Keep your organization current — without making content another job.

Your organization changes all the time.

A new product. A new employee. An event. A job opening. A seasonal service. A milestone. A question people keep asking.

You probably have plenty worth sharing.

Finding the time to share it is the hard part.

From September through December, HastingsNow and Local Pigeon are inviting 30 Hastings organizations to become Design Partners in a simple experiment:

Once a month, we show up and ask:

What changed?

You tell us.

We help capture it, organize it and turn it into something useful.

$99/month · September–December 2026

No long-term contract. Cancel anytime.

What happens each month?

1. We visit.

Peter or Ashley stops by for a brief 15–20 minute Community Recorder visit.

2. You tell us what changed.

Maybe it's a product, event, employee, opportunity, announcement—or simply something customers should understand.

3. We capture what matters.

Depending on the story, that could become:

a photo · Soundbite · short video · Local Update · event · job · deal · announcement · useful answer

4. We help keep it current.

We review what was captured, organize it and, when appropriate, help publish it through HastingsNow and Local Pigeon.

5. Your local record grows.

Instead of starting from zero every time you need to communicate, your organization's approved updates begin building a clearer record of:

who you are · what you do · what's changing · what's available · what you've actually said · when it was current

Not more content.

Better current information.

We're not going to manufacture a post simply because another month arrived.

If nothing important changed, that's okay.

We might confirm that something is still current, look ahead to what's next or answer a genuinely useful question.

The goal isn't to fill the internet with more content.

The goal is to help Hastings stay informed.

Between visits, you don't have to wait.

Every Design Partner also has access to the Local Pigeon Messenger.

Something changes tomorrow?

Send us a:

photo · event · job · deal · announcement · update · Soundbite

We'll have context about your organization already, so you don't have to start the conversation over every time.

Why become a Design Partner?

You're receiving a real service now.

You're also helping us learn how that service should work in the future.

During these four months, we'll be asking questions like:

What saves you time?
What information matters most?
What should stay current?
What should expire?
Which tools actually help?
What should Local Pigeon become in 2027?

Design Partners may also get opportunities to help us test new HastingsNow and Local Pigeon ideas—from new storytelling formats and community-answer tools to experiments like LOCAL 10 Live.

Not every experiment will become a permanent service.

That's part of why we're doing this together.

What do I actually get for $99?

Each month:

✓ One brief Community Recorder visit

✓ HastingsNow capture, review and organization support

✓ The right lightweight format for what changed

✓ Local Pigeon Messenger access between visits

✓ A growing record of your organization's approved local information

✓ A direct voice in helping shape Local Pigeon for 2027

$99/month

September through December 2026.

Or $396 for all four months.

Why only 30?

Because Peter and Ashley want to work personally with every organization.

Thirty gives us enough variety to learn from restaurants, retailers, nonprofits, professional services, community organizations and other local businesses—without turning this into a mass-production service.

We want to know what actually works.

Not what sounds good in a presentation.

One important line we won't cross.

Paying HastingsNow buys additional time, production capacity and support.

It does not buy favorable coverage, verification, editorial endorsement, LOCAL 10 inclusion, ranking or editorial control.

Those trust rules apply to everyone.

We think that makes both HastingsNow and your participation more valuable.

You keep running your organization.

We'll help Hastings keep up with it.

If your organization has things worth knowing but not enough time to continually turn them into content, you may be exactly who we're building this with.

30 Hastings organizations.

Four months.

One simple question every month:

What's changed?

$99/month · $396 September–December 2026

No long-term contract. Cancel anytime.