AI for the real economy
Helping small businesses put powerful tools to work.
Canada's long-term prosperity hinges on productivity in the real economy: the doctors, contractors, restaurants, retailers, and service providers who keep our communities running.
Powerful AI tools are available to businesses of every size, but most haven't adopted them. The gap between what's possible and what's actually happening grows every month.
Main Street Productive exists to close that gap. We're a BC Benefit Company helping the Okanagan's small businesses and professionals put AI to work—so they can earn more and serve their customers better.
When local businesses thrive, our community gets better services at better prices, and local technologists get a market to build for. Any returns from our local work are reinvested in building Kelowna's AI and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
This is our mission: making Main Street productive.
What's Coming
Events & Office Hours
Free sessions connecting local technologists and small business owners to cut through the noise and figure out what AI can actually do for them.
Recommended AI Stacks
Curated toolsets and implementation guides for key Kelowna industries, free to self-install. White-glove setup assistance available. Starting with healthcare.
AI as a Managed Service
For solutions that just work out of the box, we handle the setup and ongoing management. Starting with voice agents for trades businesses.
Details and scheduling coming soon.
MAIA
MAIA is an AI business coaching tool delivered via WhatsApp. It's the most widely used AI-powered entrepreneurial training tool in emerging markets, with implementations across Latin America and Africa.
A white-labeled version, SABY, provides post-training support for the ILO's Start and Improve Your Business—the world's largest entrepreneurial training program.
Bailey Klinger
Main Street Productive is led by Bailey Klinger. Bailey holds a PhD from Harvard, where his research focused on economic growth and small business development. He's spent the last two decades building tools and social enterprises around the world that help small businesses thrive.
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