For restaurants and shops
More customers, less paperwork.
For the family restaurant, the salon, the corner store, the food truck and the shop with a hand-painted sign. The work that keeps a storefront open, done for you between the lunch rush and closing.
What the membership does
What you actually get.
A website people can actually find
Two pages written from your answers, hosted and kept running, with your hours, your menu or services, and a call button that works on any phone.
Grants and programs that fit you
Every week, the open funding for storefronts, equipment, hiring and improvements, matched to your kind of business and your state, with the deadline and who to ask.
A business plan when the bank asks
A plan or a market snapshot written by a person, priced in writing before it starts, and paid from your quarterly allowance.
Numbers before you sign a lease
The pro forma builder and the market-fit checker tell you whether a second location supports itself, before a landlord's number does the talking.
Work you might not think to chase
Schools, hospitals, cities and counties buy catering, cleaning and supplies on published bids. The weekly Bid List shows the ones your business could actually fill.
People who have done it
A monthly room with other owners, and an advisor to call on Anchor when a decision is bigger than a guess.
Which membership
Start here.
You can move up or down at any time, and the change takes effect the same week.
Where most start
Growing
$79 a month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Growing is the usual fit: the website is the thing most shops need first, and two weekly lists mean customers and funding at the same time.
- 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
The people in it
Who else you'll meet.
Other owners in the same week you are having: a bakery two states over that solved the same delivery problem, a caterer who has already won a school district contract, the contractor who can build out your second location.
The Circle Meeting is 40 minutes on Zoom once a month. The member directory is searchable by trade and state, and if you tell us who you need to meet, we make the introduction by name with both sides' permission.
Worth saying plainly
What we don't do.
We can't promise a grant, a contract or a place on Google. We find what fits, prepare the application properly, and build the site the right way.
We don't handle food safety, liquor licensing or health inspections, and nothing here is legal or tax advice.