Founding Rocket City Corporate Sponsor

Fifty seats. Zero replacements.

Founding Sponsors don't buy an ad. They buy standing — permanent brand placement across every page of the site, top-of- feed job visibility, the full Verified Employer package, and three hours of on-site AI strategy consultation from ATCS.

What you get for $4,500

1. 1

   Founding-Circle exclusivity

   Only 50 seats. Ever. Even after the program matures, Founders keep the badge permanently — a limited scarcity marker your marketing team can cite for years.

2. 2

   Sitewide rotating sponsor carousel

   Your logo lives in a persistent carousel above the footer on every page of the site. Impressions across all traffic, all pages, all the time.

3. 3

   Top-of-jobs pinned placement

   Your open roles pinned above the Featured tier ($249/post) on /jobs. Highest possible visibility inside the Huntsville engineering-jobseeker feed.

4. 4

   Full Verified Employer package

   Everything in the $499/mo Verified tier: unlimited postings, verified badge, priority in search + directory listings, direct line to Billy.

5. 5

   3-hour on-site AI strategy consultation

   Included with your sponsorship. ATCS specialists come to your office (or Zoom) for a working session on your current AI stack, gaps, and opportunities. Worth ~$2,000–3,000 standalone.

6. 6

   Written AI Opportunity Report

   Post-consultation deliverable — 2–3 prioritized AI use cases specific to your operation, with cost/time estimates and quick-win vs. long-play framing.

7. 7

   AI Champion pathway (optional)

   One of your engineers gets a structured onramp: paired sessions with an ATCS AI specialist to grow internal AI fluency. Springboards your team past the vendor-dependency trap.

8. 8

   Newsletter cross-promotion

   Quarterly sponsor callout in The Huntsville Engineering Brief — cross-brand lift into the region's engineering community, in a Monday-morning email your candidates already read.

9. 9

   One free Sponsored Event per year

   Included: one 14-day Sponsored Event slot ($199 value) for a job fair, hiring mixer, or tech talk you're hosting.

10. 10

    First access to new features

    Beta features, new tools, and pricing changes hit Founders first with a real input channel. You shape the platform — a lever your standard employers can't get.

The AI consultation, honestly

Three hours with ATCS specialists to map your current AI use, find the two or three opportunities where AI actually pays back for your organization, and give you a written report you can hand to your leadership. It's a genuine engagement, not a sales pitch — though if we find something you want us to help you build, that engagement is on the table separately.

Some Founding Sponsors will get everything they need from the 3-hour session and the report. Others will want ATCS to build the pilot, embed with their engineers as an AI Champion, or take a multi-quarter retainer. All optional, all scoped separately, all transparent.