Actionist·Orbit
Orbit

Orbit

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Track, engage, and grow your developer community from one workspace

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Orbit is the community experience platform for developer-facing teams, giving you a 360° view of every member's engagement across GitHub, Discord, Slack, forums, and custom sources. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create and enrich member profiles, log activities from any channel, detect high-gravity contributors for champion programs, queue at-risk re-engagement tasks, surface community context for sales calls, and process GDPR requests — all without anyone manually managing the Orbit dashboard.

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Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual community member profile creation, activity logging across multiple platforms, at-risk member identification, and the time spent assembling community context for sales and leadership teams.

Schedule

What your Orbit agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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7Agents at work
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Multi-app workflows

Orbit × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
8Apps spanned
~14 hrsSaved / week
5Personas served
For developer relations
Featured3 apps

New OSS contributor profiled and welcomed within about a minute

When a new external contributor opens their first pull request on GitHub, the agent finds or creates their Orbit member record, logs the PR activity, and posts a contributor card to the team's Slack channel — so the DevRel team can send a personal welcome message with full community context before the code review even begins.

~5 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a new pull request is opened by a first-time external contributor on GitHub
Trigger
Step 1
GitHub
Detect new pull request opened by external contributor
read
Step 2
Orbit
Find Member by Identity using GitHub username
write
Step 3
Orbit
Create Member if not found, or Update Member if record exists
write
Step 4
Orbit
Create Activity of type 'pull-request-opened' on member profile
write
Step 5
Slack
Post contributor card to #dev-community with name, love score, and PR link
Result
Create Member if not found, or Update Member if record existsCreate Activity of type 'pull-request-opened' on member profilePost contributor card to #dev-community with name, love score, and PR link
The win
Saved per run
15 min
Runs / week
~20×
Every new contributor gets a community profile before the PR review starts
Driven byMarketing Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    20 min / week
    Manual community research before calls

    AEs ask the DevRel team whether a prospect is active in the community, wait for a reply, and piece together context from Slack messages and forum threads before each call.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent pulls community context card before every proposal call

    When a deal moves to Proposal Sent, the agent fetches the prospect's Orbit love score, activity history, and relationship notes and writes them to the deal brief — AEs walk in knowing the relationship.

  • Marketing
    30 min / week
    Manual champion and spotlight nominations

    The community team manually scans forum posts, GitHub activity, and social mentions weekly to identify rising contributors and compile a nomination list for the marketing team to review.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent identifies and routes rising contributors automatically

    Every Thursday the agent lists Orbit members who crossed the love-score threshold this week and routes them to the newsletter spotlight shortlist and the ambassador program pipeline — no manual nomination process.

  • Customer Support
    25 min / week
    Manual at-risk member identification

    Support leads manually review ticket histories and community activity logs to find customers who may have churned after a bad experience, then guess at the right outreach message without relationship context.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent queues at-risk member re-engagement tasks with context

    The support agent identifies members who went quiet after a support interaction, retrieves their Orbit relationship notes, and queues a personalized outreach task — the team acts on data, not intuition.

  • Human Resources
    10 min / week
    Manual DevRel hire profile setup

    DevRel managers manually create Orbit member records for new hires, link their social accounts, and remember to check each person's community activity separately when compiling performance data.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent tracks team community footprint from day one

    When a new DevRel hire is onboarded, the agent creates their Orbit member record and links their GitHub and LinkedIn identities immediately — their community contributions are tracked from their first day.

  • Finance
    40 min / week
    Manual community ROI model assembly

    The finance team manually exports Orbit data, cross-references it against CRM records in spreadsheets, and attempts to build a community ROI model every quarter — a multi-hour effort with uncertain data quality.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent generates champion-to-revenue correlation report automatically

    The finance agent lists champion members quarterly, cross-references their activity counts against CRM expansion revenue, and writes the cost-per-community-activity metric to the board report — no analyst time required.

  • Operations
    60 min / week
    Manual workspace data hygiene

    Ops manually audits Orbit member records for duplicates, checks activity logs for webhook double-fires, and assembles a community health report from raw exports into a spreadsheet each week.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent runs weekly workspace hygiene and deduplication automatically

    The operations agent lists all members, finds duplicates by shared identity, deletes phantom activities from webhook double-fires, and posts the community health report to Slack — every week without prompting.

  • Legal
    15 min / week
    Manual GDPR erasure request handling

    The legal team manually locates the member in Orbit, exports their data, deletes the record, and records the deletion in a compliance spreadsheet — a process that can take hours if the request arrives at a busy time.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent processes GDPR erasure requests in Orbit with full audit trail

    When an erasure request arrives, the agent finds the member, exports their data package, deletes the record, and logs the action with timestamp in the compliance register — all within about a minute.

