crowd.dev

· #498 most-used

Community intelligence that turns DevRel signals into action

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crowd.dev is an open-source developer community analytics platform that aggregates member activity across GitHub, Discord, Slack, and more into a unified engagement graph. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create or update member profiles, log activities from any source, fire automations when high-value contributors appear, and sync community signals directly into your CRM — all without leaving your other tools.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents replace the time spent pulling engagement reports, tagging members across tools, and routing community leads to sales — work that previously required logging into crowd.dev, exporting CSVs, and pasting data into HubSpot or Sheets.

Schedule

What your crowd.dev agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

crowd.dev × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~33 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
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New member → welcome sequence in 60 seconds

The moment a developer joins your community on GitHub, Discord, or any connected channel, crowd.dev fires a New Member event and your agent springs into action — a personalised welcome email lands in their inbox, their profile is enriched in crowd.dev, a Slack alert goes to your DevRel team, and a follow-up check-in lands on the Google Calendar before they've finished reading your README.

~15 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When crowd.dev detects a new community member from any connected source
Result
Create or Update member with welcome-contacted tagPost new member alert to #devrel channelCreate 7-day follow-up check-in event
The win
Saved per run
45 min
Runs / week
~20×
Zero missed onboarding moments
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    18 min / week
    Manual ICP research

    SDRs spend 18 min/week cross-referencing crowd.dev member scores against HubSpot to find sales-qualified community leads worth reaching out to.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent flags and routes warm leads

    Agent monitors crowd.dev engagement scores, tags ICP-matching members sales-qualified, and posts their activity summary to the SDR before lunch.

  • Marketing
    13 min / week
    Campaign segment export

    Marketers manually filter crowd.dev member lists by engagement tier, export CSVs, and upload them to campaign tools for each DevRel initiative.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent syncs segments automatically

    Agent updates crowd.dev automations and pushes qualified member segments to HubSpot the moment a campaign goes live — no CSV exports.

  • Customer Support
    18 min / week
    Community forum triage

    Support managers manually scan crowd.dev activity feeds to find unanswered forum posts and route them to the right engineer before they go stale.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent routes unanswered questions instantly

    Agent watches New Activity events in crowd.dev and pings the right subject-matter expert in Slack within minutes of an unanswered post appearing.

  • Human Resources
    7 min / week
    Contributor outreach prep

    HR spends 7 min/week manually pulling top-contributor profiles from crowd.dev to identify external candidates worth inviting to developer events or roles.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent surfaces top contributors

    Agent scans crowd.dev member activity weekly and delivers a ranked shortlist of high-engagement contributors to the HR team's Notion doc every Friday.

  • Finance
    13 min / week
    OSS sponsorship evaluation

    Finance manually requests activity exports from DevRel to assess whether a nominated OSS contributor meets the threshold for a sponsorship budget approval.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent delivers contributor stats instantly

    Agent reads the nominated member's crowd.dev activity count and posts a stats summary to the sponsorship GitHub issue within seconds of a nomination.

  • Operations
    25 min / week
    Stale member audits

    Ops manually reviews crowd.dev for members inactive 90+ days, cross-checks HubSpot, and updates lifecycle stages to keep the CRM and community data aligned.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent reconciles both systems automatically

    Agent detects stale profiles in crowd.dev, archives them in Notion, and updates HubSpot lifecycle stages in a single automated pass — no spreadsheet gymnastics.

  • Legal
    6 min / week
    GDPR erasure requests

    Legal team manually locates the member in crowd.dev by email and deletes their record to satisfy data-erasure requests within the required 30-day window.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent handles erasure end-to-end

    Agent finds and deletes the crowd.dev member record by email the moment a deletion request arrives, logging the action for compliance documentation.

+ 100s of other crowd.dev automations
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 person
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
25
Hours saved / year
1,250
Annual ROI
$25,000

Based on crowd.dev's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug crowd.dev into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path — install crowd.dev's MCP server in one click and the agent accesses your community data through a permissioned handshake with your crowd.dev workspace. No tokens to copy, no YAML to edit.

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Open the Apps tab

Find crowd.dev in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

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Authorise in crowd.dev

You'll be redirected to app.crowd.dev to grant Actionist read/write access to your workspace. Choose the tenant you want connected and confirm.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

15 action your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

6 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with crowd.dev

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FAQs

Questions about crowd.dev + Actionist

How do I connect crowd.dev to Actionist?
Open the Apps tab, find crowd.dev, and click Connect. MCP is the default and fastest method — it redirects you to app.crowd.dev where you authorise Actionist with a permissioned handshake. If you run a self-hosted crowd.dev instance, switch to API key and paste your instance URL alongside the token from Settings → API Keys.
What credentials does the API key method require?
You need a crowd.dev API token plus your instance URL. Tokens live at app.crowd.dev → Settings → API Keys (or your self-hosted domain). Generate a dedicated key for Actionist, copy it immediately — crowd.dev only shows it once. The token needs read and write access to Members, Activities, and Automations for all actions to function.
Which crowd.dev objects can my agents read and write?
Agents can read and write Activity records (individual engagement events), Member profiles (identity + attributes), and Automation rules (the trigger-action logic crowd.dev runs internally). Triggers let agents react to New Activity and New Member events in real time. The full list of supported operations is shown in the Actions and Triggers tabs on this page.
What are the most common automation use cases for crowd.dev?
The highest-value uses are: (1) onboarding sequences that fire when a New Member appears — email + Slack + calendar in one chain; (2) sales routing that tags ICP-matching members in crowd.dev and pushes them to HubSpot when engagement scores hit a threshold; (3) weekly DevRel health reports that pull activity aggregates into Notion or Google Sheets without manual exports.
How do I avoid creating duplicate member records?
Use 'Create or Update' on the Member resource — crowd.dev matches on identity (GitHub handle, email, Discord ID) and merges attributes rather than creating a second profile. If you're importing from external tools, always pass at least one identity field (email or platform handle) so crowd.dev can deduplicate. The 'Delete' action can clean up test profiles after you've verified your integration.
Can Actionist agents react to crowd.dev events in real time?
Yes — the New Activity and New Member triggers fire as soon as crowd.dev ingests a new event or profile from a connected source (GitHub, Discord, Slack, etc.). Latency depends on crowd.dev's ingestion pipeline, typically seconds to a few minutes. For near-real-time alerting (e.g. routing a forum question to support), New Activity is the right trigger.
How do crowd.dev automations interact with Actionist agents?
crowd.dev's internal automations are separate from Actionist agents — they run inside crowd.dev itself (e.g. auto-tagging members). Actionist agents can read, create, update, and delete those automation rules via the Automation resource. A good pattern: use Actionist to manage the lifecycle of crowd.dev automations (enable for a campaign, disable when it ends) rather than letting them accumulate and conflict.
Does crowd.dev work with self-hosted deployments?
Yes — the API key connection method explicitly supports self-hosted crowd.dev instances. Enter your own domain as the instance URL instead of the default app.crowd.dev. MCP currently targets the cloud-hosted platform; if you're fully self-hosted and need MCP-style convenience, the API key method with a dedicated token is the recommended path.