Someone on this call could change your life. You all came for the same reason — birds of a feather. FlockUnlock reveals everything else you have in common, and what you could do for each other.

No. Nobody can send you a private message unless you have accepted their connection request, and your email and phone are never shown to anyone, host included. What others in the flock can see is your name on its member list and anything you choose to post in its shared chat. You can set your profile so people see only an AI summary of what you have in common instead of your actual answers, mute anyone (their messages and chat posts disappear for you), block anyone (you vanish from the app for them), or leave the flock entirely. Plenty of people just read the Flock Report and never message anyone — that is a perfectly good way to use it.

No, never. We are not in the advertising business and we do not hand your information to anyone. The one exception is a dedicated offers page, tailored to your interests, that you only ever see if you choose to visit it — nothing like it appears anywhere else in FlockUnlock, and you are free to ignore it completely. Outside of that page, there are no ads and nothing is for sale.

Yes. We never reveal your contact information inside the application — the only way anyone learns how to reach you beyond your name and username is if you tell them yourself, in chat, or add it to your profile. You control exactly what you share, with whom, and whether people see your real profile or just an AI summary of your common ground. You can block or mute anyone; if you block someone it is as if you do not exist to them, not even your presence in the app. You can stay completely unreachable outside the platform. One caveat worth stating plainly: we have no way to verify what anyone puts in their profile or says in chat, so use your own judgment before sharing personal information with other participants.

Yes — that is what makes the matching work, and it is free to create one, with no card, for hosts and attendees alike. A profile is not a résumé or a subscription; it is a few things you have written about yourself. Nobody has to pay anything to take part in a flock, read its Flock Report, or reply when someone reaches out.

A profile is a list of short entries about you — things like “ran a bakery for six years” or “looking for a podcast co-host.” To count toward a Flock Report it needs at least 15 of them. You get started with six guided questions, and each answer can turn into several entries; you can add more any time. It takes a few minutes, you do it once, and it carries over to every flock you are part of afterwards. What you share is always up to you — and the more you share, the more there is to match.

Then the Flock Report waits until there is enough to make it meaningful: at least 4 in 10 people in the flock need a profile with 15 or more entries. A report built on a few near-empty profiles would not tell you much. The flock tells you what it is still waiting on, so it helps to mention the link out loud or drop it in the chat twice. Anyone can share it, not just the host.

No. There is no feed, nothing to post, and no profile you have to keep current. You use it around an event: tap the link, answer a few questions, read the report, reach out to anyone you would like to know. Each event flock closes to new activity after 30 days on its own, and one setting turns off all notification email. If you ignore FlockUnlock for months, nothing is waiting for you except whatever connection requests you chose not to answer.

A flock is one event, kept. You create one by pasting the link to a meeting, webinar, class, group or page — or by generating a QR code for an in-person event — and everyone who taps that link lands in the same flock. It is not a community you have to launch, fill or moderate: it is the event you were already running or attending, with the people still in it afterwards.

No — and this is the thing most people get wrong at first. Attendees get the bigger share of the value, and they get it on a free account. If you were in the webinar, the class or the meetup, tapping the link keeps you in touch with everyone who was in there with you: you can see them, message them, and stay in the loop long after it ended. You never have to host anything, and you never have to pay to join a flock.

No. There is nothing to install, no browser extension, and nothing joins your meeting. FlockUnlock never sees your call — you share a link, and the people who tap it are the flock. That also means it works with absolutely any platform, including ones that would never let a bot in.

Two ways. Anyone who taps your invite link joins your flock directly. On top of that, when you submit a meeting URL we normalise it to a platform and a meeting ID — so anyone else who independently submits that same meeting in the same time window is linked to you automatically, even if they never saw your link.

