The room you've
been looking for.
A private membership for Phoenix Metro's serious builders. No pitching. No quotas. No pretending. Just the right people — finally in the right room.
Entrepreneurship is lonely. We know because we've lived it.
We've sat in the chambers, the BNIs, the pay-to-pitch dinners. We've been surrounded by hundreds of people and still driven home feeling completely alone in what we're building.
So we stopped looking for the room and started building it.
The Local Founders Club exists for one reason: to give serious builders across the Phoenix Metro a place to show up as they actually are — to talk about what's working, what's breaking, and what comes next. With people who are genuinely in it.
Not a network. Not a group. A room. And the room is the product.
Five formats. One standard.
One room that protects all of it.
The Local Founders Club is a curated membership for serious builders across the Phoenix Metro. Five ways in. One standard throughout.
Founding Dinners
Intimate, invite-only gatherings. Private rooms. Real conversation. No agenda. This is where it all started.
The Mastermind
A monthly members-only working room. Hot seats, hard questions, honest answers. No outsiders, no fluff. The reason members renew year after year.
Founder Forums
Larger ticketed evenings open to the Phoenix Metro — speakers, panels, and honest conversations about building. The front door for the next cohort of members.
Yearly Gala
An annual black-tie evening focused on charitable giving and non-profit impact. Members and guests gather to celebrate, connect, and contribute to causes that matter.
Yearly Conference
A full-day summit bringing together builders, investors, and operators from across the region. Keynotes, workshops, and the kind of hallway conversations that change trajectories.
Who belongs here.
We don't select by title. We select by mindset.
You run a real business — a minimum of $10K+ a month. You're in the Phoenix Metro. And you're done with rooms that waste your time.
The high-caliber groups require a million dollars to get through the door. The lead-swap groups don't require anything — and it shows. Local Founders Club lives in the gap: built for serious builders who are growing, hungry, and ready for a room that actually matches their level.
You don't need to have made it. You need to be serious about getting there.
- —You run a real business and want a real room.
- —You've outgrown the chamber circuit and the lead-swap dinners.
- —You're doing real revenue and want to be around others doing the same.
- —You'd rather collaborate than compete.
- —You're in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, or the East Valley — and you want roots, not just events.
- ✕You're here to pitch, sell, or work the room.
- ✕You want a stage to be the loudest voice in.
- ✕You're shopping for prospects, not peers.
The five rules that protect the room.
Culture compounds in both directions. Curation is the product. These are the five pillars we won't bend on.
No Pitching. Ever.
Non-negotiable, enforced from day one. The room only stays safe if this rule has teeth.
Real Over Polished
Bring your actual challenges — not your highlight reel. Hard questions land here.
Collaborate, Don't Compete
We actively celebrate the members who refer, build, and create opportunities for each other.
Show Up Prepared
This isn't a social hour. Members arrive with a decision, a challenge, or a win worth sharing.
Growth Is the Price of Admission
Not just revenue growth — personal, professional, intellectual. Curiosity is the standard here.
We couldn't find it.
So we built it.
We built and sold a company together. We've been in business as a couple for over a decade — through the hard seasons, the pivots, the wins that didn't look like wins until later.
When we moved to Gilbert, the first thing we looked for was a room full of people like us. Founders who were serious. Operators who were growing. People who wanted real conversation, not a referral quota.
We couldn't find it. So we built it.
Local Founders Club is that room — starting right here in Gilbert, built to be local everywhere.
Avery & Ashley Whaley
— Founders, Local Founders Club
Ten seats. One chance to shape what this becomes.
We're hand-selecting the first ten founding members of the Local Founders Club — the people who will set the tone, define the culture, and hold a charter membership rate for life.
This isn't a waitlist. It's an application for a seat at a table that's still being built. The first ten shape everything that comes after.
Starting in Gilbert. Built to be local everywhere.