Communities you own.

Chipi builds an independent online community for your business and maintains it. Your domain, your database, your member list. Every piece of software installed, connected, and paid for. Your members get an app on their phone. One flat price that does not move when you grow.

What we build

Seven pieces of software. One install. One login.

Most small businesses run a community tool, an email tool, a store, a form builder, a project board, and video hosting as six separate subscriptions, then move the data between them by hand. We install all of it on one system with the connections already built.

The community

Spaces, feeds, member profiles, direct messages, events, and courses, on your domain and under your name. Members install it on their phones as an app.

The business stack

Email marketing, a store with subscriptions and tiers, forms, project boards, and video hosting. Same install, same login, one bill.

The automations

A member joins and lands in the right spaces with the right welcome. A purchase grants access. A form creates a contact. Built during the build.

The AI connection

Every community ships connected to an AI assistant that reads and runs your own data. Ask for the numbers, the campaign, or the change, in plain language.

Bought separately this stack runs past $1,500 a year before anyone configures it. Every license is included in your price.

14Days to launch
$0Per-member fees
20+Add-ons included
1Bill for all of it
AI access

Run it by asking.

No admin panels to learn. No reports to build. Your community, your member list, your store, and your boards, connected to an assistant you talk to.

How many members joined last month, and which spaces are they in?
Write the September newsletter and send it to everyone in the Contractors space.
Add a $49 membership tier with monthly renewals and open it to new signups.
Create a board for the fall event and assign the vendor tasks to Maria.

Scoped to your site and your data. We set the permissions during the build and document what it reaches.

Pricing. Flat. Always.

One price. Everything in it.

Twelve month term, billed monthly. The build is included in the first year, so there is no setup invoice. It renews at the same rate, and it does not change when your community grows.

$199 A month. You keep your hosting.

You own the hosting account and pay your host directly. We install, configure, and maintain everything on it.

  • The full build, no setup fee
  • Every software license
  • Mobile app and push notifications
  • AI access
  • Courses and paid membership tiers
  • Updates, backups, spam controls
  • Two structural changes a month
  • Monthly report and direct support
Start a community
$299 A month. We host it.

Everything on the left, plus the hosting itself. We provision it, pay for it, and keep it running. You point your domain at it and log in.

  • Hosting provisioned and paid for
  • Domain and SSL configuration
  • Daily backups, restore on request
  • Email deliverability handled
  • One bill for the whole system
  • Full export whenever you ask
Start a community

Four things sit outside the price. Every one carries a number.

Content
Twenty posts, discussion prompts, and comment seeds a month, written to keep the community moving.
$299/mo
Moderation
Automated rules, flagging, and actions on member conversations, built and tuned for your community.
$99/mo
Migration
Move an existing Facebook Group, Slack, or Circle community in, members and content together.
$499
Monetization
Member ad marketplace, sponsor placements, ad networks, and ad-free plans, configured end to end.
$399

Why does a community platform cost so much everywhere else?

Per-member seats. Storage tiers. A branded app behind the top plan. A cut of everything you sell to your own members. A price that rises every time the thing works.

Chipi charges for the build and the upkeep. Nothing on the invoice moves when you grow.

How it works

Fourteen days from a form to a community.

01

Send a brief

One short form. Who your members are, how you want them grouped, what you sell them, what your brand looks like. No call required to start.

02

We build

We install the stack, build your spaces and roles, apply your brand, wire the automations, and connect the AI. Fourteen days.

03

You take it over

A walkthrough of your own community with your administrator, including how to run it by asking. Then you invite your members.

04

We keep it running

Updates, backups, monitoring, and two structural changes a month, every month, for as long as you stay.

Our principles
00.

Why Chipi exists

Every small business with customers who talk to each other has the same problem. The talking happens on a platform they do not control, in a group they cannot export, in front of an audience they cannot email. Everyone knows this. Almost nobody fixes it, because fixing it means running software.

The software exists. It is good, and it costs less than people think. The only question was whether anyone would install it, connect it, and keep it running at a price a small business can pay every month.

The answer is Chipi.

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01.

You do not own your audience

Your members are on a platform you rent. The list of who they are belongs to the company that runs it. Your reach is a setting on somebody else's dashboard. The rules change on a Tuesday and nobody sends a memo.

You built something real and handed the keys to a company that has never met you and will never take your call.

A community you cannot export is a community you are borrowing.

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02.

Per-member pricing punishes success

Circle, Mighty Networks, and Kajabi charge by the member or by the seat. Grow and pay more. Succeed and pay more. Every new member is a line item, so the better your community works, the more the invoice hurts.

