Whatever you want to build, you do not have to do it alone.

A place to find the two or three people you need to start a small business, and the tools to actually run it together once you have. You pick a business that already works — with its real costs, licences and a six-week plan — find people near you who can do the parts you cannot, agree in writing who earns what, and open under the shared Junto name, numbered like a franchise, with the network’s suppliers and shared services behind you. Then you run the whole thing in one place: chat, the plan, the money, and the agreement everyone signed. Teams that would rather build their own name can opt out when they start.

Yes, for now. Starting a business, finding a team and running it in Junto costs nothing today. When that changes it will be because there is something worth paying for, it will be announced before it happens, and nothing you have already built will be taken away or held behind it.

No. It is the default because it is worth something: a team that opens under the shared name inherits the network’s supplier and procurement contacts, shared services at network rates, and a name that every other team’s work strengthens — the fourth Junto team in a city opens with the recognition the first three earned. Opt out when you start and run under your own name instead; the blueprint, the Pact, the ledger and everything else work exactly the same. What you give up is what travels with the name.

What you can do against what a team is missing, how close you are, how recently the team was active, and whether they have already shown interest in you. That last one is why a team you hearted may appear higher in someone else’s list — but a pending interest is never shown to the person who received it, so nobody can tell from what they see whether you have hearted them.

The written agreement a team signs before the money arrives: who holds which role, what share of revenue each person takes, how decisions get made, and how much notice someone gives before leaving. It is signed by every active member from a sign-in no more than ten minutes old, it cannot be edited once signing opens, and changing it later means a new version everyone signs again. Shares shown anywhere in the app are read from the signed Pact and nowhere else.

It is a written record of what a team agreed, signed by each member and timestamped, and it is far better evidence of an agreement than the WhatsApp thread it replaces. It is not drafted by a lawyer for your specific circumstances and it is not a substitute for one. If your business involves a lease, employees, outside investment or anything you could not comfortably walk away from, take the Pact to a lawyer and have a proper agreement drawn up.

Two to four weeks with agreed deliverables and an end date, before anyone becomes a full member. Both sides confirm at the end — the person and the team — and either can decide not to continue without it being a falling-out. It exists because a month of working together tells you more than any profile does, and because leaving in week two should be an ordinary thing rather than a betrayal.

By percentages agreed in the Pact, which must total exactly 100%. Every rupee earned or spent is entered into a shared ledger that only adds — a mistake is corrected with a new entry rather than by editing the old one, so nobody can quietly rewrite history. At the end of the month the ledger and the Pact together produce each member’s share, and each share becomes a payment link.

No. Junto calculates each person's share and gives you a payment link; the money moves between your own accounts. Nothing is held on your behalf, which means there is nothing for anyone to lose or freeze — and also that the ledger is only as honest as the entries the team puts in it.

Anywhere you can meet the people you would be working with. Nothing in the product is limited to one city: you say which area you are in, and you are shown the teams and the people closest to you. It is new, so how much it can show you depends on how many people near you have already joined — in most places that is still a small number, and it grows. The blueprints name the registrations an Indian business needs, and what the equipment costs will be different somewhere else; the roles, the six weeks and the way a team splits money are the same everywhere.