The Power Exchange | Private Founder Community in Charleston

Join the launch event Early sign-up — $97/mo

Charleston • Owners only • Launch event Oct 1

The Power Exchange. Where Charleston business gets done.

A private founder community, led by growth specialist Claire Ansell.

Owners exchanging what actually moves a business — ideas, services, collaboration, support — and learning to build powerful connections and a stronger business at the same time.

Join the launch event Early sign-up — lock $97/mo

Free to attend• Owners only• First 100 lock $97/mo for life

Led by Claire Ansell
Growth specialist & founder of The Business Powerhouse

The Launch Event — Thursday, October 1 · Charleston

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What gets exchanged

Power isn’t given. It’s exchanged.

A founder community built on one idea: everything worth having in business moves both ways. You come to give as much as you come to get — and that’s exactly why it works.

Ideas

The thinking you can’t get from your own team

Owners who’ve already hit the wall you’re hitting, telling you what they’d do differently. Not theory — the version with the scars on it.

Services

Real expertise, given not sold

Every member publishes a Power Offer — a genuine piece of what they do, free to the room. The CPA, the attorney, the strategist. Yours to claim from day one.

Collaboration

Business built together, not alone

Joint ventures, shared clients, referrals running in both directions. The room is full of people whose next move fits neatly alongside yours.

Support

A room that actually gets it

Building a business is lonely and most people in your life don’t understand it. Everyone here does. Some months that’s worth more than the referrals.

Our philosophy

You become the room you’re in.

Nobody builds a serious business surrounded by people who don’t get it. If you want to level up, you have to be standing next to owners who are levelling up too. Here’s what we believe.

Structure beats hustle.

You didn’t get here by accident and nobody’s calling you lazy. But hustle has a ceiling, and most owners hit it right around the point the whole business starts depending on them for everything. We’re here to build businesses that are structured — not carried.

If you’re not learning, you’re not growing.

Every single thing on our calendar is there on purpose. The teach, the speaker, the shape of the room — all of it is chosen, not filled. Nobody gets a slot because we had a slot going spare.

Owner to owner is a different conversation.

Two owners talk differently than an owner and someone selling to them. Nobody’s performing, nobody’s guarding their numbers, and you can say the actual thing out loud. That’s the entire reason the door has a test on it.

We take your time seriously.

Two reasons. We value our own enormously, and we know exactly what yours is worth. Nothing here runs long, wanders, or costs you an evening you don’t get back.

It’s not a card pass.

Collecting contacts isn’t networking, it’s admin. The real question is what does this person actually need, and can you serve them. That takes understanding — and understanding is a skill, which means it’s a skill we can teach you.

Leverage runs both ways.

We’re not precious about you pitching your business. That’s partly why you’re here. What we care about is that you know how to leverage the people in this room — and that they know how to leverage you. That’s the exchange.

The framework

Five parts. One system.

Most communities are a room and a hope. The Power Exchange runs on a method — five parts that work together, every month, for as long as you’re a member. It spells what it does.

Positioned

Your Power Profile and your Power Offer, built with you in onboarding. The room knows exactly what you do — and exactly when to send someone your way.

Owners Only

Equity, control, your own brand. Vetted before you’re in. Who we keep out is precisely what makes the room worth being in.

Wired In

Five introductions a month, matched to your profile. You walk into every Exchange already knowing who you’re there for.

Exchanged

Prospect, collaborator or connector — you’ll know which one you’re sitting with, and exactly what to do about it.

Returned

The Monthly Power Report. What you gave, what you got, in numbers. Nobody here renews on a feeling.

The Power Offer

Everyone in this room owes you something.

This is how the exchange stops being a nice idea and starts being real. Every member publishes a Power Offer — a genuinely useful piece of what they do, given free to every other member. Not a discount. Not a lead magnet. Fifteen minutes of their actual expertise, no pitch attached.

01 · You publish yours

Your Offer, built with you

In onboarding we help you package one genuinely valuable thing you can give away without it costing you a day. It becomes the clearest explanation of what you do that you’ve ever had.

02 · You claim theirs

An expert bench on tap

The CPA, the attorney, the fractional CFO, the brand strategist, the recruiter. Their offers are yours to claim — from the day you join, not after you’ve earned the relationship.

03 · It works both ways

Leverage, not charity

You’re not giving work away to be nice. You’re showing the room exactly what you’re good at — which is the fastest way for them to know when to send someone your way.