That pricing model asks you to think twice about inviting people. A community that punishes you for growth is working against the only thing it is for.

Our price is the same at fifty members and at fifty thousand.

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03.

The member list is the asset

Posts are traffic. Engagement is weather. The list of people who raised their hand and said they want to hear from you is the only durable thing a community produces.

On a rented platform that list is a number on a dashboard. On yours it is a database with email addresses in it, and you can reach every one of those people tomorrow morning without asking anyone's permission.

If you cannot email your members, you do not have members. You have viewers.

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04.

Your community should be a place, not a feed

A feed is a river. Everything scrolls past once and is gone, sorted by an algorithm optimizing for something that has nothing to do with your business. Your best thread from March may as well have never happened.

A place has rooms. Spaces by topic, searchable history, documentation that stays where you put it, events with dates on them, courses that people finish. Members go there on purpose instead of encountering you by accident.

People come to a place. They get served a feed.

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05.

One install beats six subscriptions

The usual setup: a community tool, an email tool, a store, a form builder, a project board, and video hosting. Six vendors, six invoices, six logins, six exports, and a person on your team moving spreadsheets between them on Friday afternoons.

All of it runs on one install, on one login, with the connections already built. A purchase grants community access. A form creates a contact. A new member gets the right welcome and lands in the right room.

Integration is not a feature you buy. It is a thing somebody has to sit down and do.

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06.

Your members should have an app

The community installs on iOS and Android home screens with your name and your icon, and push notifications reach members for posts, comments, and messages. Members open an app instead of remembering a URL.

The platforms sell this as an enterprise upgrade at four figures a year, because they know what an icon on a home screen is worth.

Included. Every plan. No tier above this one.

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07.

Licenses are our problem

Bought separately, the stack we install runs past $1,500 a year before anyone configures a thing. Renewal dates, license keys, expired activations, plugins that stop updating because a card expired in March.

None of that is yours. Every license is in your price, and keeping them current is the job you are paying us for.

You should never receive an email about a license key.

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08.

A community can pay for itself

Members buy their own ad placements and pay through your store. Sponsors buy the header and the sidebar. Ad networks run in the feed. Members who want a clean view buy an ad-free plan from you.

Every other platform treats your community as a cost that rises with its success. A community with an audience in it is worth something to somebody, and that somebody should be you.

Your community is inventory. You should be the one selling it.

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09.

You should be able to run it by asking

Every community we build ships connected to an AI assistant that reads and runs your own data. Ask how many members joined last month. Ask it to write the newsletter and send it to one space. Ask it to add a membership tier, or to build a board and assign the tasks.

Software that requires a training course is software that gets used for three weeks. The whole point of owning your infrastructure is defeated if operating it takes a specialist.

Ask your business a question and get an answer back.

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We build the machine. You own the room.

We install the software, connect it, update it, back it up, and keep it running. We do not write your posts unless you ask us to. We do not moderate your threads, recruit your members, or speak in your voice.

Members can tell when an agency is doing the talking. The relationship you have with the people in your community is the only thing on this page that cannot be installed.

We own the infrastructure. You own the conversation. That division is the entire company.

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11.

Flat rates are a moral choice

Hourly billing rewards slow work. Project billing rewards scope creep. Per-member pricing rewards your growth by taxing it. We charge one flat rate because it puts us on the same side of the table as you.

The twelve month term exists for one reason: the first month is a build, not a subscription, and a community takes two to three months to take root. It funds the work without a separate setup invoice.

The price you see is the price at renewal, at any size.

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12.

Everything exports

The domain is yours. The database is yours. The member list, the content, the courses, the sales records. Ask for the export and you get it, whole, in a format anyone can read.

We would rather earn the next month than trap you into it. A company that keeps clients by making leaving painful has stopped competing on the work.

If you go, you take all of it.

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What we do not do

Published on purpose. It is how the price stays where it is.

  • Recruit members for you
  • Run ad campaigns on outside platforms
  • Build custom plugins or custom themes
  • Put a person on staff to read your threads
  • Design past your existing brand, unless you ask

Common questions

The short answers.

  • Member limit? None, at any size.
  • If I cancel? Full export, and we migrate it wherever you want.
  • Who pays for software? We do, every license.
  • Can I charge members? Yes, tiers and renewals are in the base price.
  • Already have a Facebook Group? Migration moves the members and the content.
  • Do I need to be technical? No. That is the service.

Stop renting your audience.

Fill in the brief and we will have your community running in fourteen days. Look at a live one first if you want to see what you are buying.

The brief

Start here.

Tell us who your members are and what you want the community to do. We reply with the plan, the timeline, and the first invoice. No call required.

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