Community Commerce
Do business with people you know, like and trust.
Community Commerce is buying from, learning from and meeting the people around you. Cagora is its free home: a listing in your local directory, found by the neighbours who share your interests, with no ads to buy and no algorithm to chase.
- Free, forever
- No feeds or algorithms
- Paid for by sponsors, not your data
- Leave in two clicks
What you get
Everything a local business needs to be found. Free.
A free listing
Many businesses are already on the map. Claim yours, or add it with a postcode and logo. Free now, and free later.
Found by interest and postcode
Show up where your neighbours’ interests are, from gardening and sailing to coffee and bike repairs.
Community Offers
Post an offer that members can part pay with the Rewards Points we give them every year. Posting is free.
Founding status for life
Claim in 2026 and your listing shows as a Founding listing for good, and ranks higher in our free directories.
Your listing also earns Rewards Points, a free supporter page, your own shop counter poster and a ripple link of your own. See it all »
Why we built it
The internet made us a promise.
The early internet was meant to be open and free. Social networking was meant to bring us closer. For a while, it did.
Somewhere along the way the business model changed. Our attention became the product. Feeds were tuned to keep us scrolling, and what keeps us scrolling is often what divides us. Local businesses now pay to reach neighbours they used to simply know.
Nobody set out to build a divided society. It happened one click at a time, and it can be undone the same way.
What we lost along the way
Think of the baker who knew your order, the mechanic who knew your car, the newsagent who asked after your mum. Trust was built over years, face to face, and business was part of the community, not apart from it.
That common ground can feel like a memory of the 20th century. It doesn’t have to be. The same trust is there for the 24 year old opening a bike repair shop, if the people around her can find her.
Opportunity is hiding in plain sight
AI can widen the gap, or open the door.
AI is changing the future of work, and plenty of people are wondering where they’ll fit. If it only serves the biggest players, the gap gets wider.
It can also do the opposite. It has never been cheaper or easier to start a small business. All you need is a problem worth solving, a good idea, and an AI at your shoulder as your business coach and business builder. The plan, the website, the bookkeeping and the marketing used to cost thousands. Now they’re within reach of anyone with a laptop and a reason to begin.
Use AI that works for you, not tools that make you the product. Every neighbourhood is full of problems waiting for someone local to solve them.
Whether you’ve traded for forty years or you’re starting next month, there’s a place for you here. New ventures can list free from day one.
Small is beautiful
We’re not here to tear anything down. We’re building something better.
Keep your website, your socials and your marketplace listings. Cagora sits alongside them, and lets people choose the local option when they can see it.
Slow food
Growers, bakers, cafés and makers who know where your food comes from.
Local service
Trades and professionals you can meet, recommend and call back.
Across generations
Skills passed from elders to young people, and fresh ideas passed back.
Real connection
Fifteen minute Quick Chats with people nearby, not posts and followers.
Thinking bigger than your postcode?
The future of business is small.
Big business is a recent invention, and AI is undoing the advantages that made it big. See how small businesses can win in their niche, across the country and around the world.
The future of business is small »Our promise to you
Community first, always.
- No feeds, and no algorithm deciding who sees you
- We never sell your data, or your customers’ data
- Community comes first; business listings support it, never crowd it out
- Leave whenever you like, in two clicks
- US$10 of every US$25 sponsors pay forward goes to charity
Sponsor tiles for local businesses, clubs and groups arrive in April 2027. How the sponsorship works » One exception across the whole network: we don’t host gambling, tobacco, fossil fuel or adult content businesses.
Let’s bring the common ground back.
One listing, one offer, one conversation at a time.