Growth solutions · Business community building
I build professional communities for companies and organizations from zero: a customer community, partners, talent or an entire industry. With a method, infrastructure and automation, and with my own hands in it until it works.
No commitment. We will figure out whether a community is the right tool for your organization.
Someone opens a group, invites friends, there are two weeks of excitement, and then silence. The reason is not that people don't want it. The reason is that there is no method: no reason to come back, no one connecting people, and no infrastructure that holds it together when the founder gets busy.
Building a business community that works means building an asset. It produces trust you cannot buy with advertising, content that comes from the members themselves, and deals that are born from connections rather than from selling.
In a world where everything is becoming synthetic and exposed to fakes, the ability to create a community built on real human trust, backed by technology, is what makes the difference.
In 2016 I started with a job mailing list and one-on-one meetings. Today it is a network of 3,500+ executives, founders and professionals, with a weekly interview, a Business Arena group, a senior forum and hundreds of introductions a year. A serial founder and executive recruiter said it opened doors he didn't know existed.
I co-founded it in 2019. Today it has more than 2,000 members, a mentors program, and a monthly no-agenda forum of CEOs and senior executives. The most interesting people there would never have met on LinkedIn.
When I needed to build credibility for a medical diagnostics solution, I founded a community of 1,000+ physicians for knowledge sharing and learning. It became the product's most trusted marketing channel, because doctors believe doctors.
I have also helped launch more than ten content communities in other fields.
What people see is warm personal relationships. What sits behind the scenes is infrastructure: an onboarding process, a clean member database, automations for content and introductions, and measurement.
That is how I run a community of thousands in 3 to 5 hours a week. And that is what I build for an organization: not a group, but a system that holds itself together even when nobody is available.
What the organization needs from it: loyal customers, partners, talent, industry positioning. Without a clear answer we don't start. And if a community is not the right tool, I say so in the first conversation.
Who the members are, why they come back, what the rules are (give first, then receive), the cadence, and who does the connecting. This is the document that separates a community from a group.
An intake form, a database, a channel (WhatsApp, Slack or another), automations for content and introductions, and metrics. I have built this several times, and I build it hands-on.
The first meetup, the first interviews, the first introductions. I am inside until there is critical mass and a routine.
The organization gets a working community, a trained community manager, and infrastructure it can keep running. I can stay in the background as an advisor.
A defined setup project, from diagnosis to handover, usually a few months. Afterwards, as needed, ongoing support or advisory. Pricing is set after a diagnostic call, based on the size of the community and the infrastructure required.
15 minutes, from me to you, and we will figure out whether a community is the right tool for your organization.
Itamar Assaf