Welcome to the Circle
Local commerce, global community.
Delta Circle is a membership for the people who keep a town running: the family restaurant, the contractor with a truck and a crew, the developer with a parcel, and the bank that finances them all. We do the digging, the paperwork and the research, so you can get back to your business.
Who sits at the table
Different businesses. Same town, same questions.
Where's the next job? Who's funding this? Will the county approve it? Can people find us? Delta Circle answers those questions every week, in plain language.
Restaurants and shops
Get found by customers, find grants and programs that fit, and plan the next location with real numbers.
What it does for you
Contractors and crews
A weekly list of public bids, leads from property managers and owners, and help putting a proposal together.
What it does for you
Real estate agents
Answers about zoning, use and feasibility that win the listing, and research behind a pricing conversation.
What it does for you
Developers and landowners
Zoning, feasibility and power reports on a named parcel, and a weekly watch on the agendas that decide it.
What it does for you
Banks, attorneys and brokers
Site research for your clients, and a visible place in the business community your work depends on.
What it does for youThe faces of local commerce
Built for the businesses on your street.
The cafe that opens at six. The florist who knows every wedding in town. The food truck, the corner grocer, the shop with the hand-painted sign. This is who Delta Circle works for.
What membership does
The help a small business wishes it had on staff.
Find work
The Bid List: public bids matched to your trade and area, with deadlines and direct links, every week.
Find funding
The Funding List: open grants and programs matched to your business or nonprofit, every week.
Get found
A website written from your answers, built, hosted and kept running, with click-to-call from any phone.
Get it done
We do the work that eats your evenings: bid proposals, business plans, grant applications and market research.
Know the ground
Site reports on zoning, feasibility, location data and power, researched from primary records and reviewed before release.
Stay in the circle
The weekly Circle Letter, the monthly Circle Meeting on Zoom, and an advisor to call when a decision is too big to guess.
How it works
Three steps, and then we get to work.
Tell us about your business
A short request: your trade, your town, and the membership you want. No card needed to ask.
Hear back from a person
Within one business day we confirm the fit and send your checkout link. If something isn't right for you, we'll say so.
Your first week arrives
Set your profile once. Your lists, letter and meeting invitations start the same week.
Made for how you work
See what the Circle does for a business like yours.
More customers, less paperwork.
- A website that shows your hours, menu and a call button on every phone
- Grants and programs for storefronts, equipment and hiring, matched every week
- A pro forma builder to price a second location before you sign a lease
- A business plan written for you when the bank asks for one
The next job, found for you.
- Public bids matched to your trade and the areas you'll drive to
- Work Match leads from property managers and owners who need a crew
- Bid proposals assembled from your materials
- Clean invoices prepared so you get paid faster
Answer the question that wins the listing.
- What a parcel is zoned for, and what changing it would take, before you take the listing
- A weekly watch on planning and zoning agendas for the parcels you are working
- Market research behind a pricing conversation with a seller
- Your own website, and a directory listing in front of local businesses
Know the parcel before you commit.
- Zoning and entitlement reports on a named parcel
- Feasibility and power screens before you spend on design
- A weekly watch on the planning and zoning agendas for your parcels
- Reserved report slots so your schedule holds
Ground truth for your clients.
- Independent site research ahead of a credit or closing decision
- Reports you can hand across the table, with your firm's name on the cover
- Sponsored memberships for the small businesses you serve
- A visible seat at the monthly Circle Meeting
Find your fit
Three questions. One recommendation.
Tap an answer for each and we'll point you to the membership that fits today.
Your recommendation
Answer to see
Pick one answer in each row. You can change them anytime.
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Pick the membership that fits today.
Billed monthly. Change or cancel anytime.
Rooted
For the shop, kitchen or crew getting its footing.
$29 a month
Cancel anytime
- The Circle Letter, every week
- One weekly list: public bids, funding programs, or property-service work leads
- A listing in the member directory
- The monthly Circle Meeting
- One business planning tool of your choice
Secure checkout. Questions first?
Growing
For the business ready to be found, funded and busy.
$79 a month
Cancel anytime
- Everything in Rooted, plus
- Two weekly lists
- Your website, written, built and hosted
- Three business planning tools
- $100 each quarter toward work we do for you: a bid proposal, a grant application, market research or a business plan
- Anything you don't use carries forward for nine months
- 10% off any site report
Secure checkout. Questions first?
Anchor
For the established business a town counts on. Only 20 Anchor memberships are offered at a time.
$149 a month
Cancel anytime
- Everything in Growing, plus
- All three weekly lists
- A weekly watch on planning and zoning agendas for up to 3 parcels you name
- Every business planning tool
- $200 each quarter toward work we do for you
- A 20-minute advisor session each quarter
- One invoice prepared and ready to send each quarter
- A featured directory spot
- 15% off any site report
Secure checkout. Questions first?
Growing and Anchor include a website with a three-month minimum. Full details on the membership page.
For firms and institutions
Big plans need local ground truth.
Developers, banks, attorneys, brokers and engineers get site report credit, reserved scheduling, agenda watches on their parcels, and a real seat among the local businesses their projects serve. Partnerships are annual and invoiced, from $1,800 a year.
Where the two sides meet
An institution can sponsor memberships for the local businesses it wants to support. Those businesses become the tenants, customers and neighbors that make a project work.
Your chamber, too
We work between the meetings.
Delta Circle isn't a chamber of commerce, and we're not trying to replace yours. Chambers do what nobody else can: ribbon cuttings, local advocacy, the handshake at the Thursday lunch. We do the weekly work in between, and we reach the businesses that can't close up at five for a mixer.
If you belong to a chamber, keep it. Many of our members will belong to both.
Global community
Your town, and the circle beyond it.
Your business lives on one street. The people who can help it don't all live there. Members meet each other across the country, and a company based abroad that does business here is welcome in the room.
- Meet once a month. The Circle Meeting is 40 minutes on Zoom, from wherever you are.
- Find each other by trade and state. The member directory is searchable, so a contractor in one state can find a supplier, a subcontractor or a customer in another.
- Ask for an introduction. Tell us who you need to meet and we introduce you to a member by name, with both sides' permission.
- Local work, wider circle. Our research covers U.S. businesses and U.S. parcels. Membership is open to any business that does business in America, wherever it is based.