The mechanism

You don’t work the room. The room works for you.

Powerful connections aren’t luck — they’re a skill, and this is where you learn it. Here’s exactly what happens in your first thirty days.

STEP 01

You’re vetted

Owners only — equity, control and your own brand. We keep the room worth being in by keeping people out of it.

STEP 02

Your Power Profile

Week one, thirty minutes. What you sell, who you want to meet, what you’ll give. This is what the matching runs on.

STEP 03

Your five people

Before every Exchange you get five names matched to your profile — buyers, referrers or collaborators. You walk in knowing who you’re there for.

STEP 04

You’re introduced

Not left to circle the bar. The introduction is made for you, in the room, by someone both of you already trust.

What we teach you

Everyone you meet is one of three people.

Most owners walk into a room and treat everybody the same. That’s exactly why nothing ever comes of it. We teach you to read the difference — then we hand you the tools, match you to the right people, and Claire does what Claire does best: levels you up with the ideas and the structure to actually act on it.

01 · Prospect

Someone who needs what you sell

An owner with the problem you solve. Your job is trust, then action — get the discovery call booked, bring them a tailored answer rather than a brochure, and follow up with something worth opening.

02 · Collaborator

Someone whose strengths sit beside yours

Not a competitor — a complement. Find the goal you share, put a brainstorm in the diary, and start with one small thing you can actually do together. Joint ventures, shared clients, a co-hosted room.

03 · Connector

Someone with the network you want

They may never buy from you and it doesn’t matter. Tell them precisely who your people are, ask for the introduction, and make sure business is going back the other way. This one is pure reciprocity.

The calendar

Same days, every month.

A rhythm you can build your year around — and one that moves you from met, to trusted, to doing business.

Free · Open to all owners

Ignite

The front door. A ten-minute teach worth your morning, one member’s real story, and introductions with structure behind them — so you leave having learned something and met the people worth meeting.

1st Tuesday8:00 – 9:30am · From Oct 6

Members only

The Exchange

You arrive with five introductions already matched to what you need. Add the spotlight on a member worth knowing, and this is the evening the referrals, suppliers and deals actually start.

3rd Tuesday5:00 – 7:00pm

Private dinner

Founders Dinner

One table, one speaker worth the evening, and the conversations that never happen in a room of a hundred. The seats are limited on purpose.

Last Thursday6:30pm

Founder Circle · Application only

The Boardroom

Ten to twelve owners, your real numbers on the table, every single month. The inner circle for members ready to stop guessing and start being held to it.

4th Tuesday3:00 – 5:30pm · Launching Oct 1

Members also get twice-monthly Office Hours with the Advisory Council and weekly onboarding — both included.

The member app

The whole room, in your pocket.

Every member gets the app. See who’s in the room, what they do and the Power Offer they’ve published — then keep track of every connection you’ve actually made.

And once a month it shows you the receipts: who you were introduced to, which offers you claimed, what was referred to you and what you referred out. No other room tells you that.

The Power Exchange member app — member directory, connections and your Monthly Power Report

Who leads the room

I’ve built this room before.

Claire Ansell is a growth specialist and the founder of Business Powerhouse, where she’s spent years helping Charleston owners reset, build and scale. Sales Powerhouse — the last room she built — had 125 to 130 owners in it by month two. This community is that expertise, opened up: you’re not just in a room of owners, you’re being led through how to build the connections and the business at the same time. Co-founded with her business partner, Andrew Svetliza.

“I’m not asking you to believe in a concept. I’ve built the room before.”

Claire Ansell — Growth specialist & founder, Business Powerhouse

125–130

owners in the room by month two, last time

~10

valuable connections a member makes a year

⚠ PLACEHOLDER SECTION — DO NOT PUBLISH AS IS. Claire to supply: the Power Hour years and attendance numbers, 4 event photos, and 3 real testimonials (quote, name, business, headshot). Every bracketed item below needs replacing. Delete this yellow box before going live.

Where this came from

Claire built this room once before.

Before The Power Exchange there was the Power Hour — a room of Charleston owners Claire built from nothing into [NUMBER] regulars, month after month, from [YEAR] to [YEAR]. People still stop her about it.

Then COVID shut the doors, and rooms like that stopped existing overnight.