Anywhere the people are. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, GoToWebinar, Skool, Discord, Facebook groups and WhatsApp group names all work today. So do links to a specific YouTube video, X post, Facebook post, Instagram post or reel, TikTok video or Reddit thread — anyone who shares that exact post lands in the same flock as you. And if none of those fit, paste in any other web page's URL and FlockUnlock builds a flock around that exact page. In person, download the QR code and let the room scan it.

No — and this is the most common misunderstanding. You are not signing up for a single community. One account covers unlimited flocks: every webinar, class, meeting, group, post or page you submit a link for puts you in another one, and they all stack up in the same account. There is no cap, at any tier — including the free one — on how many flocks you join or how many people you connect with. Your network is the thing that accumulates across all of them and keeps working long after any one event flock itself has wound down (see the next question).

Each individual event flock is active for 30 days from when it is first created, not forever. Inside that window it works exactly as described elsewhere in this FAQ: chat, roster, reports, new joins, all of it. After 30 days it becomes a read-only archive — existing members can still read the chat history, see the roster, and open any report that was already generated, but no one can post, join, or generate a new report from it. None of this touches your profile, your existing connections, or your direct-message history with people you met there: those continue exactly as before, independent of any one flock's lifecycle. A personal private group (Gold/Platinum) is different: it has no fixed expiration and keeps running as long as its owner keeps a qualifying plan and its member count fits that plan's cap.

Once enough people are in a flock and have filled in enough of their profiles, FlockUnlock writes the flock up in plain English: what the people in it say they have done, what they are looking for, and where the common ground is. That write-up is the same for everyone in the flock. It then ends with a short list of specific named people to connect with and why, matched to what you said you were after — so that part differs from person to person. You can see sample reports without an account.

No. FlockUnlock is a networking tool, not a community or a social media platform — the goal has never been to move your community's conversation over here. Your Discord, your Slack, your Facebook group all stay exactly where they are. This is your index into them: it helps people who already share something in common discover what else they share, which almost never happens on its own. The shared chat is just how first contact happens. And unlike a feed, you are never looking at "everyone" — only at your own network, the specific people you chose to connect with.

Yes. The free plan is a real plan, not a trial: you can join and start an unlimited number of flocks and connections, with group chat and Flock Reports in each one, forever, with no card. (Each individual event flock is active for 30 days and then becomes a read-only archive — see "Does an event flock stay open forever?" above — but that limit is the same on every plan, including paid ones; it is not something upgrading removes.) You can also reply to any 1-to-1 chat someone else starts with you. Paid plans do not raise a volume cap — there is not one on how many flocks or connections you can have — they add the ability to start 1-to-1 chats yourself, personal private groups, and AI network search. See the pricing page for details.

Because we are not an advertising business and not a social network. The reports are real AI compute over real profiles, and that costs money to run. Paying means your account stays free of ads and your time stays free of noise. The free plan exists so you can decide whether that is worth it using your own events and your own network, not our marketing.

Because you can find out whether FlockUnlock is worth it without paying us a cent. The free plan is not a teaser — an unlimited number of flocks and connections, with group chat in each one, for as long as you like (each individual flock stays active for 30 days before archiving, same as on every paid plan). Use it on a couple of real events, see whether staying in touch with those people is worth anything to you, and only then upgrade. Since paid access is granted instantly and in full the moment you subscribe, we would rather not run a refunds process at all: get the value out of the free plan first, then decide. If you have a question before you upgrade, ask us — we would much rather answer it than take money you did not want to spend.

Every member gets a personal invite link and a downloadable QR code from the Create an invite link page. Anyone who signs up as a new user through it is credited as your referral, and if they later become a paying subscriber you earn $5, paid when they subscribe. (Existing users who tap your link just join the flock — no credit either way, since they were not new.) Referral payouts are a paid-plan feature.

You are getting early access to features that are still being refined, so you may hit the occasional bug, an unfinished corner, or a change made in response to feedback. Beta pricing is also subject to change as we learn what this costs to run — see our Terms of Service. In exchange, beta members get a direct say in shaping the product and early access to everything new before anyone else.