Economic Development
Support thousands of local businesses.
Without hiring thousands of staff.
Workshops end. Grants get spent. Whether you run economic development for a city, county or regional EDO, a Chamber of Commerce, an SBDC or a SCORE chapter, Amplifyo gives every business you serve an always-on AI marketing manager - programmatic growth support at scale, with the impact data your council, board and funders ask for.
Workshops inspire for a day. Growth needs follow-through.
The traditional model for supporting local businesses is workshops and training days - valuable in the moment, but research summarized in Harvard Business Review suggests most new learning is forgotten within about a week without reinforcement - and most businesses struggle to follow through once the session ends.
Amplifyo was built by a team who have worked alongside EDOs and saw that need first-hand - first as action tools, and now as an engine that supports true ongoing growth. It equips business owners, operators, junior marketers, admin teams and whoever else is appointed to do the marketing. It is complementary to your existing programs and advisory teams - the future of effective service delivery - and helps you deliver greater impact without changing your headcount.
Your strategy support is excellent. Their execution is where growth stalls.
You provide high-value strategy, training and growth support - but most local businesses lack the internal resources to implement it, and stalled businesses mean a shrinking tax base and lost jobs.
What holds your program back today
- Scalability: high-touch support can't stretch across thousands of micro-businesses without more headcount or overhead.
- Retention & resiliency: business failures erode the local tax base - and preventing them takes ongoing support, not one-off workshops.
- Data silos: aggregating and measuring total economic impact for council and funder reporting is slow, manual work.
- Reaching underserved markets: rural, minority and low-income business owners are the hardest to reach with traditional programming.
What partnering with Amplifyo changes
- Programmatic scale: every business gets its own AI marketing manager - support that runs daily and weekly, not just on workshop days.
- Measurable impact: the optional Admin Hub aggregates anonymized program activity so you can show growth and impact to stakeholders.
- You stay AI-competitive: we handle the responsible-AI infrastructure, RAG architecture and secure integrations - your program is positioned as the technological driver keeping local SMBs globally competitive.
- Activate your advisors: business counselors, program staff and mentors get platform seats and AI-enabled workflows - the latest AI capability in their hands, with less admin in their day.
- Brand your program: co-branding or full white-labelling lets you launch it as your own regional growth initiative.
Government-tied, grant-funded or member-funded - there's a compliant way to partner.
We know economic development isn't one organisation type. Each partnership model below is structured around the procurement and compliance rules your organisation actually operates under.
Wholesale enterprise licensing
Procurement-friendly · No revenue share requiredCity and county economic development offices and regional EDOs are government-tied or public-private entities that can't accept affiliate fees or revenue shares - so we don't ask you to. Purchase bulk wholesale licenses to distribute to local businesses as a subsidized growth tool, or a flat SaaS fee for internal use - priced to fit an existing program budget line.
- Suits business retention & expansion (BRE) budgets
- Transparent, flat per-business pricing for procurement
Member benefit + non-dues revenue
Hybrid: wholesale, white-label markup, or affiliate shareChambers are the exception in this group: as 501(c)(6) organisations you can earn - and most chambers actively want - recurring non-dues revenue. Answer the "what do I get for my dues?" question with a tangible growth tool, then mark up a wholesale or white-label tier to members, or take an affiliate share on every active subscriber you refer.
- An exclusive member offer that fights churn
- Recurring non-dues revenue with zero delivery burden
Grant-subsidized cohort access
Structured for SBA Uniform GuidanceSBDCs can't profit from or act as affiliates for commercial software - so the model is a wholesale discount or grant-subsidized program: the center pays a flat bulk fee to give free or low-cost platform access to its client cohort.
- Supports milestone tracking your advisors already do
- Ongoing support for post-launch and early-stage clients
Non-profit discount or sponsor-funded blocks
No commissions, ever - by designSCORE chapters are barred from revenue splits and referral commissions, so we offer a steep wholesale non-profit discount - or a corporate sponsor can fund a block of licenses for the entrepreneurs your mentors serve.
