A group at ARC is a small, recurring room of business owners that meets on a set rhythm with a facilitator in it. It is not a chat channel, a directory listing or a mailing list. You bring a real problem, the people in the room work on it with you, and you leave with one thing to have done before the next session. Two groups run at the time of writing. Both take new people, and any member can apply to start their own.
Three things separate an ARC group from a networking event or an online forum.
The third one matters most. Most owners are surrounded by people who work for them, sell to them, or are politely impressed by them. None of those can help with the decision you are stuck on. A structured room of peers can, because the structure takes the awkwardness out of admitting you do not know.
ARC runs two groups today. Both are online, so you are choosing a time, not a city.
A group here goes live when someone signs up to it. That is deliberate: ARC opens rooms when people ask for them rather than publishing a calendar of sessions nobody booked. So a group listed without a date next to it is not a dead listing — it is waiting for its first person, and signing up is what starts it.
One hour, on Zoom, for founders and early-stage owners. Three sessions run every fortnight — Monday 2:00pm, Wednesday 5:30pm and Friday 11:00am, all Sydney time — and you take whichever suits.
Every session runs on the same four questions: what challenges are you facing, what resources do you need, who do you need to be connected to right now, and what advice are you seeking. A fifth is asked every time — what did you achieve since the last one.
The hour is divided deliberately: ten minutes on where everyone is, fifteen on what is stopping you, twenty on the room answering, ten for a specialist speaking to what was actually raised rather than a slot booked in advance, and five for one commitment each. You answer the four questions before you come, so the session is built around what people raised.
A fortnightly group in ARC's Wealth Creation community, built around a single declared objective that members report progress against openly. Members bring numbers, obstacles and introductions, in that order. Application-only, read personally, deliberately small.
Knowing ARC's actual structure saves you looking in the wrong place.
If what you wanted was one place holding peer groups, workshops and access to specialists rather than three separate subscriptions, that combination is what ARC is built as.
If the room you want does not exist, apply to start it. The form on this page asks four things: what the group is called, which community it belongs in, what type it is — mastermind, study circle, industry group, club or think tank — and what it is for. It opens an email addressed to ARC's founder — your own mail app sends it, and he is the person who replies.
Every group listed here was created by ARC, and nobody can publish one on this page themselves. That is a gate on listings, not on people. ARC does not screen anyone. It asks people to take steps — apply, turn up, contribute, keep contributing — and the steps do the filtering. Nobody is rejected here. The people in a group are the ones who kept going.
The specialist directory sits behind a member sign-in rather than being open to browse, and nobody sifts through it on your behalf. Specialists carry tags for what they do, and people are matched to them by those tags — so what reaches you is what a community actually asked for.
What it does not mean: a guarantee of a result. ARC does not publish outcome figures for its groups, because it has not measured them, and an unmeasured number is worth nothing to you.
If you want the room, book the next Think Tank. If the Wealth Creation group is closer to what you are doing, send the application. If neither is the room you are looking for, use the form on this page and tell us what is — that is how the next group starts.