Pre-launch · LLC formation in Massachusetts

Structured business strengthening for U.S. microenterprises.

AG Empower Business Solutions LLC will deliver rigorous diagnosis, auditable metrics, structured business plans and document traceability to competitive capital - through SIDOME™, an Integrated System for Diagnosis, Optimization and Business Mentoring. Boston, Massachusetts.

StrengthenVulnerable microenterprises, structurally
StructureTheir operation under professional principles
ScaleOperating capacity past year five

Status disclosure - AG Empower Business Solutions LLC has not yet been incorporated. Every operational figure on this site is a projection from the business plan, calculated under stated methodology and sensitivity bands, not a record of past results. Federal statistics are cited to their published source.

The problem

A national economic engine with a structural failure rate.

Small businesses are the structural engine of the U.S. economy - and roughly half of them close before their fifth year. The federal and state support architecture exists. The capacity of a microenterprise to actually absorb it does not.

0Small businesses in the United States - 99.9% of all U.S. firmsSBA Office of Advocacy, 2024
0%Close within five years of openingBLS, Business Employment Dynamics, 2025
0%Of U.S. private-sector employmentSBA Office of Advocacy, 2024
0%Of U.S. Gross Domestic ProductSBA Office of Advocacy, 2024

The absorption gap

The Small Business Administration, the Small Business Development Center network, Treasury-certified CDFIs and state economic-development agencies make capital and technical assistance available every year. Microenterprises with fewer than twenty employees, emerging cooperatives and first-generation entrepreneurs routinely cannot convert that availability into an approved application: they lack organized financials, a defensible business plan, auditable indicators and document traceability.

What AG Empower does about it

AG Empower does not replace public programs and does not compete with them. It raises the effective absorption capacity of those programs by the businesses they were designed to serve - the measurable difference between a program that is available and a program that is used. Its four service lines share one methodology and one traceability core, so a client that enters through training can be measured, structured and taken to a competitive application without changing systems.

What we do

Four service lines, one methodology.

Each line stands on its own and feeds the next. Pricing below is referential, as filed in the business plan; Year 5 volumes are projections under the base sensitivity band.

Line 1

SIDOME™ SaaS

Recurring business-diagnosis platform: structured financial reporting, liquidity, solvency, profitability and stability indicators, and sector benchmarks. Bilingual from launch.

ModelMonthly subscription
Referential priceUSD 49-149 / mo
Year 5 (projected)280 subscribers
Line 2

Structured business plan consulting

Project engagements that produce a financeable business plan under Small Business Development Center professional standards, with cooperative validation elements.

ModelFlat-fee project
Referential priceUSD 1,800-4,500
Year 5 (projected)40 engagements / year
Line 3

Cohort training programs

Hybrid programs in English and Spanish, delivered as quarterly cohorts scaling from the first cohort in Year 1 to five cohorts a year by Year 4 onward, 15-20 participants per cohort, twelve weeks, built on the same diagnostic instruments the platform uses.

ModelScaling cohort (4-5/yr)
Referential priceUSD 850 / participant
Year 5 (projected)110 participants / year
Line 4

Grant & competitive financing preparation

Document preparation for public and private grants and for CDFI and microcredit applications - the line with the founder's most direct documented antecedent.

ModelProject + success fee
Referential priceUSD 1,200-3,500
Year 5 (projected)55 engagements / year

Technological core

SIDOME™ - the traceability core.

SIDOME is the methodological and technological core of the endeavor: a responsive web platform, English and Spanish from launch, whose technical design is governed by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and whose cloud infrastructure is specified to be compatible with SOC 2 Type II, because it handles sensitive client financial information.

Development status. SIDOME is specified in the business plan and scheduled for build during Year 1. It is not yet in production; no client data is being processed today.

