Bright Business® is a peer-to-peer business board and progress-tracking program for growth-driven business owners and selected experts. Three elements work together: we track progress, an operating system (the Bright Business Operating System) and the right peers in the same Club. See how it works.

Growth-driven business owners who have outgrown running everything themselves, and experts who own their practice: fractional executives, advisors, attorneys, accountants and other B2B specialists. Each Club seats one member per expertise, with no competing businesses. Start on the page for business owners or for experts.

No. A Bright Business® Club is a Decision Room: owners and experts work on real business challenges together, follow one topic/process each month, and we track progress between meetings. Members open new accounts and contracts through trust, but the meeting is not a referral exchange.

In San Diego (host and venue partner kiln.), in Costa Mesa, Orange County (host and venue partner Serendipity Labs), and in the Online Club. Each Club meets once a month, 9:00 to 11:00 AM Pacific: doors at 9:00, program at 9:15. Dates and addresses are on the calendar.

Yes. A guest visit to a Club meeting is complimentary. Request your guest visit and pick the meeting you want to attend.

A Club membership is $1,500 a year, the same for business owners and experts. The Bright Business Brain plan, open to everyone, is $29 a month for the first 3 months (founding member price), then $99 a month. Every Club membership includes the Bright Business Brain.

Yes. Bright Business® complements them and does not compete with them. Keep your group and add Bright Business® to solve challenges together and track progress. See how they work together.

One joining flow: Check your fit, Apply, Approval, Payment, Onboarding. The application is short and approval happens on a 10-minute fit call on Zoom. Become a Member.

Only after you are approved. If it is a fit, you get your secure payment link on the fit call and you have three days to pay and confirm your seat. There is no payment to apply.

Onboarding. You claim your seat in your Club, open your Member Hub, install your Bright Business Brain, join the private community and get your monthly rhythm of meetings and check-ins.

Yes, a 90-day fit guarantee for members who were active in their Club. If it is not a fit, your membership fee is refunded, minus the card processing fees. It is a guarantee for active members, not a free trial. The conditions are on the Membership Terms page.

So nobody competes inside the Club. With one accountant, one attorney, one fractional CFO and so on, members can be completely open and support each other in good faith.

You can take the seat in another Club, including the Online Club, or open and lead a Club of your own. Book a Zoom call and we look at the options together.

Club seats are for people who own their business or practice. Banks and larger companies that want a representative in the Club join as Club Sponsors, with their own package and benefits. See the Sponsors page.

Yes. The Bright Business Brain plan is open to everyone and is the entry to Bright Business®. You can move into a Club membership when you are ready. See the Bright Business Brain plan.

Log in and open your Membership Account. Under My Memberships, click Cancel next to your plan and confirm on the next page. See the step-by-step guide with pictures. If anything does not work, write to support@gobrightbusiness.com and we cancel it for you.

Yes. The monthly Bright Business Brain plan can be cancelled at any time from your Membership Account. Once it is cancelled, it does not renew.

No. We email you one week before your year renews, so you decide in time. You can cancel from your Membership Account before the renewal date.

Email support@gobrightbusiness.com within 90 days of your join date. The guarantee is for members who were active in their Club, followed the code of conduct, and it applies once, on your first membership. We refund your membership fee, minus the card processing fees, and your seat, Bright Business Brain and Member Hub access end with the refund. Full conditions: Membership Terms.

Log in and open your Membership Account. Next to your plan, choose Update Billing Info, enter the new card and save. If you do not see that link, send us a message from this page and we help you. Never send card numbers by email.

Log in and open your Membership Account. Under Past Invoices, click the date of a payment to open the invoice, then print it or save it as a PDF. See the guide.

Yes. Checkout runs on Stripe, the same payment system used by millions of businesses. Your card details go straight to Stripe and never touch our website.

No. Club membership is yearly, so the Club stays engaged and safe, without people jumping in and out. The Bright Business Brain plan is the monthly option.

Open your Membership Account and check Past Invoices first. If it still does not make sense, send us a message from this page with the date and the amount of the charge. Do not include your card number.

Most often the card expired or the bank declined the charge. Update your card in your Membership Account and try again. If it keeps failing, send us a message from this page and we look at it with you.

Go to the Log in page and use the email address and password you set when you joined. After you log in you land in your member area.

On the Log in page, click Lost Password?, enter your email address and follow the link we email you. Check your spam folder if it does not arrive in a few minutes. See the guide.

