Common Goods: From Morning Walk to Mass Movement

A Note From Us

Hello!

What started as a wishful morning walk has turned into something incredible. In just one week, we've seen:

🍁 3,500+ Canadian shoppers join our waitlist

🇨🇦 175 fine Canadian brands apply to launch

🌟 Overwhelming support for our mission to fix product discovery

Your response has made one thing clear: we're not alone in wanting a better way to connect great Canadian brands with Canadian customers.

What's Happening Now

We're targeting launch right before the pause on tariffs is set to expire. Between now and then we're:

📝 Building our suggestion box for community feature requests

🚀 Onboarding our founding brands

🧪 Testing the beta platform with early users

🔍 Enriching search so you can shop local, sustainable, etc.

🤝 Growing our founding team (you'll meet them soon!)

For Brands Who've Applied

Thank you for your applications! We'll be reaching out personally next week to qualified brands to begin the onboarding process. Our initial launch will focus on brands with established online stores to ensure a smooth customer experience from day one.

Help Shape Common Goods

We're building our core team and welcome strategic collaborators.

Currently Hiring (all roles are part-time, remote):

  • Full-Stack Developer
  • Customer Success
  • Brand Partnerships
  • Social Media Content
  • Brand Research

JOIN COMMON GOODS' FOUNDING TEAM

We welcome applications from across Canada.
Apply Here

Other Roles

We're also looking for strategic advisors in PR, brand building, and operations. If you or someone in your network could help accelerate our mission, please reach out to val@commongoods.ca

Investment Update

Many of you have asked about investing in Common Goods. While our mission does not align with traditional venture capital, we've decided to open a small angel round for members of our community. To accelerate our launch timeline, we're raising startup capital primarily through revenue sharing agreements - providing returns through a percentage of future revenue rather than equity. This lets us move quickly while maintaining independence.

We're also open to exploring strategic partnerships with angels who can add significant value beyond capital.

If you're interested in learning more:

INVEST IN COMMON GOODS

Complete our short expression of interest form and we'll be in touch
Investor Form

Thank You

This wouldn't be possible without your support. Every share, every brand recommendation, every piece of feedback helps build something that Canadian brands and shoppers desperately need.

Speaking of recommendations - if you know amazing Canadian brands that should be part of our founding group, we'd love warm introductions. The best brands often come through community referrals.

More updates coming soon,
Val Crisp
Founder, Common Goods

P.S. Watch for our upcoming content series "Incredible Canadian Brands You've Never Heard Of" - we're exposing how big tech keeps hiding these gems from you.

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