all live inside a squad. You can belong to several at once.

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Roster

The squad's member list. Add people by email, send auto-expiring invite links, or approve join requests.

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Pulse (Health Check)

The recurring 2-minute check across 11 dimensions, anonymous by default. The heart of Vigor.

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Spark & Playlist

A Spark is one live activity; a Playlist is several Sparks sequenced into one host-paced session.

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Feedback

The async one: a questionnaire you send out and collect over days. Re-run it as a new cycle to see the trend. Read the guide.

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Heatmap

Squads × dimensions in one grid, from each squad's latest closed Pulse. Patterns, never rankings.

who can do what

Three roles, no confusion

Vigor has formal, role-based permissions. You can even hold different roles in different squads — Host of one, Member of another.

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Member

The everyday teammate: votes in checks, joins Sparks, answers Feedbacks, comments on action items, and tracks the squad's trend.

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Host

Runs a squad: manages its roster, opens Health Checks, fires Sparks, sends Feedbacks, and drives sessions from the control screen.

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Admin

Org-wide oversight: sees every squad on the Heatmap, not just the ones they host, and administers the workspace.

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New accounts start as a Member by default. Roles are granted per squad, so being a Host of one squad never makes you a Host of another.

joining a session

No account? No problem

To take part, nobody needs to sign up. Share a link or a 5-character join code and people are in. The code uses an unambiguous alphabet (no confusing O/0 or I/1) so it reads cleanly off a big screen. Guests can take part in all four surfaces — Health Check, Spark, Playlist and Feedback. What they can't do is create anything; that's what an account is for.

  • qr_code_2 Join by link or short code from any phone
  • how_to_reg Taking part needs no login; running sessions does
  • bolt Guests are de-duplicated so one person counts once

Joining a squad for real works three ways: a host emails you an invitation (good for 48 hours), shares a revocable invite link (good for 7 days, and killable any time), or you send a join request and a host approves it.

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How anonymity really works

This is the promise Vigor is built on, so it's worth being precise. Anonymity is on by default, but it is yours to lift, not your host's. A vote row never carries your account: your identity is used for exactly two things, making sure you only vote once and checking you're allowed to see the results. So scores can never be traced to a person — every chart, dashboard, export and heatmap reads them as a tally, by construction.

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Comments shuffled

Randomized with a cryptographic shuffle before anyone reads them, so order gives nothing away.

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Scores are aggregate-only

Totals and trends, never one individual's ratings. This never changes.

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Signing is opt-in

Tick “identified” and your name rides with your comment. Do nothing and you stay anonymous.

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Where the default differs, we say so up front. Quiz is named by design — it keeps nicknames so a leaderboard means anything. In a Feedback, the respondent picks named or anonymous per submission (guests answering by code are always anonymous). And there's no minimum-response threshold anywhere: a host can open results with one response in.
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