Know your customers. Make better decisions. Compete with confidence.
Affordable technology, data analysis, and experienced guidance to help small business owners understand what’s changing—and decide what to do next.
Owner and Staff apps, ongoing analysis, and personal guidance. $225 per month.
The market keeps changing. You still have a business to run.
You’re putting in the work, but finding the best way forward can feel overwhelming.
Bigger competitors, bigger resources
It feels like they have entire teams behind them analyzing data and planning their next move.
Changing customer needs
It’s hard keeping up with what they want now and knowing how to adapt your business.
Too many decisions, too little clarity
Knowing where your time and money should go is difficult when you're busy running the day-to-day.
You don’t have to solve it all at once.
Our membership includes easy-to-use apps to collect and see your business data, plus real people to analyze it, explain what it means, and help you choose what to try first.
How we help
You don’t need reports or a data system to begin. We help you start collecting useful information through the apps included in your membership, then explain what it means and what to try next.
Understand your business
Before you join, we check compatibility. With your permission, we help connect supported information and show you how to collect and view day-to-day business data.
Understand your customers
We combine available business data, customer feedback, and your own experience. Sales data alone doesn't explain motives, so we look for patterns that need conversations and context.
Decide what to do next
Each recommendation connects an observation to a manageable action and a way to assess it. We review what changed, refine the next step, and you stay in control of all decisions.
What a decision looks like
Clear advice connects what the numbers show to something you can do. Here’s an illustrative example—not an actual customer case or a promised outcome.
A familiar range has stopped moving
Your sales records suggest a once-popular product line is sitting longer, and sales are steady rather than growing.
Finding the cause
We look at demand, price, selection, visibility, and customer feedback to understand why the change is happening.
A manageable change
Try a small assortment or presentation change. At your next review, we measure the results—if cost records are available, we see what's left after product costs.
What we can review depends on the records available. Seasons and other changes affect sales too; an increase alone doesn’t prove a recommendation caused it.
Our Story
Built from the experience of running a small business
We bought a struggling Oregon gift shop. By learning what sold, making staff management simpler, and being more careful about where we spent money, we grew that shop's annual revenue from about $370,000 to $720,000 over two years.
This is our founder’s experience—not a client case study, guarantee, or expected outcome for your business. Every business is different.
Our mission
Stronger businesses.
Stronger communities.
Big companies use data, technology, and dedicated teams to understand their customers and respond to changing markets. Small businesses deserve access to that kind of support, too. Our mission is to make it affordable and practical, without asking you to become a technology or data expert.
You bring the experience, customer relationships, and knowledge of your business. We help you make sense of the numbers, understand what customers want and need, and decide what to do next. It’s not about running your business like a big company. It’s about having better information and support to build on what you do best.
Our vision
The people behind the business
Behind every small business is someone who bet on their community. We believe those people are what make our towns, cities, and country special, and our vision is a landscape where they can grow and compete without the added stress of doing it alone.
Useful tools. Experienced guidance. One membership.
Apps for the everyday. Personal support for the decisions that shape your business.
Retail & Prosper membership
Access to both apps and our ongoing analysis, review, and consulting services. We help you understand what’s happening, choose the next step, and review your progress.
Personal support
- Ongoing analysis of your available business information
- A monthly professional review, explained simply
- Human-reviewed recommendations: what to try and why
- Consulting, practical next steps, and follow-up
Included tools
- Owner and Staff apps, with help getting started
Help getting started
- Basic Square or Clover setup assistance, subject to compatibility
Extra help for bigger projects
Your regular review and follow-up are included. Additional dedicated consulting and larger projects are scoped separately, with any extra work and cost agreed in advance.
Useful tools. Someone to help you make sense of them.
The apps support our work together. Use them to keep information close at hand; count on us to help you understand it and decide what comes next.
Owner App
See what’s selling and compare recorded staff hours and costs with sales. Use it on your phone, then talk through your questions with us at your review. Actual app screens edited with fictional data; not a live demo.
Try an interactive sample of the Owner App
Explore the sample businessFictional data · Read-only · No sign-in required
Staff App
Staff can sign in, record their hours, see estimated gross pay before deductions, and read owner messages. Optional location checks happen only at clock-in/out. Fictional employee details shown.
Need help with Square or Clover? Basic setup is included.
Your checkout or sales system is often called a point-of-sale system, or POS. We help you make better use of the information it already collects. Basic Square or Clover setup assistance is included for compatible setups: getting started, standard settings, connecting supported information, and showing you how to use it. We check compatibility first. You keep your accounts and approve access.
Not sure what records you have? We’ll look at that together first. Sales, stock, product costs, and staff hours can come from different records or the included apps. We explain what’s available and what’s missing before drawing conclusions.
What’s separate
- • Hardware, payment-processing fees, and any Square or Clover subscription fees are separate, paid directly to those providers.
- • Entering a large amount of inventory, moving complicated records between systems, custom software work, and extra onsite projects are separate work. We discuss the work and cost first.
- • Square connects directly. For Clover and other systems, we first check compatibility: whether we can connect and what information is available.
Common Questions
Who is this for?
We serve small business owners throughout Oregon—not just retail shops. Whether you run a shop, a service business, or another local business, we start with your goals and the information you have. We check whether our tools and services fit your needs before you join. You don’t need to understand reports or know exactly what’s wrong to reach out.
Can you help me decide where to spend next?
Yes. We use your available sales and cost records, your budget, and your goals to help you weigh the next decision. For product-based businesses, that can include buying quantities, margins, and the supplier’s written terms. We help you make an informed choice; we don’t guarantee sales or a supplier’s buy-back promises.
Can you help when hiring locally is difficult?
We help you compare recorded staff hours with busy and quiet periods so you can make better use of the team you have. The Staff App records actual hours; it does not recruit staff, schedule shifts, or process payroll.
Will you help me get started?
Yes. We help with basic setup, show you the apps, and explain the numbers in everyday language. We start by checking what information your business has—you don’t need to know which reports to open or how to read a chart.
Can I keep the sales system I already use?
We start with the checkout system you already have. Square connects directly. For Clover, Retail Pro, and other systems, we check compatibility and what information is available before you join. Not every system or type of record can be connected.
What does the $225/month include?
Access to the Owner and Staff apps, ongoing analysis of your available business information, a monthly professional review, human-reviewed recommendations, consulting, and follow-up. Basic Square or Clover setup assistance is included for compatible setups. You get both useful tools and personal support to help you put the information to work.
Are there extra costs?
Hardware, payment-processing fees, and Square or Clover subscription fees are paid separately to those providers. Large inventory-entry jobs, complicated moves between systems, custom software, extra onsite work, and additional dedicated consulting are scoped separately. We agree on any extra work and its cost before it begins; your regular review and follow-up are included.
Will I be talking with a real person?
Yes. Your membership includes a person with retail experience reviewing your numbers and talking through recommendations with you. AI helps with analysis, but our membership recommendations are human-reviewed. The app also offers automatic AI answers; those are not individually reviewed by a person and are not a substitute for our review.
How do we get started?
Request a free business review using the form below. We’ll follow up to arrange a conversation about your business, your goals, and whether we can help. No purchase is required. Sending the form does not schedule a meeting or produce an instant analysis.
Not sure where to start? Start here.
Tell us about your business and what’s feeling stuck. Your free business review starts with a conversation about your goals, not a commitment to join.