Six integrated modules

  • Structured financial reporting with internal consistency validation
  • Automatic liquidity, solvency, profitability and operational-stability indicators
  • Temporal dashboard with sector benchmarks calibrated on U.S. Census Bureau Statistics of U.S. Businesses
  • Personalized training module tied to the diagnosis
  • Traceable progress history with auditable metrics
  • External connection module: CDFIs, SBA programs, state grants and community mentorship

Product simulation

Walk through SIDOME, module by module.

The business plan specifies SIDOME as six integrated functional modules, M1 through M6 (Chapter 4, Section 4.2). The interactive walkthrough below follows a fictitious sample client through all six, in the exact order and with the exact module names and functions filed in the plan.

Interactive demo, illustrative only. This is a simulation, not a live product screenshot. SIDOME is specified in the business plan and scheduled for build during Year 1; it is not yet built, and no client data is processed here or anywhere today. The example client below, Sample Bakery LLC, is fictitious and used only to illustrate what each module does.
Module M1

Structured Record

Sample Bakery LLC submits its raw financial information. SIDOME organizes it into a structured record and validates internal consistency before any downstream module runs, with a QuickBooks integration path as specified in the plan.

Illustrative interface, not a live screenshot
RevenueOK
Operating expensesOK
AssetsOK
LiabilitiesOK
QuickBooks integration path (illustrative)
Business plan, Chapter 4, Section 4.2
Module M2

Indicator Engine

From the structured record, SIDOME automatically computes liquidity, solvency, profitability and operational-stability indicators for Sample Bakery LLC, the four indicator families specified in the plan.

Illustrative interface, not a live screenshot
Liquidity
Solvency
Profitability
Operational stability
Business plan, Chapter 4, Section 4.2
Module M3

Visual Dashboard

The four indicators are placed on a temporal dashboard against sector benchmarks calibrated on U.S. Census Bureau Statistics of U.S. Businesses data, so Sample Bakery LLC can see where it stands relative to its sector.

Illustrative interface, placeholder values, not measured data
Sample Bakery LLC Sector benchmark

Liquidity

1.1x
1.8x
Flagged for training

Quarterly trend

Solvency

1.6x
1.4x
Above benchmark

Quarterly trend

Profitability

6.4%
7.1%
Near benchmark

Quarterly trend

Operational stability

34%
29%
Above benchmark

Quarterly trend

Benchmark methodology: sector calibration per business plan, Chapter 4, Section 4.2
Business plan, Chapter 4, Section 4.2
Module M4

Personalized Training

Where the dashboard flags a weaker indicator, SIDOME assigns contextual training content, with an integration path to the U.S. Small Business Administration Learning Platform, so the recommendation is tied directly to the diagnosis.

Illustrative interface, not a live screenshot
  • Cash-flow management (SBA Learning Platform)
  • Pricing strategy
  • Business-plan structuring
Business plan, Chapter 4, Section 4.2; U.S. Small Business Administration Learning Platform
Module M5

Traceable History

Every diagnosis, indicator run and training assignment is kept as an auditable, time-stamped record, so a client such as Sample Bakery LLC accumulates a documented history it can later use as an evidence base for a grant application.

Illustrative interface, not a live screenshot
1Initial diagnosis recorded
2Improvement plan issued
3Monthly review logged
Business plan, Chapter 4, Section 4.2
Module M6

External Connection

With a documented history in hand, SIDOME points Sample Bakery LLC toward the external programs specified in the plan: CDFIs, SBA programs, Grants.gov and state programs, closing the loop from diagnosis to referral.

Illustrative interface, not a live screenshot
CDFIs SBA programs Grants.gov State programs
Business plan, Chapter 4, Section 4.2

This closes the six-module cycle specified for SIDOME. Once SIDOME is built and in production, this cycle will feed the recurring-operation stage of Line 1, monthly reviews, described in Chapter 4 of the business plan.

Step 1 of 6

National reach

One methodology, proven across three different regulatory regimes.

The compliance-tracking logic behind SIDOME is not calibrated to Massachusetts alone. Each region below is evidenced independently on the same four verifiable supports: share of state small-business employment, establishment churn, the region's own regulatory instrument, and its SBDC or institutional network.

