Reign for startup founders / accelerators. Startup accelerator community and mentor directory.

Reign is the WordPress theme for building a complete community site: social network, courses, member directory, marketplace and job board on one install. An accelerator uses the social network, the directory and the events.

BuddyNext supplies founder profiles with searchable fields, spaces per batch and notifications. Listora, free, powers the mentor directory with listings, search, filters and contact forms on each profile. Eventonomy lists office hours, demo days and workshops with RSVPs. WB Gamification adds recognition for engagement, with no paid tier. If you run short courses, Learnomy can host them.

The BuddyPress Community Bundle kit is the packaged route and the enterprise intranet build guide covers private, role-based sites. The plugins page shows the split, and Reign is a flat theme licence.

A founder in the batch checks the calendar, books an office hour, searches the mentor directory for someone who has dealt with their problem and posts an ask in the batch space. They attend a workshop and post what they learned.

Mentors check requests, accept or decline and reply to a few questions in the space. They appreciate a light touch: clear requests, short asks and no admin.

The programme team uses the site to see who is engaged and who has gone quiet, to post updates and to prepare for demo day. Batch groups are intense for a few months and then quieten, which is the natural rhythm.

A programme team has to justify the site to whoever funds it, and vanity numbers will not do that. Choose a few measures that connect to what the programme is for, and look at them every month. Keep the list short enough that you will actually read it.

Start with introductions. How many mentor requests were made, how many were accepted and how many led to a second conversation? That chain is the heart of the service. If requests are made but not accepted, mentors are overloaded or the profiles are unclear. If they are accepted but go no further, the matching is weak.

Then look at participation by batch. Which founders have posted, attended an office hour or answered a question from another founder? Founders who are active tend to get more from the programme, and the ones who have gone quiet are the ones to call.

Alumni deserve their own measure. Track how many graduates still log in each quarter, how many have answered a current founder's question and how many have mentored. This is the layer that compounds, and a rising number tells you the network is becoming an asset.

Share a short summary with your funders each term. Use plain statements about what happened and what you learned, and avoid inflated claims. A funder who sees honest, steady reporting trusts the next request more than one who sees a polished but thin story.

If you are an informal founder group without staff, the indie hackers page is lighter. If your offer is a paid peer group, see the mastermind groups page.

If you need a full CRM and application management for your programme, keep that in a dedicated system and link the community to it.