# Rehearse before going live

> Set everything up and read what Shuffl would send before anyone on your team hears from it.

Audience: Workspace owners and administrators

Kind: Explanation

Canonical: https://shuffl.ai/docs/go-live

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## What rehearsal is

A new workspace starts in rehearsal. Every program runs on your real people and settings: Pulse picks its questions, Connections makes its pairs, celebrations and playbook steps come due. Nothing Shuffl starts on a schedule reaches your team until you go live.

Each message that would have gone out is held instead, with the exact Slack message or email. Owners and administrators still receive their own, so they feel what the team will get. Answers to a person’s own question or praise arrive as usual.

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## Read what was held and what is coming

Home tells administrators how many messages were held this week and what comes next. Setup → Go live lists every held message with who it was for and when; open one to read it as the person would have, in Slack or by email.

Coming up shows the next four weeks from today’s settings and People: Pulse sends, Connections rounds, celebrations, playbook steps and automation actions. Change a program and the list changes with it, so you can tune a schedule before anyone notices.

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## Go live

1. Open Setup → Go live and choose Go live. The confirmation says what happens next.

2. Held messages from the last seven days are sent now, exactly as you previewed them. Older ones are dropped, so a closed question or a stale introduction never arrives late.

3. From then on every scheduled message reaches its people. Back to rehearsal, on the same page, holds new messages again; it never unsends anything.

## Related guides

- [Set up your workspace](https://shuffl.ai/docs/getting-started)

- [Companies and workspaces](https://shuffl.ai/docs/companies-and-workspaces)

- [Workspace settings](https://shuffl.ai/docs/settings)

- [Ask one confidential question at a time with Pulse](https://shuffl.ai/docs/pulse)

Agent documentation index: https://shuffl.ai/llms.txt