AOK in Action
Get your Kindness Card · claim what you already do

Claim your kindness.

You already do this. Somebody on your street already knows it. A Kindness Card is where it gets written down — and the only thing it costs you is ten minutes to start.

Rung 1
The Flag
1 of 16 answered
Answer one question — what kindness means to you. The flag goes up and you are on the map. A Rung 1 card is finished, not an unfinished Rung 4.
1 questionyour own wordsfree, always
Plant a flag →
Rung 2
The Story
7 of 16 answered
Six more questions, mostly a tap. Now it sounds like you — the invoice you never sent, the house you check on that nobody asked you to check on.
6 questionsa photographa review we found
Tell your story →
Rung 3
Dressed Up
16 of 16 answered
Your people get named. Photographs that move. And every Rung 2 answer rides up as a mark, so nothing you wrote is ever lost on the way up.
9 questionsyour people2 photographsa monthly story
Name your people →
Yoursto decide
Rung 4
What you make of it
Past the questions
There is no form left. Events, a story in the Gazette, a running ledger of acts, A²OK at your door. This is the rung where an organization stops having a page and starts changing the street. By invitation, with a person on our end.
eventsa Gazette storyan acts ledger
See Brightwater’s Gazette →

The more of it is yours, the better it looks.

That is not a trick of the design — it is the whole mechanism. Every question you answer in your own words puts another mark, another face, another photograph on the page. A card nobody personalised stays a flag. A card somebody spent twenty minutes on stops looking like a template and starts looking like them.

One card · one set of questions · whatever kind of organization you are
✦ Why it has to be claimed

Kindness is an annual plant. It has to be planted every year.

Not perennial. If the seeds are not put in the ground again the whole thing quietly disappears, and somebody has to go and find new seed. A card is not a trophy for what you did once — it is this year’s planting, written down where the street can see it.

You are already being told this works
The customers who keep coming back when there is somewhere cheaper down the road.
The ones who send their friends to you without being asked, and never mention it.
The people who give to the cause you named, or turn up to the thing you hosted.
The one who wrote the review about the day you would not take the money.

Ten minutes. One question.

Start at Rung 1 and stop whenever you like — the card is finished at every rung, and you can climb whenever you find another fifteen minutes. Most questions you answer by tapping a symbol rather than writing.

Claim your kindness → Free · no account · nothing published without your say-so