Good afternoon,

Squad Technologies: A technology company to get you off technology? This isn't our mission, but indirectly it is what we are doing.
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​Our mission is to boost the collective health of the human race. And healthy happens in the physical, not the digital. So naturally, our products are designed to help you take action in the real world and away from the digital world. SquadUp helps you form healthy habits and Upspace helps you find activities (workouts, meditations, recipes) shared by creators so you can take action on those habits in the real world.

Ideally, we help individuals become so self-sustainable and so sovereign in their health, that they no longer need us.

But when we say 'collective health' what do we mean?

Think of the collective human race like a beehive. We call it the human hive. Most see the cute, buzzing individual bees, but when you zoom out, you notice the one super-organism of the entire hive. It is similar to that of the 83 trillion living cells that collectively make up one single individual human.

Likewise, we can look at the entire human race as one single super-organism, the human hive. And like a beehive, when a part of the hive is hurting, the rest 'SquadsUp' to heal it.

With 60% of the population with a chronic disease, 50% with a mental illness, and dangerously declining fertility rates, the human hive is hurting. It's our mission to heal the human hive.

And we are buzzing!

Last week felt like the most autonomous, yet productive week of the year. Less meetings, more production. We can feel the momentum and alignment of our team. We are hitting a stride! As long as we continue our hyper-focused obsession with solving this problem, we will hit a breakthrough soon.

Last Week

Here are some of the things we accomplished last week...

New Blog: The Habit Hub​

Chris wrote 10 new blogs on Habits and built out the Habit Hub where they are all shared. This education will be foundational. It will be referred to in the SquadUp app, Instagram, and Newsletter. It is also most of the information that was used to train/instruct the custom GPT we built.

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Launched Newsletter: Health & Habits​

Chris and I launched Health & Habits, the only newsletter you need to become a healthy sovereign human. Every Monday, we send a newsletter with three core sections: 1) Habit/Health Tip 2) Health News 3) Healthy Hero of the Week. The goal is to independently grow this by providing so much value that we can then use it to bring people into the SquadUp or Upspace apps.

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New Squad Score: SquadUp App​

Now live in the SquadUp app, our product team, Jase, Wes, and Arslan, rebuilt the Squad Score and supporting components around it. Based on the SquadUp Methodology, a user must reach a Squad Score with their partner of 24 to 'form the habit.' If both partners show up, the score goes up one. If only one partner shows up that day, it remains the same. If neither shows up, it goes down one. This aligns the score with the core principles of the methodology of consistency and accountability.

Oh also, we are beginning to test monetization. It now costs a one-time payment of $9.99 to get access to SquadUp. Thank you to those who downloaded it to check it out and support us!

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Created AI Custom GPT: Habit Coach by SquadUp​

During the initial beta of SquadUp, we found ourselves having to 'coach' many people through the phases of SquadUp Methodology: 1) Choose a habit 2) Design a habit 3) Build a habit 4) Keep a habit. So we thought it might be useful to build an AI coach that can do the same using the SquadUp Methodology. So unplanned, for fun this past weekend, I built a Custom GPT on ChatGPT does exactly that. If you want to learn more about the SquadUp Methodology, feel free to ask our Habit Coach about it.

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Launched Dom's Landing Page: Join Dom's Network​

As mentioned in the last email, part of our distribution strategy for SquadUp, Upspace, and future products is to partner with a creator that is aligned with the product. Fortunately, we already have an incredible creator as one of our Co-Founders. This week, Dom, Michaela, and I built a landing page for Dom to start capturing emails from creators, brands, and community members so that we can later welcome them into our events and/or products. Dom is also well-connected with many other creators that we can partner with for future or existing products.

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Thank you,

Shaughnessy

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P.S.

We can feel the pendulum swinging! The human hive is waking up and we are ready to support them!

Anecdotal Proof:

Growing up, the majority of what I (and all my friends) ate was ultra-processed poison including junk snack food, artificially sugary treats, 'should be' illegal fast food, and seed oil-filled toxins. I am grateful to say my Mom has thrown out all that poison and now feeds my little brothers (ages 13, 17, and 19) raw milk and honey daily!