Empowering Local Business While Building a Thriving Community
Invest in Mai Place 🌱
Mai Place is more than a business, it’s a community-powered ecosystem designed to connect residents, local businesses, and visitors in an intuitive, trustworthy, and locally-focused digital hub.
Our Mission: Community, Connection & Commerce
- Community – A safe, clutter-free space for people to discover local services, events, classifieds, jobs, and each other.
- Connection – Build real relationships between residents and local businesses through trustworthy recommendations, storefronts, and real-time deals.
- Commerce – Empower local businesses with AI-driven tools, storefronts, delivery integration, and marketing features to boost local economies.
Why Mai Place Matters
Platforms like Facebook and Trademe fall short:
- They’re cluttered with irrelevant content.
- They lack local focus, forcing users to scroll endlessly.
- They don’t offer automated business tools or integrated delivery solutions.
Mai Place solves these problems by offering a clean, intuitive platform focused on local needs, where everything from garage sales to tradespeople listings is categorized and easy to find.
Platform in Action: What’s Live
- Basic listings (products, garage sales, services)
- Functional search bar – test drive it right now!
- Positive early feedback from users and local businesses
- Foundational backend and vision in place, only requires funding and talent to finish the build
Roadmap: Where We’re Headed
Phase | Focus | Key Goals |
Phase 1 (Now) | MVP Launch | Refine listings & search, pilot in Bream Bay, onboard early users |
Phase 2 (Local Scaling) | Deepen Features | Full storefronts, local delivery & booking integration plus adding other functions to search |
Phase 3 (National Rollout) | NZ-wide Launch | Replicable playbook, partner and affliliate agreements, expand on AI, automation and business tools, products and services |
Monetization Strategy
- Boosted Listing Option using Facebook Local and Google
- Subscription-Based Storefronts & Affiliate Partnerships
- Transaction Fees on marketplace & service bookings
- Franchise / Licensing for expansion into new suburbs around NZ
- Premium Listings for Local Realestates
Why Invest Now
Your investment enables us to:
- Hire key developers to transform to an App and create storefront, marketplace, job board etc modules
- Elevate our user experience and retention tools
Strategic Partnerships in Progress
- AI products and services that will help local businesses and services
- Delivery Providers to enable local fulfilment
- Business Associations and Local Businesses to spread the word
The Big Vision
Mai Place becomes New Zealand’s go-to platform for local discovery, a digital backbone for every town, empowering businesses, residents, and visitors alike.
Imagine:
- A local storefront for every business with same day delivery including Entrepreneurs doing home based businesses
- A one-stop place to find everything local
- A trusted social space without the noise
Join Us on our Journey
Whether you’re an investor, a business owner, or a community advocate, there are many ways to plug into Mai Place’s mission:
- Equity Investment – own a share of our growth
- Partnership Opportunities – collaborate on features, delivery models, or regional expansion
Next Steps
- Review our pitch deck and financial model
- Get involved – let’s build a thriving, community-first platform together
Let’s make every New Zealand town a Mai Place.