Run your community with AI, keep the human parts human, and make carousels people finish. Most advice about AI and community work says the machines can do everything, or that they should do nothing. This practical field guide takes a narrower position: hand AI the repetitive work around a community — researching, sorting, drafting, scheduling and reading the numbers — so you have more time for what makes a community worth joining: judgment, real experience, and being a person in a conversation. Part One covers community operations end to end: positioning, intelligence, production, engagement, conversion, the technical stack, and the rules that now govern AI-generated content and automated interaction. Part Two goes deep on one format, the carousel — the story structure, the cover and second slide, the visual system, four production routes, and how to publish, measure and iterate. Read it straight through, or go directly to the prompts in Chapters 8 and 15 and the plans in Chapters 8 and 16. Sources are listed at the end of each part, and the book separates published research from self-reported practitioner results, so you know which numbers to treat as hypotheses. It reflects platforms and rules as of late 2026, and it isn't legal advice.

• The 90% Rule: what to hand to AI, and what must stay with a person
• Rules, risk and compliance for AI content and automated interaction
• Prompts for community work and a dedicated carousel prompt library
• A 90-day roadmap for community operations
• A first-seven-days plan for carousels