What does the bot need on my server?
Administrator, because setting channel permissions requires it and a bot can only grant what it holds. Plus two privileged intents, Message Content and Server Members, switched on in the Discord developer portal. Both are free and need no Discord review under 10,000 members. The bot lives on your developer account, not mine.
Does it message strangers?
Three messages, ever: the welcome inside the hour, a nudge on day two if they have not introduced themselves, and one reminder for your next live session. Anyone with DMs closed is skipped and never retried.
Will it post when there is nothing to say?
No. The Thursday pick, the Saturday pick and the monthly roll each return nothing when there is nothing real, and the daily post refuses to run twice in a day or inside quiet hours.
Does it work with my paid membership?
If you sell through Stripe, yes. An active or trialing subscription becomes a role, a cancelled or unpaid one loses it. Any other billing system is a build, quoted separately.
Can the assistant say something I have not approved?
Public announcements are refused without an approval id. Replies in your ask-anything channel come from a written brief you and I author. While you are live, a redactor masks prices, phone numbers, email addresses and names from your customer list before anything reaches the screen.
Can it delete a channel by mistake?
No. The builder creates and patches by name and never deletes. Removing a channel is a human's click.
What is not included?
Server boosts, which you buy from Discord. Your art, which is yours or a brand add-on. A live-stream stage with chat on screen, which is the broadcast package. Both together, wired, is the studio solution.