See exactly what’s limiting your membership’s growth and retention - and what to fix first.
This isn’t a marketing review or “engagement ideas” session. It’s a proof‑driven diagnostic of your entire membership system, so you stop guessing, stop over‑building, and start making moves that actually compound.
You’ve already proven your membership works. People buy. They stay. They refer.
But growth is uneven, your team is stretched, and every “optimization” just creates new complexity somewhere else.
The Membership Systems Audit is built for founders and lead operators who:
This is not for you if:
THE DIAGNOSTIC + THE ROADMAP
By the end of the Membership Systems Audit, you’ll know:
No generic benchmarks. No “best practices” slideshow. Just an honest, strategic read of your membership, through the lens of a transformation system, not a content library.
Step 1 – The Complete Breakpoint Diagnostic™
You complete a focused online diagnostic that scores your membership across key pillars (promise, onboarding, delivery, culture, demand, retention, regeneration). It takes about 5 minutes and gives a first pass at where the biggest breaks are hiding.
Step 2 – Deep Dive Context Intake
You answer a short set of questions about your model, audience, pricing, metrics, and constraints. Enough to understand the ecosystem, not enough to feel like another project. Expect ~20 minutes.
Step 3 – Deep Membership Analysis
Behind the scenes, your scores and context are run through a systems lens to surface:
Step 4 – Custom Audit Report
Within 3–5 business days, you receive a structured PDF report that includes:
Step 5 – 30‑minute strategy session
We jump on a call to walk through your results, pressure‑test assumptions, adjust priorities, and translate the roadmap into concrete next steps for you or your team.
You walk away with clarity, benchmarks, and an action plan - not "more ideas".
Uncover Strategic Advantages
Most “membership audits” are disguised marketing audits or ops checklists: they look at campaigns, content, and surface engagement. They rarely touch the underlying transformation architecture and systems that makes a membership compound value over time.
The Membership Systems Audit focuses on:
The goal isn’t to impress you. The goal is to show you the smallest meaningful set of changes that unlock your next level of growth and ease.
“You hear about so many things that are ‘supposed to help memberships,’ but you don’t find out what won’t work until you’ve wasted energy learning the hard way. This cleared a ton of noise off my future to‑do list and showed me where the real gold in my membership was being left on the table. THANK YOU.” – Janet R.
Most audits tell you what you already know in nicer words, or drown you in best practices you’ll never implement. This audit exists to do one thing: identify your key breakpoints and hand you a personalized, sequenced plan that you can actually use.
It’s grounded in how world-class memberships behave as systems, not a grab‑bag of tactics.
If you run a live, paid membership, community, or hybrid program with real members and recurring revenue, yes. It works for cohort‑based memberships, evergreen memberships, and community‑anchored programs.
If you’re pre‑launch or selling a one‑off course with no ongoing relationship, this is the wrong fit.
No. Clean data helps, but it’s not required. We’ll use whatever you have (member count, rough churn, engagement behaviors, renewal patterns, analytics screenshots) plus qualitative signals from you and your team.
Part of the audit is explicitly calling out where your current data is steering you well vs where it’s misleading or incomplete.
Plan on about 90 minutes total: 10 minutes for the diagnostic, 45 minutes for the intake, and a 30‑minute strategy session. The analysis and report happen on our side.
Then you get proof, clarity, and a roadmap — instead of a vague sense that “something’s off.” In practice, most founders discover at least one non‑obvious pattern: a hidden constraint, an interaction between systems, or a risk they hadn’t fully seen.
Even when the core issue is what you suspected, the sequence and scope of changes usually shift.
The recommendations are staged by impact and effort. You’ll see what you can tackle fast with minimal disruption, what should wait, and what might require more serious restructuring. You can implement yourself, with your team, or bring us back in later when you’re ready.
That’s your call. The audit will still have given you a clearer map of your membership’s risks and leverage points. You’ll at least know what you’re choosing not to fix — and what that choice means long term.
The Membership Systems Audit is a bespoke diagnostic: once intake is complete and analysis has started, the fee is non‑refundable.
If we discover during intake that your membership isn’t a fit for this audit, you can either apply your payment as credit toward a more appropriate offer, or we'll cancel before we begin analysis.
You can also reschedule your audit once if timing becomes an issue.
Starlight is the founder of Bottled Lightning, a systems lab for transformation architecture. The work lives at the intersection of human aliveness and hard proof: designing membership and community ecosystems where the real product is transformation at scale, not content or “engagement.”
Over the last decade, Starlight has helped founders and product leaders:
The Membership Systems Audit is how you put that lens on your own membership without needing a full‑blown consulting engagement to get started.
The risk now isn’t that it fails; it’s that it plateaus and drags under its potential because the system underneath never gets a proper read.
If you’re done guessing, book the Membership Systems Audit and get the clarity you need to make your next moves with confidence.
When you book the Membership Systems Audit, you get:
Investment: $1750
Format: 100% remote
After the audit, if you decide you want help implementing the roadmap or architecting a deeper transformation system, the full cost of your Membership Audit can be applied as a credit toward that project when booked within 30 days.
No pressure, no hard pivot during the call. The audit stands on its own, but the credit is there if it makes sense to keep going.
Shoot my team an email at hello@bottledlightning.co and we’ll make sure you’re set up with the right offer.
If you’re done guessing and want a concrete, prioritized roadmap for your membership, book the Membership Systems Audit below.
Once you check out, you’ll get immediate access to the diagnostic and intake, and we’ll schedule your strategy session.
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