The Community Flywheel
A healthy community runs on five pillars that reinforce each other in a continuous cycle. Structure enables Activation, activation deepens through Belonging, Co-Creation strengthens that tie, and Growth is the result, which feeds back into Structure again. None of them works alone, and a weak pillar shows up as a problem somewhere further around the loop.
01 Structure
The consistency and clarity that let a person know what's permitted and how to start. It's not the rulebook itself, it's whether the space behaves the same way today as it did last week.
Community Vitals
Here is how we actually measure this. A guided conversation about your community that ends with a score and an honest written read across five areas. No sales pitch, just the diagnosis. Built for communities with an online home, Slack, Discord, Circle, or similar. There are two versions: Brief Vitals, free and about ten minutes, and Comprehensive Vitals, a deeper twenty-minute read that is coming soon.