What we've been up to. May '25
From big leaps in product, to TOKEN2049 Dubai, revamping our on-boarding and deeper partnerships, things are definitely picking up pace at Open Format.
Hello friends of Open Format,
It’s time for our latest progress update. From big leaps in product, to TOKEN2049 Dubai, revamping our on-boarding and deeper partnerships, things are definitely picking up pace.
TL;DR
Recommendations are live - Our community co-pilot is now listening to communities and giving community managers recommendations on: who to reward, what contributions to reward and how much to reward. This is our killer product feature. 🫶
Route to 100 communities - All hands on deck to get to 100 communities. We’ve been busy designing growth experiments, hooks and even our own detective agent in the works… 🕵️♀️
New Website + Proposition - Check out our new home at openformat.tech and our evolved messaging around Intelligent Communities.
TOKEN2049 Dubai - Bruce & I met with partners, tested our proposition, found new users, learnt a lot and met with some VCs too. I even made an appearance on TV!
Turbo turns 2 - and we joined the party - Dan joined Turbo’s Birthday Bash to share how we’re powering their next chapter. 🎉
Outlier Ventures Post Web progress - Roadmap sharpened, token strategy evolving fast.
Aurora partnership gets spotlighted - Featured on Rainbow Bridge to showcase how Open Format is live and creating value for web3 communities.
Communities don’t lack activity - they lack clarity. Who’s really contributing? Who should be rewarded? Our Co-pilot now answers those questions in real time.
🚀 Product Update: Recommendations are here!
This month, we launched a major new capability: Recommendations.
Our community co-pilot listens to conversations, monitors signals and generates Recommendations - ranked suggestions on who deserves recognition. Community managers can log in, review and instantly reward contributors with tokens, points or badges. No more spreadsheets, no more guesswork.
Proof over promises. Real actions. Fair recognition.
Soon this will expand to onchain signals and more - creating seamless, smart coordination everywhere communities live.
Why it matters:
Better coordination: No more messy, invisible work.
Fairer rewards: Real contributors get recognised.
Portable reputation: Proof of contribution lives onchain, travels across communities.
This is a foundational step toward our bigger vision: CommunityOS — the operating system for digital communities. Read Andy’s in-depth product update here.
🎥 New Demo Video
Andy has created a new demo video showing the latest product in action - check it out here! 🚀
🕵️♀️ Route to 100 Communities
Targeting, growth hacks, outreach, content, demos - we’re all over it. Designing experiments, testing, learning and spreading the word. Dan and Saadat are currently designing a detective agent as part of one of our hook experiments that spots potential reward recommendations across different communities… as a snippet of it’s personality “When a compliment falls in a chat forest and no one hears it, I do.”… it’s an experiment. Let’s see.
✨ New Website + Proposition
We’ve updated the website: openformat.tech.
With it comes evolved messaging that reflects the current version of our product:
Intelligent Communities is your scary smart community co-pilot — always listening, always learning, surfacing value and rewarding it in real-time across Discord, GitHub, Telegram and beyond.
Most web3 communities launch with hype and die with silence. Coordination is manual, fragmented and unsustainable. Community managers are stretched thin without the tools to sustain participation, spot real value or retain members.
With Intelligent Communities there is no more guesswork. No more firefighting. Just the tools, speed and insight you need to build communities that don’t just launch - but last.
Check out our new video by Saadat here!
❤️ On-boarding overhaul
From a UX perspective, alongside the new website Ollie and Andy have been focused on improving on-boarding. Very soon, new users will be able to get started much more simply and immediately experience the value of Intelligent Communities. Expect a significant update on this in the next 3 weeks. 🚀
🌍 Out in the world
TOKEN2049 Dubai - Bruce and I flew the Open Format flag at TOKEN2049. From investor conversations to a live TV interview, it was a very full on (incredibly hot!) few days. We spent valuable time with partners like Aurora, Matchain and PSG, while also meeting exciting new communities and partners keen to use Intelligent Communities.
Turbo’s 2nd Birthday - what’s next for Turbo… Dan joined Turbo’s Birthday Bash to chat about how Open Format is helping supercharge their decentralised community. Check the highlights here.
Aurora partnership - featured on Rainbow Bridge Our work with Aurora continues to go from strength to strength. This month, our collaboration was showcased on Rainbow Bridge, shining a light on how Open Format is driving value in the ecosystem.
Outlier Ventures Post Web Accelerator - momentum building We’ve been heads down advancing our roadmap and token strategy. The programme is going incredibly well - our pitch deck is now refined and our token model is getting clearer thanks to George’s work with the awesome team at OV!
💰 Charging
From July we’ll begin charging for our product at the agent layer. Experiments are running right now to define where the payment transaction should sit. There is work to be done but we’re on track.
👀 What’s Next
Here’s a taster of what’s coming soon:
Expansion to Telegram (this week) and onchain signals
Significantly improved UX for onboarding
More network effects and reputation portability between communities
Deeper integration into DAO and treasury coordination
🙏 Our Asks
We’re actively raising right now and would love your support. If you want to see our deck or introduce us to investors aligned with building decentralised digital economies - reach out!
And if you know any communities who want to automate coordination and reward real contributions send them our way. We’re live and ready…
With love and gratitude,
Sarah & the Open Format Team ✨
