Purpose + people
Who the community is for, the narrative that holds it together and why it should exist.
The door
Find the actual community problem.
Before you hire, choose a platform or launch another channel.
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Community Signal Check.
A short written read on the one blockage most likely to waste your community budget.
- One diagnosis based on your current situation
- One practical next move
- A clear call on whether a full audit is worth it
If the signal is real
The paid audit turns it into a plan.
The audit is interview-first: hours of conversation with the people who will live in the community, not a sales call and a scope document. What they say sets the plan.
System + risk
Brand, communications, moderation, trust, platform choice and decision flow.
Build plan
Operating model, measures and the right level of infrastructure: existing platform, tailored stack or sovereign build.
Named method: reshape signals
Every audit ends with reshape signals: named decisions where interview evidence changes or removes a product primitive. The chat module a vendor picked loses its place; six scattered tools become one surface. Each signal is recorded with the interview passage that triggered it. Not a feature request, not a backlog tick. The plan's real spec.
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What feels stuck?
Four fields. We reply with the Community Signal Check.