For local businesses

Turn familiar places into familiar faces.

Backchannel is a quiet community layer for local businesses — yoga studios, cafes, coworking spaces, run clubs, wine bars, neighborhood spots. Members opt in at the counter, hop into casual plans with each other, and turn shared routines into real community. You get more regulars. They get real life with their people.

Turn one-time visitors into regulars

Community is the strongest retention lever most local businesses aren't using. Backchannel gives your regulars a reason to keep showing up together.

One QR code, no app to build

Members opt in at the counter. Nothing to install for you or them. Pilots go live in days, not months.

You seed a few plans — members carry them

Post-class coffee. Sunday walks. A monthly potluck. Your team seeds the first plans; regulars take it from there.

Your brand, your community

This is your community, not ours. We stay quietly in the background — a lightweight layer, not a walled garden.

How pilots work

We set up your community in a day. You get a printable QR code for the counter and a lightweight admin view.
You (or an instructor, or an ambassador) seed a few casual plans — a Sunday coffee walk, a post-class hangout, a monthly potluck.
Members opt in by scanning the QR. They see plans forming, vote on times, and RSVP when things are confirmed.
You watch your regulars turn into a community — and your retention curve turn into a flywheel.