Founder’s Vision & Licensing Opportunity
HomeTown™
Own Your Town’s Digital Main Street.
The Community Operating System™ built to connect local people, businesses, organizations, news, events and opportunity.
Prepared for Prospective Licensed Operators · Confidential
The Insight
Every town deserves more than borrowed space on someone else’s platform.
Communities need a place designed for them—not for global attention, endless scrolling or distant algorithms.
The Problem
The local Internet is fragmented.
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Conversations
People connect on social platforms that do not truly belong to their community.
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Local Information
News, events, alerts and civic information are scattered across dozens of sites.
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Local Commerce
Businesses struggle to reach nearby customers without paying global platforms for visibility.
The Solution
One connected system for the entire community.
HomeTown brings the essential parts of local life together through one identity, one platform and one community network.
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HomeTown Social™
Profiles, groups, communities, messaging, Business Homes and trusted local conversations.
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WBN News™
A complete news operating system for discovery, editorial, publishing and local distribution.
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HomeTown Marketplace™
Local buying, selling, services and opportunity between real people in real communities.
The Origin
We built what should have already existed.
Delta City News grew into one of the largest local news sources in Delta, British Columbia. That success revealed a larger opportunity: an engaged community deserved its own connected digital home.
HomeTown was created to become that home—the infrastructure connecting local journalism, businesses, organizations and neighbours.
Proof
Built. Tested. Live.
This is not a concept deck for software that may exist one day.
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Core Applications
HomeTown Social, WBN News and HomeTown Marketplace are already part of the operating vision.
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Shared Identity
One account and one profile can connect a member across the HomeTown ecosystem.
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Owned Infrastructure
Communities are not forced to build their future on rented social media space.
The Business Opportunity
Become the trusted local platform in your market.
A HomeTown license gives a local operator the platform, protected territory, operating framework and direct support needed to build a valuable community network.
Build a trusted local audience.
Support and promote local businesses.
Operate a modern local news presence.
Create long-term value from community infrastructure.
Who It Is For
You already have a reason to want this.
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Local Publishers
Own the local distribution channel your journalism deserves.
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Local Professionals
Turn trusted community visibility into a durable local advantage.
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Community Builders
Build something meaningful for the town where you live and work.
What Is Included
The full platform. The full support.
HomeTown Social community platform.
WBN News newsroom and publishing workflow.
HomeTown Marketplace local commerce layer.
Protected license territory.
Training, onboarding and ongoing platform support.
Every major update as the system grows.
Protected Territory
One licensed operator. One territory.
When you license an approved market, HomeTown will not license a competing operator into that same territory while your agreement remains active and in good standing.
Your Market
A clearly defined local territory with room to build audience, trust and commercial value.
Your Local Brand
A community presence operated by people who understand the market because they live and work there.
Next Steps
Three conversations between here and launch.
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Confirm Your Territory
We review market availability and define the community you want to operate.
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Review The License
We walk through the operating model, support, responsibilities and commercial terms.
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Train And Launch
You receive onboarding, launch preparation and direct support from the HomeTown team.
The Opportunity
Own Your Town’s Digital Main Street.
Build the local infrastructure your community deserves—and create a business that grows as the community grows.
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