Orbit consultants
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About Orbit
Orbit was a community analytics and CRM platform designed for developer relations, open-source maintainers, and community-led growth teams. It tracked member activity across platforms like GitHub, Discord, Twitter, and Discourse, and consolidated it into a single timeline view with engagement scoring and segmentation tools. Note: Orbit was acquired by Postman in 2023 and the standalone product has been sunset, but the n8n Orbit node remains available for teams that still have active instances or need to migrate data out.
The n8n Orbit node connects community data to your broader business systems. It can pull member profiles, activity logs, and engagement metrics from Orbit and push them into your CRM, email platform, or analytics tools. For teams that used Orbit to track developer community engagement, this is useful for syncing community activity with sales pipeline data — identifying which community members are also prospects, which open-source contributors work at target accounts, or which engaged community members might be candidates for a customer advisory board.
Even with Orbit’s sunset, the integration patterns are still relevant. Community-led growth teams need to connect community activity data to their CRM and marketing tools, regardless of which community platform they migrate to. The workflows we build with the Orbit node are easily adapted to alternatives like Common Room or custom community tracking setups.
If you need to migrate data out of Orbit, sync community activity with your CRM, or build similar community analytics workflows with a different platform, our data processing team can help.
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How it works
We work hand-in-hand with you to implement Orbit
As Orbit consultants we work with you hand in hand build more efficient and effective operations. Here’s how we will work with you to automate your business and integrate Orbit with integrate and automate 800+ tools.
Step 1
Assess your Orbit data and goals
We start by understanding what data lives in your Orbit instance — member profiles, activity logs, tags, engagement scores — and where that data needs to go. If you are migrating away from Orbit, we identify the target system. If you are syncing with a CRM, we map out which community data fields matter for your sales and marketing teams.
Step 2
Connect n8n to the Orbit API
We configure the n8n Orbit node with your workspace API key and test access to members, activities, and notes. We check pagination limits and API rate constraints to ensure our workflows can pull the full dataset without hitting throttling issues, especially for larger community instances.
Step 3
Build data extraction workflows
We create n8n workflows that systematically pull member data, activity timelines, tags, and notes from Orbit. For migration projects, this is a full export. For ongoing sync projects, this runs on a schedule to pull recent activity and push it to your CRM or analytics platform.
Step 4
Map and transform community data
Community data from Orbit does not map one-to-one to CRM fields. We build the transformation logic — matching community members to CRM contacts by email, converting activity types to CRM touchpoint categories, calculating engagement scores, and handling cases where a community member is not yet a CRM contact.
Step 5
Load data into destination systems
We push the transformed data to your target systems — CRM contact records, Google Sheets dashboards, a database for custom reporting, or a replacement community platform like Common Room. Each destination gets data formatted and structured according to its requirements.
Step 6
Verify and hand off
We validate that all member records, activities, and metadata have been correctly transferred by spot-checking source and destination data. We document the workflow logic, field mappings, and schedule configuration, and walk your team through monitoring and maintenance procedures.
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