LOS ANGELES, California
| Asking Price |
$0 |
Year Established |
2024 |
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| Annual Revenue |
$11,500 |
Reason for Selling |
The owner has taken the company from concept to a fully developed, launch-ready platform and believes its next stage belongs in the hands of an owner whose focus is scaling and operating it. The owner intends to continue creating new ventures and providing strategic advisory work, and has chosen not to lead another operating company through commercialization. |
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| Annual P/L |
$0 |
Attention |
Rick Carlson |
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| Annual Cash Flow |
$4,750 |
Listing Number |
1016301 |
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| # of Employees |
1 |
Business Category |
Technology: Software |
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Business Overview:
This is a fully developed, patent-pending consumer commerce and business discovery platform. Native iOS and Android applications have already cleared the approval process and are published to both the Apple App Store and Google Play. The technology, the brand, the trademark and the complete source code are built, tested and ready for market.
The platform reimagines how consumers find businesses. Rather than searching by location, category or keyword alone, a consumer personalizes the experience around the attributes, causes, ownership characteristics and priorities that matter most to them, and the platform delivers tailored recommendations across local businesses, products, services, restaurants, retail, professionals and experiences. At its core is a proprietary classification framework that allows businesses to be discovered through hundreds of meaningful attributes spanning ownership identity, organizational values, environmental impact, workplace practices, community involvement and certifications.
Participating businesses receive rich, dynamic profiles that go well beyond a directory listing, showcasing their story, mission, products, services, certifications and community involvement, and building relationships with consumers who already share their priorities. Consumers can save the businesses they want to support into personalized collections, giving those businesses a direct channel for exclusive offers and promotions. The design deliberately lets independent and smaller businesses compete on relevance and alignment rather than on advertising budget or search engine ranking.
Unlike niche directories built around a single demographic or cause, this platform was engineered to support virtually any consumer-defined preference inside one unified ecosystem, which is what makes its addressable market so broad. It is values-neutral by design: it does not tell consumers whom to support, it lets each person define what matters and builds a personalized marketplace around that definition. The same architecture allows expansion into new communities, business categories, partnerships and geographies without any change to the underlying technology.
The commercial model was built for flexibility rather than dependence on a single revenue line. A new owner may introduce premium business memberships, verification services, featured placements, sponsored listings, promotional tools, advertising or analytics. The platform also supports a distinctive sponsorship model in which organizations sponsor entire discovery categories, business attributes or community initiatives, and a campaign engine for branded consumer challenges that reward participation while generating measurable engagement. Additional paths include affiliate partnerships, commerce integrations, enterprise licensing, strategic partnerships and data-driven business insights.
The technology is modern and clean. The mobile applications run on a single cross-platform codebase, the backend is a current-generation framework exposing a REST API over a production-grade database, and the whole system is hosted on major cloud infrastructure with continuous integration, deployment and error monitoring already in place. Maintenance has averaged roughly one hour of development work per month, and management believes a team of three or fewer engineers would be sufficient to execute the product roadmap. The original United States-based development firm remains available to assist with transition or future work under separately negotiated terms.
The owner is selling because the business has reached the point where its greatest opportunity lies in continued commercialization and scale, and the owner's expertise and interest lie in creating new ventures rather than operating them through that next stage. The ideal buyer is an organization with the marketing, sales and partnership capability to take a finished product to market, whether operated standalone or folded into an existing marketplace, loyalty program, commerce ecosystem or consumer technology portfolio. Confidentiality is a concern for the seller while the right buyer is identified, so the specific city, exact ZIP and name of the business are shared only after a prospective buyer signs an NDA and is vetted, and the location and ZIP shown above reflect the broader market area rather than the operating location.
NDA is required to secure a comprehensive Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM) crafted by ProNova Partners.
Property Features and Assets:
<p>The business operates entirely remotely. There is no real estate, no lease, no office and no physical facility of any kind. All operations run on cloud infrastructure and no premises transfer with the sale.<br></p>
Market Competition and Expansion:
<p>Competition: The broader marketplace includes search engines, local business directories, review platforms, loyalty and cashback programs, coupon providers and promotional marketplaces. Most of those were designed to optimize a single transaction rather than to shape where consumers choose to spend. This platform competes instead on personalized, values-based discovery and on a classification framework broad enough to serve any consumer-defined preference, and it enters the market unencumbered by the legacy systems its larger competitors carry.<br><br>Growth & Expansion: Growth comes from execution against a finished product. The clearest paths are a focused go-to-market program to drive consumer adoption, onboarding businesses across a wide range of industries to deepen the discovery ecosystem, activating the monetization tools already designed into the platform, and building partnerships with associations, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, municipalities, universities and corporate sponsors. The product roadmap also contemplates an AI-driven commerce assistant delivering personalized recommendations and contextual shopping guidance, for which the existing architecture was built to accommodate.<br></p>
Additional Details:
- The property is Leased.
- The owner is willing to train/assist the new owner.
- This is not homebased business opportunity.
- This is not a franchise resale opportunity