We picked twenty people. You’re one of them.
The Power Exchange opens in Charleston on September 1. Before the doors open we’re hand-picking twenty Founding Ambassadors — the owners whose word actually carries in this city.
It’s $50 a month, locked for life. In return, you help us fill the room.
Founding Ambassador
One of the first twenty. Named, recognised, and part of the room from before day one.
Members pay $97 → $150
Power isn’t given. It’s exchanged.
The Power Exchange is a private founder community in Charleston, led by growth specialist Claire Ansell. Owners only, vetted, 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.
Same days, every month.
A rhythm you can build your year around — and one that moves people 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.
The Exchange
You arrive with five introductions already matched to what you need. 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 Boardroom
Ten to twelve owners, your real numbers on the table, every month. The inner circle, at $300/mo — separate from your ambassador rate.
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. 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
This isn’t a discount. It’s a trade.
We’re not looking for volunteers, and we’re not looking for people who’d pay less to do less. We’re looking for owners who are already connected, already trusted, and already the person other people ask when they want to know who to talk to. That is a very short list in Charleston. You’re on it.
Both sides of it, plainly.
Bring people with you.
- Come to the launch event — and bring owners with you. That night is the whole ballgame, and a room full of the right people is what makes it land.
- Talk about it, genuinely. When you meet an owner who belongs in this room, tell them. That’s it — no scripts, no quotas, no posting schedule.
- Be present. Come to Ignite and the Exchange when your diary allows. Ambassadors set the tone of a room just by being in it.
- Tell us the truth. What’s working, what isn’t, who we should be talking to. You get a direct line and we’d like you to use it.
The rate, and the recognition.
- $50 a month, locked for life — while members pay $97 as founders and $150 after that. Yours doesn’t move.
- The Founding Ambassador title and pin. Named on the site, named at the launch, and known in the room as one of the original twenty.
- Full membership. Every event, Office Hours, the member app, the directory, your Power Offer and your matched introductions.
- A hand in shaping it. You’re in from before day one, which means how this room runs is partly your call.
Twenty names people will remember.
Founding Ambassador isn’t a discount code with a nice title stapled to it. It’s a standing in the room — and it only ever belongs to twenty people.
You’ll be wearing it
The Founding Ambassador pin. In a room of owners, everyone knows what it means and who it was given to.
On the site and in the room
Your name and business listed as a Founding Ambassador, and called out from the front at the launch event.
You’re there before anyone
Your Power Offer is published to the room before the members arrive — so day one, you’re already the known quantity.
We’re not counting your invites.
There’s no quota, no leaderboard and nobody chasing you for numbers. But the rate exists because you’re helping us build this, so if a season goes by and you’ve gone quiet, we’ll have a friendly conversation about it — not send you an invoice. Twenty seats is small enough that we can just talk to each other like adults.
Fifty a month. Forever.
Locked for life. Founding members pay $97 and the standard rate becomes $150 — your $50 never moves, for as long as you hold the role.
- Full Power Exchange membership
- The Founding Ambassador title and pin
- Named on the site and at the launch event
- Your Power Offer published first
- A direct line to Claire and Andrew
Not included: the Founder Circle. That’s a separate application at $300/mo and it’s open to ambassadors on exactly the same terms as everyone else — accepted, never bought.
Before you say yes.
Because you’re an owner other owners listen to. We went through the people we know in Charleston and picked twenty whose recommendation would actually mean something. It’s a short list and it isn’t random.
Come to the launch and bring people. Mention the room to owners who belong in it. Show up when you can. Tell us the truth about how it’s going. That’s the whole job — there’s no quota and nothing to report.
Yes. Members lock $97 as founders and the standard rate goes to $150. Yours stays at $50 for as long as you hold the ambassador role — it doesn’t rise with the room.
No. The Founder Circle is a separate inner circle at $300/mo, by application only. Ambassadors are very welcome to apply, on the same terms as every other member.
Nobody makes every event. Come to what your diary allows. The launch on September 1 is the one that genuinely matters — after that, dip in as it suits you.
Please do. If there’s an owner you’d want in the room with you, tell us — but the twenty ambassador seats stay hand-picked, so send them our way rather than forwarding this page.
One of the twenty is yours.
Take the seat, and we’ll get you everything you need before September 1 — your pin, your Power Offer, and the invitations to hand out.
$50/mo locked for life · Invitation only · Seats close when the twenty are filled