+ 100s of other Orbit automations
Average time saved
20 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
13
Hours saved / year
625
Annual ROI
$46,875

Based on Orbit's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Orbit into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect Actionist to Orbit using an API token and your workspace slug. All read and write operations — member management, activity logging, and note creation — go through Orbit's REST API with this token.

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Generate your Orbit API token

Log in to your Orbit workspace, click your avatar in the top right, and go to Settings → API Tokens. Click Generate new token, give it a descriptive name like 'Actionist', and copy the token value immediately — it will not be shown again.

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Find your workspace slug

Find your workspace slug in Orbit under Settings → Workspace. It is the short identifier that appears in your Orbit dashboard URL (e.g. orbit.love/[workspace-slug]/members).

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Paste credentials and test

Paste both values into Actionist and click Test connection. Actionist will make a read call to confirm the credentials are valid before any agent tasks run.

Credentials you'll need
API Token*
Orbit → Settings → API Tokens → Generate new token
Workspace Slug*
Found in Orbit → Settings → Workspace — the unique identifier for your workspace (e.g. 'my-company')
Actions

16 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

This app has no triggers yet.
FAQs

Questions about Orbit + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Orbit?
Go to the Apps tab in Actionist, find Orbit, and click Connect. You will be prompted to enter your Orbit API key. To get it, log into your Orbit workspace, go to Settings → API Tokens, and generate a new token with read and write access. Paste the token into the Actionist connection field and click Test connection — Actionist will run a read call against your workspace to confirm the handshake before any agents run.
What permissions does the Orbit API token need?
Your Orbit API token inherits the permission level of the user who generated it. For full agent functionality — creating and updating members, logging activities, adding notes, and reading workspace data — the token should belong to an admin or workspace owner. Read-only tokens will allow the agent to fetch member and activity data but cannot create or update records. Generate the token at Orbit → Settings → API Tokens.
Can I use Orbit alongside other apps in the same Actionist agent?
Yes. Orbit is designed to be the central hub for community data, and it works best when connected to the other apps in your stack. Common cross-app patterns include: creating an Orbit activity whenever a user signs up in your CRM; writing Orbit member data to Google Sheets for reporting; posting a Slack digest when a high-gravity member goes quiet; and creating a Notion page when a member reaches a champion milestone. Any of Actionist's 200+ connected apps can send or receive data alongside Orbit in the same agent task.
What are the most common things Actionist agents do with Orbit?
The four patterns that come up most often: (1) new-member enrichment — when someone joins via GitHub, Discord, or a product signup, the agent creates an Orbit member record and logs the first activity immediately; (2) champion identification — fetching members above a love score threshold weekly and routing them to a nurture sequence; (3) re-engagement detection — finding members whose last activity was more than 60 days ago and queuing a personal outreach task; (4) community reporting — pulling workspace activity counts and member growth into a weekly dashboard so leadership has community health metrics alongside product and revenue numbers.
How does Orbit handle members who are active on multiple platforms?
Yes. Orbit's identity system lets you link one member to multiple platforms — GitHub, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Discord, Slack, email, and custom sources. When the agent calls Add Identity, it attaches a new source username or UID to an existing member record. This means a community member who engages on GitHub and also comments on your forum gets consolidated into a single Orbit profile rather than two duplicate entries. The agent can look up a member by any of their identities using Find Member by Identity before deciding whether to create a new record or update an existing one.
Can the agent read or influence a member's Orbit love score?
Orbit's love score is a composite engagement metric the platform calculates automatically based on the recency, frequency, and type of activities logged to a member's profile. You cannot set the score directly, but the agent can influence it by logging activities accurately — high-value activities like speaking at a conference or writing a blog post carry more weight than a simple forum comment. Fetching a member's current love score via Get Member is the standard way to segment your community into tiers for champion programs or re-engagement campaigns.
How do notes work in Orbit and what can the agent do with them?
Notes in Orbit are freeform text attached to a member record — they capture context that structured fields cannot, like the outcome of a 1:1 call or a product feedback theme. The agent can create a note via Create Note and update it later via Update Note. A common pattern is having the agent write a summary note after processing a support ticket or a customer interview transcript so the community team has the key points without reading the full original thread. Notes are visible to anyone with access to the member record in Orbit.
Does Orbit support webhooks or triggers for new member and activity events?
Orbit does not expose webhook triggers through its API — the platform is primarily poll-based for integrations. In Actionist, the recommended pattern is to use scheduled agent tasks that call List Workspace Activities or List Member Activities on a regular cadence (every hour or daily), compare the results against a stored checkpoint timestamp, and react to new entries. This gives you a reliable 'within about a minute on a tight schedule' response to community events without requiring Orbit webhook support. For near-real-time reactions, pair the Orbit polling action with a tight cadence on your agent task schedule.