The platform
Five services, designed to connect into one operating relationship.
Each one is a real, running tool — not a slide. Connected, they let you activate downtown and measure it, so impact compounds instead of scattering across five disconnected vendors.
Wayfinding
A fast, accessible interactive map of your district — turn-by-turn routing, real-time closures, and a “Simple Guide” mode built for all ages. Running every day as the Saint Paul skyway map.
- Turn-by-turn indoor routing on OpenStreetMap + OSRM
- Real-time corridor closures
- Accessibility-first “Simple Guide” mode
- Installable PWA, works offline
- 5 mi
- Indoor network
- 47
- Blocks
- 60+
- Connected buildings
- 160+
- Businesses
Directory
A searchable business directory where owners claim and edit their own listing — hours, photos, events — and see their own profile views. Live; self-serve claiming is newly built and in beta.
- Searchable, categorized listings
- Owners claim and edit their own profile
- Per-listing view counts for owners
- Connected to the same map data layer
- The supply side of downtown — who’s here
- Owners self-serve, so the alliance isn’t the bottleneck
Activations
We don’t just publish a calendar — we run the events. A $5 progressive dinner moved 155 diners through five restaurants in one night; a sold-out skyway mixer with a university dean on the mic.
- Progressive dinners, mixers, and more — operated end-to-end
- Self-service check-in, real-time capacity, dish ratings
- Speaker at the sold-out mixer: Jennifer Yoos, Dean, UMN College of Design
- $16.6–23.2K
- Downtown spend, one dinner
- 155
- Diners, one night
- 511
- Check-ins · 3.3 each
- Sold out
- Skyway mixer
V/Hub — relational organizing for the whole community
Volunteer routing, registration, surveys, and tabling that get stakeholders of every age participating — person to person, the way real organizing works. Proven by a 681-resident survey and live event check-in; the multi-tenant product is being built with pilot partners.
- Volunteer routing, registration, surveys, tabling
- Intuitive for all ages — one-tap add-to-homescreen, no app store
- Cheaper and far more engaging than the flyers you’re already printing
- Relational, person-to-person — not one-way blasts
- 681 residents surveyed
- Live volunteer check-in, run on the night
- Multi-tenant product being built with pilot partners
Insights
Foot-traffic sensing turned into board-ready impact reporting — the evidence that defends and grows your funding. Two sensors are deployed as a proof of concept; the cross-city product is in active development.
- Foot-traffic sensing → before/after, by event and block
- Board-ready impact reporting — the case for your next grant
- Privacy-first: anonymized and aggregated — we count activity, not individuals
- 2 sensors deployed (proof of concept)
- Cross-city insights product in active development
See your downtown run like this.
Book a working session, or just open the live map and click around. A pilot is short and reversible — live in weeks, scoped to a civic budget.