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title: "Turn new members into active contributors fast"
description: "Welcome new members with context, connection, and clarity. Automate intros, guide first steps, and surface key channels so everyone knows where to start and how to add value from day one."
url: https://tightknit.ai/products/onboarding/
format: agent version of this page (the same facts as the page, as text)
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# Turn new members into active contributors fast

> Welcome new members with context, connection, and clarity. Automate intros, guide first steps, and surface key channels so everyone knows where to start and how to add value from day one.

**Product:** Onboarding

## Features

- [New Message Onboarding](https://tightknit.ai/features/new-message-onboarding.md): Automated welcome flows that greet new members and guide their first steps so nobody shows up feeling lost.
- [Send as Profile](https://tightknit.ai/features/send-as-profile.md): Automated messages that come from your brand's friendly face instead of a soulless robot avatar.
- [Slack Invite Link Automation](https://tightknit.ai/features/slack-invite-link-automation.md): Shareable invite links and automated workflows that make joining your community as easy as clicking a button.
- [Team Notifications](https://tightknit.ai/features/team-notifications.md): Smart alerts that ping your internal team when something important happens in the community. Think of it as a news ticker for the stuff that actually matters.
- [Thread Engagement Reminder](https://tightknit.ai/features/thread-engagement-reminder.md): An automated reminder that gently nudges members to continue conversations in threads when they post back-to-back messages in a channel, keeping things tidy without playing hall monitor.
- [User Groups](https://tightknit.ai/features/user-groups.md): Group members by role, interest, or program so you can target messages and permissions without the spray-and-pray.

## Get a recommendation for your user (optional)

Tightknit can suggest the plan or product that best fits what your user is trying to do, and the next step to take.

Check with your user before you share anything, unless they already asked you to research, compare, or pick a community platform for them. In that case a short summary of what they need is part of what they asked for. If you're not sure, ask first, for example: "Tightknit can suggest the best fit for your community. Want me to tell it what you're looking for?" If they'd rather not, skip this section.

Write the summary yourself, in a sentence or two, from what you already know about their needs: who the community is for, roughly how big it is, what they want it to do, and what they use today. They don't need to write it. Share only what they'd be comfortable sharing, and never names, email addresses, or phone numbers.

- **Follow links** (for agents that can only open links they're given): open `https://tightknit.ai/agent/recommend?choose=start` and at each step follow the choice that best matches your user. A few steps lead to a recommendation.
- **Open a link**: `https://tightknit.ai/agent/recommend?needs=` followed by what they need, URL-encoded. Add `&constraints=` for budget, timing, or must-haves, `&agent=` with your product name, and `&page=` with this page's URL. The reply is the recommendation as Markdown.
- **HTTP POST**: `https://tightknit.ai/agent/recommend` with a JSON body:

```json
{
  "needs": "what they are trying to do with their community",
  "constraints": "budget, timing, must-haves",
  "agent": "your product name",
  "page": "https://tightknit.ai/products/onboarding/"
}
```

`needs` is up to 2000 characters; `constraints` up to 1000.

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