Create Your Community's Dashboard
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Get a turnkey local media franchise. Your brand, your domain, your audience. We build it, run it, and grow it ... you own the subscribers and the revenue.
- • We grow your subscriber list (email & SMS)
- • We send your daily/weekly newsletters
- • We aggregate and publish local events
- • We automate news from public data and meetings
- • We sell ads and sponsorships on your behalf
- • You own the hub, the audience, and the revenue
Ideal For...
Any community stakeholder who needs signal over noise. Stand up a shared dashboard, capture residents you can reach directly, and coordinate action with the same facts.
Cities & Counties
Give staff, elected leaders, and residents a shared scoreboard for safety, economy, mobility, and civic health. Transparent metrics beat spin.
Chambers of Commerce
Show your members the impact of their investment: business openings, hiring trends, event conversions, and sponsorship reach in one place.
Local Media
Pair reporting with objective dashboards. Automate briefs, grow subscribers, and give advertisers real numbers tied to community outcomes.
Individuals & Builders
Neighborhood leaders, philanthropists, and operators can launch the hub themselves and rally the community with trusted metrics and stories.
Audience You Own
Capture email and SMS subscribers who receive the local information they care about ... delivered automatically through daily 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, 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 platform. Each dot is a local hub owned by someone in that community.
What You Become
The Daily/Weekly Briefing
Take your stories, data, events, polls, directly to your community in their inbox and their phone.
- • Automated email + SMS briefings
- • Grow subscribers you own
- • Drives daily return visits
The Calendar of Record
Be the comprehensive provider of the goings on in your community.
- • Community submissions with moderation
- • Featured placement for partners
- • Search, filters, maps
Rewards-Powered Community
Be the provider of rewards for engagement and local good.
- • Points marketplace with local perks
- • Reward volunteering and donations
- • Trackable, verifiable redemptions
Automation Included
Local content is time consuming. Or.. It was before Fractals. Streamed public meetings turn into structured summaries and publishable stories. Public data becomes stories and Community Analytics ... reducing manual work while increasing output and consistency.
- • Public meetings ➝ auto-generated summaries + stories
- • Public datasets ➝ stories + Community Analytics tracks
- • Auto-drafted newsletters from recent stories/events/polls
- • Automated social ad campaigns to grow your subscriber base
Streamed meetings are transcribed, summarized, and turned into objective stories automatically. Agendas, motions, and outcomes become searchable signals for your audience.
Fractals supports sustainable local media with member subscriptions and targeted ads integrated around real community activity.
Track the state of your community at a glance ... crime, economy, weather, health, and more ... with trending indicators and shareable, responsive charts.
Business & Monetization
A local business ecosystem that funds your growth.
- • Business directory and interactivity
- • Business promotions and perks
- • Event promotions + featured placement
- • Newsletter sponsorships
Community Dashboard
Track the state of your community: crime, economy, weather, health, 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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Fractals Community Dashboard now adds fast search on public Stories and Polls pages, so readers find relevant updates instantly and spend more time engaging. Operators get a better discovery experience with zero extra workflow.
New in Fractals Community Dashboard: generate branded internal ad creatives right inside the newsletter builder, save them to your library, and drop them into editions in seconds. Operators can launch promos faster and unlock new monetization inventory.
New in Fractals Community Dashboard: set a custom writer voice for each source, run newsletter Autopilot drafts via API, and navigate broadcast editions with fast pagination. Operators get stronger brand consistency and less manual production work.
New members can now be auto-enrolled into any mix of your flagship newsletters, so every signup immediately gets the right beats. Emails now rewrite links/images to absolute URLs, keeping inbox delivery pristine. Faster onboarding, cleaner sends.
Event management just got faster. Inline approve, unapprove, and delete events without page reloads. HTMX-powered cards update instantly so operators can moderate at speed.
Ready to launch your community's dashboard?
Hold the newsletter, calendar, directory, 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.
Stories, events, polls, Q&A, business directory, promotions, newsletter, analytics, points & rewards, and more ... all under your brand.
It drafts newsletters, suggests polls, streamlines moderation, and automates repetitive tasks ... 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.