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Hey everyone 👋

Today we’re excited to announce a big step forward for Open Format: Recommendations.

At the heart of it, Recommendations help communities understand where value is happening, not just where people say it might happen. They’re generated by our Discord Copilot today - and coming soon to Telegram, on-chain signals, and more.

Why Recommendations Matter

Communities today aren’t short on activity - they’re short on clarity.

People are contributing every day, but coordination is often messy, invisible, and inefficient.

It’s hard to see who’s actually driving value, and even harder to reward them fairly.

Most funding and reward systems still rely on promises - grant proposals, bounties, plans for what someone might do - not real proof of what’s already happening.

Open Format flips it.

Recommendations surface real contributions, real actions, backed by real data - so communities can coordinate smarter, reward faster, and grow stronger.

Proof over promises. Visibility over guesswork. Coordination that actually works.

How It Works (Right Now)

1. Invite our Discord Copilot into your server.

2. It monitors conversations, contributions, and signals.

3. It generates Recommendations based on real activity.

4. You log into Open Format, review the Recommendations, and reward users instantly with tokens or badges.

No spreadsheets. No guesswork. Just clear, data-backed value recognition.

Benefits for Contributors

Recommendations don’t just help community owners - they help contributors too.

Contributors finally get recognition for what they actually contribute, not just for talking about what they might do. Real actions get rewarded, and real work doesn’t go unseen.

They also build a reputation that travels. When a contributor earns rewards in one community, that proof is stored on-chain - portable, verifiable, and valuable.

Recommendations also enable better matching inside communities.

Where This Is Going: Building the CommunityOS

Discord is just the first step - the vision is much bigger.

Maintainers of open source projects will be able to recognise and reward everything that helps their projects grow.

But the opportunity is much bigger. Any community that relies on contributions can benefit.

We’re building a CommunityOS - an operating system for the future of communities.

Let’s Build It Together

We’re live-testing Recommendations right now.

If you want to bring this into your server and help shape the future of coordination - join us in Discord or book a call with me.

Cheers,
Andy and the Open Format Team