🔦 Your tchop prototype: a quick guide
A short orientation for new clients exploring their prototype, with links into the knowledge base.
Your prototype, explained
You have a working prototype with your branding, a first content structure and your content. Before you start clicking around, here is the mental model behind what you are seeing. Each section links to a deeper article in the knowledge base if you want more detail.
The newsfeed is the home base
Everything in tchop runs through the newsfeed. It is the first screen your audience sees and the place where content, conversation, and push notifications come together. The feed pulls from different sources, called mixes, and can be ordered, filtered, and personalised per user group.
Cards are the building blocks
Every piece of content in tchop is a card. Articles, posts, polls, audio, video, long-form pieces, social embeds, chat messages. One consistent format across the whole app, with the same engagement and moderation rules for each.
Customisation goes deeper than colours
Your prototype already carries your colours, fonts, app name, and icon. From there you can shape navigation, tag structures, push behaviour, and which content surfaces where. No code, no agency project.
Engagement sits on every card
Comments, reactions, polls, and mentions live directly on each card. There is no separate forum or thread layer to maintain. Moderation rules, bad-word lists, and user roles apply across the whole app, not per surface.
Push and retention work for you in the background
Push notifications can be sent manually, scheduled, or triggered by AI agents based on rules. New content, slow activity, specific user segments. The same logic powers in-app notifications and retention pushes.
Where to go from here
The full library lives at tchop.io/resources/knowledge-base. If anything is missing or unclear, reach out to your tchop contact and we will cover it on the next call.
