Co-ops and social enterprises, when they're ready to decide.
Oxpium builds the list of co-ops and social enterprises, finds the general manager, tells you when one expands or converts to worker ownership, and runs the campaign at the right time.
- 65,000cooperatives in the US
- 750+worker cooperatives, three times as many as ten years ago
- 6%only have their general manager or CEO in classic professional databases
- < 9 minfrom the first sentence to a live campaign
The co-ops and social enterprises you sell to, by model and by trade.
A food co-op with 4,000 member-owners, a ten-person worker co-op of electricians and a social enterprise that hires people leaving homelessness don't buy the same things. Tell the agent the model, the trade, the area: it searches business listings, professional databases and websites, and hands you one clean list.
- Reading the request
- Business listings · grocery co-ops, 3 states
- Reading websites · co-op model
- Cross-checking and de-duplicating
38 grocery co-ops, sorted by number of reviews.
A model
Food co-op, worker co-op, purchasing co-op, social enterprise: the agent reads each website and keeps the ones that say they are one.
A trade
Grocery, construction, home care, tech, cleaning: the agent reads what each one does and sorts the list by the trade you sell to.
A size
Five worker-owners or two hundred staff across three stores: headcount comes from professional databases, so you target the right size.
A storefront
For food co-ops and retail, a minimum rating and number of reviews from business listings, with the phone number on every row.
The general manager, and what makes each co-op tick.
At a food co-op, the general manager runs the store and answers to an elected board; at a worker co-op, decisions often go to the members. The agent finds the person who brings things to the table, verifies every email, and reads the website to note member count, stores and certifications, so your message talks about their co-op, not co-ops in general.
- Reading the request
- Reading websites · 38 co-ops
- Verifying emails
35 contact emails found and verified.
The website email
The agent reads each co-op's website, finds the contact email published there and verifies it before adding it to the list.
The general manager
Or the CEO, or the executive director of a social enterprise: their name, verified email and cell when there is one, for a direct line.
Members and stores
How many member-owners the website mentions, how many stores, any expansion in the works: each answer in its own column, row by row.
Certifications shown
When a co-op or social enterprise shows a certification on its website, the agent notes it, so you know what it cares about before writing.
Automations that follow the co-ops, and tell you when to call.
Once the list is built, Oxpium keeps going without you. Each automation reruns its search on schedule and adds what just changed to the top of the list: a general manager search, a new store announced, a business sold to its employees. Those are your signals, and they show up on their own.
- Job postings · 14 new in the three states
- Matching postings to co-ops
- Updating the list
Latest runs
- Today+2
- Yesterday0
- Fri, Oct 9+1
- Thu, Oct 8+2
2 co-ops posted a job since yesterday.
Hiring
Every morning, an automation flags the co-ops looking for a general manager, a store manager or a finance lead, with the job title.
New stores
Every month, the agent rereads each co-op's website and flags the ones that announce a new store, a relocation or an expansion.
Conversions
Every month, the agent looks through public sources for businesses in your area sold to their employees and turned into worker co-ops.
Your own watch
Any watch you can write in one sentence, like a member loan campaign on the website: the agent reruns it on schedule and flags what changed.
A campaign that works around the board and the holidays.
Food co-ops answer to an elected board, and from Thanksgiving to New Year's the store comes first. Worker co-ops take big decisions as a group, often at a monthly meeting. Write in September and October or after the holidays, call before the lunch rush, and the sequence stops on the first reply.
Subject co_op and its member_owners owners
Each variable is a column of your list, filled in by the agent.
Before the holiday rush
September and October, then January: emails go out Tuesday to Thursday between 9:30 and 11:30 am, never in the weeks before Christmas.
Calls from the browser
You call from your browser, before the store gets busy. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarized right on the co-op's row.
A follow-up that read the site
An agent step rereads the website and its news, the new store, the member drive, then writes a follow-up about that co-op and nothing else.
Stops on reply
As soon as a general manager replies, the sequence stops for that co-op. You take it from there, and the next follow-up never goes out.
Frequently asked questions
Write “worker-owned cooperatives in Washington and Oregon”. The agent searches public sources and business listings, reads each website to confirm worker ownership, adds headcount from professional databases and hands you the list with trade and website. It takes a few minutes.
Ask for “the general manager of each co-op, with their email and cell phone”. The agent looks for them co-op by co-op, reads the staff and board pages, verifies every email and adds the cell when it finds one. When the manager can't be found, the contact email on the website takes over.
Tell the agent once: “every month, find businesses in my region sold to their employees and turned into worker co-ops”. It reads public sources and local news, and each conversion lands at the top of your list with how many employees became owners.
A first email to the general manager, a call two days later before the lunch rush, then a follow-up the agent writes from each co-op's website and news. Emails go out from your own mailbox Tuesday to Thursday, and the sequence stops as soon as a co-op replies.
For 400 organizations with their website read, 320 verified manager emails and about 120 cell phones, count around €55 of data on top of the subscription. An agency typically charges €1,200 to €2,000 for a comparable list, delivered once and never updated.See pricing
It doesn't rely on the name. The agent reads each website, the about page and the footer, where worker ownership is almost always stated, and keeps only the businesses that say they are owned by their workers or members.
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