Demo guide
A seven-step click-path for the TAAF walkthrough. Each step links to the screen and gives the one line to say. Built to narrate the TAAF Cities OS idea, not to oversell it — this is a prototype on illustrative Chinatown-ID data.
Open on Insight — the payoff first
Go to InsightSay: This is what TAAF has never had: a live read on the businesses it helps. Fourteen shops in Chinatown-ID, all on Runline Essentials. Jobs, grant dollars landed, hours given back — and it's a byproduct of real usage, not a survey.
Show the cohort
Go to BusinessesSay: Every business runs the same free tool: financials, grant requests, operations, light automations. Filter by district — Chinatown, Japantown, Little Saigon. Then pick one to open.
Open a thriving shop — Mandarin Dumpling House
Go to Mandarin Dumpling HouseSay: Real-time books, a $25K storefront grant that already disbursed, automations saving ~13 hours a month, banked at a partner credit union. This is what 'free to the owner, leads with heart' looks like in one shop.
Flip to Owner view, then back — the consent story
Go to Saigon Pearl MarketSay: Toggle 'Owner view' top-right: the owner sees everything. Toggle back to 'TAAF view': line-item books go private — TAAF only sees aggregate health plus what the business shares. Insight that's earned, not extracted.
Follow the grant loop
Go to Grant requestsSay: Owners apply for grants inside Essentials, in their language. TAAF sees real demand by stage, and every dollar is traceable from funder to storefront. That provenance is the thing funders and mayors have never been able to show.
The automations doing the work
Go to Operations & automationsSay: Build an automation once — receipt capture, monthly close, sales-tax prep — and reuse it across every shop. This is the leverage: the marginal business costs almost nothing to serve.
How it actually reaches the shops
Go to AmbassadorsSay: None of this works without trust. The CIDBIA ambassadors — already funded, in-language — onboard the businesses in about an hour. Essentials rides the trust they've built.
"This is a working prototype on illustrative data. To make it real in Chinatown-ID we need three things: a funder to route the build, the ambassadors to onboard the first ten shops, and a Seattle credit union for the banking leg. Give us those and TAAF has the first program that proves, dollar by dollar, that the help worked."