$238B
Google ad revenue in 2023 alone
The Manifesto
Big Tech took your Main Street. We're taking it back.
They turned your city into a feed and sold it back to you as ads. We're building the infrastructure to undo that, and hand local its power again.
Why We Started
Local businesses don't lose because they're worse.
They lose because Big Tech owns the distribution, and rents it back to chains.
$1.451B
What local businesses in two metros paid Big Tech in a single year, just to be seen in their own neighborhoods. That's roughly 40,000 local jobs, vanished into ad spend.
The Big Tech Tax Report drops in the press soon.
The Big Tech Tax Report — with UT Dallas
How much is Big Tech costing your business?
We're quantifying the “Visibility Tax” - what local businesses are forced to spend just to be found online - straight from the source, in partnership with UT Dallas.
72%
of SMBs say ad costs rose year over year
Exclusive interview
Matt Stoller
Leading anti-trust expert · featured in the report
Infrastructure that levels the field.
The same visibility chains pay millions for. AI that does the work of an entire team, built for how local actually operates. Systems designed for circulation, not extraction.
Find the best taco spot three blocks away, not the chain pushed to the top of your search, and the money stays in your neighborhood.
When you explore instead of scroll, you meet people. Real connection happens in real places. Strong local economies build strong communities. That's the whole point.
Built By Rebels
We don't play by their rules. Their rules were built to keep you losing.
They optimize forExtraction.
We build forcirculation.
They design forAddiction.
We design forexploration.
They consolidatePower.
Wedistribute it.
We're rebels because we had to be.
Because no one else was building this, and waiting for the system to fix itself meant watching more neighborhoods die.
Are you a rebel too?
This is infrastructure. This is how local comes back.
Rebuilding local economies. One city at a time.