Your community already answered that.
Maven indexes the questions your community asks and surfaces past answers automatically. It runs on a local embedding model — no OpenAI key, no per-message cost, and nothing leaves your server.
Free · open source · no external services
how do I set up custom roles for new members?
This looks similar to a question asked before:
Ask Maven anything.
The same assistant that answers in your server — give it a question.
Communities ask the same things on repeat.
New members ask what's already in the pins. Mods answer “how do I get verified” for the hundredth time. The knowledge is in your server somewhere — it's just not findable.
Maven makes it findable.
When someone asks a question Maven has seen before, it surfaces the earlier answer with a match score. Your community's accumulated knowledge stops scrolling out of reach.
No running cost
Local embeddings mean no API key and no per-message billing — install it and forget the meter.
Private by default
Questions and answers stay on your infrastructure. Nothing is sent to a third-party model.
Self-hostable
Run it on your own box. The source is open; the behavior is documented.
Less repeat work for mods
The answers your team already wrote keep working without anyone re-typing them.
Eight commands, one bot.
Maven runs invisibly day-to-day. These commands let you tune, inspect, and search on demand.
/maven search <q>Manual search of past questions/maven statsHow much wisdom is preserved/maven showShow current settingsadmin/maven enable / disablePause or resume Mavenadmin/maven watch <channel>Add a channel to the allowlistadmin/maven sensitivity <%>How close must matches beadmin/maven reply <mode>Public / quiet / offadminYour community
already answered that.
Maven recognizes a repeat question and links the asker to the answer your team already wrote — instantly, no mod pinged. It runs on a local model, so questions never leave your server and there's no per-message bill. That's why it's free.
Stop answering the same question every week.
Add Maven in a couple of minutes, or read exactly what it does first.