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Prove Program Impact to Funders | ESO Management Platform | local.foundation

for accelerators & incubators

Your program changes lives.
Can you prove it?

Funders don't renew on stories. They renew on ROTI, jobs created, and revenue growth tracked from day one through 24 months after graduation.

Trusted by 25+ programs · 10,000+ members tracked · 42+ hours saved per quarter

“How can I show the value of my program?”

You've seen founders grow, land customers, hire teams. But proving it to funders takes longer than running the program itself.

The funder meeting

"What's your ROTI? How many jobs created? Revenue growth?" The funder asks for three numbers. You spend two days pulling them from five different places.

The edition question

"I want to do it again because it's stupid to do just one thing one time." But without first edition's data, there's no budget for edition two.

The manual tax

"Everything is manual. 10 minutes per person just to input data." Time spent on data entry is time not spent with founders.

How it works

From signup to board report
in under two weeks

Connect your tools. Get the numbers funders care about. Keep alumni engaged for years.

1

The numbers funders actually want

Connect your existing tools. Forms, email, event platforms. LocalFoundation calculates ROTI, jobs created, revenue CAGR, and more. Continuously.

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Q4 2025 Impact Report Export PDF
Spring Accelerator Cohort · Auto-updated Dec 2025
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23%
ROTI
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21%
Revenue CAGR
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24%
Jobs Created
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18%
Active Alumni
SCALE-compliant · Board-ready export · Auto-updated
78% alumni reporting
2

Alumni tracking that founders actually respond to

Normal surveys fail because they're extractive. We give founders benchmarking, peer matching, and resource recommendations every time they report. So they want to fill the form.

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Alumni Pulse 0%
Spring 2024 Cohort · 12-month check-in
Revenue data reported 31 / 44
Jobs data reported 29 / 44
Peer matches made 18 active
Response rate 78%
WHY ALUMNI RESPOND
Every check-in gives founders benchmarks, peer matching, and resource recommendations. Not just a form.
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From edition one to edition three

Most programs restart from zero every funding cycle. We make every edition compound on the last. So your third funder meeting has two years of longitudinal data behind it.

See how data compounds
Edition 1
Connect & track
Link your tools. Track your first cohort. Generate your first impact report.
First data
Edition 2
Compare & improve
Benchmark against edition one. Show funders measurable improvement.
Comparison data
GOAL
Edition 3
Walk in with proof
Two years of longitudinal data. The ROTI numbers that make the case for you.
Longitudinal data
“The hardest part of running a great program isn't the program, it's proving it worked.”
— Program Director, 20 years in incubation

From chaos to clarity

Every card is a real conversation with a program director.

Before

I defend program value with anecdotes, not data.

After

I show ROTI, jobs created, revenue growth. Calculated automatically.

Before

I spend two days pulling numbers from 5 different sources before board meetings.

After

I generate board-ready impact reports in 15 minutes, not 2 days.

Before

Funders ask for 12-month impact data but alumni don't respond to surveys.

After

Alumni stay engaged because they get benchmarking data back. 78% response rate at 12 months.

Before

I want to run edition two but I can't prove edition one worked.

After

I walk into the funding meeting with longitudinal data that makes the case.

Before

When the PM leaves, all founder relationships leave too.

After

Founder history lives in the system, not someone's inbox.

what it costs

Running your program is free.

Programs like yours do the work that keeps an ecosystem going, on budgets that rarely cover it. Charging you to run it would be backwards. So we don't: managing your cohorts, tracking alumni outcomes, and seeing what actually changed costs you nothing.

The people building ecosystems deserve the best tools available, not the leftovers of what someone else could afford to give away.

0+ Cohorts tracked
0+ Alumni outcomes collected
0% Less time on board reporting

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