Internal community platform comparison
Autessa Community vs Workplace from Meta
Workplace from Meta has shut down: Meta ended access on June 1, 2026. Autessa Community is a new home for what your company did there, with communities, a feed, messages and a directory, and it goes further with a wiki that keeps every revision, an AI assistant that cites real posts and pages, and a moderation desk with a full log. Because every part can be changed, the Workplace habits your teams relied on can come with you.
Side by side
Autessa Community vs Workplace from Meta at a glance
| Capability | Autessa Community | Workplace from Meta |
|---|---|---|
| Available for new and returning customers | Included | Shut down June 2026 |
| Wiki with revision compare and restore | Included | Knowledge Library |
| AI assistant that cites real posts and wiki pages | Included | Not listed |
| Moderation desk with review in context | Included | Admin tools |
| Upvotes and a Top feed | Included | Reactions |
| Custom image reactions and an AI Meme Studio | Included | Not listed |
| Full headless access (Autessa MCP) | Included | Service closed |
| 100% customizable, code and all (Autobot) | Included | Service closed |
| Communities for every team and topic | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discussion feed and comments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Direct and group messages | ✓ | ✓ |
Workplace was shut down on June 1, 2026; its column reflects what it offered.
Based on publicly available information as of November 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Where Autessa wins
Why teams choose Autessa Community over Workplace from Meta
Rebuild the habits you relied on
If a team lived on a particular Workplace routine, such as a leadership Q&A or a shift-floor feed, tell Autobot what it did. Autobot changes the app itself, code and all, to match.
A company memory your AI can reach
Connect Claude through the Autessa MCP and it can search your posts and wiki, turn a long thread into a draft page, or write up what each community discussed this week.
Knowledge that keeps its history
Every community gets its own wiki, with every edit numbered, any two versions compared side by side, and any version restorable.
Answers, not scrolling
The AI assistant finds the posts and pages that answer a question, groups them by date and cites them.
Switching
How do you move to Autessa Community?
Start from the data you exported before Workplace closed. Create your communities, set the defaults, import your roster from a CSV of email, name and department, and move the pages people rely on into the company wiki. Everyone in your company can open the hub on day one with no signup.
FAQ
Autessa Community and Workplace from Meta: questions
Is Autessa Community a Workplace from Meta alternative?
Yes. It covers communities, a discussion feed, direct and group messages and a people directory, and adds a built-in wiki, AI search and a moderation log.
Can I bring my employee list over?
Yes. Admins can import a roster from CSV or text with email, name and department, and anyone in your Autessa company joins automatically on their first visit.
Can we make it work the way Workplace did for us?
Yes. Beyond communities, tags, rules and branding, Autessa Community is 100% customizable. Describe the Workplace feature you miss to Autobot, and it changes the app, code and all.
Can AI tools work with our Community data?
Yes. The Autessa MCP gives Claude and other AI tools full headless access, so they can search posts and the wiki and help draft pages, with the access of the person connected.
100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Community fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
Start free and make it yours