AI-powered GeoEquity Intelligence

Find Local.
Strengthen Community.

Your dollars have power. Keep it local. Build what matters together.

FIX$ — Fairechange Initiative eXecution — is an AI-powered GeoEquity Intelligence Platform that connects communities, businesses, and civic organizations — supporting local discovery, member-recorded purchases, and modeled economic-impact estimates with access-controlled records.

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FIX$2.0

Find Local.
Strengthen Community.

Your dollars have power.
Keep it local.
Build what matters together.

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FIX$ 2.0 member app

68¢

estimated Chicago economic impact per $1 spent at locally owned businesses in one 2004 study*

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organizations with approved GeoEquity cohort applications

Access-controlled

purchase records are account-linked; authorized organization views can include member-level data

*Source: Civic Economics, Andersonville Study of Retail Economics (Chicago, 2004). The study estimated $68 of local economic impact per $100 at locally owned businesses versus $43 at chains. This is a study-specific estimate, not a universal retention share or a count of circulation turns. Sources and limitations.

The Problem

Local economies lose value they never see — and can never prove.

Communities are asked to grow equitably while flying blind. The money moves faster than the measurement, and the measurement never reaches the people making decisions.

Dollars leak out

Most local spending exits the community within days, taking jobs, tax base, and wealth-building with it.

Ecosystems are disconnected

Residents can't find qualified local providers. Local businesses never see the demand that already exists next door.

Impact is invisible

Communities can describe their intentions but cannot measure where value actually lands, block by block.

Reporting is anecdotal

Grants, councils, and boards ask for evidence. Spreadsheets and surveys can't answer at the speed of decisions.

Local spending can support further local purchases, wages, and supplier activity. A retention share and an economic multiplier measure different things; FIX$ does not substantiate a universal “three to five times” multiplier.

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Illustrative circulation sequence only — not measured community data, a multiplier estimate, or Huntsville pilot results.

The Solution

One platform that finds local value, verifies it, and proves the impact.

FIX$ combines AI-assisted discovery, verified business networks, community engagement, and a published Economic Justice Value methodology — so participation and measurement happen in the same motion.

AI Local Match

Natural-language needs matched to qualified, nearby, verified providers in seconds.

Quote Workflows

Structured multi-quote requests and side-by-side comparison — no phone tag, no guesswork.

Business Verification

Identity, locality, licensure, and standing verified before a business enters the network.

ENGAGE

Community participation programs that turn residents into active economic contributors.

Economic Justice Value

A transparent, versioned methodology that scores where value lands and who it reaches.

Reporting

Board-ready, grant-ready outputs generated from live data, not quarterly guesswork.

Community Intelligence

Geospatial layers reveal demand, supply gaps, and opportunity corridors by place.

Privacy-first Analytics

Access-controlled records, disclosed account-linked visit logging, and no sale of personal data.

How It Works

A single flow, from local need to published impact.

Every step feeds the next. Nothing is bolted on afterward — measurement is a byproduct of participation.

Community

A city, coalition, or anchor institution defines its geography and goals.

Citizen

Residents and buyers express a real need in plain language.

AI Intelligence

FIX$ interprets the need, scores locality, and routes it intelligently.

Verified Businesses

Qualified local providers respond with structured, comparable quotes.

Economic Participation

Members record purchases manually or review receipt scans. FIX$ does not independently verify payment settlement.

Community Insights

Geospatial dashboards reveal where value landed and what gaps remain.

Reporting

Economic Justice Value outputs flow to boards, funders, and the public.

About FIX$

Clear about what we are. Just as clear about what we are not.

FIX$ is deliberately narrow. It exists to strengthen local economies with intelligence communities can trust, inspect, and govern.

Mission

Make local economic participation measurable, equitable, and durable for every community — not just the ones with data teams.

Vision

A national fabric of communities that can see, direct, and defend the value created inside their own geography.

Platform

AI discovery, verified business networks, engagement programs, and a published measurement methodology in one system.

Governance

Open methodology, versioned scoring, documented change history, and community oversight of how impact is defined.

FIX$ is

GeoEquity intelligence for place-based economies
A verified local business discovery and quoting layer
A transparent Economic Justice Value methodology
Infrastructure for community reporting and readiness

FIX$ is not

A social network or advertising marketplace
A data broker — we never sell personal data
A credit, lending, or payment processor
A surveillance tool for individuals or businesses

Economic Justice Value

A measurement standard you can inspect, not just believe.

Economic Justice Value (EJV) models estimated local economic impact using disclosed assumptions. Locality, Reach and Durability frame the analysis; they are not separately measured scores.

Open Data

Business listings come from external sources. Current EJV factors are modeled proxies; the Public Data Equity lens does not yet ingest the named federal datasets.

Concentric rings visualizing economic value recirculation

GeoEquity Initiative — sample scorecard

Illustrative example — not a real business score

Three lenses on every transaction: where it lands, who it reaches, how long it holds.

Locality82

Reach74

Durability69

Locality, Reach and Durability are built-in characteristics of every EJV™ analysis, not separately weighted scores. See the methodology

GeoEquity Initiative

An educational pathway, not just a software rollout.

The GeoEquity Initiative prepares communities to use intelligence responsibly — building capability before dashboards.

Explore the Initiative

Phase 01

Training

Leaders and staff learn GeoEquity fundamentals, the EJV methodology, and how to read place-based intelligence.

Phase 02

Community Readiness

Assess data maturity, business verification capacity, and civic alignment before deployment.

Phase 03

24-Organization Cohort

Two dozen organizations move together — shared curriculum, shared benchmarks, shared accountability.

Phase 04

Activation & Roadmap

Launch ENGAGE programs, publish first EJV reporting, and set a twelve-month expansion path.

Who It's For

Built for the people who move local economies.

Communities

Cities, coalitions, and anchor institutions directing local value with evidence.

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Businesses

Verified local providers reaching demand that already exists in their geography.

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Partners

Funders, civic tech, chambers, and universities extending GeoEquity capacity.

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Resources

Methodology papers, readiness guides, briefings, and implementation playbooks.

Open library

Resources

FIX$ Verification Badges

A clear, public standard for trust, community impact, and verified participation in the FIX$ ecosystem.

FIX$ Verification Badges recognize businesses that meet verification, trust, and community impact standards within the FIX$ ecosystem — building transparency, reducing fraud, and promoting businesses that create real impact where it matters most.

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FIX$ Intelligence Flow

How a plain-language need becomes verified local supply, contextual EJV scoring, an independent consumer choice, and privacy-protected community intelligence.