Sena

Sena for communities

The community admin bottleneck:

You're screening 50+ applications manually.

New members join and disappear.

You're the only one who knows who should connect.

Engagement drops after the welcome message.

Your community's value is capped at your capacity.

Sena talks to every member, so you don't have to.

What kills communities:

Not a shortage of members or of value. A shortage of activation.

You built a community because you knew what happens when the right two people meet: a collaboration, a solved problem, a business that grows.

Then you hit 100 members. Then 300.

Now you screen applications against criteria only you understand. New members join, fill in a form, get added to a Slack, and disappear. You know which two members should be talking, but you have to remember it, and the moment passes. Engagement lives and dies by whether you personally nudge people.

Three hundred people could be helping each other. It all goes through you.

Community platforms don't fix this. They give you directories and channels. A directory can tell you what a member wrote in their bio two years ago. It can't tell you that one of them changed direction last month and needs a different room than the one they joined for.

Your members already answer their phone. That is the whole opening.

Sena learns every member, so you do not have to remember them all

Screening that learns your standards

You set the criteria once. Sena reads every application against what actually makes someone a fit rather than against keywords. The clear yeses go through. The edge cases come to you. You review the exceptions instead of the pile.

Onboarding that captures reality

Every new member gets a real conversation in their first week, on WhatsApp. Not "complete your profile." What are you working on, what would help, what can you offer, who do you want to meet. At Les Entrepreneurs Haute-Garonne, 69% of members answered all four in conversation. Written surveys get 10 to 20%.

Check-ins that catch drift

Every quarter Sena asks again. What changed, what is hard now, what would help. People's needs move and their bios don't. A member who has answered a question this quarter is a member you still know something about.

Introductions, not a directory

Members get the introduction sent to them, with the reason attached, on the channel they already use. Nobody browses a directory. At the same community, 932 recommendations went out across 113 members in a single convention.

Signs your community is working:

  • Members know what others are working on, not just what's in their bio
  • Collaborations form without you brokering them: the system knows who fits
  • Engagement stays high after month three: check-ins catch drift
  • New members get value in days, not months: onboarding captures real needs
  • You spend time on strategy, not admin work: the coordination runs itself

The community scales. Your workload doesn't.

This works when:

  • Your community is 50+ members: scaling manually breaks
  • Quality matters more than size: you screen, not accept everyone
  • Value comes from connections, not just content: intros drive outcomes
  • Members are busy: they won't browse directories or fill detailed profiles

If your community is a Slack channel where people occasionally ask questions, you don't need Sena.

If your community is a curated network where the right introduction changes someone's business, this changes how it operates.

From the first community deployment

Les Entrepreneurs Haute-Garonne, the employers' organization for small and mid-sized businesses around Toulouse, ran Sena on the Speed Business networking at their annual convention.

76%

of Speed Business participants opted in

Les Entrepreneurs Haute-Garonne

932

recommendations across 113 members

Les Entrepreneurs Haute-Garonne

69%

completed full discovery in conversation, against 10 to 20% for surveys

Les Entrepreneurs Haute-Garonne

We take on a handful of communities a year.

If you run a curated community where the right introduction changes someone's year, let's talk. One call, and we'll map how Sena would work against your actual membership. Communities run on a monthly retainer rather than a per-event fee. See how pricing works.

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