A tool for sponsors, sponsees, and recovery friends working the Twelve Steps together.
I struggled to get sober for years. I tried everything — meetings, treatment centers, doctors, therapy. I poured myself into my business, into working out, into anything that might fix me. None of it kept me sober.
I’d never actually worked the Steps all the way through. I’d get to three, maybe six or seven, relapse, and start over. I’ve changed sponsors more than I’ve changed my socks.
So what happened?
What happened was I became ready. I was willing to go to any lengths, and I worked all twelve Steps with a sponsor, all the way through.
Working the Steps produced a spiritual awakening. They showed me the root of it was myself — my own self-centeredness — and that apart from God I can do nothing. I was powerless. What I found in surrender wasn’t just sobriety; it was a relationship with God I’d never had. For me, that’s where He shows up: in the rooms. That’s where I get my messages.
Today, sober since February 21, 2025, I sponsor men walking the same road. I built Work the 12 Steps so the next person could find what I found — not from an app, but from another person who’s been there.
The work is still yours, your sponsor’s, and your Higher Power’s. This just helps keep those connections close.
The Big Book puts it best: “Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us.” I hope this tool helps you do exactly that — and helps you stay sober, one day at a time.
— Philip M., Houston
A sponsorship and recovery support platform. Practical tools for working the Steps together — for sponsors, sponsees, and recovery friends.
Sponsors, sponsees, recovery friends, and anyone working a twelve-step program.
Because recovery is passed person to person — and the relationships that carry it deserve better support.
Guiding others through the Steps — with everything you need to show up in one place.
Working the Steps with a sponsor, with your progress and commitments easy to follow.
Supporting one another in recovery — the people who walk alongside you.
Looking for direction and a way in. Start here, and find the next right step.
Sponsorship has always been passed person to person — through phone calls, coffee meetings, and late nights working the Steps together. That tradition doesn’t need fixing.
Work the 12 Steps provides one place to support that relationship: step progress, sobriety milestones, anniversaries, and the recovery lineage connecting everyone in the chain.
Work the 12 Steps is built around how sponsorship actually works — not how a tech company thinks it should work.
Sign up as a sponsor, sponsee, or recovery friend. Free, no credit card. Takes two minutes.
Add your sponsees, your sponsor, or recovery friends. The platform tracks everything from there.
Log which step each person is on. Get alerted before anniversaries and chip milestones.
Keep your meeting history in one place, with dates and times. For sponsors, see your people’s attendance at a glance.
Your recovery lineage — the chain of sponsorship connecting you back through the years — made visible.
In 1935, Bill Wilson made a phone call from the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel in Akron, Ohio. A business deal had collapsed. He was six months sober and feeling the pull to drink. Instead of going to the bar, he went to the phone booth.
That call reached a suffering alcoholic named Dr. Bob. From that meeting, Alcoholics Anonymous was born. Recovery has been passed person to person ever since.
Bill W. got sober and, six months later, reached out to another alcoholic instead of drinking.
Dr. Bob took his last drink on June 10, 1935 — the founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Two million people in AA alone today. Meetings in 180 countries. The chain continues.
You. Someone helped you get sober. Now you help the next person. That is the entire program.
Work the 12 Steps is built to make that chain visible — and to honor every person in it. Read the full story →
Yes. Free for sponsors, sponsees, and recovery friends. No subscription, no premium tier, no catch.
No. Sponsors, sponsees, recovery friends, and people new to recovery can all use it.
No. It’s for anyone working a Twelve Step program — AA, NA, GA, OA, Al-Anon, Celebrate Recovery, and others.
Free for sponsors, sponsees, and recovery friends. Always. No credit card. No catch.