A small group that notices whether you follow through.
Hood Mastermind gives a small, private group a structured way to set real goals, show their progress, hold each other accountable, and grow together. Ten people, maximum — because accountability stops working when you're anonymous.
Free to use Private groups, not public feeds Phone & tablet
You don't need more motivation. You need people who notice.
Most people already know what they should be doing. The hard part is doing it consistently when nobody is paying attention.
Goals disappear
You wrote it down somewhere. A notes app, a journal, a planner. Nobody ever asked you about it again.
Nobody sees the pattern
The same thing stalls you every few months. Alone, it just looks like a bad stretch. From the outside, it looks like a pattern.
Encouragement isn't feedback
The people around you want you to feel good. That is not the same as someone telling you honestly what they have watched you do.
Growth gets harder to fake when other people are paying attention. Hood Mastermind builds the group that does the noticing.
Ten people, maximum. That's the whole point.
Accountability gets weaker the more anonymous you become. In a community of thousands, nobody knows what you said you were going to do — so nobody can tell whether you did it.
A Hood Mastermind group is capped at roughly ten members, and it's private. Not a feed, not a follower count, not a public profile. A room small enough that people actually know what you're working toward and notice when you go quiet.
Build with people who know what you said you were going to do.
What a group is not.
- Not a public social feed.
- Not a follower count.
- Not an open community of thousands.
- Not a group chat that scrolls away.
Six parts. One system.
No single feature here is the product. The product is what happens when they run together — and each one feeds the next.
Goals
create commitment
Not checklist items. A goal carries what you're trying to accomplish and why it matters, so the group has context instead of a task name.
Progress updates
make the work visible
Post what actually happened as you go. Your group is notified, so they follow the work as it happens instead of hearing a summary months later.
Accountability
create reflection
Hold yourself — or another member — accountable for a habit, a commitment, or a blind spot. It makes the behavior visible and starts a real conversation about it.
The Hot Seat
create focus
The group turns its full attention to one member — questions, perspective, and honest feedback from people who know what you've been working toward.
Voice meetings
create connection
Schedule and hold live voice conversations inside your group. The accountability happening all week continues as an actual conversation.
Credibility
create memory
Trust you build by how you show up over time — goals you actually finished, accountabilities you engaged with. Not popularity. A record that your actions build a reputation.
Goals create commitments. Progress makes them visible. Accountability creates reflection. The Hot Seat creates focus. Voice creates connection. Finishing gets recognized. And Credibility remembers how you showed up.
You already have a group chat. It isn't doing this.
A group chat
Holds everything you said and none of what you committed to. Messages scroll away, and it is nobody's job to ask what happened to the thing you mentioned in March.
A task manager
Your list is private and your deadlines are self-imposed. Checking a box alone proves nothing to anyone, least of all you.
A generic accountability app
Streaks, reminders, and strangers. It can track that you missed a day. It cannot ask why, and it does not know you well enough to care.
Hood Mastermind keeps the goal, the progress, the people, and the conversation in one place — and the people already know what you're working on.
What actually happens in the group.
The Hot Seat
One member takes the seat, and the group gives them its full attention — questions, perspective, and honest feedback about what they've been working toward.
Sometimes progress doesn't need more encouragement. It needs a few people who know your situation well enough to ask the question you've been avoiding.
Focused attention, not a firing squad.
Completion someone verifies
Finishing a goal isn't a checkbox you tap alone. You request completion, and your group is asked to verify that it actually happened.
It's a small thing that changes the weight of a commitment. You made it in front of people, and you finish it in front of them too.
Finishing gets marked
Once the group verifies it, a completed goal is recognized by the people who watched you work on it — the ones who know what it actually took.
Most people finish something that mattered and move straight to the next thing, and no one ever says a word about it. Progress that gets acknowledged is progress you repeat.
Progress worth looking back on
Every update builds a history of the work — not just whether you succeeded or failed, but what happened along the way and what you made of it.
Over time that history makes patterns visible — the ones that are genuinely hard to see from inside your own head.
Groups can take shape as they grow
A group has a founder, and members can take on functional roles — Coordinator, Troubleshooter, Peer Support — so people contribute in the way they're actually good at. It's structure, not hierarchy.
An accountability is a conversation, not a callout.
Hold yourself accountable, or raise it with another member. Either way it becomes a real thing in the group — attached to a goal, open until it's resolved, with room for both people to talk it through.
- Peer or self Raise one on yourself, or hold a member accountable for a habit, commitment, or blind spot.
- Tied to a real goal Each one links to the goal it concerns, so it has context instead of arriving out of nowhere.
- It has a discussion Both sides can talk it through in the thread. The point is the conversation, not the label.
- And it can be disputed Disagree with an accountability raised on you? Dispute it. Being held to something isn't the same as being convicted of it.
Challenge the behavior. Respect the person.
When it's time to talk, you're already in the room.
Groups schedule and hold live voice meetings inside Hood Mastermind — so the accountability running through the week continues as a real conversation, with the people it already involves.
- Meetings live in the group See what's scheduled, and join from the same place your goals and accountability already live.
- Built around the Hot Seat Sessions can center on a member, so the conversation has a subject instead of drifting.
- A component, not the product Voice is one part of the mastermind — the work continues between sessions, where it matters most.
For people who know the room they're in changes the outcome.
Not everyone with a goal. The people who already understand that who they're around materially affects whether they grow.
And anyone who has set the same goal three times and quietly let it go three times. That pattern is much harder to repeat in front of people who remember.
Being challenged and being mistreated are not the same thing.
Honest feedback only works if people feel safe enough to be honest — and safe from anyone who confuses honesty with cruelty.
Report content
Anything objectionable can be reported for review.
Block members
Blocked members can't keep interacting with you through shared groups.
Remove and ban
Groups can remove members, and ban anyone who shouldn't come back.
Clear ground rules
Terms of Service and Community Guidelines set the standard, backed by moderation.
Groups are private by design. What's said in your mastermind stays in your mastermind.
Straight answers.
What is a mastermind group, exactly?
How big is a group?
What does it cost?
What happens when I complete a goal?
How is this different from a group chat?
What is the Hot Seat?
Do I need to already have a group?
Are groups private?
What if I disagree with an accountability someone raised on me?
What if someone in my group behaves badly?
Reading this on a desktop?
Scan this with your phone's camera and it'll take you straight to the download. The app is where the group actually lives.
Your goals shouldn't live somewhere nobody ever asks about them.
Download Hood Mastermind, bring in the people whose opinion you'd actually mind losing, and put your next goal somewhere it will be noticed.
Free to download. Groups of up to ten. Need help?