Create Your Community's Living Almanac
Daily Facts · Civic Memory · Local Forecasts
Fractals turns local information into a living community almanac: stories, events, businesses, public records, weather, civic meetings, local trends, and newsletters ... all under your brand.
- • We grow your subscriber list (email & SMS)
- • We send your daily/weekly newsletters
- • We aggregate events, notices, meetings, and public records
- • We turn public data and meetings into daily civic memory
- • We sell ads and sponsorships on your behalf
- • You own the almanac, the audience, and the revenue
Market licenses start at $1,500/month. Setup, source volume, and audience growth vary by market.
Who Needs a Living Almanac?
Any community stakeholder who needs signal over noise. Stand up a daily source of useful local facts, capture residents you can reach directly, and keep everyone working from the same civic memory.
Cities & Counties
Give staff, elected leaders, and residents a shared record of notices, meetings, safety, economy, mobility, and civic health. Useful facts beat spin.
Chambers of Commerce
Give members a practical local guide: business openings, hiring trends, event reach, sponsorship opportunities, and community momentum in one place.
Local Media
Pair reporting with objective local records. Automate daily briefs, grow subscribers, and give advertisers real numbers tied to community attention.
Individuals & Builders
Neighborhood leaders, philanthropists, and operators can launch the almanac themselves and rally the community with trusted facts, metrics, and stories.
Audience You Own
Capture email and SMS subscribers who receive the local information they care about ... delivered automatically through daily almanac briefings and timely alerts.
- • Email signups with preferences and public landing page
- • SMS opt-ins for urgent or high-value updates
- • Automated newsletters from fresh stories, events, public records, and polls
- • Embedded capture across stories, events, and directory
We operate your digital ad campaigns to attract local residents ... creative, targeting, and tracking on platforms like Meta and Google ... focused on growing your subscriber list.
Subscribers get consistent, relevant local updates delivered straight to their inbox and phone ... your messaging in front of them every day.
Incentives - Rewards Marketplace
Rewards let you motivate what matters: more engagement on your site and real-world good in your community. Businesses create perks; members earn points by reading, voting, posting ... and by verified community actions like donating or volunteering.
- • Perk browsing with points required
- • One-click claim with unique redemption code
- • Business dashboards to track redemptions
- • Status tracking and economy analytics
- • Reward any action: engage on-site or do local good
- Create daily return habits
- Increase contributions (stories, events, votes)
- Sponsored perks drive local revenue
- Reward donations (e.g., local food bank)
- Recognize volunteers (shelter, cleanups, tutoring)
- Promote civic participation (attend town halls, surveys)
Verified by partners; redemptions are tracked for integrity.
- Gift cards to local restaurants and shops
- Flights, services, experiences
- Products from local partners
The Fractals Network
Communities across the country, connected by a shared almanac platform. Each dot is a local market with its own audience, records, sponsors, and daily rhythm.
What Your Market Becomes
The Daily Almanac
Take the day's stories, public records, weather, events, business updates, and civic signals directly to your community by web, email, and phone.
- • Automated daily/weekly almanac briefings
- • Grow subscribers you own
- • Drives daily return visits
The Calendar & Notice Board of Record
Be the comprehensive provider of what's coming up, what changed, what was filed, and what residents should not miss.
- • Community submissions with moderation
- • Featured placement for partners
- • Search, filters, maps, and evergreen archives
The Local Participation Engine
Turn reading, voting, volunteering, donating, and showing up into measurable local participation.
- • Points marketplace with local perks
- • Reward volunteering and donations
- • Trackable, verifiable redemptions
Automation Included
Local almanacs used to take a newsroom, a calendar clerk, and a stack of public records. Fractals automates the repetitive parts: streamed meetings become structured summaries, public data becomes stories and analytics, and routine updates become useful daily context.
- • Public meetings ➝ auto-generated summaries + stories
- • Public datasets ➝ stories + local almanac tracks
- • Auto-drafted newsletters from recent stories/events/polls
- • Automated social ad campaigns to grow your subscriber base
Meetings, filings, events, weather, public notices, and business updates become searchable local memory instead of one-off posts that vanish into the feed.
Fractals supports sustainable local information businesses with memberships, sponsorships, and targeted ads integrated around real community activity.
Track the state of your community at a glance ... courts, economy, weather, housing, civic activity, and more ... with trending indicators and shareable reports.
Business Directory & Monetization
A local business ecosystem that helps fund the almanac.
- • Business directory and interactivity
- • Business promotions and perks
- • Event promotions + featured placement
- • Newsletter sponsorships
Local Almanac Dashboard
Track the numbers that make a place legible: courts, economy, weather, housing, civic activity, and more ... localized and always up to date.
- • Automated tracks from public datasets
- • Community health indicators and trends
- • Story generation from new data points
- • Shareable reports for leaders
Platform Updates
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Community Dashboard operators can now launch local approval ratings for officials, agencies, projects, and more—with monthly voting, trend charts, and gated results for members. It turns civic sentiment into recurring engagement and subscriber value.
Community Dashboard operators can now sell ribbon cutting packages with online booking, Stripe payment, photographer scheduling, gallery publishing, and distribution tracking. A local celebration becomes a repeatable revenue product.
Community Dashboard operators now get a dedicated For Businesses landing page that turns free profiles, events, jobs, ads, and upgrades into one clear sales path. Easier local business onboarding means more leads and more recurring revenue.
Community Dashboard operators can now launch Best In Town directory pages that rank local businesses by category, capture leads, and unlock sponsored placements. It turns local search into a repeatable revenue engine.
Community Dashboard operators can now send newsletters by email or SMS from one workflow, with smart fallback delivery and duplicate-send protection built in. That means broader reach, cleaner delivery, and a better chance your local updates actually get seen.
Ready to launch your community's living almanac?
Own the daily guide, civic memory, calendar, directory, analytics, and rewards marketplace under your brand ... with revenue controls you set.
FAQs
Social media optimizes for viral, national discourse. Fractals is local by design... events, businesses, metrics, and resident engagement... with no national echo chambers. Instead of first party sharing, you become a trusted, objective third party provider of local information.
Daily stories, events, public records, civic meeting coverage, weather, business directory, promotions, newsletters, local analytics, points & rewards, and more ... all under your brand.
It turns repetitive local information work into workflows: meeting summaries, public-data stories, event ingestion, newsletter drafting, source monitoring, and moderation ... cutting workload from ~30-50 hours/week to ~5-10.
Most communities launch in days, not months. We handle setup; you focus on your audience and partners.
Market licenses start at $1,500/month, with a typical $3,500 launch setup. Audience growth and Meta ad spend are optional and scoped during the demo.