The Savannah opportunity
A more connected Savannah starts here.
One city experience. A stronger connection to the visitor and local economy.
Savannah In My Pocket brings the city’s places, businesses, experiences, and everyday happenings into one intelligent consumer app.
Visitors gain a better way to discover and experience Savannah. Residents gain a more useful connection to what’s happening around them. Participating businesses gain new opportunities to reach customers and take part in local commerce.
Behind that experience, Cities In My Pocket provides the foundation for first-party destination intelligence, business engagement, and AI-assisted workflows.
The opportunity is to bring these capabilities together in Savannah, beginning with the visitor experience and local business community.
A proposal for discussion. The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, Visit Savannah and the City of Savannah have not approved, endorsed, funded or agreed to it.
The consumer experience
An app people have a reason to use.
A connected platform only creates value if people want to participate. Savannah In My Pocket is designed around everyday consumer usefulness.
Visitors discover attractions, restaurants, shops, and experiences. Residents find what’s happening, follow local businesses, and plan their weekends. People save places, explore neighborhoods, organize plans, and engage with local offerings.
The consumer experience is the foundation of the ecosystem.
Live app screens populated from the Savannah pack. Local Mode and in-app checkout switch on with the Savannah launch.
The business opportunity
Connect more people to Savannah businesses.
The same experience that helps people discover Savannah can help participating businesses become easier to find.
A restaurant can share an eligible special.
A boutique can showcase products.
A tour operator can present experiences.
A local business can maintain its profile and understand relevant engagement.
Business IQ provides the operational interface supporting that participation. As integrated commerce expands, the connection between discovery and eligible transactions becomes more direct.
The Visit Savannah opportunity
A direct connection to the visitor experience.
Traditional destination marketing is designed to attract visitors and inspire travel. Savannah In My Pocket can complement that work by giving visitors an ongoing experience for discovering and planning within the destination.
As visitors interact with the platform, DMO IQ can provide relevant, aggregated first-party signals. The goal is to help destination teams better understand visitor interests, support participating businesses, and inform future decisions.
The Chamber opportunity
A new way to support participating member businesses.
The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce has relationships with businesses across the community. A partnership could help introduce eligible members to the platform, encourage participation, and connect business-support initiatives to the consumer experience.
The opportunity is not simply another listing benefit. It’s a connected channel for discovery, engagement, and potentially more local commerce.
Built in Savannah. Scalable beyond it.
Built in Savannah. Scalable beyond it.
Every screen on this site reads one Savannah data pack: sourced places, neighborhoods and photos, illustrative merchants, and one synthetic activity model. The same engine can load another city’s pack the day it exists. Today only Savannah’s does. No other city has bought, licensed or launched it.
The switcher reads any bundle at data/<city>.bundle.json that follows the Savannah schema. Partnerships described on this site are proposals; no organization has agreed to or endorsed them.
Illustrative future workflow
IllustrativeFrom an opportunity in the data to activity across the city.
Identify an opportunity.
Available destination intelligence suggests an underexplored area or business category may benefit from additional attention.
Develop a response.
AI assists the destination or Chamber team with preparing a proposed initiative.
Include businesses.
Participating businesses are invited to contribute eligible products, experiences, or offers.
Authorize the campaign.
Appropriate staff review content, costs, participation, and relevant permissions.
Reach consumers.
Supported app channels introduce the approved initiative to relevant visitors or residents.
Measure what follows.
The team evaluates available engagement and, where integrated commerce is enabled, eligible transaction measures.
A connected platform can bring the experience, participating businesses, intelligence, and decisions closer together.
An illustrative target workflow, not proof of existing automated campaign execution.
Proposed partnership structure
Proposed · not agreedBuilt for collaboration. Designed for clear responsibility.
Cities In My Pocket
Provider- Consumer platform configuration.
- Business IQ access.
- DMO IQ configuration.
- Relevant product operations.
- Merchant onboarding tooling.
- Product support.
- Reporting and methodology.
- Approved launch measurement.
Visit Savannah
Subject to agreement- Destination content collaboration.
- Relevant visitor marketing distribution.
- Introduction of destination businesses and attractions.
- Participation in defining destination intelligence priorities.
- Evaluation of agreed visitor engagement measures.
Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce
Subject to agreement- Member business introductions.
- Member communication.
- Coordination of appropriate onboarding campaigns.
- Participation in business-support initiatives.
- Evaluation of agreed member engagement measures.
City Government
Optional and separate- A municipal relationship is not required for the consumer and business platform to launch.
- CityIQ adoption and public-service integrations would follow their own governance and partnership process.
Potential responsibilities for discussion. No organization has agreed to any of them.
The launch experience
Proposed · not agreedStart with a focused deployment. Build from real participation.
Phase 1 · Prepare
Agree on objectives. Confirm available functionality. Configure Savannah content and relevant geographic areas. Identify initial participating businesses. Prepare support and launch materials.
Phase 2 · Introduce
Invite approved business participants. Launch through agreed channels. Support consumer onboarding. Monitor real engagement and operational issues.
Phase 3 · Evaluate
Review adoption, merchant participation, engagement, reporting usefulness, and readiness for expansion.
Timeline, budget, and milestones are to be determined with prospective partners. A 90-day framework is one illustrative planning option, not a guaranteed schedule.
What success looks like
Define the outcomes before the launch.
An initial pilot should be evaluated using agreed, measurable indicators. No targets or revenue projections are proposed here.
Consumer adoption
- Activated accounts.
- Visitor and resident participation.
- Repeat app use.
- Core feature engagement.
Business participation
- Listings claimed.
- Profiles completed.
- Active merchants.
- Promotions or updates published.
Discovery and engagement
- Business profile views.
- Saves.
- Follows.
- Relevant offer interactions.
- Trip-plan additions.
Destination intelligence
- Eligible trip intent.
- Reported origins.
- Neighborhood engagement.
- Reporting usefulness.
Commerce, where enabled
- Completed platform transactions.
- Gross transaction value.
- Refunds and cancellations.
- Merchant fulfillment status.
Partner operations
- Participating businesses onboarded.
- Campaigns prepared or launched.
- Relevant reporting turnaround.
- Support requirements.
- Agreed partner outcomes.
Why the connection matters
The experience brings people in. The ecosystem makes it more valuable.
A city experience becomes more useful when more of Savannah’s places, businesses, and events are represented. Business participation creates more reasons to discover and return. As people engage with the platform, eligible first-party information can help participating organizations make better-informed decisions.
The opportunity isn’t simply to launch another tourism app or purchase another analytics dashboard.
It’s to connect the experience people use with the businesses and organizations working to make Savannah stronger.
What we need to discuss
Turning the opportunity into a practical first launch.
A partnership discussion should establish:
No terms are proposed on this page, and no agreement exists.
- Pilot goals.
- Sponsorship or commercial structure.
- Product scope.
- Consumer and merchant participation strategy.
- Marketing and onboarding responsibilities.
- Access and data governance.
- Reporting requirements.
- Technical dependencies.
- Support arrangements.
- Timeline and success criteria.
Executive FAQ.
A Savannah launch of the consumer app, with Business IQ for participating businesses and DMO IQ for the destination team, under a pilot agreement whose scope, responsibilities and success measures the partners define together.
Let’s walk through Savannah together.
See the consumer experience, business participation tools, and institutional intelligence working as one connected platform.