What to expect

Your information, your conversations, your projects

What you share inside the workshop - your information, the conversations you have here, the projects you bring - is treated as yours. The workshop doesn’t sell it, doesn’t train models on it, and doesn’t share it outside the community. One-on-one work stays between the people in the room unless both parties agree, in writing, to share it more widely.

Member accounts are protected with current best-practice security. Backups are kept off-site and encrypted. If something ever goes wrong on that front, members hear about it from us before they hear about it anywhere else.

When the workshop is available

Target: about 99.5% uptime - roughly twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, every week of the year, with only the occasional brief gap.

A short automated maintenance window runs in the wee hours, Eastern Time. It typically takes about an hour and is timed so almost no one notices. Outside that window, if something is unavailable, we’re working on it.

For real-time state, see status.stansworkshop.org.

Two ways the workshop works (often together)

The workshop has two sides. They’re not split - they’re two approaches to the same thing, and most of what happens here uses both.

Almost Always On

The public face and the steady essentials: this homepage, the booking page, the donation link, status updates, beta links. These are designed to be there whenever you need them.

Our Workbench

The hands-on side: the dashboard members use, the chat helper, the place to bring in an idea, the back-and-forth around live projects. This is where the workshop actually makes things, together.

A typical session crosses both. You arrive through the always-on side, sit down at the workbench, and the work happens between the two. That’s the design.