Porchlight helps companies — and the investors who back them — build communities that drive loyalty, retention, and growth. Online, in person, and everywhere in between.
In today’s fragmented landscape, an audience is ephemeral. A community is invested, engaged, and committed to a shared goal that benefits members and the brand.
A thriving community cultivates brand loyalty, improves customer retention, and drives sales growth through referral and corporate reputation.
The most powerful SaaS companies, media brands, and membership organizations are recognizing this shift — and building for it.
A strategy that turns your existing channels — newsletter, events, social, support — into a community that compounds. You leave with a playbook your team can actually run.
We refine strategy, manage projects, and augment your team.
We build your community and run it with you — programming, comms, the daily work of showing up.
We bring people together to tackle challenges, reach shared goals, and grow — and we make sure it shows up in the business.
Our team has built communities at Inc., Fast Company, Gust, On Deck, Boundless Life, and Chief — and convened leaders across business, government, media, and academia in partnership with brands ranging from Intel and Microsoft to The New York Times and The Aspen Institute.
Joyful urgency. Community compounds, so we move quickly.
We’ve seen it all. Forty years across the highest-performing community programs in tech, media, and the public square.
We’re people people. We embed seamlessly, thrive in ambiguity, and bring calm to chaos.
Built and scaled communities at Gust, On Deck, Boundless Life, and Chief.
Believes the right group of people in the right room can change someone’s whole career.
20 years convening leaders across business, policy, and media to tackle shared challenges; built Protocol, the tech media startup from POLITICO.
Believes a great conversation is worth a thousand newsletters.
Sarah Rothenberg is a dream to work with. She’s a quick study — she instantly grasped the mechanics and the spirit of our membership programs at Mansueto Ventures — and added value from the outset. I always had confidence in her abilities, and appreciated her willingness to always go the extra mile for our members.
Sarah is the rare type of leader who doesn’t just navigate ambiguity — she thrives in it. She balances a relentless drive for impact with deep empathy and incredible community acumen — sharp, instinctual judgment that lets her read a room, understand people’s core needs, and build authentic connections effortlessly. Sarah doesn’t just deliver results; she lifts the community around her while doing so.
Tell us about the community you’re trying to build — or the one you’ve already started and are ready to scale.
Conversations with people who’ve built community in unexpected places. Every guest is a case study. Bring a mug.
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