Your books, posts, outreach, email list, customers, sponsors, media appearances, your own classes, the calls people book with you, a chatbot for your website and apps and games made from your book - one program, on your own computer, with one home screen that shows all of it. At the top of that screen: Moving forward - your Joy Looper check-in, your 90 days and the kit you are on, so the business and the plan sit side by side.
Take all seventeen, or just the ones you need. It opens with exactly those switched on. Want more later? Every piece is already inside it - add one from Add more on its home screen, or tick it here and your Command Center switches it on by itself the next time it checks your key (Settings > Check again now does it straight away). Each one you add joins the home screen, the calendar and Ask at once.
Pick your computer. It is the same program for all seventeen tools - the ones you picked above are the ones that open.
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The program asks for this the first time it opens. It is the only thing it ever sends to Joy Looper - twice a day, to check your account is still active.
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Every account below is yours, paid to that company if it costs anything. Joy Looper never sees them.
| Tool | What it needs | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Books | Your bank feed through SimpleFIN Bridge - or just the CSV files your bank lets you download. QuickBooks Self-Employed exports come in with their categories. | SimpleFIN about $15 a year. CSVs free. |
| Social Scheduler | Bluesky: an app password. Mastodon: an access token. LinkedIn: a token from your own LinkedIn developer app. Threads: a token from your own Meta app. X: your API keys. Pinterest: a token from your own Pinterest app (pins are only seen by you until Pinterest gives the app Standard access), and every pin needs a picture. Discord: a channel webhook. Instagram, Facebook Pages, TikTok and the rest: a Zapier or Pabbly webhook. Each one has step-by-step instructions inside. | Free, except X's API and Zapier/Pabbly plans. |
| Outreach Board | Nothing. "Open it in my mail" uses your own email program; nothing is sent from the board. | Free. |
| An email service: Resend, Postmark, Mailgun, SendGrid, or any email account (Amazon SES, Gmail/Google Workspace, Brevo...). Your mailing address (the law asks for it). An unsubscribe page: Postmark, Mailgun and SendGrid host one, or the WordPress plugin, or a server copy. | Resend: free for 3,000 a month. Amazon SES: about 10 cents per 1,000. | |
| Customers | The sales exports you already have - Stripe, Shopify, Kickstarter, PayPal, Gumroad, Patreon, or any spreadsheet with a name, an email and an amount. Bring the same file in twice and nothing doubles. | Free. |
| Sponsors | Nothing. It finds companies from the email addresses on your list, and counts clicks from the links in your newsletters. | Free. |
| Media | Nothing. Signups from an appearance are counted by the tag you give its signup link in Email. | Free. |
| Classes & Cohorts | Email set up with your own email service, so the class and challenge emails can go. For applications and challenges from the internet: the WordPress plugin (1.1.15 or later for challenges), or a server copy. | Free (your email service's own price). |
| Calls & Bookings | TidyCal, Calendly or Cal.com - or add calls by hand. Email set up to send follow-ups. Your own AI key for briefs and drafts (optional). | Cal.com is free to start. |
| Your Chatbot | Your own AI key (Anthropic or OpenAI), with limits you set. For visitors on your website: a server copy. | Usually a fraction of a cent an answer; a server about $5 a month. |
| Apps & Games | Your own AI key, and some of your writing - a whole book is ideal. | An app is usually well under a dollar; a game is one call. |
| Support Inbox | Your support mailbox and an app password for it (Gmail, iCloud, Fastmail and Yahoo give you one in a minute), or the free WordPress plugin for the contact form. Your own AI key is optional. | Free; AI replies about a tenth of a cent each. |
| Testimonials & Reviews | Email set up to send the asks. The free WordPress plugin for the form and the wall - or a server copy, or they simply reply. Your own AI key is optional, for picking the best line. Reviews: your Goodreads author page and your podcast's Apple Podcasts page, nothing to sign up for; your own AI key reads Amazon and other store pages and tells you what readers come to you for. | Free. Your AI provider bills you for the reading - pennies a page. |
| Affiliates & Referrals | Customers switched on, with your sales files (the code column is read on its own). For links: the free WordPress plugin or a server copy. Email set up to send partners their numbers. | Free. You pay partners the way you already pay people. |
| Memberships | A read-only Stripe key or a Patreon creator token (each takes a minute), or a members spreadsheet from Substack, Ko-fi or anywhere else. Email set up to send the notes. | Free. |
| Blog Writer | Your own AI key. The free WordPress plugin, or a Ghost Admin key, to send posts there. | A post is a few cents. |
