For towns under 25,000 people
TownStack deploys autonomous AI agents that recruit businesses, retain employers, and grow your tax base — 24 hours a day, without a full-time staff.
Researching manufacturing firms in the Midwest evaluating rural expansion. Crafting personalized outreach for 3 prospects in your asset profile.
Scanning local employers for expansion signals. Flagging 2 businesses ready for proactive retention visits.
Full-time ED professionals run $80–120K/year. Most small towns can't afford one. Consultants charge $5–20K per engagement. Either way, it's unsustainable.
Enterprise ED tools assume a full IT team and a six-figure budget. Most small-town tools are spreadsheets, email, and hope. Nothing built for how small towns actually work.
Business recruitment means cold calls, trade show booth visits, and networking events your staff of one can never attend. By the time you hear about a prospect, they've already chosen somewhere else.
Each agent runs a dedicated function, working around the clock. You review outcomes. We do the work.
Researches businesses evaluating relocation. Identifies companies whose needs match your town's assets. Crafts and sends personalized outreach — email, LinkedIn, cold sequences. Books calls with interested prospects automatically.
Monitors existing employers for expansion signals, risk factors, and growth indicators. Runs proactive check-in campaigns. Escalates at-risk businesses before they leave. Keeps your largest employers engaged and growing.
Scours federal grants, state incentive programs, and tax credit databases for opportunities your town qualifies for. Files applications. Tracks deadlines. Keeps your town competitive for development funding.
Tracks your town's economic indicators — employment, tax revenue, vacancy rates, new business filings. Generates weekly briefings. Surfaces trends before they become problems.
You wear ten hats and ED is just one. TownStack runs your business attraction and retention work while you handle everything else.
Member retention and business recruitment are your priority. The agent works your pipeline 24/7 so every prospect gets a response within hours.
Serving multiple towns with one staff is impossible. TownStack multiplies your capacity without adding headcount.
Your coordinators are brilliant but overextended. Deploy agents to run the outreach and tracking so the humans can focus on relationships.
"The best economic development strategies don't come from consultants with slide decks. They come from people who've stood in a small-town main street, watched a factory close, and figured out how to bring the next one in."
— Bridgette Leigh Hancock Whitaker, Founder
TownStack is the distillation of 40 years of fieldwork. Every playbook, every pattern, every instinct — encoded into agents that run the work. Small towns shouldn't need a $100K budget to compete.
No salary. No benefits. No recruiting fees. Just the work, running continuously, reporting back to you.