Watchers — your virtual Telegram moderators that do more than just moderate.
Watchers are virtual moderators that talk with members, moderate with judgment, answer from your Project Knowledge, and help keep your Telegram community running — even when your team is away.
Each Watcher has its own persona, voice, and specialist role.
Try a Watcher free for 7 days — no payment required.
Kwan
Watcher
Community
@samplecommunity
Spam blocked
18
Scam links removed
3
Member interactions
42
Next auto-post
2h 14m
Why Watchers?
Traditional moderation bots enforce rules.
Watchers actually help run the community.
A Watcher sits between a traditional bot and a human moderator — it stays available like software, but follows the conversation, talks with members, and moderates with context instead of reacting only to commands and keywords.
Presence
Conversation
Understanding
Project Knowledge
Personality
Moderation judgment
Availability
Consistency
Working as a team
Specialization
When it doesn't know
Scale / coverage
Present in the room, not just on command
A Watcher follows the conversation and decides when a moderator should actually speak. It can respond to a "gm," answer a member, step into a moderation issue, or stay quiet when nothing needs its attention.
Protect
Graduated moderation for spam, scam links, and unsafe media — enforced by intent, not just keywords.
Engage
Joins conversations naturally when appropriate, using the persona and voice you configure.
Support
Answers project-specific questions using the knowledge you provide, without inventing project facts.
Escalate
When something needs a human, the Watcher can bring your team in — while keeping a structured record of its moderation actions.
What is a Watcher?
An AI-powered Virtual Moderator you deploy to your Community.
A Watcher is a virtual moderator with its own identity, voice, knowledge, and behavior. Once deployed, it becomes an active presence in your Telegram community — participating in conversation, helping members, moderating when necessary, and operating according to the settings you choose.
A Community is the actual Telegram group, supergroup, or channel you connect. Each Watcher can be deployed to one or more Communities, and every active Watcher-to-Community deployment uses one Watcher slot.
See the full Watcher vs. moderation-bot comparisonWatcher slots, in practice
One Watcher profile, deployed to two Communities, uses two slots — slots count active deployments, not distinct Watchers.
Knows the rules — and enforces them
Judgment, not just a keyword filter.
A Watcher can distinguish between behavior that deserves a warning and behavior that needs immediate action.
Unsolicited promotion and link spam get a real warning first — escalating only on repeat offenses. Phishing/scam links and explicit content, at high confidence, are treated as safety issues and acted on immediately.
Warnings are phrased naturally, in the Watcher's own configured voice — never a robotic "Violation 2/3" template repeated word-for-word.
Example warning
Graduated enforcement, phrased in the Watcher's own persona — not a canned message.
Shorthand a Watcher understands
Common terms
It speaks Telegram
Understands the shorthand your community actually uses.
Members don't need to phrase things like support tickets. A Watcher understands the shorthand, slang, and abbreviated questions common in Telegram and crypto communities.
Understanding what someone means isn't permission to invent an answer. Project-specific facts still come from the knowledge you provide.
A real persona, not one generic voice
Configure a Watcher's tone, formality, humor, and role from a curated preset, or write your own from scratch. "Mr. Pres" and "Ms. VP" can sound nothing alike — one calm and formal, the other playful and terse — while both stay grounded in the same rules and knowledge.
A Watcher can acknowledge that it's AI without dropping the identity and personality you've configured for it.
Present in the room, not just on command
A Watcher responds naturally when addressed and participates more selectively in general conversation. It considers what has already been said, who has already replied, and whether its input is actually useful. Sometimes the right moderator response is no response at all.
When multiple Watchers are present, they coordinate so the room doesn't fill with duplicate replies.
Works alongside the tools you already use
Gatekeeping and utility bots like Rose handle rules, entry checks, commands, and utilities. Watchers handle the human side of community operations: conversation, context-aware moderation, member support, and presence.
What can a Watcher do?
Real, opt-in capabilities — nothing here is on by default that you didn't configure.
Protect
Spam & scam moderation
Automatic detection and graduated enforcement for unsolicited promotion, link spam, and phishing/scam links.
Media safety
Photo and video moderation, so unsafe media doesn't sit in your community.
Engage
Natural participation
Watchers follow the conversation and respond when appropriate — whether they're greeted, directly addressed, or have something useful to contribute.
Project-aware answers
When members ask about your project, answers are grounded in the knowledge you provide.
Operate
Auto-Posting
Schedule per-Watcher posting windows so your community stays active.
