Disciple

What Disciple does

Disciple Media is a London-based SaaS company that operates a mobile-first, no-code community platform enabling creators, brands, and organizations to launch and run their own branded iOS, Android, and web community apps without writing code. Founded in 2018 and venture-backed through a $6 million Series A in July 2021 (with additional earlier capital from QVentures), the company serves a diversified customer base spanning individual creators (e.g., A Year With My Camera, Her Spirit), consumer brands (Beautycounter, Tom Ford, OLOlly), financial services (NatWest), real estate (La Reserva), and nonprofits (Action for Happiness). Over 2,000 communities have been launched on the platform, supporting approximately 2 million members as of 2021.

The platform is built on a multi-tenant, per-portal SaaS architecture and exposes a public REST API with HMAC-signed webhooks, Customer SSO synchronization, federated AWS S3 uploads, and dedicated iOS and Android app publishing pipelines that put each customer's branded app into the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Core product modules include groups and feeds, direct messaging, livestreams (including native and Zoom/Google Meet integration), events, push notifications, a customisable homescreen and content library, cohort-based groups, and a web-based admin console (the Disciple Console / App Manager) for design, moderation, and analytics. Native integrations with Zapier and Mailchimp extend workflow and marketing reach.

Disciple's commercial model combines a SaaS subscription for the platform itself with downstream monetization infrastructure that customers use to charge end users via subscription tiers, paywalled premium content, and one-time course or product purchases. The go-to-market is hybrid: a self-serve web funnel with public pricing and console login drives bottom-up adoption among individual creators, while a sales-assisted demo-led motion with dedicated customer success management targets enterprise and mid-market brands and organizations. Pricing is described as custom and subscription-based with multi-year contracts available, though specific price points are not publicly disclosed.

Name

Disciple

Legal name

Disciple Media

Website

https://disciplemedia.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Disciple is a London-based no-code SaaS platform that enables creators, brands, and organizations to launch and operate their own branded iOS, Android, and web community apps with built-in subscription, course, and engagement tools, serving a diversified mix of SMB creators, consumer brands, and enterprises.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Community membership subscriptions: Creators set up recurring subscription plans for members, including multiple subscription tiers, in-app paywalls, and subscription-gated premium content.
2. One-time course and product sales: Creators can sell one-off courses, programmes, and digital products through the platform's product and subscription APIs, with upsell flows available.
3. SaaS platform fees: Disciple monetizes as a SaaS platform offering branded iOS/Android app publishing, console management, analytics, customer success manager support, and integration capabilities to creators, brands, and organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Disciple provides a mobile-first, no-code white-label community platform that enables creators, brands, and organizations to launch their own branded iOS, Android, and web community apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The platform bundles community engagement tools (groups, feeds, direct messaging, livestreams, events, push notifications) with built-in monetization (subscriptions, paywalled content, courses, one-time purchases) and is administered through a web-based console. Power users and partners extend it via a public REST API, webhooks, Customer SSO, and native Zapier and Mailchimp integrations.

Product overview

Disciple offers a single, mobile-first SaaS community platform — branded as the Disciple Community App — through which creators, brands and organisations launch fully white-labelled iOS, Android and web apps without writing code. The platform bundles community engagement (groups, feeds, direct messaging, livestreams, events, push notifications, member directory) with a commercial layer (subscriptions, paywalled content, courses, one-off purchases) and is administered through the web-based Disciple Console (App Manager), which provides design, content, moderation, analytics and integration tooling. Power users and partners extend the platform through the Disciple API and webhook suite, which exposes users, groups, posts, comments, events, products, subscriptions, badges and Customer SSO synchronisation, and via native integrations with Zapier and Mailchimp.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Disciple Community App A mobile-first, no-code white-label community platform that lets creators, brands and organisations launch their own branded iOS, Android and web apps featuring groups, feeds, messaging, livestreams, events, courses, subscriptions, and a content library, with over 2,000 communities launched to date.
• Disciple API Public REST API and webhook platform that lets developers and partners programmatically manage users, groups, posts, comments, events, products, subscriptions, badges, and custom user fields inside a Disciple community, with Customer SSO support for syncing accounts against the customer's own system.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2 million members across 500 communities as of 2021
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability1 record

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core integration partner, supporting integration partner, critical distribution channel and core infrastructure partner.

• Zapiercore integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationZapier is listed as a supported integration on Disciple's homepage, enabling customers to connect the Disciple platform with thousands of other apps without code.
• Mailchimpsupporting integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationMailchimp is listed as a supported integration on the Disciple homepage, allowing customers to sync member data and email marketing workflows.
• Apple App Storecritical distribution channelChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDisciple publishes each customer's branded community iOS app to the Apple App Store, enabling end-user discovery and download through Apple's marketplace.
• Google Play Storecritical distribution channelChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDisciple publishes each customer's branded community Android app to the Google Play Store, enabling end-user discovery and download through Google's marketplace.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)core infrastructure partnerTechnology or IntegrationDisciple uses AWS S3 for media storage, providing federated temporary credentials for direct uploads and storing production assets in the 'disciple-production' S3 bucket in the us-east-1 region.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Circle: Circle is a no-code community platform that lets creators and brands launch paid communities with courses, discussions, events and member directories. It targets the same online-creator and brand customer base as Disciple, but is primarily web-based, making Disciple's mobile-app-publishing focus a key point of differentiation.
• Mighty Networks: Mighty Networks is a community platform that combines courses, content and membership monetization under branded community experiences for creators, entrepreneurs and brands. It is a direct competitor to Disciple in the owned-community space with similar monetization and cohort features.
• Hivebrite: Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform used by alumni networks, nonprofits and professional organizations to build branded communities. It overlaps with Disciple's organization and nonprofit segment and competes for the same brand-customization and member-engagement workloads.
• Bettermode (formerly Tribe): Bettermode is an embeddable community platform offering feeds, groups, Q&A and member directories that brands can integrate into their own products. While it leans toward embedded web communities, it competes with Disciple for the same brand-customer and SaaS-platform overlap.
• Kajabi: Kajabi is an all-in-one platform for knowledge entrepreneurs that bundles courses, memberships, coaching and communities. It directly competes with Disciple for creators selling courses and memberships, although it lacks native iOS/Android app publishing at the same depth.
• Thinkific: Thinkific is a course-creation and community platform that lets educators and brands monetize learning content and build accompanying student communities. It is comparable to Disciple's education and coaching segment and overlaps on course-plus-community bundles.
• Wild Apricot: Wild Apricot is an all-in-one membership management platform for small associations and nonprofits, providing member databases, events, payments and branded websites. It competes with Disciple for the nonprofit and organization segment where members want a private community experience.
• Higher Logic: Higher Logic is an enterprise community and engagement platform used by associations and member-based organizations to deliver branded online communities, marketing automation and member journeys. It overlaps with Disciple on the organization and nonprofit segment at a more enterprise scale.

Broad incumbents

• Discord: Discord is a mass-market real-time communication platform that hosts tens of millions of creator and brand communities via servers with voice, video and messaging. It is not white-labelled like Disciple, but it competes for the same end-user attention and creator-monetization wallet.
• Patreon: Patreon is a subscription platform that lets creators get paid directly by their fans, offering membership tiers, paywalled posts and community features. It overlaps with Disciple's creator-monetization value proposition and competes for the same creator-economy customer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/disciplemedia
• Facebookfacebook.com/disciplemedia
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/5105432

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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