How Two Organizations Can Make Wabash County the Most Technologically Advanced Small County in Indiana
Prepared by Margin Consulting | Room to Breathe. Room to Grow.
11pm on a Saturday. A couple in Indianapolis is planning a weekend trip. They want to know if Wabash has good restaurants and things to do.
Nobody's awake to answer. The website doesn't help. They go to Brown County instead.
A software engineer in Columbus, Ohio earns $130K remotely. He's researching small Indiana towns. Schools, internet speed, home prices, community.
The answers are scattered across 6 different websites. He gives up. Wabash never knew he existed.
$100 million in assets. 72 years of grants. 450 funds. Scholarships, childcare support, arts, agriculture.
Best-kept secret in northeast Indiana. The investment story that could attract families instead repels them through invisibility.
Not four separate products. One connected system that runs while you sleep.
“It seemed intentional... truly it is specific to the operation.”— Christine Flohr, Executive Director, Visit Wabash County
Modoc is named after Wabash County's most famous resident — the elephant who lived at the Honeywell estate. Like Modoc, the AI never forgets a detail.
VWC has the lifestyle content and tourism brand. CF has the investment story and financial credibility. The recruitment site only works if both show up.
Modoc AI becomes 3x more powerful when it can answer questions about tourism, grants, childcare, scholarships, and employers from one connected intelligence layer.
ThriveIN co-hosts. Overlapping boards. The same 35,000 people. You're already aligned on mission. This is just giving that alignment a technology backbone.
You would be the first county in Indiana to build an AI ecosystem between a tourism bureau and a community foundation. That's a national story.
“Good things happen when communities invest in themselves together.”
VWC Desk + CF Desk deployed. Your teams trained. ROI clock starts.
Trained on Wabash County data. Deployed to both sites. Always-on ambassador.
Live Wabash County goes live. Both orgs contribute content + credibility.