| Serials | Email set up (the chapters go through it). To sell the whole book: a Stripe restricted key that can only make checkouts (steps inside). Your books as EPUB, Word, PDF or text. | Stripe's usual fee on each sale. |
| AI (optional) | Your own Anthropic or OpenAI API key, in Settings. It turns on the AI buttons: sort transactions, write check-in questions, draft posts and newsletters, judge whether a company fits as a sponsor, draft sponsor and podcast pitches, answer your chatbot's visitors, draft support replies and blog posts, and Ask about your business. | Pennies, billed by them. |
SERVER.md in the download walks you through it, HTTPS included. A server copy also takes signup forms from any website directly, and ChatGPT or Claude.ai can reach it.The plugin adds a signup form (the "Joy Looper signup" block, or [jltk_signup]), hosts your unsubscribe page, and keeps signups safe on your site until your Command Center collects them - so it works with a laptop. Install it from Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
The Command Center opens on one page that shows what is happening across all of it: money in and out this month, cash, your list and who to watch on it, the next posts, this quarter's outreach, who to write to first, sponsor money owed, your next appearance, and a calendar of the next two weeks with everything on it. Anything that needs you sits in a strip at the top. Arrange lets you move panels up or down (or drag them), make them wide or small, and hide the ones you do not use; it remembers.
Every page has an Ask button. Ask it anything about your own business - "what needs me this week?", "what did I spend the most on this year?", "which newsletter did best, and why?", "who bought once and never came back?" - and it answers in plain words from your own data, looking up your books, list, newsletters, customers, sponsors, appearances, outreach, your classes, your calls and what visitors asked your chatbot as it needs to, and says what it looked at. It only reads: it never sends, posts, files or changes anything. It runs on your own AI key (Anthropic or OpenAI, added in Settings > Your AI), so each question is billed to you by them - usually a fraction of a cent. The conversation stays on your computer.
At the top of Ask, pick who you are asking. Your CFO reads only the money - Books, Customers, Members, Affiliates and Sponsors: what came in, what went out, who owes you. Your CMO reads only the marketing - Email, Social, Blog, Testimonials & Reviews, Serials, Outreach and Media: what worked, who to pitch, what to write next. Your CEO reads everything and gives you a weekly review and the three things to do this week. Each keeps its own conversation.
Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and other AI programs can read and work with your books, posts, outreach, list, customers, sponsors and appearances - "what did I spend on software this year?", "who bought twice and is not on my list?", "draft a newsletter about the tour". In the Command Center, Settings > "Use it from Claude..." gives you the exact lines to paste. It never sends an email or a post by itself; those stay drafts for you. The CFO, CMO and CEO come with it as prompts (in Claude Desktop, the + button): pick one and the conversation starts in that role, reading first and asking before it changes anything.
On your computer, in a folder called "Command Center" in your home folder (or on your server). If you used the Joy Looper Toolkit before, it keeps using your "Joy Looper Toolkit" folder, so nothing moves. Joy Looper sees your license key being checked - and, if you check in from the Command Center's home page, that check-in (your 1-7 and your note), which goes into your Joy Looper account like a check-in in the app. Nothing else: not your transactions, posts, contacts, subscribers or settings. (Settings in the Command Center switches the check-in panel off.) If you add your own AI key, what a question needs goes to that AI company (Anthropic or OpenAI) under your account, and nowhere else.
Settings > Backups > Download a backup gives you everything as one file. On the new computer, open the Command Center, paste your key, then Settings > Restore from a backup. Or copy the "Command Center" folder (or "Joy Looper Toolkit", if that is the one you have) across. Transactions, contacts, subscribers and posts also export as spreadsheets (CSV) from each tool.
It keeps working for 14 days and checks again on its own. If your account ends, the Command Center locks - but your data stays yours, and "Download a backup" still works.
Your Command Center tells you on its home screen when a new version is out. Download it here, close the old one, and open the new one. It finds your data where it left it. A new piece that comes with an update is switched on if you took everything, or waits under Add more if you picked yours.
It is the same program, renamed, with Customers, Sponsors, Media, the home screen and Ask added. Download it here, close the Toolkit, and open the Command Center: your key and everything you had in Books, Social, Outreach and Email are already there. You can then delete the old JoyLooperToolkit program (not the "Joy Looper Toolkit" data folder).
Yes - "Make a new key" above. The old key stops working straight away, so paste the new one into your Command Center (Settings > Use a different key).