The entrepreneurial engine of West Central Iowa, rebuilt.
One modern front door for coworking, meeting space, events, and business help across the Hub's eight counties. Built to turn ideas into businesses.
Every month, the same engine runs
This is the part that pays for itself. Posts go out on a steady cadence, the ask is woven in where it belongs, and giving takes two taps. Follow it end to end below.
A post goes out
Three times a week, on brand, across every channel the Hub uses.
See the postsSomeone scans or taps
A QR code on the post, on a flyer, on the wall at the Hub. Or just the link.
Where it landsThey give in two taps
A page built for a phone. Pick an amount, give, done.
Open the pageThe receipt goes out on its own
Instant tax receipt and a thank you. Nobody at the Hub touches it.
See the receiptIt gets counted and reported back
Tagged to the town it came from. Every month, what came in and where from. Every year, an impact report partners can renew on.
Sponsors run the same loop on a longer clock, one annual partner season instead of a monthly ask, and a sponsor approached in Manning is sent to the Manning page so the credit lands in Manning.
Every link and every QR code carries its own tag, so the report is built from what actually happened, not from anyone's memory.
Everything the Hub already does, made effortless
Every program the Hub runs today carries forward. Same mission, same programs, same welcome. Just faster to find and easier to use.
Coworking Plans
Day passes, dedicated desks, and five private offices, with options for around the clock access. The same plans, presented clearly and joinable online in minutes.
Meeting Space Rentals
The conference room, the big display, the Meeting Owl, the flexible layouts. Book it by the hour, half day, or full day without a phone call.
Business Resource Center
The resource navigator that meets owners at every stage, from first idea to launch, growth, and succession. Interactive, searchable, and always current.
Events
Workshops, peer roundtables, and learning sessions in one clean calendar people can actually find, share, and add to their phones.
Eight counties, one front door
Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Crawford, Carroll, Greene, Audubon, and Guthrie. The whole service area, served from Carroll, reachable from any kitchen table.
A multilingual welcome
The Hub greets its neighbors in many languages today. The new site carries that forward, front and center, so every entrepreneur feels at home from the first click.
One account. Every door to help.
Any business owner in the eight counties creates a single account and gets matched to the right help: programs, grants, mentors, resources, and tools. The Hub's playbook made interactive, not a PDF on a shelf.
Sign up in minutes
A few plain questions. Where you are, what you do, and what you need right now.
Get matched to the right help
The portal pairs each owner with the right programs, people, and funding paths, drawing on the Hub's partner network.
Everything in one place
Matches, bookings, events, and follow-ups live on one dashboard. No more hunting through emails and handouts.
Hub staff see the same picture from the other side, so no owner ever falls through the cracks.
Good morning, Maria
Book the space online, any hour of the day
A real-time calendar for the conference room and event space. Pick a time, pay online, get a confirmation. Done.
Renters see live availability and book in a couple of taps, day or night. Hub staff get a clean back end to manage availability, bookings, and calendars, built for busy people, not for IT departments.
Blocked dates, recurring holds, layout notes, and confirmations all live in one place, and the public calendar updates the moment staff change anything.
From logo on a website to a funding engine
Today a sponsor gets a logo on a page. The rebuilt Hub treats partners the way the best chambers and development groups do: real visibility, real access to new and growing businesses, and real proof their support works. That turns goodwill into steady funding the Hub can plan around.
A sponsorship page that is always open
A live partner page on the new site where any business can see the levels, what each includes, and raise their hand today. The door stays open year round, not just when someone thinks to ask.
One annual partner campaign
A single well run partner season each year, with clear packages and a set renewal window, replaces scattered one-off asks. Partners know when the ask comes and exactly what it covers.
Everything the Hub does is sponsorable
Events, workshops, roundtables, rooms, and scholarship seats each become inventory a partner can put their name on. Category partners stay exclusive, one per lane, which is what makes the top levels worth holding.
An impact report that makes renewal easy
Every partner gets a yearly report of who they reached: members, events, businesses served. Showing sponsors their reach is the single best driver of renewals, so the engine feeds itself.
Partner with the Hub
Cornerstone partners
A small circle of lead partners woven through the whole experience.
- Presence across the portal, the space, and every event
- First position wherever partners appear
- A voice in the programs they help make possible
Category partners
Banks, insurers, tech, and professional services, each owning their lane.
- Recognized as the Hub's partner for their category
- Visibility at the moments members need that service
- Introductions that feel like help, not advertising
Community partners
Local businesses that want to stand behind the Hub's mission and be seen doing it.
- Recognition on the site and at the space
- Invitations to member events and roundtables
- A simple way to invest in the region's next businesses
Members see partners who invest in them. Partners reach the businesses they want to serve. The Hub gets funded.
Every town gets its own page, and its own story
The Hub serves the whole county, but a business owner in Manning does not search for Carroll, and a Manning business does not sponsor "the county." Each town gets its own landing page with its own story, its own businesses, and its own way to give. Nobody is asked to merge anything or give anything up. Each town simply gets seen.
Every ask points at the town
Social posts about Manning link to the Manning page. Flyers in Manning carry the Manning QR code. When we approach a Manning business about sponsoring, we send them to the Manning page.
Every dollar is attributed
A gift or sponsorship that arrives through a town page is tagged to that town automatically. Nobody has to remember where it came from.
The Hub sees where it is working
The monthly report shows which towns are being reached and which are not, so the next month's effort goes where it is thin. It is a management tool for the Hub, not a public tally.
Local pages also mean local search. When someone in Breda looks for help starting a business, the Hub is what they find.
Built to be owned by the Hub
This is the Hub's platform, full stop. Plain terms, agreed up front, written down.
The Hub owns it all
The brand, the content, and every piece of data belong to the Hub, with a full export available anytime, no questions asked.
Cared for close to home
Built and maintained by a local technology partner of record who answers in person, not a ticket queue in another time zone.
Fixed prices, agreed in advance
Every piece of work is scoped, priced, and approved before it starts. No hourly meters running in the background, ever.
A written response guarantee
When something needs attention, there is a response commitment in writing. Plain language, no lock-in, no surprises.
A gift to Carroll. A legacy for the region.
The Hub already punches above its weight. Rebuilt like this, it becomes the model other communities aspire to, and proof that West Central Iowa leads instead of follows. That is a legacy worth building, and it starts with a conversation.
Let's talk me@davidpedelty.com
The Hub's voice, kept warm
A social account nobody has time to run goes quiet, and a quiet account raises nothing. This is the part that is actually a service: posts written, designed, and published on a steady cadence, in the Hub's voice, with the ask folded in where it fits rather than shouted.
Three posts a week
Written and designed for each channel, published on schedule. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and the rest of what the Hub already runs.
A quarterly newsletter
The Hub 712 newsletter. New members, a business spotlight, resources and events. Subscribers are the Hub's list, on the Hub's terms, one click to opt out.
The ask, woven in
Not every post is a donation ask, and that is the point. The ask appears where it earns its place, next to a real story about a real business.
Seven full campaigns are already built and ready to run.