Social media calendar for local Milwaukee businesses

AI plans your marketing.
You keep the creative soul.

Your customers follow your neighborhood restaurant because it feels like your neighborhood restaurant — not a chain, not a template, not AI slop. LocalPost plans your month and writes every post brief. You (or anyone with basic Canva skills) make it look like you.

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The positioning

Most AI marketing tools make your feed look like everyone else's.

The AI-slop backlash is real. Stock-looking images, generic captions, and paint-by-numbers content are exactly what makes a local business feel like a chain. For restaurants, bars, salons, and shops, authenticity is the whole moat — so we built the opposite.

What the AI tools do
Auto-generate everything
  • Stock AI-generated images you've seen on ten other accounts
  • Generic captions with emoji overload
  • No sense of your neighborhood, your team, or your voice
  • Your feed starts looking like a Canva template, not your business
  • Customers can tell. Engagement drops.
What LocalPost does
Plan, brief, hand back to you
  • AI plans your calendar around your real events, closed days, and local Milwaukee happenings
  • Writes specific creative briefs — "Murray Ave patio at golden hour, fish fry banner"
  • You finish the design in Canva (10 minutes, you already know how)
  • Your feed still looks like yours. Because it is.
  • Human feel at AI speed.
How it works

Plan, brief, finish. In that order.

We handle the two parts of marketing no one wants to do: planning the month and figuring out what to post. You keep the part that matters — actually making it yours.

Us
01
AI plans your month
Describe a campaign — "graduation catering push May + June" — and LocalPost drops 12 posts into your calendar, timed around Summerfest, Fish Fry Fridays, your closed days, and national food holidays you'd otherwise miss.
Us
02
Every post gets a brief
Each calendar entry includes a ready-to-post caption in your voice and a specific design brief. Not a vague prompt — a "design this, in these colors, this format, this mood" brief you can execute in Canva.
You
03
You make it yours
Open Canva, follow the brief, upload your photo or pick the right font. Attach the graphic to the post, mark it scheduled, move on. Your feed stays on-brand because you still drew the last line.
What's in the product

Built for the way local businesses actually post.

AI campaign generator
Describe a campaign idea — LocalPost creates a 3–16 post arc with dates, captions, and design briefs, tailored to your brand voice and goals.
Recurring weekly posts
Fish Fry Fridays. Taco Tuesday. Happy hour reminders. Set once, plans every week automatically.
Milwaukee event awareness
Summerfest, Irish Fest, Brewers home games, Bastille Days, State Fair — we know what's happening in town so your posts can ride the wave.
Closed-day intelligence
Tell us which days you're closed. AI avoids scheduling on those days. The calendar warns if you try to.
Team assignment
Split posts across your team — designer, video person, catering lead. Everyone sees what's theirs this week.
Attach your graphic
Once you've made the post in Canva, upload it directly to the calendar entry so the finished creative lives next to the caption.
Coming in v1.1 · next 30 days
Auto-composed designs

AI assembles on-brand social posts from your photo library and your branded templates — not generic DALL-E output. The result looks human because the raw materials are yours. One click opens the final composition in Canva to tweak or approve.

  • Upload a photo library once — AI tags every image by scene, subject, and mood
  • Branded templates per post type (promo, event, weekly anchor, etc.)
  • Auto-matches the right photo + template to every brief we generate
  • "Open in Canva" escape hatch for every post, with your brand kit pre-applied
Pricing

Two ways to run your marketing.

Do it yourself with the briefs and calendar — or hand us the design work. Both plans come with a 14-day free trial.

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LOCALPOST
You finish the design in Canva.
$99
/ month
Card on file. Not charged until day 15. Cancel anytime.
  • Unlimited AI campaign generations
  • Unlimited posts, locations, team members
  • Milwaukee local event library included
  • Recurring weekly posts
  • Ready-to-execute Canva-ready design briefs
  • Graphic uploads on every post
  • Self-serve billing portal, cancel anytime
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No setup fees. No annual lock-in.
Done for you
14-day free trial
CONCIERGE
We handle the design for you.
$249
/ month
For owners who want the feed handled without the Canva time.
  • Everything in LocalPost, plus:
  • We design, you approve
  • Up to 12 custom post graphics / month
  • 1 revision round per design included
  • 3-day turnaround on new briefs
  • We set up your Canva brand kit once — reused on every design
  • Graphics delivered straight to your calendar, ready to post
  • Direct line to your designer via email
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Additional graphics beyond 12: $15 each. Additional revisions: $10 each.
Answers

Things people ask.

Do you generate the images for me?
Today, v1 ships with briefs + captions + smart photo suggestions from your library — you finish each post in Canva. Auto-composed designs are landing in v1.1 (next 30 days). What we're not doing: generating synthetic DALL-E-style images that look like every other AI feed. Our approach composes on-brand posts from your real photos and branded templates, so the output stays authentic. You still get a one-click "Open in Canva" escape hatch on every design.
I don't know Canva. Is this still for me?
Two options. If you've ever edited a Google Doc, you can learn Canva in a weekend — we give you a specific brief every time, so you're not designing from scratch. If you'd rather not design at all, pick the Concierge plan — we handle the design for you and deliver finished graphics straight to your calendar.
What's different about Concierge?
Same AI planning and calendar as the base plan, plus we do the design work for you. You get up to 12 custom post graphics per month, one revision round per design, 3-day turnaround, and direct email access to your designer. We import your brand assets into Canva once, then reuse them on every post so your feed stays consistent. Best fit for owners who want their feed handled without the Canva hours.
Does it actually know Milwaukee?
Yes. Summerfest, Irish Fest, Polish Fest, Mexican Fiesta, Wisconsin State Fair, Brewers home games, Bastille Days, Brady Street Festival, Locust Street Fest — all pre-loaded. When you generate a campaign, AI knows what's happening around you and times posts accordingly.
Can I cancel?
Any time. One click in the billing portal inside the app. No exit interviews, no retention flows, no waiting periods. Your account stays active through the end of the paid period.
Does LocalPost post to my accounts automatically?
Not yet — you still hit "post" yourself on Instagram, TikTok, or wherever. That's intentional for launch. Most local operators like having a final "yes" before something goes out. Auto-posting is on the roadmap as an opt-in toggle.
What happens after the trial?
Card on file gets charged $99 on day 15, then monthly. You can cancel before day 15 and won't be charged anything. You can also cancel any time after — your access runs through the current paid month.
Who's behind this?
Built by Milwaukee restaurant operators who needed this ourselves. Nothing on the market fit the way a local business actually runs social, so we built it — and made it available to other operators who want the same thing.

Start posting like a local business again.

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