diff --git a/src/contrib/cluster/Akka.Cluster.Sharding/Akka.Cluster.Sharding.csproj b/src/contrib/cluster/Akka.Cluster.Sharding/Akka.Cluster.Sharding.csproj
index 8234137e52c..ec62248e18c 100644
--- a/src/contrib/cluster/Akka.Cluster.Sharding/Akka.Cluster.Sharding.csproj
+++ b/src/contrib/cluster/Akka.Cluster.Sharding/Akka.Cluster.Sharding.csproj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AssemblyTitle>Akka.Cluster.Sharding</AssemblyTitle>
-    <Description>Sharded actors with managed lifecycle for Akka.NET cluster</Description>
+    <Description>Sharded actors with managed lifecycle for Akka.NET cluster. Used to distribute state in a fault-tolerant, consistent fashion over an Akka.NET cluster.</Description>
     <TargetFrameworks>$(NetStandardLibVersion)</TargetFrameworks>
     <PackageTags>$(AkkaPackageTags);network;cluster;sharding</PackageTags>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
diff --git a/src/core/Akka.Cluster/Akka.Cluster.csproj b/src/core/Akka.Cluster/Akka.Cluster.csproj
index de08aa79f62..f729c09040a 100644
--- a/src/core/Akka.Cluster/Akka.Cluster.csproj
+++ b/src/core/Akka.Cluster/Akka.Cluster.csproj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AssemblyTitle>Akka.Cluster</AssemblyTitle>
-    <Description>Cluster support for Akka.NET</Description>
+    <Description>Clustering support for Akka.NET actors. Used to build highly-available, distributed applications.</Description>
     <TargetFrameworks>$(NetStandardLibVersion)</TargetFrameworks>
     <PackageTags>$(AkkaPackageTags);network;cluster</PackageTags>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
diff --git a/src/core/Akka.Persistence/Akka.Persistence.csproj b/src/core/Akka.Persistence/Akka.Persistence.csproj
index 24509b35af6..121b5d70455 100644
--- a/src/core/Akka.Persistence/Akka.Persistence.csproj
+++ b/src/core/Akka.Persistence/Akka.Persistence.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   <Import Project="..\..\common.props" />
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AssemblyTitle>Akka.Persistence</AssemblyTitle>
-    <Description>Persistence actor support for Akka.NET</Description>
+    <Description>Persistence for Akka.NET actors. Allows actors to persist and recover their state in a database-agnostic fashion.</Description>
     <TargetFrameworks>$(NetStandardLibVersion)</TargetFrameworks>
     <PackageTags>$(AkkaPackageTags);persistence;eventsource</PackageTags>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
diff --git a/src/core/Akka.Remote/Akka.Remote.csproj b/src/core/Akka.Remote/Akka.Remote.csproj
index 5b1f41f9715..759c67533b6 100644
--- a/src/core/Akka.Remote/Akka.Remote.csproj
+++ b/src/core/Akka.Remote/Akka.Remote.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   <Import Project="..\..\common.props" />
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AssemblyTitle>Akka.Remote</AssemblyTitle>
-    <Description>Remote actor support for Akka.NET</Description>
+    <Description>Remoting support for Akka.NET. Allows actors to communicate over the network.</Description>
     <TargetFrameworks>$(NetStandardLibVersion)</TargetFrameworks>
     <PackageTags>$(AkkaPackageTags);network</PackageTags>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
diff --git a/src/core/Akka.Streams/Akka.Streams.csproj b/src/core/Akka.Streams/Akka.Streams.csproj
index 78be8ba16db..c04783c315e 100644
--- a/src/core/Akka.Streams/Akka.Streams.csproj
+++ b/src/core/Akka.Streams/Akka.Streams.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
   <Import Project="..\..\common.props" />
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AssemblyTitle>Akka.Streams</AssemblyTitle>
-    <Description>Reactive stream support for Akka.NET</Description>
+    <Description>Streaming support for Akka.NET. Introduces a LINQ-like interface for writing asynchronous,
+      back-pressure-aware streams built on top of Akka.NET actors.</Description>
     <TargetFrameworks>$(NetStandardLibVersion)</TargetFrameworks>
     <PackageTags>$(AkkaPackageTags);reactive;stream</PackageTags>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
diff --git a/src/core/Akka/Akka.csproj b/src/core/Akka/Akka.csproj
index 4114dbbd706..7efd99aba39 100644
--- a/src/core/Akka/Akka.csproj
+++ b/src/core/Akka/Akka.csproj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AssemblyTitle>Akka</AssemblyTitle>
-    <Description>Akka.NET is a port of the popular Java/Scala framework Akka to .NET</Description>
+    <Description>Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.</Description>
     <TargetFrameworks>$(NetStandardLibVersion)</TargetFrameworks>
     <PackageTags>$(AkkaPackageTags)</PackageTags>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>