Activity & status
Track your Watcher's status and activity from one place.
Watcher Ops reports
A private, structured record of every warning, mute, kick, and purge — who was actioned, why, and whether it succeeded.
Who is Watch for?
Crypto & Web3 communities
Keep conversation active while handling spam, scams, repetitive questions, and member engagement.
Growing Telegram communities
Add moderation coverage without relying on a human admin being online every hour.
Projects with active member support
Let members get project-aware help while the Watcher still behaves like part of the community.
Teams running several communities
Deploy distinct Watchers with different personas across multiple groups.
See what it feels like to have a Watcher in your community.
Deploy one free for 7 days. No payment required.
Start Free TrialHow it works
Connect Telegram
Verify your Telegram account, then try Watch with a Free Trial or a paid plan.
Create a Watcher
Give it a name, persona, role, and project knowledge.
Deploy it
Connect your Watcher's bot to your Telegram Community.
Go live
Your Watcher joins the community — participating, moderating, answering questions, and posting on schedule if enabled.
See the full setup guide, step by step▾
Getting started
Set up your first Watcher
Follow the signal from account to a live Watcher in your community — scroll to move through each stage.
- Account status
Ready
Innvil AccountWatch accessSecure workspaceProduct access
Innvil Watch
01Create your Innvil account
One account, usable across every official Innvil product.
Create your Innvil account and start setting up Watch — the same account works whether you sign up here or at innvil.cloud.
You'll be signed in immediately and ready to choose a plan.
Create your accountGood to know
Good to know
One Innvil account gives you access to Watch and any other Innvil products you choose to use.
- Example: Gold
Gold
10
Watchers
3
Communities
$99.99 / mo
02Choose your Watch plan
Your plan sets two separate limits: total Watcher slots and how many communities you can connect.
Pick Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, or BYO 20 for self-serve monthly billing, or contact us for Enterprise. BYO 20 is the flagship self-serve plan — it bundles the most Watcher slots, Communities, and Media Moderation units of any self-serve plan into one price, in exchange for connecting your own AI provider credential. Each plan includes a set number of total Watcher slots (how many Watchers you can have active at once, across all your communities) and a separate community allowance (how many distinct communities you can connect at all).
These two numbers are independent — reaching your community limit doesn't use up Watcher slots, and vice versa.
View plansGood to know
Plan limit
Watcher slots by plan — Bronze 2 · Silver 5 · Gold 10 · Platinum 20 · BYO 20 20
Good to know
Total Watcher slots and your community allowance are tracked separately.
- Project profile · previewKnowledge isolated
Name
Description
Website
03Create a Project
The identity and knowledge container your Watcher will actually use.
A Project holds your name, description, and the facts your Watcher can ground its answers in — never invented claims about you.
Each Project's knowledge stays isolated: what you add to one Project never leaks into another. A standalone Project (the kind you create directly through Watch) starts with just a name today; the fuller profile fields (website, docs link, overview) are available once your Project is connected through the existing setup path in step 4.
Good to know
Good to know
Project knowledge is isolated per Project — never shared across projects.
- Community connection · preview
Not connected yet
Telegram group presentAdmin rights grantedVerified by Innvil04Connect your Telegram community
Add your Watcher's bot to the Telegram group or channel you want it to operate in.
Once connected, Innvil verifies the bot is actually present in your community before anything goes live — this is never assumed from the invite alone.
The bot needs specific admin rights, and only the ones your configuration actually uses: delete-message and restrict/ban rights if moderation is on, post rights if Auto-Posting is on. Innvil never requests blanket admin access.
Create your accountGood to know
Community limit
Each community can hold at most 5 active Watchers, regardless of your plan's total slot count.
Required
The bot must actually be present in the Telegram community — verified by Innvil before it goes live.
Good to know
Connect directly from your Watchers page: pick a bot username, open the deep link Telegram gives you, then confirm your community — no support ticket needed.
- Watcher profile · preview
Your Watcher
Unconfigured
10
Total slots (Gold)
5
Per community
05Create your Watcher
Configure the AI-powered Virtual Moderator that will represent you in the community.
Give your Watcher a name and a persona — a starting style preset, or your own custom description and tone. Its persona shapes how it talks and behaves in the room, not just how it answers a question.
When the conversation involves project-specific facts, it uses your Project Knowledge from step 3 rather than making information up.
