Residents offer paid watering and basic plant care for households, especially during hot weeks or when people are away.
Not a program. Continuous infrastructure for resident-led growth.
When more residents build something of their own, cities gain local economic activity, stronger neighborhoods, and new pathways to opportunity.
Small businesses created 12.9 million net new jobs in the past 25 years, about 66 percent of all new jobs in the U.S.
Every 100 dollars spent at a local business keeps about 68 dollars in the local economy
Yet most cities still lack a scalable way to help thousands of residents move from interest to a real venture, service, or project.
Cities invest in workshops, accelerators, and community programs. They can be valuable, but they rarely create a continuous citywide system for helping residents build.
Limited reach:
Most programs engage a few dozen people, while thousands remain untouched
Short-lived momentum:
Once an event or cohort ends, progress fades and people return to “someday.”
High staff load:
Coordination, logistics, facilitation, and repeated delivery take time cities rarely have.
Not built for real life:
Most residents need flexible, self-paced support, not fixed schedules or high-friction entry points.
Sidely is a Project Activation Platform - an AI-powered system that helps cities and mission-driven organizations turn resident potential into real-world projects, step by step.
Residents get a guided, simple journey from vague interest to a real project they can test and build.
Cities get a scalable activation engine with live visibility into participation, progress, and early outcomes.
AI guidance:
Personalized direction, next steps, and momentum support for each resident
City-branded platform:
Aligned with your city's identity, priorities, and pilot goals
Community layer:
Residents share progress, connect, and support one another through building
Dashboards:
Live visibility into participation, project types, neighborhoods, milestones, and early outcomes
1
Choose your focus areas
Select 1 to 3 priorities such as microbusiness creation, local services, youth pathways, neighborhood vitality, family entrepreneurship, creative economy, or workforce-connected projects.
2
Launch your city-branded platform
We handle setup, branding, onboarding materials, and security. No heavy IT burden.
3
Activate residents
Invite residents through your existing channels and partners. We provide ready-to-use messaging and outreach assets.
4
Track project flow and outcomes
Follow participation, project types, milestones, neighborhood distribution, and early outcomes through live dashboards.
A guided path that helps anyone move from possibility to real-world action.
1
Discover:
Short questions help residents identify promising directions based on their strengths, interests, and local opportunities.
2
Build:
They shape a first project, define an offer or use case, and prepare a real-world test.
3
Launch:
They take small, low-risk steps with clear guidance and community support.
4
Grow:
They refine, continue, connect, and build momentum at their own pace.
No prior experience needed.
No fixed schedule.
Real progress, one small step at a time.
Sidely is built on years of hands-on work with municipalities and public sector agencies.
A multi-year collaboration with the Jerusalem Municipality and its Employment Authority.
Their official letter states:
Examples of outcomes:
Restroom Access App
connects visitors with businesses offering restroom access for a small fee
"Come Dine With Me":
home-hosted dining for travelers, generating household income
Tree and Garden Watering Service:
Residents offer paid watering and basic plant care for households, especially during hot weeks or when people are away.
On-Demand Errands and Help:
Residents offer paid help for quick local needs: grocery pickup, pharmacy runs, waiting in line, assembling furniture, basic tech setup, dog walks.
Small projects. Real local value.
Duration:
3–6 months
First wave:
~300–1,000 residents
Focus:
1-3 themes and target groups
Sidely handles:
setup, onboarding, recruitment toolkit, dashboards, and reporting
Sidely is a Project Activation Platform built for cities and mission-driven organizations.
Our mission is to help communities unlock resident potential and turn it into real-world projects, local economic activity, and measurable outcomes.
Over years of working inside local communities, we saw the same pattern again and again: people want to build something of their own, but lack the structure, community, and accountability to begin.
Sidely was created to provide the infrastructure that makes resident-led project creation simple, accessible, and scalable.
Not a program. Infrastructure.
A continuous system for resident-led growth.
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