# Reaching

> Updates about our community progress

**Published by:** [Sensemaking - SpiritDAO's Weekly Newsletter](https://paragraph.com/@spiritdao/)
**Published on:** 2026-05-11
**Categories:** community
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@spiritdao/reaching051124

## Content

Contents:Connecting with ICMatchOutreach is LandingEcosystem PolishUnder the Hood ImprovementsUpcoming eventsConnecting with ICMatch.org On May 5th, we sat down with the ICMatch.org community to explore what SpiritDAO looks like as federated infrastructure for intentional communities. ICMatch helps people find and form intentional communities such as cohousing groups, ecovillages, resource-sharing collectives, communes. These are communities built around shared values, shared governance, and shared resources. They're also communities that tend to outgrow their tools almost immediately. Group chats become unmanageable. Spreadsheets replace governance. Treasury lives in someone's personal account. Decision-making defaults to whoever has the most energy that week. SpiritDAO was built to solve exactly this. The conversation explored how pods, governance, treasury, events, and membership tools could serve as a shared operational layer, one that intentional communities own collectively rather than renting from a platform that doesn't understand how they work. This is what we mean by federated infrastructure: not one community using SpiritDAO, but many communities: each with their own identity, governance, and economy. Benefiting from the standardization of operating on shared rails while maintaining their core purpose and vision. The ICMatch session an opportunity to connect with others living the problem every day. Outreach Is LandingWe've spent significant time this week on prospective community outreach, with a particular focus on intentional communities. And for the first time, we're seeing early traction. Several conversations have moved past the introductory stage into substantive discussions about what integration would look like. Nothing is formalized yet, but the tone has shifted, from "tell me more" to "how would this work for us." That's a meaningful difference. Community building is slow by design. People who've been burned by platforms that disappeared, pivoted, or paywalled their work aren't going to commit on the first call. We're okay with that. The conversations that are happening now are the ones that lead to real, lasting partnerships, not sign-ups that churn in sixty days. If you're connected to an intentional community, a mutual aid network, a nonprofit collective, or any group that's outgrowing its current coordination tools, we'd love an introduction. The platform is free and a conversation costs nothing. Even better, SpiritDAO may be fit they've been looking for.Ecosystem PolishUnified app styling. We completed a full audit of the application's visual design and addressed several areas where legacy styling was still present from earlier iterations. Every screen, component, and interaction now follows a consistent design language. This is the kind of work that's hard to notice when it's done well — the app simply feels like one thing instead of several things stitched together. That's the point. Marketplace filtering. We've updated product filtering in the Marketplace to better reflect how members actually use it. Products now filter in relation to the pods you're part of, and we've expanded filtering options to ensure the Marketplace remains usable and relevant as the ecosystem scales. When a platform grows, the navigation has to grow with it — or everything starts to feel cluttered. This keeps it clean.Under the HoodGoogle Ads adjustments. We continued refining our Google Ads campaigns this week. An account upgrade from four months ago introduced some configuration issues that were affecting performance. Those have been addressed. The campaigns are now running cleanly against our current messaging and audience targeting.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 11th · 8:00 PM EST - A standing community gathering for conversation, questions, and shared presence. Join here First Contact — Wed, May 13th · 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 15th · 12:00 PM EST - A live working session where the community helps shape the app — bring your bugs, your questions, and your ideas. Join hereQuestions?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 Donate Thank you for reading! Please share this email with any friends you think might enjoy this newsletter. We are spreading the message one curious person at a time.SubscribeShareConnect with SpiritDAO SpiritDAO App SpiritDAO.org YouTube Twitter TikTok Docs SpiritDAO is a registered 501(c)(3) EIN #99-1308806.

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