When you hire a digital agency, you get digital services. When you work with Delegate Digital, you plug into a 13-entity ecosystem that spans media production, real estate development, education, technology, food service, and community development. This is not a marketing pitch. It is a structural advantage that no standalone agency can replicate.
The Black Hills Consortium is a 501(c)(6) organization that coordinates 13 interconnected entities in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Each entity operates independently with its own revenue model, team, and customers. But they share infrastructure, cross-refer clients, and create compounding value for everyone in the network.
Here is how that works in practice for a Delegate Digital client.
A local contractor hires Delegate Digital for a website redesign and CRM setup. During the discovery session, we learn they also need video content for their portfolio, training for their office staff on the new CRM, and they are looking for commercial space for a new office. In a traditional agency relationship, those needs go unaddressed or the client has to find separate vendors for each one.
In the BHC ecosystem, we connect them to Outpost Media for professional video production. Seed Academy provides customized CRM training for their team. Pass Creek Real Estate helps them find commercial space on or near the Grow Campus. THE OP becomes their go-to spot for client meetings over coffee. Each connection creates value for the client and revenue for the ecosystem.
This flywheel effect is the core innovation of the Black Hills Consortium. Revenue generated by one entity creates demand for services from other entities. A business that gets a great website from Delegate Digital needs content to put on it, which creates demand for Outpost Media. That content drives traffic to their social media, which creates demand for Delegate Digital's social media management service. More visibility attracts new employees, who need housing from Pass Creek and want the lifestyle that Settle the West promotes.
The financial model is equally interconnected. GrowWise, the cannabis technology platform, generates the majority of the consortium's revenue. A 7 percent perpetual equity allocation from GrowWise funds Auric Labs, the cannabis tech accelerator. Another 7 percent funds Seed Foundation, which supports education and workforce development. The remaining 7 percent goes to BHC itself for consortium-level operations and coordination.
For Delegate Digital clients, the practical benefit is simple: we can solve problems that a normal agency cannot. Need a mobile app built? We do that. Need video content? Outpost Media. Need your team trained on new tools? Seed Academy. Need to attract remote workers to your area? Settle the West. Need a space for your next company retreat? Grow Campus has 15 acres.
The 40+ warm leads we already have come from coloring book businesses we identified during market research. These are small businesses with digital needs that align perfectly with our service offerings — websites, social media, digital products, and automation workflows. Each one is a potential entry point into the full ecosystem.
The lesson is straightforward. A single entity, no matter how good, has a ceiling. An ecosystem of 13 entities, each reinforcing the others, has a compounding growth curve that accelerates over time. Delegate Digital is the digital front door to that ecosystem, and every client who walks through it gains access to capabilities that would cost millions to assemble independently.
That is the ecosystem advantage. And it is available to every business in the Black Hills.