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AI won't solve loneliness. Community leaders will.
orangeKarma is community management software for the people who bring us together — the park organizer at 7am, the club founder with 20,000 members, the youth club director. Easy to turn on, no AI expertise needed.
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Our belief
One in six people is lonely. The World Health Organization now treats social connection as health, as vital as diet or exercise.
Apps won't fix it. Another feed, another stranger-matching app, another AI that wants to be your friend. Research is already showing that AI companions can deepen loneliness over time.
People fix it, in places. A park with regulars. A club with a calendar. A friend group that keeps meeting. Every one of them runs on someone doing quiet, unpaid work: remembering names, chasing replies, making the plan.
We build for that person. Our software carries the busywork so leaders can do the part only they can do — bring people together. Our AI's job is done the moment you're in the room with people.
What we build
Community management software, in two layers: tools for you, and tools for your community.
Tools for your community
Help members connect
Onboarding that gets to know each new member, grouping into small crews likely to click, events, invitations and reminders, and chat. We're building AI that builds what your community needs for you, plus an integration layer that connects the tools you and your members already use.
Tools for you
Run your community like a small business
Most leaders run on a pile of apps for registration, payments, scheduling and chat. We give you one member list and one place to run it all, and put AI to work on the busywork. We set it up with you, so you don't need to be an AI expert, with hands-on setup and AI enablement when you want more.
Shaped for every kind of community
Pickleheart
For park communities
The app for public-park pickleball. Chat, events, court updates and a shop for each park, launched by its leader in minutes.
Beta partners: Riverside Park Pickleball and the Harlem Pickleball Association.
Your social crews
For social communities, large and small
It turns “we should do something” into a plan on the calendar. It finds when your group is free, suggests a place and time, and sends an invite anyone can answer in a tap.
Building with Sugary, a New York community of 20,000 members: onboarding that gets to know each member in minutes, and clustering that forms small crews likely to click.
Youth sports clubs
Next — starting with a single club
One home for a club's families, coaches and teams, with registration, scheduling, payments and communication connected, so the club director stops being the IT department.
In discussions with a Utah-based youth sports club as our beta partner.
Who we build for
The 7am organizer
The park organizer who shows up at 7am with the nets.
The club founder
The club founder curating events for thousands of members.
The season keeper
The coach or club director keeping families connected through a season.
The plan maker
The friend who always ends up making the plan.
How you win with us
You already built something people show up for. We help you take it further, your way.
Shape what you offer
Read what your members show you — who's new, who's drifting, who would click — then bring back the members who are drifting and lift your most active champions higher.
Run it all from one place
Gather your tools, your work and your AI agents into one dashboard — then hand the busywork to your agents and give your time back to your people.
Grow your revenue
Put memberships, events and products into one place — then open the door to the brands, venues and facilities that want to back what you've built.
Our promise to communities
We don't sell your members' data. Our AI never pretends to be your friend.
Read our privacy policy →About us
orangeKarma is a New York City company that builds community management software for the people who bring us together.
Founder & CEO
Bharat has spent two decades building where technology meets community. At LeagueApps, as Senior Director of Product, he built the integration platform connecting youth sports organizations with the tools and partners they rely on. As COO of Sensa Padel, he opened clubs and ran marketing, finance and operations. Earlier, he co-founded Codie, a learning platform that became the PBS series Mia & Codie, and has founded, led and advised companies including Siminars.
At orangeKarma, he leads product and partnerships, building alongside the communities he serves, starting in Harlem.
Fractional CTO
Alon is a New York-based technologist with nearly two decades of experience building for the web. He is the founder of DCODED, a digital agency that partners with agencies, businesses and entrepreneurs to deliver custom web applications, e-commerce platforms and high-performing digital experiences — from WordPress and Shopify builds to AI-powered features and integrations.
Before founding DCODED, Alon spent eight years at the digital agency York & Chapel, rising from interactive designer and developer to Director of Technology, and later served as Director of Technology at connected-fitness company JAXJOX. He holds a B.F.A. in Communication Design from the University of Connecticut.
At orangeKarma, Alon leads how our products are built and how they feel to use — combining deep technical expertise with a designer's eye and a no-fluff, hands-on approach.