For Communities · Memberfy

The work isn’t the community. It’s everything that comes with it.

The group is in one place, the course in another, the event in a third tool, the billing in a fourth, and a spreadsheet tries to tie all four together. Each has its own monthly fee and none talks to the others, so it falls on you: checking who paid, granting access by hand, nudging whoever missed it, forwarding what was already said. It is work nobody sees and that doesn’t fit in a week.

Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel or become the administrator of their own community. What people look for is the opposite: parts that come already connected, the repetitive stuff happening on its own, and your hours going back to people. Automation here isn’t a luxury — it decides whether you’ll still be doing this next year.

What isn’t software

Having a community is one thing. Making a living from it is another.

Most communities never get to monetize. Not for lack of tools — for not knowing what to charge, to whom, for how much, and what to leave open so people can find their way in. Handing over software and wishing you luck solves the easy part of the problem.

Memberfy was built to be the right hand of whoever leads the community. Not technical support answering tickets, nor a courtesy for beginners: someone who has filled rooms, sold tickets and, above all, sold sponsorships — sitting down with you to decide what to charge, to whom and for how much, and staying close after the first sale, which is when the hard questions start.

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We set it up with you: Sections, spaces, what stays open and what is for paying members. The community doesn’t arrive empty, waiting for you to figure out where to start.
What to charge, and how much: How many subscription tiers make sense for your audience, what goes into each, and what works better open than closed. It is the decision that stalls good people the most.
Whoever talks to you has run communities: Global CTO of Campus Party, co-founder of a 21,000 m² innovation hub, content and events for 17,000 executives. The conversation isn’t about the tool, it’s about your community.

We are inviting the first communities, one at a time — which is why access is by request and not by sign-up. We want to know what you are building before we say yes.

Engaging, growing and monetizing turn the same wheel

Engage

A feed with short notes, nested comments and reactions so the conversation doesn’t depend on you showing up every day. Points per action show the people who only read that there is room to speak. It’s what keeps the group alive the week you go on vacation.

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Grow

Open spaces become a shop window on your domain, findable by search; closed ones stay for members or subscribers. Visibility is decided space by space, so you can leave the door ajar and grow without opening the whole house.

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Monetize

Subscriptions, one-off sales and sponsorship in the same place people already are. Access turns on when someone pays and off by itself when they cancel, with no spreadsheet and no checking. And what comes in funds the content that turns the wheel again.

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They feed each other: a group that comes back is one you can grow, a bigger group is one you can monetize, and revenue is what pays for the group to keep coming back. Handling the three in separate tools is what stops the wheel.

What stops being your job

The part of the wheel nobody sees and that eats most of the time. Here it happens on its own.

Access: Paid, they’re in right away. Canceled, they’re out on their own. You don’t check a spreadsheet, you don’t grant access by hand and you don’t find out from your bank statement that someone stopped paying three months ago.
Archive: What was said keeps existing, with a fixed address and search. Whoever arrived today finds what came before instead of asking someone to forward it.
One account instead of five: Community, courses, events and billing on one platform, with no gateway to integrate and no two databases to keep in sync. One monthly fee, one invoice, one place to look.
A participation yardstick: Eleven actions earn points, at the value you set, with the ones that don’t make sense turned off. Engagement you configure once and that runs on its own.
Moderation: Pre-approval when the topic calls for it, roles to share the work with those who help, and no extra charge per moderator.
Money: Every sale, fee and withdrawal becomes a line in your statement that nobody rewrites. Knowing how much came in stops being a reconciliation exercise.

Three revenue streams, not one

Almost everyone tries only the first and concludes that community doesn’t pay the bills. The other two usually pay better, and neither requires charging more to the people already inside.

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Direct sales: recurring subscriptions with tiers, paid courses and events, charged by PIX, boleto or card inside the platform
What the community produces: spaces where any member can post or create a course, and a call for papers with pay agreed or set by whoever submits — you curate and broker instead of producing everything
Sponsorship: companies pay to talk to your audience, and it is the stream that usually earns the most per hour of your work — there is a whole block on it just below

Sponsorship

The money that passes your community by every year.

There are brand budgets looking for exactly what you have: an audience that gathers, comes back and pays attention. The conversation almost never dies for lack of interest from the company — it dies because the community has no way to package the offer. There are three gaps, and none of them is about the size of your audience.

There is nothing to show
How many people come back each week, who replies to whom, which learning path had the most completions. If that lives in your head and a messaging group, the conversation ends before it becomes a proposal — and no company approves budget for an audience that can’t describe itself.
There is nowhere to put them
Serious brands don’t want to be seen, they want to talk. Without a place inside the community where a company can co-create — a meetup, a learning path, a challenge — the only thing you have to sell is a logo in the footer: what is worth the least and what your audience tolerates the least.
There is no ROI
Without a record of what happened — who came to the meetup, how many finished the learning path, what stayed published — sponsorship doesn’t renew. The first time can be a favor from someone who likes you; the second is a contract, and a contract asks for numbers.

The doors that open

The company co-hosts instead of sponsoring from outside: An event takes more than one host, so the brand goes on the poster as a co-organizer with you, with its name and page right there — not as a logo in the corner of the card.
A space or a learning path with its own identity: You open posting permission to whoever you authorize. The sponsor brings real content to your audience, with your curation in the middle.
A sponsored challenge: The call for papers opens a track just for that sponsor, with a review committee and community voting. Participation becomes a measurable deliverable.
The numbers the proposal asks for: Leaderboards per community and per section, confirmed attendance at events and per-student progress on learning paths. That is how you build a proposal instead of a favor.
The record the renewal asks for: The gallery and the archive keep what happened, at a fixed address. At the end of the cycle there is something to show, not just a memory that it went well.
Only those who should be reached: Visibility is set space by space, so the sponsor’s activation reaches the agreed audience and not the whole community at once.

On the other side of this same site are the companies looking for exactly this: HR and Innovation teams wanting to talk to audiences that already exist. Sponsorship is the door where the two sides meet — and it usually pays better than charging more to those already inside.

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The spaces that turn this wheel

The ones almost every community turns on first. The rest remain available on any plan — no space sits behind a price step.

Who builds a community like this

What changed

Trust stopped flowing up to institutions and started circulating between people.

Edelman’s annual survey shows trust moving inward — toward people who are close, familiar, alike. For someone who leads a community, that isn’t a market trend: it is a description of the asset you already hold.

60%: of searches end on the results page or in ChatGPT, with no click on any websiteSXSW 2026
No. 1: community builds trust, and trust is the most cited factor in technology buying decisionsGartner, Market Guide for B2B Community Platforms
58%: of buyers already start their research directly in AI, up from 24% just a few months earlierSXSW 2026

Out goes the click, in comes reputation. In the search economy, whoever got found won. In the artificial intelligence economy, whoever is considered trustworthy will win.

Nizan GuanaesAdvisor to Itaú, iFood and ArcelorMittal, UNESCO ambassador

What someone the brand doesn’t pay says about it outweighs everything the brand says about itself. A community is the only place where that voice exists in an organized way, with an address, a history and names — and where it is yours, not a platform’s that can change the rules tomorrow.

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We are inviting the first communities.

Memberfy is in closed beta, so access is by request. Tell us what you want to build: we reply, set it up with you and stay close afterward.