Main Street isn’t for sale to the highest bidder.

Every week, three or four bookstores, diners, flight schools, and weekly newspapers in this country quietly close — not because nobody wanted them, but because the ownership transition got handed to the wrong people. A retiring owner with no successor. A landlord with a better offer. A hedge fund with a roll-up strategy.

Meanwhile thousands of people who’d gladly chip in $200 to keep that bookstore alive don’t know each other and have no way to coordinate.

Keepitor is the coordination layer. We surface the businesses worth saving, we let neighbors pledge with a $1 refundable hold, and once enough people show up we hand the warm pledger list to a registered funding portal — Wefunder, Republic, or StartEngine — that does the actual securities offering.

We don’t take investment money. We’re not a broker-dealer. We’re a way to find each other before it’s too late.

Keepitor is not a broker-dealer, funding portal, or investment adviser. We are not registered with the SEC or FINRA in any of those capacities, and we don’t need to be — because we don’t do those things.

Pledges on Keepitor are non-binding indications of interest. They are not securities purchases. They are not contracts to buy. The $1 Stripe hold is a refundable platform service fee.

Any actual securities offering — whether under Reg CF, Reg A, Reg D, or otherwise — is conducted by a registered intermediary after the campaign is handed off. That intermediary handles the subscription agreement, the escrow, the share issuance, and every regulated step.

Read the Pledge Agreement for the specifics.