About SMB

We help grow small businesses

Maybe it’s a corner bakery with four employees, where a kid named Danny just started his first job. Maybe it’s a machine shop with 300 people adding a second shift. Together, businesses like yours make up 43.5% of U.S. GDP.

Big companies have whole departments watching the full picture. Most small businesses have a few people, a dozen spreadsheets and the owner’s late nights.

So we built SMB: your whole business in one live place. Your numbers and tools, your team, your community, and what it’s all worth.

  • Catering began+$24K
  • Lease renewed+$9K
  • Books reconciled+$5K

From there, we help you take the best next step and handle the little things that are hard to find time for. We bring your team together with anyone you trust: your accountant, your lender, the chamber, even the next owner when you’re ready.

We’re owners too. We’ve started, bought and sold businesses of our own, and we’re still up late, taking it one step at a time, thankful for every hand.

Joe Brown
Joe BrownCofounder & CEO

Serial entrepreneur. Founded Nucode (acquired 2022). Still holds the assets of a business he didn’t know he could sell.

Mike Hillenmeyer
Mike HillenmeyerCofounder & COO

Mike has spent nearly 20 years building the payment, payroll and insurance tools small businesses run on, at Vantiv (now Worldpay), Paycor and Coterie. He’s also a published novelist.

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Mike and Joe

Mike Hillenmeyer & Joe Brown, cofounders

Our team has helped build

  • NucodeAcquired
  • Roadtrippers
  • Pyramid Hotel Group
  • WorldpayFormerly Vantiv
  • Paycor
  • Coterie

A community grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Our version of an old saying