Your AI CEO runs the community for the first 90 days.
You'd think Discord needs a full-time community manager — Astra ships the server, programs the first 8 weeks, and reports engagement weekly.
Astra builds your Discord community by treating it as a 90-day operational program with measurable engagement targets. Day 1 she designs the server: 6-8 channels max (welcome, announcements, general, help, showcase, jobs, off-topic), role hierarchy with self-serve roles via reactions, automod via Wick or Carl-bot, and a verification gate to kill spam. Then she writes the welcome DM flow (3 messages over first 48 hours), pins onboarding posts, and sets up the showcase loop where members post wins. For weeks 1-8 she runs programming: 1 weekly thread prompt, 1 AMA every 2 weeks, 1 community spotlight per Friday, and a launch-week kickoff with 50 hand-picked invitees. Output: live server, weekly Lark engagement report (DAU, messages, retention), and a quarterly review on whether community is driving actual product signal — not just a vanity room.
6-8 channels, self-serve roles via reactions, verification gate, automod rules, welcome flow.
Pull power users from PostHog + top customers from Stripe, draft personalized invites in Gmail or Slack, target 50 join in week 1.
Mon: thread prompt. Wed: showcase highlight. Fri: community spotlight. Bi-weekly: AMA with founder or guest.
Automod handles spam/links. Astra reads daily activity, flags any rising tension or top-3 unanswered questions to founder for personal reply.
Lark message: DAU, messages/day, new members, top 5 threads, retention curve, signal-to-noise ratio.
A live Discord server with channel architecture, automod, welcome flow, 50+ bootstrap members, 8 weeks of programming queued, plus a weekly Lark engagement report.
90-day program with weekly Monday reports, then ongoing.
We'll spin up your workspace, hand the prompt to Astra, and you see the answer in 60 seconds. Free.
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Discord scales to thousands of users for free, has better moderation tooling, and the public-by-default model encourages discovery. Slack Connect is great for enterprise customer councils (10-50 trusted accounts) but caps and search become problems past ~500 members. Astra can run either — tell her which fits your stage.
She runs a diagnostic: wrong invite list (low PMF with the audience), too many channels (signal dispersed), bad time zone for AMAs, or no founder presence. Then she rebalances — usually consolidating channels and getting the founder to post once a week makes a 3-5x difference.
Wick or Carl-bot handles automated spam (links, raids, repeat-content). For human conflict, she flags it to you within 1 hour with context and a recommended response. She never bans without your sign-off — but she will hide a message and pre-draft the warning DM.
If you connect it to your product feedback loop, yes. She tags every #help and #showcase post for themes, surfaces the top 3 weekly to your roadmap process, and quotes power-user language back into your marketing copy. Without that loop, Discord becomes a vanity room — she'll flag it if engagement isn't translating to product or sales signal.