This is that room rebuilt — bigger, and with a sharper angle. Everything the Power Hour got right, plus everything it was missing: a vetted door, published offers, matched introductions, and a report that proves it’s working.

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From the people who were there

They’ve known Claire a long time.

“[TESTIMONIAL 1 — ideally from a Power Hour regular. What the room did for their business, in their own words. Two or three sentences.]”

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[FULL NAME]

[Title, Business Name]

“[TESTIMONIAL 2 — ideally someone who has known Claire for years and can speak to how she runs a room and how she levels people up.]”

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[FULL NAME]

[Title, Business Name]

“[TESTIMONIAL 3 — ideally a specific outcome: a referral, a client, a collaboration that came out of the room.]”

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[FULL NAME]

[Title, Business Name]

What you’re actually getting

Everything included.

The calendar

Every event, all year

Ignite, the Exchange and the Founders Dinner — the full monthly rhythm, included from the day you join.

Your Power Offer

Built with you, published to the room

We help you package one genuinely valuable thing you can give away — and it becomes the clearest explanation of what you do that you’ve ever had.

Introductions

Your five people, every month

Matched to your profile before every Exchange — buyers, referrers or collaborators. You walk in knowing who you’re there for.

Office Hours

The Advisory Council, twice a month

Finance, legal, marketing, sales, tech and leadership — live, on your real questions. A specialist bench you don’t have to hire.

The directory

Every offer in the room

The full member directory and every Power Offer published in it — all of it yours to claim, from your first week.

The Power Report

Proof, delivered monthly

Introductions made, offers claimed, referrals given and received. You never have to guess what the membership returned.

All of it included. An annual membership, payable monthly — founding rate $97/mo, locked for life before the standard rate becomes $150.

The founding offer

Be one of the first 100.

Founding Member

~~$150~~$97/mo

Locked for life. When the Advisory Council goes live the rate becomes $150 — founders keep $97 forever.

Founding rate — $97/mo locked for life
The Founding Member badge
Your Power Profile & Offer, built with you
Priority introductions in your first 90 days
First dibs on the Founder Circle

Become a founding member

By application only · Opens Oct 1

$300/mo

Accepted, not purchased. The inner circle can’t be bought — you join as a member first, then earn your seat.

The monthly Boardroom mastermind (10–12 owners)
Priority introductions across the room
VIP experiences & curated events
A seat reserved for members who apply and are accepted

Apply now

Applications open October 1

Questions

The details.

Owners. You hold equity in the business you represent, you carry the P&L, and if it failed it would be your loss — LLC member, shareholder, partner or sole owner. Fractional operators who own their own practice count. People selling a larger company’s product under someone else’s brand don’t. That rule is what makes the room worth being in.

Everything: Ignite, the Exchange, the Founders Dinner, twice-monthly Office Hours with the Advisory Council, weekly onboarding, the member directory and every Power Offer in it, and your Monthly Power Report. Founders lock $97/mo for life before the rate rises to $150.

Every member publishes one — a genuinely useful piece of their expertise, given free to every other member, fifteen minutes minimum and no pitch. Yours is built with you during onboarding. It’s the reason reciprocity here isn’t a hope, it’s the entry price.

The application-only inner circle at $300/mo — the monthly Boardroom mastermind of ten to twelve owners, priority introductions and VIP experiences. You join as a member first, then apply. Applications open October 1.

No. Become a founding member now, or come to the Launch Event on Oct 1 and join in the room. Either way the founding rate is only for the first 100.

Charleston. Ignite is the first Tuesday morning, the Exchange the third Tuesday evening, and the Founders Dinner the last Thursday of the month — so you can put the whole year in your diary now. Venues are confirmed ahead of the launch event.

No — it’s an annual membership, payable monthly. That’s deliberate. Rooms like this only work when people commit to being in them, and the value compounds over a year in a way it never does over a month.

Most members don’t. The calendar is built so you can dip in and still get value — the directory, the Power Offers and your matched introductions all run whether you make a given morning or not. Come to what you can.

The launch event • Charleston

The night the doors open.

One evening. The whole room in one place. This isn’t the same old room you’ve stood in a hundred times — come feel the difference, meet the founders, and take your seat on the spot.

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The Launch Event

Venue to be announced, Charleston SC · Open to all owners — bring a guest

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$97/mo locked for life when you join before the launch event. Owners only. Only the first 100 — and it doesn’t come back.

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