Good to know
Plan limit
Total Watcher slots are shared across every community you connect — Bronze 2 · Silver 5 · Gold 10 · Platinum 20 · BYO 20 20
Good to know
A Watcher's persona is a starting point you can edit any time, not a one-time choice.
- Deployment · previewProjectCommunityWatcherReady to deploy06
Deploy it into your community
Creating a Watcher and putting it to work are two separate steps.
A Watcher isn't live until you deploy it into a specific community, and that deployment counts against both your account's total Watcher-slot allowance and that community's own cap of 5 active Watchers.
If you're at either limit, deployment is blocked with a clear reason rather than silently failing or bypassing the cap.
Good to know
Community limit
Up to 5 active Watchers per community.
Good to know
Pausing a Watcher frees its slot immediately; reactivating re-checks your current capacity.
- Behavior modules
Moderation
Media safety
Auto-Posting
Knowledge
07Configure how it behaves
Choose how your Watcher participates, moderates, handles media, and posts in the community.
Natural conversation is on by default, so your Watcher can respond when addressed and join general conversation selectively. Moderation, media safety, and scheduled posting are all separate switches you control on top of that.
Moderation covers spam and scam-link detection with graduated enforcement (a warning first, escalating only on repeat offenses). Media moderation reviews supported photos/videos against your community's own settings. Auto-Posting lets a Watcher publish on a schedule you define, grounded in the same Project Knowledge it answers questions from — every one of these is opt-in, and none are required to deploy a Watcher.
Good to know
Good to know
Moderation, media safety, and Auto-Posting are independent, opt-in settings — not bundled together.
- Example status
Kwan
Active@samplecommunity — Connected
Spam blocked
18
Answered
42
08Go live and monitor
Your Watcher starts operating immediately — you can pause, adjust, or remove it any time.
Once deployed, your Watcher becomes an active presence in the community — talking with members when appropriate, answering project-specific questions, moderating when needed, and posting on schedule if enabled.
You can pause a deployment, edit its persona, or disconnect a community whenever you like; nothing about existing data is deleted just because a Watcher is paused. If you ever reach a plan limit, Innvil tells you clearly rather than silently degrading or shutting things down.
Good to know
Good to know
Pausing or removing a Watcher never deletes your Project's knowledge or history.
Enterprise
Two broad ways to run Watch at scale.
Both are the same Innvil Watch product and dashboard — the difference is who pays for the AI provider calls.
Managed
Innvil runs everything, including your AI provider usage — one flat monthly price.
from $399/mo
Bring Your Own (BYO)
Connect your own AI provider credential and pay less for the Innvil platform fee — your own provider usage is billed separately by your provider, not covered by Innvil.
from $299/mo
Neither option guarantees lower total spend — BYO only lowers the Innvil platform fee itself. Provisioning for either mode is completed with our team.
BYO 20 — everything included. Bring your own AI.
One flat price for the most Watch offers as a self-serve plan. Connect your own AI provider credential (Anthropic or an OpenAI-compatible provider) and Innvil never charges you for AI usage on top of the plan price — self-serve, purchase it right now, no sales call required.
- 20 Watcher slots
- 10 Communities — already the max, nothing more to unlock
- 2,000 Media Moderation units/mo included, plus optional capacity packs
- Same Innvil Credit discounts as every other plan
Not the same as Enterprise BYO — this is a self-serve plan; Enterprise BYO is manually provisioned for larger, custom deployments.
BYO 20 · monthly
$169.99/mo
Bring your own AI provider credential
20
slots
10
communities
2K
media units
Pricing
Try free, then choose your Watch plan
Start with a 7-day Free Trial — no payment required. Simple monthly pricing after that. Cancel anytime.
$0 for 7 days
1 Watcher slot · 1 Community · No payment required
For a single community getting started with AI moderation.
$29.99/mo
2 Watcher slots
1 community
For growing communities that need more coverage.
$59.99/mo
5 Watcher slots
2 communities
For established projects running multiple communities.
$99.99/mo
10 Watcher slots
3 communities (up to 5)
For teams running Watch at scale.
$149.99/mo
20 Watcher slots
5 communities (up to 10)
Everything included, bring your own AI provider — best value.
$169.99/mo
20 Watcher slots
10 communities
For large-scale deployments — two real ways to run it.
from $299/mo
Managed — Innvil runs everything, from $399/mo.
BYO — bring your own AI provider credential and pay less (from $299/mo); your own provider usage is billed separately, not covered by Innvil.