What's included
Everything behind the membership.
Every benefit, described plainly: what you get, how often, and which memberships include it.
Every week
The Circle Letter
A weekly letter on opportunities worth knowing about, funding that's opening or closing, and what's changing for local business. Short enough to read over coffee.
The Bid List
A weekly shortlist of public bids matched to your trades, the areas you serve, the buyers you want and the contract size you can handle.
- Each bid with its deadline and a direct link to the issuing agency
- The same list by email
- An honest empty week when nothing fits
The Funding List
Open grants and funding programs matched to your business or nonprofit, every week, including anything that closes within 30 days.
- Matched to your organization type, location and program areas
- Deadlines and eligibility in plain language
Work Match
For landscaping, mowing, pressure washing, janitorial, junk removal, exterior maintenance, snow and small repairs. We actively search for work matching your services in up to five areas you choose, and when a property manager, owner or agent we know asks who can do the job, your profile is our answer.
- We never take a cut and never negotiate your prices
- Clients pay you directly
Your website
A website, written, built and hosted
Answer a short set of questions and we write and build your site within three business days. It's hosted, kept running, and yours.
- Up to two pages, written from your answers and correct on every phone
- A simple logo, with three designs to choose from
- Basic search setup done right: your name, town, trade and hours
- Click-to-call, click-to-text and email buttons
- Hosting, security certificate and daily uptime checks
- One full revision round, then small edits as you go
Not included: online payments, booking systems, customer logins or a promised position on Google. Your domain and your words are always yours.
Tools and projects
Business planning tools
Full versions of the calculators a business or a developer reaches for when the numbers matter. Pick which ones your membership unlocks.
- Pro forma builder: income, costs and returns for a project or a new location
- Capital stack planner: layering a loan, your own money and grant funding
- Business plan builder: the sections and numbers a lender expects
- Bid brief builder: the scope and pricing sheet behind a public bid
- Market-fit checker: whether a new location or offering has the customers
- Market and competitor report: who else is doing this nearby, and at what price
- Grant-fit checker: whether you qualify before you spend a weekend applying
- Site layout tool: what fits on a piece of land, and what constrains it
Work we do for you
Real pieces of work, written by a person, priced in writing before we start, and approved by you. Growing and Anchor include a quarterly allowance toward any of them; if a piece costs more, we quote the difference and you decide.
- Bid proposal assembled from your materials: $50
- Market research snapshot on a location or an offering: $200
- Business plan, starter version: $300
- Grant application for a single funder: $400
- Business plan with full three-year financials: $500
- Development feasibility study: $700
- A custom website beyond the two pages your membership includes: from $200
Invoice preparation
We prepare a clean, correct invoice for a job you've finished, ready for you to send, so you get paid faster.
Advice
Advisor sessions
Time on video with a senior advisor who has spent seventeen years across business and real estate development. Bring the decision you're weighing and leave with a clearer next step.
Land and sites
Site reports
Zoning and entitlement, site readiness and feasibility, location data audits, power and energization screens, and one-page site snapshots on a named parcel. Each is quoted in writing for its scope.
Planning agenda watch
Planning and zoning agendas read every week against the parcels you name, so a hearing about your land never happens without you. If a jurisdiction doesn't publish its agendas online, we tell you before you pay.
Community
The Circle Meeting
Once a month on Zoom, 40 minutes, and we finish on time. We open with one opportunity or funding program worth knowing, then the floor is yours. Every member can introduce their business in sixty seconds.
- A calendar invitation with the link, and a reminder on the morning
- Recorded only if everyone on the call agrees
- Can’t make it? The opportunity we opened with goes out in that week’s Circle Letter
Member directory
Your business, town, trade, website and a click-to-call button, in a directory other members and partners actually use.