For Chambers of Commerce
The members you lose don't leave over dues.
They leave because a year went by and nothing changed in their business. Host an SBCI™ cohort and ten to twenty-five of your members spend ninety days rebuilding how their companies actually run — free to them, and at no cost to your chamber.
You bring the room and the list. We bring the program, the instructor, and the numbers.
What hosting actually costs
A room, a list, and an hour a week.
What the chamber brings
A room
Thirteen weeks, one morning a week.
An email
To the members who fit. We help you pick them.
An hour a week
One staff member, light touch. Nobody on your team builds anything.
What Caizen brings
The program
Ninety days, six disciplines, drawn from 400+ turnarounds and 20,000+ hours.
The instructor
In the room, every session. Not a video library.
The measurement
A baseline at intake, a verified scorecard at graduation.
The reporting
A de-identified cohort impact report, written for your board.
$0 from the chamber · $0 from the business owner
Every cohort is underwritten by one founding sponsor, whose name goes on it. The next section explains who that usually is, and why it is easier than it sounds.
What the chamber gets
Not a favor. A retention instrument.
Members who stay
Businesses rarely quit a chamber over the invoice. They quit when the year produced nothing they can point to. Ninety days of documented change is the thing they point to.
Numbers for your board
Every cohort produces a baseline at intake and a verified scorecard at graduation. You get a de-identified impact report — jobs held, processes documented, owner-dependence reduced. Numbers, not adjectives.
None of the delivery risk
Your staff does not write a curriculum, recruit an instructor, or run a session. We do. You open the door and take the credit.
The question everyone asks second
Someone pays. It is not the chamber.
Each cohort is underwritten by one founding sponsor — a local employer with a direct reason to care whether small businesses in its market stay open. Their name goes on the cohort, the scorecards, and the impact report.
Why we start with banks
Banks are examined on community development under the Community Reinvestment Act. The federal examination manual names, as a qualifying activity, “providing technical assistance on financial matters to small businesses.”
That is a description of this program, written by the regulator. For a bank, underwriting a cohort is not charity — it is a documented community development activity. Which also means the person who owns the decision is usually the CRA officer, not the marketing department.
Path one
You already know them
One introduction to the right member — a bank, a utility, a health system, a large employer — and we take it from there. You are not asked to sell anything, or to sit in the meeting.
Path two
Or we bring them
If no member fits, we source the sponsor ourselves and bring them to you. The chamber’s role stays the same either way: the room, the list, and the credit.
What your members go through
Ninety days, four beats a week.
Monday
The number
Wednesday
The win
Thursday
A real case
Friday
Sixty minutes, live
The same four beats every week for ninety days, with the same owners. At day ninety each business runs 48 hours with its owner completely gone, and the Sovereign Scorecard™ is the receipt.
Bring a cohort to your members.
Cohort 1 opens January 10, 2027. Chambers seated before then help choose the city.
Tell us your chamber, your city, and roughly how many of your members run companies with five to fifty employees. That is the whole application.
We reply to every chamber inquiry. No list, no drip sequence.