The operating system for local media

Local CMS gives publishers the tools and infrastructure to build, grow, and monetize a local media business.

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Your Website, Your Brand

Get a full local media portal on your own domain. Not just an events page — a complete website for your publication.

Events directory with AI extraction from any webpage, Instagram, or Facebook
Articles and long-form content
Newsletter archive for your back catalogue
Event submission forms for community contributions

Embed on your existing site, or get your own custom domain.

AI-First Publishing

Other tools lock you into rigid templates. Local CMS lets you automate everything or build exactly the workflow you want.

Automate It

Select events from your directory, hit generate, and AI writes your entire newsletter edition. Edit, preview, and send to your audience in minutes.

Or Build Your Own

Access all your events, newsletters, and articles via MCP. Use Claude, Cursor, or any AI tool to build custom workflows on top of your data.

// Access your data from any AI tool
mcp.localcms.getEvents({
  directory: "madison-events",
  startDate: "2025-03-01",
  category: "music"
)

Own Your Email

Keep email optional until you want it. Local CMS Email is a separate add-on for subscriber management, sending, and analytics when you're ready to run delivery through Local CMS too.

Built-in delivery and lifecycle automation
Subscriber management and segmentation
Open rates, click tracking, and analytics
Full deliverability control on your own infrastructure
Starts below beehiiv's entry plan and scales with subscriber count

Pricing

Pick The Local CMS Engine You Need

Core handles events and your directory. Growth adds CRM and more headroom. Email is separate when you want LocalCMS to run newsletter delivery too.

Events + directory operating system

Core

Run your site, events directory, and extraction workflow without paying for CRM or email before you need them.

Coming soon

Shown only when Stripe pricing is configured

AI event extraction from webpages, Instagram, and Facebook
Hosted directory and public pages on your own brand
Submission forms and publishing workflow
10 tracked webpage sources included
Most popular

CRM + higher-volume coverage

Growth

Everything in Core, plus CRM access and the throughput needed for broader citywide coverage.

Coming soon

Shown only when Stripe pricing is configured

Everything in Core
Built-in CRM for advertisers and sponsors
25 tracked webpage sources included
Higher extraction limits across every source type

Optional add-on

Add LocalCMS Email

Turn on subscriber management, delivery, analytics, and automations when you want LocalCMS to handle email too.

Built-in delivery and lifecycle automation
Subscriber management and segmentation
Analytics and deliverability controls
Pricing scales by active subscribers and stays below beehiiv Scale

Email starts at the 1,000-subscriber band and stays below beehiiv Scale.

From

Coming soon

Shown only when Stripe pricing is configured

Mobile app add-on coming soon.

Monetize From Day One

Turn your audience into revenue with a CRM designed for local media sales.

Track your advertiser pipeline from lead to close
Email integration for outreach directly from the CRM
Know exactly when to pitch and what to sell

Loved By Local Publishers

LocalCMS has been a total game-changer for Adelaide Hills Pantry, my local newsletter in Adelaide, Australia. The events scraping automation is amazing - I've got hundreds of events being scraped each week on autopilot for my site's events directory and newsletter. But what's really useful for me is the advertiser CRM. I was going crazy setting up a half baked Notion automation to keep track of advertiser contacts, but LocalCMS now lets me keep track of my entire advertiser pipeline *and* email them all in one place. Can't recommend it enough!

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Stephanie George

Owner

Adelaide Hills Pantry

Before LocalCMS, I was struggling to get the newsletter out every week. It was just a huge pain compiling events and I was thinking about giving up on the newsletter. Since starting on LocalCMS, however, it's completely freed up our team to focus on higher level problems. The newsletter is basically automated, and we're now focused more on advertiser outreach and social media strategy. I love this software, it's worth every penny, and I recommend it to everyone in local media.

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Catalina Brand

Editor in Chief

Medellin Insider

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