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A channel where a team settles one issue at a time without sitting together: an AI facilitator asks each person privately, publishes what they confirm and records the decision.

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A Loop is a channel in Connect where a team settles one issue at a time without sitting together. Each Loop has a facilitator, an AI agent made for that team. The facilitator asks each person privately, publishes only what they confirm, proposes the decision and records the result with its actions.

Where to find it

Connect is the home of level 1. A Loop sits in its chat list like a channel, with the loop sign beside its name and Loop · 5 people under it. Press Open in Kareenos above to open Connect. Every member of a Loop can open it and take part. Creating a Loop is for the people who can use New Task.

Building a Loop

A Loop is built by the Super Agent. In Connect, press the new chat button and choose New Loop, or open New Task at level 1 and say who the Loop is for and what it settles.

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The Super Agent asks you a few things first: what the Loop is for, who is in it and what each person knows, who decides, a few examples of decisions it should handle, how long people have to answer, and who may open a loop. Then it builds the facilitator, the channel, the sheets that record every loop and a page with the Loop's board.

A Loop needs at least three people. The facilitator introduces itself in the channel and gets to know each member in a short private conversation before their first loop.

Step by step: running your first loop

  1. Open the Loop in Connect and press Open New Loop.
  2. Say what the loop is about and choose its type: Decide for one decision, or Brainstorm for ideas. For a Decide loop you can choose Who decides. Press Send to followed by the facilitator's name.
  3. The facilitator answers you in the same channel, under the label To (its name) only. It asks about the issue until it has the facts. Nobody else sees this part.
  4. The facilitator posts a short brief for everyone and asks each member their own question. The strip at the top of the channel shows how many people have answered and who is still awaited.
  5. Answer in the box at the bottom. Your words go to the facilitator only. It turns them into one short line and shows you that line on a card: press Yes, use it or Change it. Only a line you said yes to is posted in the minutes. Every line of the minutes has a number, for example Minutes 1.
  6. In a Decide loop the facilitator posts a proposed decision with its reasons and its actions. The reasons name the minutes lines they rest on, for example Why (minutes 1). The person who decides gets a card under it: Confirm, Change or Reject.
  7. The facilitator publishes the result. In a Decide loop it starts with the decision exactly as it was confirmed. Each action becomes a task card for the person who owns it, with its date.
  8. Press Decisions to read every closed loop of this channel, and to search them.

What the others see

In a Loop you never write to the whole channel. What you type goes to the facilitator, in your own line with it. The other members do not see it.

  • A fact or a position you confirmed is posted under your role, for example "Quality".
  • A concern, and an idea in a Brainstorm loop, is posted with no name.
  • Everything else in the channel is written by the facilitator: the brief, the minutes, the proposed decision and the result.

Note

Other members never see your line. The administrators of your account can review conversations, as everywhere in Connect.

Decide and Brainstorm

A Decide loop ends with one decision. The facilitator proposes it, and one person confirms it: the person the Loop names, or the one chosen when the loop was opened. If that person asks for a change, the facilitator asks them what to change and proposes again.

A Brainstorm loop collects ideas with no names. The facilitator groups them, may run a second round on the groups, and closes with a ranked list.

One loop at a time

A Loop runs one loop at a time, and each gets a number. If you raise another issue while one is open, the facilitator notes it as next and opens it when the channel is free.

Finish the Loop asks the facilitator to close the open loop. If something is still missing, for example a person who has not answered, it tells you what.

Records

Every loop is recorded in the Loop's own Data Sheets: the loops, the minutes, the decisions and the tasks. The Loop's page shows its board: what is open, what was decided and which actions are still open.

On the phone

In the myKareenos app you read the Loop like any channel and answer its cards there. To write to the facilitator, open your direct message with it.

Common mistakes

  • Waiting for your words to appear in the channel. They appear only after you press Yes, use it on the card, and then as the short line you confirmed.
  • Opening a second loop while one is open. It is noted as next. Finish the open one first.
  • A Loop with two people. No new loop opens until the channel has three.
  • Asking the facilitator what a colleague said. It does not tell one member what another told it.

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