
Open Social and CMNTY are both Dutch, both say they build community, and both are right - one hands you a network you own, the other turns a crowd's opinions into research data. Here is why the same word points at two very different businesses.

Zapnito, Almabase, Disciple, XenForo, Gainsight and CMNTY are quietly selling brands a way to own their audience instead of renting it from a feed. Here is how one market splits into six very different bets.

Bevy started as software for running meetups. Now the Palo Alto company sells Twitch, Salesforce and Adobe on the idea that a well-run community is a measurable business asset - and it has just bolted a squad of AI agents onto the pitch.

Long before Discourse threads and Patreon tiers, a Dutch company was turning online communities into listening posts for brands. CMNTY has spent nearly two decades using customer conversations as research nobody else could run.