It typically takes 5-7 weeks from contract signing to your first live event. The first week focuses on onboarding. We work with you to sharpen your ideal client persona and validate that there's a large enough audience on LinkedIn to sustain multi-year growth. The next 4-6 weeks are spent on first-wave recruitment, including outreach messages, emails, and all materials needed to invite the right people to your kickoff event.

We built this playbook so you only handle the parts that truly require your voice. Your involvement is one monthly one-hour session plus any one-on-one conversations you choose to have with participants. We manage all outreach, facilitation planning, and follow-up under your brand, so everything stays personal and consistent while we handle more than 90% of the operational work.

When you join a generic networking group, you're hoping the right people show up, but you have no control over who's in the room. With Bridgio, you build your own community. You decide who gets invited based on your exact ideal client persona. You control the relationships. You spend your time with people who fit your ICP, and you build real social capital around your brand. This model lets you combine connection with business outcomes in a way traditional networking never could.

During discovery, we validate your audience before you commit. We run searches on LinkedIn and other platforms to confirm there are several thousand reachable contacts who match your ideal client persona. If your ICP isn't active on LinkedIn, we can also work from qualified lead lists or email databases if you have those available. The goal is to ensure there's enough volume to grow the community in a steady, predictable way. If we can't find sufficient reach, we'll tell you upfront. This model won't work for every business, and we'd rather identify that early.

You'll see your first qualified 20-minute meetings within the first month. The way we frame these is as "get to know you" conversations where you focus on the challenges your ideal clients are facing. This helps you develop deep knowledge about the problems you're solving within the broader constellation of challenges your persona faces.

Each community is different. Some clients are thrilled with a few high-quality meetings per month, while others are looking for volume. Most clients schedule 3-8 qualified meetings per month after the first quarter. The predictability and consistency of your pipeline is what sets this apart from traditional marketing. Both YMeadows and Centercode reported steady, reliable top-of-funnel conversions from their communities.

This concern usually comes from a scarcity mindset. When you assume others will take from you, you naturally pull back and miss the perspective that makes these communities valuable. If you enter with that mindset, you won't get much out of the group.

The truth is that people evolve faster when they learn from peers. Humans have always grown through circles of shared ideas, and our communities follow that same pattern. Most people are too busy or not invested enough to copy your ideas. And our conversations are usually about leadership, tools, and operations, these are common challenges, not trade secrets.

We also don't allow notetakers in sessions. This creates an environment where people can have authentic conversations without worrying about being recorded or quoted. The focus is on connection and peer learning, not content extraction.

What we've seen is that the people who get the most value focus on self-improvement, not protection. When you show up with an open mindset, you get better ideas, stronger relationships, and faster growth.

Pricing is customized based on your community size, event frequency, and business goals. We start with a free consultation to assess fit and design the right package for your needs. During that call, we'll provide transparent pricing tailored to your specific situation.