- Keeps momentum going between mentor sessions
- Simple enough for mentors and mentees alike
Practical, ongoing marketing support - far beyond the workshop.
Amplifyo architects each business's strategy, generates campaigns tracked against their goals, executes via integrations, and prescribes the next step - a closed-loop growth engine.
Closes the execution gap
The growth plans your programs help define are actually implemented, supported by an always-on AI engine.
Aligned to real goals
Marketing tracked against each business's revenue targets - not vanity metrics.
No experience needed
Guided pathways activate owners, admin staff or juniors to complete professional marketing tasks in minutes.
Continuous next steps
Lead and lag indicators autonomously recommend the highest-value action each week.
Omnichannel visibility
Digital strategy, content and campaigns that boost presence online and offline - main street included.
Human support included
Amplifyo's marketing specialists - or your own advisors via the platform - can add value where a business needs deeper strategy.
Want the full product detail? Explore every feature - from campaigns to next-step ideas - on amplifyo.com, or see it all live in a demo.
Wholesale pricing that fits inside a program budget.
Flat per-business pricing built for procurement, grants and sponsorship - sized to fit inside an existing program budget and clear a single sign-off quickly, not a board-level procurement battle. Every license covers up to 3 seats per business. Amplifyo’s founding team is corporate-governance trained, and the platform is built to best practice in data, privacy and responsible AI - aligned with USA and Australian standards.
Early-partner pricing. Current rates are locked in for 12 months from signing, with feature upgrades included. As the partner program matures, rates for new partners are expected to rise in 2027 - partnering now secures today’s pricing for your first year.
| TierBusinesses enrolled | Wholesale costPer business, per month - up to 3 seats | Discount vs. list | Optional advisor seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver1–20 businesses | $55 /business/month | 68.4% off | |
| Gold21–100 businesses | $53 /business/month | 69.5% off | |
| Platinum100+ businesses | $49 /business/month | 71.8% off |
The wholesale licensing above is in addition to your branding setup: every partnership starts with either full white-labelling ($15,000 setup, then $2,000/year) or co-branding within the application ($5,000 setup, then $500/year) - both detailed below.
All partner tiers include monthly client summary reporting, a 12-month price guarantee with feature upgrades at no extra charge, in-app support for your clients plus direct access to the Amplifyo support team, and bonus workshop tickets for your program incentives. Partner accounts can be set up in as little as 3 weeks. Prices exclude applicable taxes (based on your region).
Built to clear your procurement process, not fight it.
Everything your finance officer and procurement team will ask about, answered up front.
Grounded in real business outcomes. Shaped to your region.
The outcomes below come from real Amplifyo customers - the same kinds of local businesses your organisation serves every day.
A regional "growth cohort" launch
An EDO enrolls a cohort of local businesses on subsidized licenses under a co-branded program. Each business builds its own goal-aligned marketing plan in its first session; the EDO's team tracks anonymized program activity through the Admin Hub for quarterly council reporting.
- Cohort onboards itself - no extra program staff
- Support continues after the launch event ends
- Aggregated impact data for funders, on demand
What local businesses achieve on Amplifyo
A local construction company built its community brand and improved Google rankings. A manufacturer grew leads without hiring. A family-owned retailer kept promotions moving through a 12-month staff transition. A B2B engineering firm aligned its whole team behind one growth roadmap.
- "It probably saved me at least a few hours" - construction customer
- More output and leads with no added headcount
- Read the case studies →
Program example is illustrative of how a partnership can be structured; business outcomes referenced are drawn from published Amplifyo customer case studies.
See what a regional program could look like - in 30 minutes.
We'll walk through the platform your businesses would use, the Admin Hub reporting your stakeholders will see, and the partnership model that fits your funding rules.
- Compliance-aware model matched to your organisation type
- Sample impact report for councils, boards and funders
- Indicative program pricing within days - pilot-ready
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