Execution launches from a single headquarters in Boston. Texas and Illinois are not committed operations - they show that the underlying methodology does not depend on any one state's regulatory architecture. The founder's own post-Year-5 expansion path, documented in the business plan, is New England (Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire) during Years 6-10.

Operational base

Northeast - Massachusetts

  1. Small-business employment1.5 million small-business workers in Massachusetts, 2022.
  2. Establishment churnDeveloped in the plan's market study, Chapter 3 (Section 3.9, Market Growth Analysis).
  3. Regulatory instrumentMassachusetts SUTA, Paid Family and Medical Leave, Earned Sick Time, Equal Pay Act.
  4. SBDC / institutional networkMassachusetts SBDC Network, SBA cooperative agreement, 2025.
Multi-region comparator

South Central - Texas

  1. Small-business employment3.5 million small businesses, 99.8% of state firms; 5.1M employees, 44.4% of state employment.
  2. Establishment churn86,385 establishments opened / 78,648 closed, Mar 2023-Mar 2024 (net +7,737).
  3. Regulatory instrumentNo state income tax; franchise-tax LLC regime; USD 7.25 federal minimum wage floor.
  4. SBDC / institutional networkUTSA-hosted SBDC - the same institution that issued the founder's 2014 SBDC Diploma.
Multi-region comparator

Midwest - Illinois

  1. Small-business employment1.4 million small businesses, 99.6% of state firms; 2.4M employees, 43.7% of state employment.
  2. Establishment churn35,143 establishments opened / 34,914 closed, Mar 2023-Mar 2024 (net +229).
  3. Regulatory instrumentUSD 15.00 minimum wage from January 2026; 4.95% flat state income tax.
  4. SBDC / institutional networkIllinois SBDC network, DCEO-administered funding.

Projected impact

Modeled conservatively, on federal methodology.

Employment and economic figures below apply the official Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II) multipliers of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis to the Professional Services sector in Massachusetts, confined to the Phase 1 region. They are projections at the close of Year 5 under the base sensitivity band - not results already achieved.

Five-year revenue ramp

Base sensitivity band · Massachusetts Phase 1 · USD

600K450K300K150K0 Year 1 - USD 65,850 (projected) Year 2 - USD 209,500 (projected) Year 3 - USD 378,250 (projected) Year 4 - USD 511,150 (projected) Year 5 - USD 589,500 (projected) $66K$210K$378K$511K$590K Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5
Source: business plan, Chapter 6 (P&L, cash flow and breakeven), base band. Conservative and high bands are filed in the plan.

Year 5 employment, RIMS II composition

Full-time equivalents · Massachusetts Phase 1

Direct (E-Verify hires) Indirect (multiplier) Induced (multiplier)
Direct - 4.0 FTE (44.4% of total) Indirect - 2.3 FTE (25.6% of total) Induced - 2.7 FTE (30.0% of total) 4.0 2.3 2.7 DirectIndirectInduced 9.0 FTE total aggregate employment at Year 5
Source: BEA RIMS II multipliers, Professional Services, Massachusetts, applied in Chapter 7 of the business plan. Approximately 56 additional jobs are estimated as preserved within client firms.
$0Cumulative regional output over five yearsProjection · BEA RIMS II
$0Cumulative regional earnings over five yearsProjection · BEA RIMS II
$0Cumulative federal and state fiscal flowsProjection · business plan, Chapter 7
0Entrepreneurs trained over five years (280 platform subscribers at Year 5)Projection · business plan, Chapters 5-6

The founder

Fifteen years in one domain: strengthening small businesses.

Andrés Felipe Gil Gallego, Founder and Strategic Director
Andrés Felipe Gil Gallego Founder and Strategic Director · Business Administrator · Professional Card T.P. 117876 (Colombia) · Greater Boston, Massachusetts

I have spent fifteen continuous years in the nuclear domain of this endeavor - first in Colombia, and since 2022 in the United States - across six formally certified positions: six years with the Entrepreneurship and Business Development Unit of the University of Medellín; two years as Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Corporación Universitaria Americana; and two years and nine months as Transversal Professional of the Seed Capital Contest of the Mayor's Office of Medellín, preparing ventures for competitive public grants.

