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More local economic activity
New businesses, services, and sources of income created from within the community.
Help more people
build something of their own.
Sidely is an AI-powered platform for cities, organizations, and communities that gives more people a practical way to turn their skills, interests, and ideas into something real.
For the organization, it’s a scalable way to grow more businesses, services, projects, and initiatives from within the community.
Behind every new thing is someone who decided to start.
The people who will build what’s next in your community may not think of themselves as entrepreneurs.
You already have people with experience, skills, interests, and the desire to create something of their own.
Some arrive with an idea. Others simply feel that it’s time to start.
Sidely gives them
a place to begin.
It could become…
↗A small business+A new service✦A digital product✳A creative project↔A local initiative
Or something that doesn’t have a name yet.
What starts to happenWhen more people build something of their own,
When more people build something of their own,
the whole community benefits.
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More ideas from the ground up
Ideas and solutions created by the people who know the place, its needs, and its opportunities best.
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More connections
Knowledge, relationships, and collaborations that emerge as people build alongside one another.
How Sidely makes it possiblePersonal guidance
Personal guidance
at the scale of an entire community.
Everyone starts in a different place. Sidely gives each participant a personalized experience that helps them move forward at their own pace, while bringing the entire program together in one shared environment.
A personal experience for every participant — even across programs involving hundreds or thousands of people.
Personalized AI guidance
Helps shape an idea, plan it, and turn it into practical next steps.
Community
People to learn from, get feedback from, and connect with.
Your own branded space
A private, branded Sidely environment for your city or organization.
A clear view of what’s happening
Participation, progress, projects, and outcomes in one place.
From one-off programs
to a system that keeps people moving.
Workshops, courses, and events can spark momentum.Sidely helps participants keep moving between sessions and long after they end.
More people. More continuity.
Less manual support.
Each participant moves forward at their own pace, while the organization can expand the program and see what’s actually beginning to happen on the ground.
For Cities
Grow more local entrepreneurship from within the community. Help more residents create businesses, services, projects, and initiatives that strengthen the local economy.
Sidely can reach people who might never join a traditional entrepreneurship program and give them an accessible way to start building something of their own.
Explore Sidely for Cities
For Organizations & Communities
Expand your impact through the people you serve.
Choose a focus area or challenge and invite people to build their own projects, services, and initiatives around it.
One shared goal can spark dozens — even hundreds — of projects created by the community itself.
Explore Sidely for Organizations & Communities
Experience that keeps moving forwardBuilt in the field.
Built in the field.
Reimagined with technology.
Sidely grew out of more than a decade of working with people who wanted to build something of their own — and with the cities and organizations that wanted to help them do it.
Through Worklab and Projectime we helped develop more than 3,000 ventures and projects and worked with more than 70 cities and organizations.
Everything we learned in the field
now lives inside Sidely.
3,000+ventures and projects
we helped develop
we helped develop
70+cities and organizations we’ve worked with
Experience that keeps moving forward
Want to help more people in your community
build something of their own?
We’d love to learn about your community, your goals, and what you want to make possible — and explore how Sidely could fit.