Channel 08 · Founding cohort
Three operators. Admitted on receipts.
The founding cohort is not a launch sale. It is three multi-location operators who get LocationCast first — terms locked for twelve months — in exchange for measurement access and one honest conversation at season’s end. Admission waits for the pilot gate, because the pitch is the pilot’s numbers and there is no other pitch.
Who fits
Built for this operator
- 5–30 locations under one brand or a small brand family
- Home-services trades — plumbing, HVAC, roofing, cleaning, snow & landscape, and their neighbors
- One metro or a tight region, where “near me” is the whole game
- An owner still close to operations, who has priced Door 1 or Door 2 and declined both
- Willing to be measured — tracked numbers on everything, results discussed whole
Who does not
Honestly pointed elsewhere
- A single location — that is what the studio’s existing Flywheel program is for; LocationCast’s economics are built for groups and would be the wrong tool at one address
- 2–4 locations — apply anyway: cohort math is per group, and the fit call decides
- Anyone who wants a login and a template library — the DIY tools do that cheaper, and we’d be selling you our absence
- Anyone who needs it live this month — the gate is in January and it does not move for an application
- Anyone whose first requirement is a results guarantee — we report measurements; we don’t pre-sell them
What happens next
The road from application to on-air
Application
You submit the form below (while the intake line is being built, the working routes are listed with it). Applications are read by a person and held — not drip-marketed.
Gate review — January 2027
The pilot faces its published criteria. If the verdict is PIVOT, applications are answered with that news and the records behind it. Nobody is sold a system that just failed its own test.
Fit call — 30 minutes
For admitted applicants: your group’s math against the pilot’s actuals, cohort terms in writing, and the three standing gates (insurance, agreement, billing) confirmed complete before any signature.
Launch, location by location
Interviews, facts files, presenter casting, channel builds, tracking — then your locations join the board one at a time, each verified live before the next starts. How long one location takes, end to end, is one of the numbers the pilot is measuring; it publishes with the gate results. What the pilot already shows: the long poles are channel creation and profile verification, and they run at platform speed, not ours — plan on weeks per location, not days, until the measured number replaces that sentence.
The application