In Boston since 2022 I am member-owner and Strategic Director of Sazón Coop LLC - a cooperative LLC with a filed Certificate of Organization, an EIN and direct IRS partnership compliance - and a member of the Technical Support Group of the Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity. In 2024 I was engaged as a paid Guest Presenter in the Economics 4 Emancipation program of the Center for Economic Democracy.

Credentials

Business AdministratorUniversity of Medellín, Degree Act 13262 of November 15, 2007
SBDC DiplomaInstitute for Economic Development, University of Texas at San Antonio, October 2014
Internal Auditor, ISO 9001:2015ICONTEC International, June 2016
Cooperative Institutes I and IICCDS Boston, 44 certified hours, 2022-2023

Verifiable record

  • Competitive grant of USD 13,491 obtained by Sazón Coop LLC before the Boston Impact Initiative and COWOP, 2024
  • Two institutional recognitions from the City of Boston - Latinx leadership (2022) and cooperative ecosystem (2023)
  • Prototype technically approved by Boston Public Schools
  • Independent professional validation from the University of Medellín, ZONI Language Centers and the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, a Treasury-certified national CDFI
2007

Business Administrator - University of Medellín

Degree Act 13262 of November 15, 2007. Professional Card T.P. 117876 granted by Resolution 03 of January 28, 2019.

2009-2015

Entrepreneurship and Business Development Unit - University of Medellín

Six years of continuous service: direct technical advice to students and entrepreneurs, business plans under formal methodologies, technical and financial evaluation of productive projects, and accompaniment to public and private financing calls. In October 2014, SBDC Diploma from the Institute for Economic Development, University of Texas at San Antonio.

2015-2017

Director, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Corporación Universitaria Americana

Managerial responsibility over the institutional business-strengthening unit, curricular design of the entrepreneurship program and personal training of more than one hundred entrepreneurs. Internal Auditor certification in ISO 9001:2015, ICONTEC International, June 2016.

2018-2021

Transversal Professional, Seed Capital Contest - Mayor's Office of Medellín

Two years and nine months with Escala Consciencia & Negocios BIC SAS, preparing Colombian ventures documentarily for competitive public grants - the direct, verifiable antecedent of Line 4.

2022

Boston, Massachusetts - Sazón Coop LLC and CCDS

Member-owner and Strategic Director of Sazón Coop LLC, a cooperative LLC operating in Boston with filed Certificate of Organization, EIN and direct IRS partnership compliance. Member of the CCDS Technical Support Group; Cooperative Institutes I and II, 44 certified hours (2022-2023). City of Boston recognition for Latinx leadership (2022) and for the cooperative ecosystem (2023).

2024

Verifiable U.S. grant record and professional validation

Competitive grant of USD 13,491 obtained by Sazón Coop LLC before the Boston Impact Initiative and COWOP. Paid Guest Presenter, Economics 4 Emancipation program, Center for Economic Democracy (August 2024). Professional collaboration with the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, a Treasury-certified national CDFI.

The 90-day Pilot Plan

Ninety days, three phases, five gates - before any scale-up.

The business plan articulates a 90-day operational start-up window that validates the model under real conditions before Year 1's full ramp-up: three sequential four-week phases, 18 verifiable critical milestones, a consolidated budget of USD 82,990, and five quantitative scaling triggers evaluated at the close of day 90.

