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.
Growth specialist & founder of The Business Powerhouse
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Give first, on purpose
Reciprocity isn’t a hope here, it’s the entry price. Everyone arrives having already given something — which is exactly why the referrals come faster than in any room you’ve sat in.
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.
You’re vetted
Owners only — equity, control and your own brand. We keep the room worth being in by keeping people out of it.
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.
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.
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.
Same days, every month.
A rhythm you can build your year around — and one that moves you from met, to trusted, to doing business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Members also get twice-monthly Office Hours with the Advisory Council and weekly onboarding — both included.
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.
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
Everything included.
Every event, all year
Ignite, the Exchange and the Founders Dinner — the full monthly rhythm, included from the day you join.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Be one of the first 100.
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
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
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 Sept 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 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.
The Launch Event
Venue to be announced, Charleston SC · Open to all owners — bring a guest