01 — For visitors
Tourist-facing
Helps visitors decide what to do, where to go, and which local businesses to visit.
Connected city platform — Case study
Cities In My Pocket.
A platform that connects a city's visitors, residents, businesses, and the organizations that serve them—starting in Savannah, Georgia.
- Role
- Founder
- Status
- In development
- First city
- Savannah, Georgia
- Related
- Cities In My Pocket Savannah
01 / The problem
A city runs on disconnected systems.
Visitors piece together plans from search results, review sites, and brochures. Residents miss what is happening a few blocks away. Local businesses struggle to reach people who are already nearby.
Meanwhile, the organizations responsible for promoting and serving the city—destination marketing organizations, chambers, and city departments—see that activity in fragments, if at all.
02 / The founding insight
The answers existed. They just weren't connected.
I saw this firsthand driving visitors around Savannah. Their question—what should we do while we're here?—had good answers. The answers just weren't connected to the people asking, the businesses that could help, or the organizations trying to understand their city.
Fixing that meant connecting all of them, not building another guide.
03 / The ecosystem & who it's for
One foundation. A view for everyone.
Cities In My Pocket is one platform with a purpose-built experience for each group in a city. Underneath, a shared data layer means every side works from the same picture.
- Tourist-facing
Visitors
Discover what to do, where to go, and which local businesses to visit.
- Local-facing
Residents
Find what's happening close to home—events, places, and local businesses.
- Business Platform
Local businesses
Manage how the business appears and reach the visitors and residents nearby.
- DMO IQ
Destination marketing organizations
The groups that promote a city to travelers get a clearer view of visitor activity and interest.
- City IQ
Cities, chambers & civic groups
Organizations that serve a community understand how it's being served.
- Connected data + AI
Underneath everything
A shared data layer and AI-supported workflows that help people find things and help organizations make sense of them.
04 / Work completed
What's been built so far.
These screens come from the product itself. Each one is labeled by stage—built, in development, or planned—so nothing here is mistaken for a finished launch.
02 — For residents
Local-facing
Helps locals find what's happening in their own city—events, places, and businesses close to home.
03 — For local businesses
Business IQ
Lets local businesses manage how they appear and reach the visitors and residents nearby.
04 — For destination marketing organizations
DMO IQ
Destination marketing organizations (DMOs) are the groups that promote a city to travelers. DMO IQ gives them a clearer view of visitor activity and interest.
05 — For cities, chambers & civic groups
City IQ
Helps the organizations that serve a community understand how residents, visitors, and businesses are being served.
05 / Where it's going
The technology layer that connects a city.
Plans — not yet builtThe long-term goal is for Cities In My Pocket to become shared infrastructure a city can run on—one foundation for visitors, residents, businesses, and the organizations that serve them.
Savannah comes first. Expansion to other cities is a plan, not a current launch, and this page will say so until that changes.