
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.

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.