Automate the manual work in Discourse

FullSpec maps how Discourse fits into your day-to-day, finds the repetitive work worth automating, and gives you a clear plan to connect it with the rest of your tools.

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Discourse by the numbers

Insights from real process mapping sessions that involve Discourse.

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Top 5 Discourse friction points when done manually

Manually sorting Discourse threads by topic

You spend time each day scrolling through Discourse categories and subcategories to find relevant conversations instead of having them automatically organized by project or client.

78% report this

Copying Discourse posts into external records

You manually copy important decisions and action items from Discourse threads into spreadsheets or project management tools because Discourse doesn't feed that data into your other systems.

52% report this

Chasing down Discourse thread owners for updates

You have to manually track which Discourse threads need responses or follow-up and remind team members to close out conversations that have gone stale.

45% report this

Manually tagging Discourse posts for searchability

You spend time adding tags and categories to Discourse posts after they are created so that future team members can actually find the information later.

36% report this

Exporting Discourse data for compliance reporting

You manually extract and format Discourse conversation records when you need to generate audit trails or compliance reports instead of having an automated export process.

28% report this

Data points based on anonymized data from FullSpec mapping sessions

What you can automate in Discourse

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