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Now launching in Tacoma, WA

HyperLoqal Community Drives HyperLoqal Commerce

Loqal is the operating layer that turns local creators into a measurable, recurring revenue channel for your business — certified creators, AI matching, escrow payments, campaign reports, and built-in retention. Not just introductions. Infrastructure.

I'm a BusinessI'm a Creator
Browse the Tacoma creator directory
Creator certification tiers
3
Creator certification tiers
Matches + auto-generates briefs
AI
Matches + auto-generates briefs
Guaranteed creator payout
48h
Guaranteed creator payout
Auto-generated — on-platform
1099
Auto-generated — on-platform
Proof of concept → every city
Tacoma
Proof of concept → every city

Platform depth

Built layer by layer, deeper than the surface

▼ descending to 6,000 m

  1. 0 m

    Surface

    Certified Creators

  2. 50 m

    Sunlit

    Business OS

  3. 200 m

    Twilight

    AI Matching

  4. 500 m

    Midnight

    Escrow & Contracts

  5. 1,000 m

    Bathypelagic

    Impact Reports

  6. 2,000 m

    Abyssal

    Reputation Lock-In

  7. 4,000 m

    Hadal

    1099 & Auto-Payouts

  8. 6,000 m

    Trench

    City-by-City Rollout

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How it works

Three modes for businesses. One pipeline for creators.

Choose the level of involvement that fits your time and budget. Creators get a certified, recurring income channel — no cold pitching, no unpaid invoices.

For Businesses

Restaurants, gyms, barbershops, boutiques

  1. Self-serve — full control

    Browse certified creators, build your own campaign brief, manage timelines and approvals. Complete control, zero agency fees.

  2. Assisted — 5-minute intake

    Answer a few questions about your business and goal. Our AI generates the campaign brief and surfaces three pre-matched certified creators. You choose, we handle the rest.

  3. Managed — hands completely off

    A dedicated Loqal Campaign Manager runs everything: creator sourcing, brief writing, scheduling, content approval, and reporting. $299–$599/month. Your marketing runs while you run your business.

  4. Campaign Impact Report after every run

    Local benchmarks, reach, engagement, and attributed foot traffic — data no national platform has for your city. Your marketing memory lives here forever.

  5. Auto-renewal keeps the momentum

    After a successful campaign, the platform proposes the next one automatically. The best local marketing compounds over time.

For Creators

Food, fitness, fashion, lifestyle, beauty + more

  1. Apply and get certified

    Complete a short vetting process — platform onboarding, content review, and profile setup. Earn your tier: Neighborhood (under 2K), City (2K–15K), or Metro (15K+). Tiers are built on performance data, not follower counts.

  2. Browse campaigns or get matched

    See campaigns from local businesses that actually fit your niche and local audience. Apply in one tap — or get AI-matched before a campaign even goes live.

  3. Contract signed, payment locked in escrow

    All terms are clear and in writing. Your payment is held in escrow before you shoot a single frame — you will get paid.

  4. Submit content, get approved

    Upload your Reel, Story, or post in-app. The business reviews it. No going live until both sides agree.

  5. Paid in 48h + your reputation score grows

    Money hits your account within 48 hours of approval. Your Loqal score — built on rehire rate, completion rate, and quality — only grows on-platform. Every campaign makes you more valuable here.

Platform infrastructure

The operating layer for local growth

Contracts, payments, analytics, and automation — everything that makes switching away more expensive than staying.

Data Moat

Campaign Impact Reports

After every campaign, you get a detailed impact report benchmarked against local averages — data no national platform has for Tacoma. Which niches drive foot traffic. What local CPM looks like. Your full campaign history lives here. Leaving means losing your marketing memory.

Creator Certification Tiers

Creators are vetted and tiered before they appear on the platform — Neighborhood, City, and Metro — based on completion rate, rehire rate, and content quality. Not follower count. Every creator you see has been approved.

AI Matching + Brief Generation

5-minute intake → AI generates the campaign brief and surfaces three pre-matched creators scored on local audience %, niche alignment, and rehire rate. No guesswork, no scrolling through hundreds of profiles.

Escrow, Contracts & 1099s

Payment is locked in escrow before any content is created. Digital contracts are embedded in every campaign. At year-end, 1099 forms are auto-generated for all creator payouts. Financial infrastructure that's painful to replicate manually.

Reputation Lock-In

A creator's Loqal score — built from campaign history, ratings, and rehire rate — only accumulates on-platform. Off-platform deals stop building it. Creators who leave don't just lose campaigns; they lose their professional reputation.

Managed Mode + Auto-Renewal

A dedicated Campaign Manager runs everything for $299–$599/month. After every successful campaign, the platform auto-proposes the next one. The path of least resistance keeps local marketing compounding — without you lifting a finger.

Why we exist

Local marketing is broken — we're fixing it

Loqal becomes more valuable the longer you use it — every campaign adds to your marketing history, your reputation score, and your city's data layer. Infrastructure compounds. Introductions don't.

Businesses need infrastructure, not a directory

A restaurant owner doesn't need a database of creators — they need someone to run the campaign, measure what worked, and book the next one automatically. Loqal is that operating layer.

Creators need a recurring income channel

There are thousands of local creators in every city — food bloggers, fitness creators, fashion girls — with deeply engaged local followings and no reliable way to turn that into predictable income with the businesses they already love.

Every mid-size city is an untapped market

Tacoma, Olympia, Bellingham, Spokane, Portland, Boise — strong local culture, thousands of creators, zero infrastructure connecting them to local businesses. That's the market nobody else is building for. We are.

Pricing

Start free. Scale as you grow.

A transparent model that works for one-time campaigns and high-volume operators alike. A 15–20% transaction commission is built into escrow — invisible, aligned, and shared only when a campaign runs.

