Table of Contents
- Embed or build separate? The actual tradeoff
- What does each path actually cost?
- How do you control who gets the AI, and what happens when someone cancels?
- Who owns the content, the AI, and the member relationship?
- The alternative: not embedding at all, but owning the whole thing
- The takeaway
- Related reading
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You've got a paid Mighty Networks space full of coaching clients, and you want an AI version of yourself they can talk to between sessions. The question isn't whether to do this - it's whether to embed a tool like Delphi.ai directly into your Mighty space, or build something separate and link to it. Both paths have real cost structures, real access-control mechanics, and real answers (not vague ones) about who owns what. Here's what we found when we looked closely at both.
Embed or build separate? The actual tradeoff
An embed means putting a Delphi (or similar) widget on a Mighty Page as an iframe, so members never technically leave your community. A separate app means the AI lives on its own, with its own login, and you link to it from Mighty.
The embed feels seamless but inherits Mighty's permission model and plan tier requirements. A separate app gives you a clean, independent product, but you're now running two systems that don't talk to each other unless you build the bridge yourself.
There's no version of this where "embed" means "simple" and "separate" means "complicated" by default. Each has its own complexity, just in different places - Mighty's side for the embed, your own auth/entitlement layer for the separate build. This is really the same build vs buy decision coaches face with any AI coaching product, just applied inside a community platform.
What does each path actually cost?
Start with Mighty Networks. As of 2026-10-30, Mighty's published tiers are Launch at $79/month, Scale at $179/month, Growth at $354/month, and a custom Mighty Pro tier above that. This matters for the embed question specifically because Mighty's authenticated iframes - the feature that passes a member's identity into an embedded tool - only became available on Scale and above, starting July 2026 per Mighty's own changelog. If you're on Launch, you don't have the pieces to do this properly yet.
Now Delphi's pricing - and here we have to flag something directly rather than pick a number and move on. Delphi's own pricing pages disagree with each other. One live page (delphi.ai/pricing) lists Builder at $79/month, Scaler at $299/month, and an Immortal tier that's custom-quoted. A different, newer page (new.delphi.ai/premium/plans) lists Scaler at $5,000/year - roughly $417/month - and a "Scaler + API" tier at $10,000/year, roughly $833/month. The Scaler+API tier is reportedly required for SSO and full API/developer access, which is exactly what you'd need to connect Delphi cleanly to Mighty or to build a separate app on top of it.
That's a gap of several hundred dollars a month between two pages on the same company's site, checked the same day. We're not going to resolve that for you, because we can't - get a written quote from Delphi directly before you commit to anything, and confirm in writing which tier you're actually being billed for.
If you go the separate-app route using Delphi's API, add more cost on top of whichever Delphi tier applies: you're now building your own authentication and entitlement system to connect it to Mighty or a CRM, plus hosting and database costs for that bridge. That's a materially bigger project than dropping in an embed, and it's not optional if you want cancellations to actually mean something.
How do you control who gets the AI, and what happens when someone cancels?
Mighty Networks controls access through Plans, which can be scoped to specific Spaces - so you can gate a Space behind a paid Plan and only members on that Plan see it. Delphi has its own separate system called Access Groups, which lets you give different member tiers different source material, message caps, and voice or video limits inside Delphi itself.
The problem: these two systems are not natively linked. Mighty's Plans and Delphi's Access Groups don't talk to each other out of the box. If a member cancels their Mighty subscription, that cancellation does not automatically revoke their Delphi access - you, the creator, have to handle that manually or build a sync between the two.
There's also a simpler issue with basic embeds specifically: an iframe or link on a Mighty Page is not, by itself, a real access boundary. If the underlying Delphi URL can be copied and shared, someone outside your gated Space could potentially still reach it, unless Delphi-side registration or login is also enforced independently.
We looked for a clear, published explanation from either platform of how a Mighty cancellation is supposed to flow through and revoke Delphi access automatically. We didn't find one. That's a real, unresolved operational gap as of this writing, and if you're planning to run both systems together, you need to plan for it manually rather than assume it's handled.
Who owns the content, the AI, and the member relationship?
This is the part most coaches skip past, and it's the part that matters most if you ever want to leave Mighty, switch tools, or just sleep well at night. It's worth reading alongside the broader question of data portability and vendor lock-in across AI coaching clone platforms generally.
Per Delphi's own Creator Terms (delphi.ai/terms-creator, checked 2026-10-30), you retain IP rights in the content you upload - your books, your frameworks, your recordings. But Delphi retains rights to its own underlying technology, what it calls the "Digital Mind" system. In practice, that means you can't export the trained AI itself and run it somewhere else. You can take your original source material with you, but not the finished, trained version of "you" that members have been talking to. If you terminate, Delphi says it will retain your content for six months at your election, then delete it, subject to legal and backup exceptions.
Then there's the conversation data - what members actually say to the AI. Delphi's privacy policy (new.delphi.ai/privacy, checked 2026-10-30) explicitly anticipates that members may disclose health, medical, or mental-health information in these conversations. It states that information may be disclosed to the creator and to service providers, and separately notes Delphi may use de-identified or aggregated data to improve its own services, and may share certain contact, device, or analytics data with advertising and marketing partners under applicable privacy law categories.
Read that again in the context of coaching. Members are talking to what feels like you, about things they might not tell anyone else, and the terms are explicit that this data has more than one potential downstream use. That's worth knowing before you tell your clients "it's just like talking to me privately."
The alternative: not embedding at all, but owning the whole thing
There's a third option that isn't "embed into Mighty" or "build a custom app on someone else's API" - it's running the AI as its own standalone product, completely separate from Mighty, where you set the access terms yourself instead of stitching together two platforms' permission systems. This is a different model from the white label coaching app question too, since it's not about branding an existing community app, it's about a fully separate product.
Platforms like BuddyPro are built for exactly this: not a website embed, but a standalone AI expert that lives in its own messaging-app experience, with its own paid access per subscriber, independent of any third-party community platform. You upload your existing coaching material - books, recordings, frameworks, whatever you've already created - and the AI trains on it directly, live in days, no coding involved. Access control is native and direct: someone subscribes, they're in; they cancel, they're out. There's no Mighty-to-Delphi sync to build or forget to build.
The engagement side matters here too, because coaching between sessions is only valuable if members actually come back to it. BuddyPro is built on an AI companion core designed for ongoing relationship, not single Q&A exchanges - unlimited long-term memory, proactive check-ins, and a personality that pushes back when needed. On the top-performing instances built this way, 60% of subscribers are active daily and 80% weekly, which is the kind of return usage a between-session coaching product needs to actually be worth $1-2K a year to a member.
More than 150 experts have launched this way, generating over $6 million in combined subscription revenue, with the expert keeping 100% of the profit and 75-85% margins after AI usage costs. That's a different model entirely from paying a platform fee to embed someone else's AI into your community and hoping the two systems stay in sync.
The takeaway
If you embed Delphi into Mighty, you need Mighty's Scale tier or above for authenticated access, a Delphi plan whose real price you've confirmed in writing (not off a page that contradicts another page on the same site), and a manual process for revoking access when someone cancels, because nothing does that automatically today. You also need to tell members honestly that their conversations may be visible to you and to third-party service providers, and that the trained AI itself - not just the source content - stays with Delphi if you ever leave. If instead you want something you fully control, from access terms to the member relationship to where the data lives, building a standalone AI twin independent of your community platform, the kind of product you can explore further at buddypro.ai, is the more durable path for a coaching relationship you intend to keep for years.
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