Three platforms. A small studio. A library of documents.
A specialist team that provisions, configures, and documents communities — so your team can run them on day one without us.
Studio
Cheyenne, WY
Open · Mon–Fri
Communities die from treatment, not platform choice.
We have watched dozens of well-intentioned launches collapse — not because the platform was wrong, but because the operating model was missing.
Symptoms
A community on autopilot.
- A Discord link in the website footer.
- The platform default category list.
- A moderation policy that ended at "be nice".
- Welcome message sent by the platform.
- No admin documentation. No handover.
Treatment
A community on rails.
- A category tree members can actually navigate.
- An escalation matrix mods can defend.
- An onboarding flow that converts lurkers.
- A welcome kit and member journey DM.
- Admin documentation a new hire can read on day one.
We work backwards from what a community needs on month three — not what it looked like on launch day.
Five rules we don't break for any budget.
Operating beliefs that survive every project, every revision, every late-stage scope change.
Communities are products.
Treated with the same rigour as your SaaS — onboarding, retention, lifecycle.
Moderation is the product.
Without escalation rules and trust-level automation, the rest is wallpaper.
Onboarding is the product.
A welcome flow, a journey map, and a first-week DM. Day-one engagement is not luck.
Documentation outranks deployment.
A community without an admin guide is a community that dies in twelve weeks.
No subscriptions. No lock-in.
You own the platform account. You pay once. You get the keys and the manual.
How we work, in three movements.
No retainers, no Slack channels you forget to leave. Three discrete moves, then a clean handover.
Discovery
A short async brief and one call (if it helps). We name the niche, the member shapes, and the monetisation model.
Build
We provision, theme, structure, automate, and document. You get one preview link to react to before we hand over.
Handover
Admin walkthrough, moderation playbook, recorded Loom. After that, the keys are yours. We are one chat message away.
Four things we will not do for any price.
If any of these is a dealbreaker, we are the wrong studio for the project.
We will not run your community after handover.
No retainers, no babysitting. The handover ends the engagement.
We will not lock you into a proprietary stack.
You own the platform account from day one. Cancel us, keep your community.
We will not bill you monthly.
One purchase, one delivery. Add-ons are quoted on the order chat.
We will not pad a brief with custom code.
If the platform can do it, we configure. We do not invent surface area to sell.
A studio, not a service desk.
A small set of facts about how we operate, day to day.
Cheyenne, Wyoming · Mountain Time
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Open · Mon – Fri
Outside hours? Drop a note on the order chat — we reply within one business day, every time.
Studio Profile
Operating Details
Based
Cheyenne, Wyoming · Mountain Time
Studio hours
09:00 – 18:00 MST · Monday to Friday
Reply window
One business day on the order chat
Time zones
Americas all day · EMEA mornings
Concurrent builds
Capped at six per studio month
Languages
English (primary) · Spanish on request
Dear Studio,
Have a brief in mind? Drop us a line.
Send us a few sentences about your community — niche, member shape, and what you'd want a launch to look like. We reply within one business day.
Send to:
support@forumbuilderslab.comPhone (307) 622-4611
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Office Cheyenne, Wyoming