For businesses

Starter

Launch your first campaign, see if it works

Free

  • 1 active campaign at a time
  • Browse certified creator profiles
  • Escrow payments + digital contracts
  • Basic Campaign Impact Report
  • 15–20% transaction commission
Start free →

Growth

For businesses running campaigns consistently

$79/month

  • Unlimited active campaigns
  • AI-Assisted mode (brief auto-gen)
  • Full Campaign Impact Reports
  • Campaign history & ROI dashboard
  • Auto-renewal suggestions
  • Priority creator matching
Get Growth →

Most powerful

Managed

We run your entire local marketing operation

$299–$599/mo

  • Dedicated Campaign Manager
  • Creator sourcing, briefing & scheduling
  • Content review & approval handling
  • Monthly performance reporting
  • Auto-renewal + campaign sequencing
  • Everything in Growth included
Get Managed →

For creators

Free — always

Certified creators pay nothing to be on the platform

Free

  • Creator certification program
  • Browse & apply to campaigns
  • AI-matching to relevant campaigns
  • Escrow payment protection
  • 48h guaranteed payout
  • Loqal reputation score
Apply as creator →

Creator Pro

Priority status, analytics & a public booking link

$19/month

  • Priority placement in business searches
  • Advanced earnings & growth analytics
  • Public booking link for direct inquiries
  • Campaign performance history export
  • Early access to new campaigns
  • Everything in Free included
Go Pro →

Transaction commission (15–20%) is built into escrow and split transparently — we only earn when a campaign runs. Join during our Tacoma launch and lock in early pricing.

Secure payments

Built so nobody gets burned

Three financial checkpoints. One revision right. Zero surprises. Creator and business both protected — automatically.

  1. 0110% released

    Campaign Accepted

    The moment the business funds escrow and the creator accepts the brief, 10% releases automatically. No approval needed. No content required. The creator knows the money is real before they invest any time.

    Auto-released · No action needed

  2. 0260% released

    Content Draft Approved

    Creator submits the content inside Loqal before posting. Business gets 48 hours to approve or request one specific revision tied to the original brief. If they can't point to a brief violation, the platform sides with the creator.

    1 revision max · Auto-approved if overdue

  3. 0330% released

    Post Goes Live

    Once the content is publicly posted with verified tags and timestamps, the final 30% releases automatically. No business approval needed. The creator already received 70% before publishing — fully incentivized to follow through.

    Auto-released on verified post

Dispute resolution

What if a business denies unfairly?

Most platforms take the buyer's side automatically. That destroys creator trust and kills supply. Loqal checks three things automatically before any human gets involved — so disputes resolve in seconds, not weeks.

Format check

Does the content match the format in the brief? Reel, Story, or Post?

Tags & mentions

Are all required tags and brand mentions present in the content?

On-time delivery

Was the content submitted within the agreed timeframe?

All 3 pass → Creator wins

60% releases automatically with a clear explanation sent to the business.

Something fails → Human review

Loqal reviews brief vs. content line by line. Creator gets one chance to fix real violations.

Business ghosting → Auto-released

No response in 48 hours triggers auto-approval. Silence is not a veto.

The rollout

Tacoma is the proof. Every city is the prize.

Tacoma isn't just our first city — it's the proof-of-concept that unlocks every city after it. We launch with 75+ certified creators, 20 anchor businesses, and real results before we ever open to the public. Then we do it again, 8–12 weeks per city.

Launching in

Tacoma, WA

Browse the Tacoma creator directory

Next cities — in sequence

  • Olympia, WA
  • Bellingham, WA
  • Spokane, WA
  • Portland, OR
  • Boise, ID
  • Charlotte, NC
  • Nashville, TN
  • Austin, TX

Expansion roadmap

  1. Phase 1 — Live

    • Tacoma, WA

  2. Phase 2 — Coming soon

    • Olympia, WA
    • Bellingham, WA
    • Spokane, WA

  3. Phase 3 — Future cities

    • Portland, OR
    • Boise, ID
    • Denver, CO
    • Austin, TX

Our story

Three founders from Tacoma who saw the gap

Loqal started when we — three entrepreneurs from Tacoma — kept asking the same question: how come the pizza shop on 6th Ave has no idea the food blogger with 15,000 local followers exists, and when they do find each other, there's no infrastructure to make it work more than once?

National platforms exist for enterprise brands. Nobody built the operating layer for local. We looked at every mid-size city across America and realized the opportunity wasn't just matching — it was becoming the full marketing infrastructure those businesses never had.

So we built it: certified creators, three operating modes, Campaign Impact Reports, escrow, 1099s, and a city-launch playbook ready to deploy anywhere. Tacoma proves the model. Every city after is the business.

“We believe every local business deserves the kind of marketing that actually works — and every local creator deserves to get paid for the community they've built. Loqal is where Tacoma's businesses and its most trusted voices find each other.”
— Pranav Lekkala, Joshua Mathews & Henry Jonasson, Co-Founders

Pranav Lekkala

CEO & Founder

Drives the vision and strategy behind Loqal — building the infrastructure that turns local creators into a measurable, recurring revenue channel for small businesses, city by city.

Joshua Mathews

CMO & Founder

Leads growth and brand strategy, focused on creator acquisition, business onboarding, and making Loqal the go-to name for local influencer marketing across every city we enter.

Henry Jonasson

CFO & Founder

Oversees financial operations, revenue architecture, and the escrow and payout infrastructure that keeps every transaction on Loqal clean, compliant, and on time.

Join the waitlist

Your local marketing infrastructure starts here.

Tacoma's certified creators are ready. The campaign that fills your tables — or funds your next month — runs itself. Join the waitlist now and lock in early pricing before we open the next city.

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