Log in and open your Membership Account. Under My Account, choose Edit Profile or Change Password.

Make sure you are logged in with the same email address you used to pay. If the page still says access is restricted, send us a technical message from this page with that email address, and we open it for you.

Log in first. The private community opens from the member menu: messages to fellow members, your Club group and the events we promote together. It is for members and Bright Business Brain subscribers.

The Bright Business Brain is the AI self-accountability program of Bright Business®, built on our own compounding formula. It keeps your strategy, your action plan and your next Leverage Move in one place, and tracks your BBOS Score and exit readiness between meetings. See the Bright Business Brain page.

Four steps, about ten minutes, once. 1) In Claude, make a project and name it Bright Business Brain. 2) Paste the setup line into the project's Instructions. 3) Add your Brain and your dashboard to the project's Context, as text. 4) Start a new chat and type activate. Everything you copy is on your Bright Business Brain setup page, with a picture for each step.

No. The Bright Business Brain works with any Claude plan, including the free one.

No. Your Bright Business Brain lives in your own Claude account and is private to you. The scorecards you choose to send to your hub use bands, trends and scores, never real dollar amounts.

Open your setup page, press Copy my Bright Business Brain, and add it again in your project's Context as text, named Bright Business Brain Activation. Then start a new chat and type activate.

Two quick swaps, then one word. Replace the project's Instructions with the short setup line, swap your Brain and your dashboard in the project's Context, then open a new chat and type upgrade. Nothing you built is lost. The steps are on your setup page.

Twice a month, before the 2nd-Tuesday check-in and the 4th-Thursday mastermind, ask your Bright Business Brain to generate your scorecard and send it to your hub. It takes about two minutes and it is your check-in for that session. We track progress.

Yes. The Bright Business Brain, and the Ask Bright Business Brain window on this website, are AI-powered and can make mistakes. For anything specific to your business, bring it to the 2nd-Tuesday check-in or book a Zoom call.

Each monthly meeting follows one topic/process from the yearly calendar. A guest speaker opens the topic/process, then the Club works on it in the Decision Room: a volunteer takes the Challenge Seat and brings one real decision. Everyone leaves with take-home steps, and we track progress at the next meeting.

In your welcome email and in your Member Hub. The 2nd-Tuesday check-in and the 4th-Thursday mastermind each keep the same link every month.

Two online sessions between Club meetings. The check-in is on the 2nd Tuesday at 9:00 AM Pacific, for members and Bright Business Brain subscribers: progress tracking and Q&A. Bright Business Discovery, open to everyone, follows at 9:30 AM. The mastermind is on the 4th Thursday, one hour online, for Club members: scorecards and live challenges.

Life happens. Join the 2nd-Tuesday check-in or the 4th-Thursday mastermind online to catch up. Being active is what makes the Club work, so three meetings missed in a row suspend the membership and the seat goes to an active member. You can still come as a guest.

Open the Come Ready page before you come. It carries the meeting card for the month: the agenda, the topic/process, the questions to think about and what to bring.

All dates are on the calendar. You can also subscribe to monthly meeting updates so every meeting lands in your own calendar.

No. Members talk about growth and challenges, not private figures. Scorecards use bands, trends and scores only.

Apply on the Guest Speaker Guide. Talks run up to 30 minutes including Q&A, follow the topic/process of the month and end with one strong takeaway. Members get priority for speaking slots.

Book a 30-minute recorded interview from the Bright Business Talks page. Talks are open to any business expert, not only members. Good lighting, a decent microphone and earphones are the only requirements.

Banks, law firms, accounting firms and other organizations sponsor a Club to support growth-driven business owners in San Diego, Orange County and online. See the Sponsors page, or book a Zoom call.

Yes. Experts, owners and organizations can open a Club with a Club license and lead it, in person or online. See Lead a Club. Details are shared on a one-on-one call.

Everything shared in the Club stays in the Club. Every member agrees to the Confidentiality Pledge, the Code of Ethics and the Non-Disclosure Agreement.

No. Members say what they offer, but nobody pushes sales in the Club. Any work with an expert is agreed between you and that expert.

No. Bright Business® supports and gives no advice. Members keep their own decisions and do their own due diligence. Experts give quality input, and any one-on-one work is up to you.

Three ways: send a message from this page or email support@gobrightbusiness.com, book a Zoom call, or join the 2nd-Tuesday online session and bring your question.