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Early Access · Waitlist Open

Own the Community. Own the Conversation.

We build, seed, and grow an official brand subreddit you own: a compounding home for your customers, your story, and the threads AI models cite. The program is in early access, and the way in is the waitlist.

Being straight with you: this is a new packaged program and we are onboarding a small first cohort rather than selling it openly. Everything below is exactly how the program runs once you are admitted. Joining the waitlist costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

The Dead Ends

Every Other Reddit Playbook Has a Ceiling

Reddit shapes buying decisions and feeds AI answers, but the usual ways in all fail the same test: durability.

Do nothing

The conversations happen anyway. Competitors compound, AI models cite threads you never influenced, and you lose by default.

Lose slowly

Go black-hat

Fake accounts, manufactured mentions, undisclosed promotion. Against Reddit's rules and the FTC's, and Reddit's enforcement is built to find exactly this.

Unacceptable risk

Guest engagement

Compliant commenting in unowned subreddits can work, but you cannot protect or scale it. One moderator's mood swing can erase months of work overnight.

Controlled by others
The Durable Path

Build a Community You Actually Own

An owned subreddit flips every constraint: you set the rules, your work cannot be erased by a hostile mod, and every thread compounds into search rankings and AI citations you keep.

Reddit

r/YourBrand

Branded subreddit

Your brand at the center. Self-promotion is allowed under your own rules, support gets a fast official channel, and fans finally have a place to say good things. Best for brands with existing recognition.

Reddit

r/YourNiche

Topical subreddit

Own the category conversation instead. Faster to grow, feels less like a branded space, and positions you as the host of the niche. Best for newer brands still building name recognition.

Once you are admitted, we recommend the right path for your brand in the first strategy session. Either way, the asset is yours.

The Program

From Zero to a Living Community

This is how the program works once you are admitted: four phases with a defined end, not an open-ended retainer. You know what each phase delivers, and there is a checkpoint where you can walk away with everything we have built.

Every community grows at its own pace. This is the arc we work toward.

Phase 01

Foundation

Subreddit designed and soft-launched: rules, flairs, moderation structure, AutoMod, and the first wave of seeded threads in the formats Redditors actually engage with.

Phase 02

Visibility

Reddit Ads promote your best threads into adjacent communities full of prospects. It is the sanctioned way to reach subreddits whose mods would never allow an organic brand post.

Phase 03

Activation

Your team joins the conversation under clear, disclosed guidelines: answering questions, handling feedback publicly, and giving the community an official voice it can trust.

Phase 04

Launch

Customers and your email list are invited in, capped with a leader AMA that gives the community its first flagship event and Google its first big crawlable thread.

Satisfaction checkpoint at the end of the Visibility phase: if you are not seeing what you expected, walk away and keep everything we have built.

The Content Engine

Threads Redditors Actually Engage With

We fill your community with the formats Reddit rewards, sourced from your blog, your support inbox, your industry's news cycle, and Reddit itself. Every thread goes to you for approval before it posts.

Hot takesOpinion elicitationIndustry newsControversial factsCompany newsLeader AMAs
Reddit-Sanctioned by Design

Built on Reddit's Own Rules, Chapter and Verse

Most agencies say "we're compliant." We cite the policy. Everything in this program runs on mechanisms Reddit explicitly provides for brands.

Moderator Code of Conduct, Rule 5

Reddit's mod rules explicitly allow company employees to create and maintain their employer's subreddit. Owned brand communities are not a loophole. They are the sanctioned path.

Read the policy

Content Policy, Rule 2

Authentic content, no vote manipulation, no fake engagement. Our threads are disclosed, approved by you, and posted from clearly affiliated accounts: the exact opposite of what enforcement targets.

Read the policy

Reddit Pro & verified profiles

We build on Reddit's own free brand toolkit: trend monitoring, content analytics, domain verification, and the verified brand checkmark. Official infrastructure, not workarounds.

About Reddit Pro

FTC-aligned, always

No undisclosed endorsements, no scripted advocacy, no purchased reviews. Team and customer participation is genuine and transparent, which is also why it works.

The FTC rule
Brands already running official subreddits:
r/fidelityinvestmentsr/SEMrushr/HubSpotr/MintMobile
The AI Payoff

The Threads AI Models Trust Most

When AI assistants answer buying questions, community threads dominate the experience and opinion sub-queries, the ones coverage and articles cannot reach. An owned subreddit is a compounding library of exactly those threads: crawlable by Google, citable by every AI model, and impossible for a competitor to take down.

Together with Digital PR and LLM Seeding, this closes the loop on the full query fan-out: press wins the comparative nodes, articles win the informational nodes, community threads win the experience nodes.

Reddit
40.1%

of LLM web citations come from Reddit

Ownership & Handover

You Spend an Hour a Week. You Keep Everything.

What we need from you

  • Steer editorial direction and approve threads (~30 min/week)
  • One internal point of contact for team activation
  • A leader available for the AMA in the Launch phase

What we run for you

  • Subreddit design, rules, flairs, and AutoMod configuration
  • Thread production, posting, and full moderation
  • Reddit Ads to adjacent communities
  • Team, customer, and network activation
  • Weekly reporting: engagement, reach, mentions, AI citations

The asset is yours, documented

Mod seats in your name, AutoMod configuration, rules and flair structure, the content playbook, and the posting calendar. After the Launch phase, continue with us on a lighter retainer or take it fully in-house. Continuing is an option, never a dependency.

FAQ

Common Questions

You tell us about your brand, and we come back with a branded-versus-topical read and a rough launch plan, usually within a few days. No payment, no contract, no obligation at that stage. If the fit is right and a cohort spot is open, we talk about starting. If not, you stay on the list and we come back when one opens.

Join the Brand Communities Waitlist

Early access, limited cohort. Tell us about your brand and we come back with a branded-versus-topical recommendation and a launch plan. No payment, no contract, no obligation.