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Orbit
One that tracks your relationships, not your publishing.
See your orbitInvite-only while Orbit is in beta.
You look at your subscriber number.
You spend an hour in notes and comments - replying, welcoming, meeting people.
And the intelligence you get back for all of it? Your email open rate.
Substack focuses on your newsletter. Nothing focuses on your conversations.
That’s what Orbit is for.
Who’s new and just discovering you. Who’s drifting quiet. Who’s worth pulling closer. Every good conversation, findable again.
Everyone you’re in conversation with - not a subscriber count. Who’s new and just discovering you. Who’s drifting quiet. Who’s at the edge, worth pulling closer. Sort by how close you are, who subscribes, the size of their audience. Writers you’ve admired for years show up here in ways the subscriber list will never show you.
Find it again
“The feeling isn’t proof you don’t belong - it’s proof you’re in a room you care about.”
this conversation brought a subscriberEvery note and comment, findable again - what you said, whose post it was on, who engaged back, and which conversations brought subscribers. The nuggets stop slipping through your fingers.
Every note and essay you publish, and what it actually did. Which notes reached new people. Which essays brought subscribers. And underneath it all, your momentum - how much you’ve been showing up, drawn over time.
Notes & essays
the one about starting over
+0 subscribers
a chart of my tomato harvest
+0 subscribers
why I stopped counting followers
+0 subscribers
0 conversations this week - trending up
It’s not really a CRM. It’s more like a relationship memory. The kind a good friend would have.
What I believe
We’re all planets and stars, each with our own gravity, orbiting each other - pulling in and out of each other’s space to build on each other’s ideas.
Your audience is not subscribers, followers, strangers. It’s relationships and depth and what you’re saying to who.
It’s who your true people really are.
Something is happening here that nobody’s tracking. Orbit is the intelligence that remembers it - and shows you what to do next.
And if you’re thinking “my Substack is too small for this”: if you want to build relationships here, you’re exactly who I want to talk to.
How it works & common questions
A Chrome extension reads your Substack right in your own browser and saves your back-and-forth into Orbit - so you can finally see who you’re actually building with.
Your Substack login never leaves your computer. Orbit only ever sees your conversations and the people in them - never your password, never your subscribers’ emails.
Orbit shows you who’s in your orbit, how it’s changing, and who’s worth reaching out to. It reads and remembers; it never writes posts or replies for you.
Orbit is a relationship dashboard for Substack writers. It remembers everyone you talk to on Substack - who’s new, who’s drifting, who you can turn to - and shows what your notes and essays actually do out in the world.
A Chrome extension runs in your own browser, reads your Substack using the session you’re already logged into, and saves a copy of your conversations and the people in them into your private Orbit account.
Your Substack login never leaves your computer. Orbit only ever receives your public conversations and the people in them - never your password, never your subscribers’ email addresses. Direct messages stay off unless you turn them on.
No. Orbit reads and remembers; it never drafts, writes, or sends anything in your voice. It surfaces who’s worth reaching out to and helps you understand them - then you write it yourself.
Substack writers who build through conversation - replying to notes, showing up in comments, tending relationships one at a time. It works whether you have 50 readers or 50,000; if you want to build relationships, it’s for you.
Orbit is a paid subscription with no free plan. It’s invite-only while in beta. Because it uses AI to summarize your relationships, running it has a real cost, and the subscription covers it.
No. Orbit is an independent product, not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Substack. It works alongside your own Substack account in your own browser.
A CRM is a sales tool for tracking leads. Orbit is a relationship memory - the kind a good friend would have. It notices who matters and how your connections are changing, without turning people into inventory.
Sign in with Google to open your orbit. Orbit is invite-only while it’s in beta.