Networking Group & Chamber Directory Platform

For networking groups, referral groups and chambers

A member directory platform your networking or referral group owns. Member profiles, events, referrals and listing billing, and you keep 100% of the revenue.

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You run the group. Members light up the map, referrals route through your directory — and every listing is recurring revenue you keep.

A Member Directory Your Group Owns

A member directory and website platform for business networking groups and referral groups. The group owns it: its own site, its own brand and its own members, on its own isolated stack. Not a WordPress theme with a listing plugin, but a production platform with member profiles, events, referrals, search, admin controls and subscription billing.

We deploy the platform. The group sells listings. Businesses pay for the year up front. The group keeps 100% of the revenue, with no per-member fees and no perpetual platform fee.

The directory runs on the same infrastructure as every Araptus ecosystem deployment. Need something a directory doesn't cover? We build custom platforms too.

Built for Networking and Referral Groups

A group's value is its members and the referrals they pass. Most tools either track referrals or rent you a member list. Neither gives the group a public home that brings in new members and earns money.

The group owns it

Its own site, domain, brand and member data, deployed on its own isolated stack. Not a tenant on someone else's platform.

100% of listing revenue

Businesses pay the group for the year up front, through the group's own Stripe account. No platform takes a cut.

No per-member fees

Growing the group doesn't grow a software bill. There's no fee per seat and no perpetual platform fee.

More than a referral tracker

Member profiles, events, a member feed, referrals and sponsor listings, on a public site that search engines and AI assistants can read.

Running Today

Two business networking communities run on the directory now. Each has its own site, its own members and its own brand, on the same platform.

New Horizon Networking

A curated business networking community in the Greater Houston area: member profiles, events, a member feed, referrals and sponsor listings.

newhorizonnetworking.com

BRAG — Bay Area Referral Group

A referral group of local businesses meeting weekly in Friendswood, Texas: member profiles, groups, events, referrals and advertiser listings.

bragnetworking.com

Why Members Pay for a Listing

A member list records who belongs. A directory worth paying for helps people find those members — search, categories, profiles, events — and answers "who should I call?"

The difference is not cosmetic, and it decides whether the thing earns money. Businesses do not pay to be filed. They pay to be found. So every design decision below is about the moment a resident types "plumber near me" — or asks an assistant the same question — and something has to come back.

Discovery, not storage

Search across categories, service areas, and attributes — plus event listings and announcements, so there is a reason to come back between purchases. A local platform nobody browses twice is a database with a logo on it.

Findable by people and by assistants

Every profile is a real, server-rendered, indexable page carrying structured data. AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript, so a discovery directory built as a single-page app is invisible to exactly the systems people now ask for recommendations.

Why that second point decides the whole business. Local recommendation is moving from a list of ten blue links to a single synthesized answer. When an assistant is asked for a plumber in your city, it fires several searches and assembles a reply from whatever comes back. A discovery platform whose listings are statically rendered with clean markup can appear in that answer. One whose listings only exist after a browser runs JavaScript cannot — the crawler never sees a business at all.

That is the entire argument for building this on the same foundation as every other Araptus Highlander deployment rather than on a listings plugin: the listings your members pay for are only worth what they can be found through. The same reasoning drives our work on agent-readable business infrastructure.

How It Works

For Businesses

Create a listing with details, photos, hours
Choose a subscription tier
Self-service dashboard management
Post events and announcements

For You (Operator)

Admin dashboard — approve, feature, remove
Stripe handles all subscription billing
Tier management and pricing controls
Analytics on traffic and engagement

For Visitors

Search by category, location, keyword
Business profiles with photos and reviews
Mobile-responsive on any device
AI Context Layer for AI discoverability

Subscription Tiers

Configurable per deployment. You set the prices. Listings are billed annually, up front, and the platform handles billing.

Basic

$19/mo

Billed annually — $228/yr

Business listing with details
Name, description, hours, contact
3 photos

Featured

$29/mo

Billed annually — $348/yr

Everything in Basic
Featured placement in search
10 photos + event posting

Premium

$49/mo

Billed annually — $588/yr

Everything in Featured
Homepage spotlight + priority search
Video, enhanced profile, analytics

The Math

Listings are priced as a monthly rate, billed annually and paid up front.

Scenario	Listings	Avg. Revenue	Monthly	Collected Up Front (Yearly)
Starter	30 businesses	$25/mo	$750/mo	$9,000/yr
Growing	100 businesses	$30/mo	$3,000/mo	$36,000/yr
Established	250 businesses	$35/mo	$8,750/mo	$105,000/yr

No platform takes a cut. Stripe's processing fee is the only cost.

What Makes This Different

Config-Driven Deployment

One config sets the city, categories, branding, tier pricing, and feature toggles. New directory deployable in days, not months.

Real Infrastructure

Astro SSR, Supabase, Stripe, Vercel. Security middleware, rate limiting, honeypot traps built in. Not a WordPress plugin.

AI-Discoverable

AI Context Layer generates structured data about every listed business. AI assistants cite your directory when users ask for local recommendations.

Revenue Is Yours

No platform takes a cut. No marketplace fee. 100 businesses on the Featured tier is $2,900 a month, collected up front as $34,800 a year. You keep it.

For Chambers of Commerce

The same platform runs a chamber's member directory. Every member business gets an indexable profile, events go on the community calendar, and member tiers bill annually through the chamber's own account.

It's the "shop local" directory a chamber can own rather than rent. Talk to us about your chamber.

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