CANAL BID
Cut the annual report from six weeks of work to two afternoons.
“Every ratepayer meeting used to be a debate about whether it worked. Now it's a chart.”
Run the district
like one business
A district full of independent merchants can out-compete any chain — but only if it operates with the same software the chain has. BIDs use Main St. AI as shared infrastructure: enterprise-grade tools handed to every merchant, and one view of traffic, vacancy, and campaign lift across the whole district.
BIDsDowntown AssociationsSpecial Service AreasMerchant DistrictsCorridor Councils
LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD
Shared AI is the new shared infrastructure
Your merchants compete against operators running multi-million-dollar AI pipelines — predicting hyper-local demand, repricing minute by minute, automating logistics end to end. No single storefront could buy that. A district can: the same way it funds lighting, security, and marketing, it can fund the AI stack every merchant runs on.
When adoption is district-wide, the district competes as one business: coordinated campaigns, coordinated stocking, coordinated hours, and a ratepayer report that shows the assessment produced measurable growth on the street.
What they run
District Dashboard
Traffic, vacancy, and merchant health across every block you assess.
Shared Campaign Agents
One district campaign, tailored automatically per storefront.
Assessment Reporting
Show ratepayers what their assessment bought, in numbers.
Merchant Onboarding
New tenants live on the district stack in under fifteen minutes.
District-Wide AI Stack
Every merchant on the same enterprise-grade tools, funded once by the district.
14% → 3%
Spoilage at district restaurants
+22%
Off-peak revenue on the street
18% → 4%
No-shows at wellness merchants