Introducing Community AI Agents
Pulse Rebuild
Forum & Chat Redesign
Under the Hood Improvements
Upcoming events
This is a new capability for SpiritDAO and we're excited about where it leads.
Community AI Agents are an optional, premium add-on that any pod can enable. When activated, your pod gets its own AI-powered community member, an agent with a custom name and personality that actively participates in discussions, answers questions, and helps keep your community engaged between the moments when humans are busy living their lives.
Here's what your agent does:
Daily Discussion Prompts — Your agent starts a new conversation in your pod's forum every day, tailored to your pod's focus area and recent activity. The goal isn't content for content's sake, it's a spark that gives members something worth responding to when they check in.
Mention-Based Replies — Members can @mention the agent by name in forum threads or chat. The agent reads the conversation context, pulls from your pod's knowledge base if one exists, and responds thoughtfully. Think of it as a subject-matter resource that's always available.
Weekly Event Suggestions — Each week, the agent proposes event ideas relevant to your pod's mission. These appear as drafts that pod leaders can review, edit, publish — or reject. You stay in full control. AI-generated events are currently limited to free, informational formats like discussion meetups and reading groups. If there is significant interest in the future we can incorporate paid events as well.
Custom Knowledge Base — Upload PDFs or text files to train your agent on your pod's specific domain. Responses stay grounded in your content, not generic.
Setup takes about two minutes. Open your pod's management page, go to the Agents tab, enable the agent, give it a name and personality, choose a forum category, and optionally upload documents. The cost is 25 $SYSTEM for 30 days, with revenue supporting DAO operations. Communities can toggle the agent on and off and retain any unused days.
Pod leaders have full control at every level: naming, personality, posting location, event approval, and the ability to turn it off at any time with data preserved.
This is what we mean when we talk about AI as community infrastructure. Not AI that replaces people. AI that keeps the room warm until people walk in.
This represents a new experimental direction for SpiritDAO, our core community ecosystem remains 100% free and always will be. Agentic AI as community engagement represents our first premium feature, which can only be purchased with $SYSTEM. When $SYSTEM is burned within our ecosystem the dollars associated with it default to our operations pool, which pays for the AI credits used on the bot (and more).
Last week we shipped a major notification overhaul. This week, we rebuilt the system that displays all of it.
The previous Pulse architecture wasn't scalable. As we added more notification types, activity categories, and ecosystem events, the feed was straining under a structure that wasn't designed for this level of complexity. So we rebuilt it, a more unified infrastructure that covers all relevant app functions and gives us a foundation that scales with the platform.
If Pulse felt incomplete before, that's because it was. It isn't anymore.
We've revamped the UX for both our forum and chat interfaces to better align with SpiritDAO's ecosystem theme. The visual language is more cohesive, navigation is cleaner, and the experience feels more intentional across both spaces.
Alongside the visual refresh, we've updated forum templates to better support how communities actually use them, and fixed a display issue where markdown formatting was rendering as raw text instead of displaying properly. Bold is bold again. Lists look like lists. The basics are now expanded to meet the evolving needs of communal coordination.
iOS download fix. We resolved a bug that was preventing the app from downloading properly on iOS devices. If you tried to install on iPhone or iPad and hit a wall please try again.
Upcoming Events This Week
We strongly recommend registering for events within the SpiritDAO app (Events section) at app.spiritdao.org, it's how we gauge attendance and shape the flow of each session.
Town Hall — Mon, May 4th · 8:00 PM EST - A standing community gathering for conversation, questions, and shared presence. Join here
SpiritDAO for Intentional Communities — Tues, May 5th · 7:30 PM EST - A session in partnership with ICMatch.org, a platform dedicated to helping people find and form intentional communities, from cohousing and ecovillages to resource-sharing collectives and communes.
The session will cover how communities are using SpiritDAO to coordinate transparently, compensate contributors, and build real infrastructure together. We'll explore how SpiritDAO's governance, treasury, events, and membership tools can serve as the operational backbone for intentional communities that need more than group chats and spreadsheets.
If you're part of an intentional community, or building one, this is a conversation worth joining.
Register here: https://cultivate-caring.community/get-involved/
First Contact — Wed, May 6th · 12:00 PM EST - The official starting point for new members — a peer-to-peer orientation into how participation works. Join here
Feedback Loops — Fri, May · 12:00 PM EST - A live working session where the community helps shape the app — bring your bugs, your questions, and your ideas. Join here
The best way to get in touch is within our community: https://app.spiritdao.org
If it's easier, send us an email: community@spiritdao.org
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