Build a challenge. Guide a transformation.
A course gets bought and abandoned. A checklist gets closed. A challenge gives people a reason to come back tomorrow — content, daily action, visible progress, other people, and something to earn.
Built for the people who run challenges
- Coaches
- Authors
- Course creators
- Communities
- Wellness leaders
- Churches
- Teams
- Agencies
- Nonprofits
Build it, run it, and see what it did
Three jobs that usually need six tools and a spreadsheet holding them together.
Design the days, not a page
Assemble each day from content blocks — video, downloads, checklists, assignments, reflections. Mark the ones that matter as required, and completion starts meaning something.
It carries itself once it starts
Days unlock on schedule in the challenge’s own timezone. Emails go out on their own. The feed keeps people talking. You show up to facilitate, not to operate.
See what actually happened
Who started, who finished, which day lost people, and who has gone quiet — counted from the records, not estimated. Then a closing offer for the ones who finished.
Creating one
From an idea to open registration
A guided wizard, four decisions, and a page you can send to people. Nothing to design and no template to fight.
- 01
Name the promise
What someone will be able to do by the end. The wizard asks for it first, because everything else follows from it.
- 02
Build the days
Add steps, fill them with blocks, decide what is required. Publish a day at a time or all at once.
- 03
Set the shape
Cohort or evergreen, public or invite-only, three days or ninety. Change your mind later; nothing is baked in.
- 04
Open the doors
You get a registration page on a shareable URL. A publish gate refuses to let an empty challenge go live.
The participant’s day
One day at a time, on the phone in their hand
Tomorrow is locked, and that is the point. A challenge works because there is exactly one thing to do today and it is small enough to finish before the coffee goes cold.
Today is obvious
No syllabus to navigate. Open it and the next thing is right there.
Required means required
A day is complete when the work is done, not when a box is ticked.
Progress they can feel
A streak, a bar that moves, and a badge at the moments worth marking.
Some things stay theirs
A reflection can be marked private — other participants never see it.
Community and rewards
People finish things other people can see
The usual answer is a Facebook Group, where the conversation lives a tab away from the work and the algorithm decides who reads it. Here the feed belongs to the challenge, sitting beside the day it is about.
A feed per challenge
Posts, comments, reactions — and moderation that hides rather than deletes.
Points and badges
Earned for doing the work, capped daily so volume cannot beat effort.
What actually happened
The number that matters is who finished
Registrations flatter everyone. Completion tells you whether the challenge worked, which day lost people, and who is about to drop out while there is still time to reach them.
Counted, never estimated
Every figure is derived from the records that produced it.
Day-by-day, not just totals
See exactly which day the curve falls off — that is where to edit.
At-risk participants, by name
Quiet for three days or more, so the nudge can be a real message.
Export without exposure
CSV carries counts and dates. Submission text is never in the file.
Not a course builder with a countdown
Everything a challenge needs is here, because a challenge needs all of it at once — and stitching it together from six tools is the reason most never launch.
Ten content block types
Video, downloads, checklists, assignments, reflections, discussion prompts.
Unlocking that respects time zones
Local midnight stays local midnight, daylight saving included.
A feed of its own
Posts, comments and reactions beside the work — no Facebook Group.
Points, streaks, badges
Daily caps, so taking part beats gaming it. Leaderboard optional.
Automated email
Ten triggers, editable per challenge, every send logged.
Live sessions
Join links, replays, and a calendar file participants can save.
Analytics and export
Day-by-day completion, at-risk participants, permission-checked CSV.
Private work stays private
Reflections are withheld on the server, not hidden in the page.
Built for a phone
Where participants actually are, in a spare ten minutes.
Multiple workspaces
Separate brands or clients, each with its own team.
No testimonials yet — and we are not going to invent any
Challenge Studio is new. The first creators are building on it now, and when they have something honest to say about it, their words go here with their names on them. Until then this space stays empty on purpose.
If you would rather judge it yourself than read a quote, the builder is free and takes about an hour.
Try it and decideYour challenge is a weekend of work away
Build it, look at it, and only publish when it is right. Nothing goes live until you say so.
Free during beta · No credit card · Unlimited participants