June 22, 2025
Jamaine Stanton helps shine a highlight on Birmingham’s Black-owned companies via a brand new cell app—Black Enterprise Visitors.
With a number of faucets on a smartphone, customers in Birmingham can now uncover and assist a whole bunch of Black-owned companies, because of the Black Enterprise Visitors app. Created by Birmingham native Jamaine Stanton, the app serves as a digital roadmap highlighting over 350 native institutions, together with eating places, barbershops, church buildings, and extra.
“I needed to seek out our top-rated Black-owned companies and put them in a single location,” Stanton mentioned. “Then an individual can go there and use that as a device to assist companies.”
The app is review-based and visually laid out like a metropolis map, making it straightforward for customers to navigate to close by companies.
Stanton emphasizes that the app focuses on bodily brick-and-mortar storefronts and was designed to cater to grassroots entrepreneurs.
“Black Enterprise Visitors was designed for the brick-and-mortar storefront enterprise,” he mentioned.
“The one who was keen to money out their 401(okay) and put money into their dream.”
A type of dreamers is Denise Ali, proprietor of Alibomb Home of Hemp in East Lake, which is at the moment ranked as the highest CBD retailer on the app.
Ali instructed WBRC that she credit Stanton’s platform with serving to develop her buyer base.
“Lots of people have known as, particularly when it first got here out, after which round [Magic City] Basic, I acquired a variety of visitors from the app,” Ali mentioned.
“It has been such an awesome alternative for as soon as simply to have the ability to assist one other entrepreneur that’s taking dangers to begin one thing he really believes in. Not solely that however the publicity that I’ve gotten through the years has been nice.”
Stanton personally vets every enterprise earlier than itemizing it, evaluating components reminiscent of pricing, customer support, and on-line visibility.
The app additionally permits customers to depart evaluations and contains direct hyperlinks to enterprise web sites.
Trying forward, Stanton hopes to broaden the app to Montgomery and Huntsville by the top of the yr, with a long-term aim of going nationwide.
“Black companies are fluid and dynamic,” Stanton mentioned. “Our companies aren’t simply on 4th Avenue anymore. They’re everywhere in the metropolis. They’re on-line. They’re within the larger Birmingham space and in every single place.”
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