This is a plan, not traction. Nothing below has been executed. The sequence begins at pilot launch; every milestone, budget and trigger is filed in Chapter 11 of the business plan as a forward commitment, not a past result.
0Days from pilot start to the scale-up decisionBusiness plan, Chapter 11
0Verifiable critical milestones across three phasesBusiness plan, Chapter 11
$0Consolidated pilot budget - 59.9% of the initial base band investmentBusiness plan, Chapter 11
0Quantitative scaling triggers evaluated at day 90Business plan, Chapter 11
A
Weeks 1-4 Legal constitution
  • W1 - LLC incorporation via Certificate of Organization with the Secretary of the Commonwealth; Resident Agent; EIN; business bank account
  • W2 - USPTO filing of the AG EMPOWER (Class 35) and SIDOME (Class 42) trademarks via TEAS
  • W3 - Corporate website, EN/ES bilingual content, HubSpot Free CRM integration
  • W4 - Insurance (E&O USD 1M, GL USD 2M, Cyber USD 500K); WISP documentation per M.G.L. c. 93H; legal-framework contracts
Phase A budgetUSD 18,300
B
Weeks 5-8 Operational capabilities
  • W5 - Contractor kickoff; OpenAPI 3.0 technical specifications
  • W6 - SIDOME backend (Node.js + PostgreSQL, OAuth 2.0 + MFA); multi-AZ cloud; AES-256/TLS 1.3; NIST CSF 2.0 documentation
  • W7 - SIDOME frontend (React PWA, EN/ES, WCAG 2.1 AA); six M1-M6 modules with basic functionality; QuickBooks API
  • W8 - External pre-launch security audit per NIST CSF 2.0; outreach to 30 pre-qualified pilot microenterprises via LEAF, CCDS and MSBDC; bilingual training materials
Phase B budgetUSD 48,200
C
Weeks 9-12 Commercial release
  • W9 - SIDOME soft launch: 10 pilot microenterprises, 30-day free trial, embedded NPS feedback loop
  • W10 - First two Line 2 pilot engagements at reduced pricing (USD 1,500 vs. USD 2,800 base); first Line 4 pilot engagement
  • W11 - First Line 3 cohort: 12-15 participants at reduced pilot pricing (USD 450 vs. USD 850 base)
  • W12 - Consolidation of pilot metrics; evaluation of the five scaling triggers; documented Year 1 ramp-up decision; pilot executive report
Phase C budgetUSD 16,490

Five scaling triggers - the Go / No-Go gates of day 90

At the close of day 90, the Year 1 ramp-up decision rests exclusively on five verifiable triggers. Each is a planned threshold, not a result.

T1SIDOME adoption

At least 10 active subscribers by week 12

T2Line 2 closed

At least 2 engagements contractually closed

T3Line 3 enrolled

At least 12 participants in the first cohort

T4Line 4 active

At least 1 engagement with a grant proposal submitted

T5Minimum NPS

Pilot NPS of at least 40 with an active detractor-recovery process

4-5 triggers met · GoNormal Year 1 ramp-up

Full ramp-up per the business plan's operational chapter, with SBA Microloan activation as filed.

2-3 triggers met · RecalibrateRecalibration with a documented Plan B

Pricing review, acquisition-channel intensification and prioritized SIDOME functional reinforcement; the Year 2 staggered timeline shifts to Q3.

0-1 triggers met · PauseStrategic pause and honest re-evaluation

A 30-45 day strategic pause with in-depth market analysis and an honest evaluation of continuity versus structural recalibration - documented explicitly for evidentiary rigor.

Planned target · qualified leads ≥ 80 Planned target · discovery calls ≥ 40 Planned target · pilot conversion ≥ 12% Planned target · platform uptime ≥ 99.5% Planned target · 90-day cumulative revenue ≥ USD 9,000 Planned target · at least 2 signed MOUs (LEAF, CCDS, MSBDC, CED candidates)

Source: business plan, Chapter 11 - 90-Day Pilot Plan (phases, budgets, triggers, operational metrics and contingency scenarios). E-Verify enrollment accompanies the first hires in Year 2.

Contact

Let's talk about your business.

Microenterprises, emerging cooperatives, community organizations and institutional partners in the Greater Boston area are welcome to write. Correspondence in English or Spanish.

Email

afgil1983@gmail.com

Location

Greater Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Sources

Every statistic on this page, traced to its publisher.

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