A coral and teal ring of light pulses outward from a corner bar over a night city

Beam: time-limited deals from local businesses near you One slow Wednesday night. One beam. Watch what happens.

Beam lets any local business broadcast a time-limited deal to everyone nearby, instantly. This is the story of the night The Golden Hour turned it on.

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Beam in 35 secondsThe Beam film

Live deals, from the shops you love.

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Act I · The Quiet NightWednesday, 8:04 PM. The Golden Hour has one customer.

The Golden Hour8:04 PM
Walt walks into the empty Golden Hour and heads for his stool while Stacey polishes a glass
The Golden Hour, 8:04 PMGreat taps. Good lights. Eleven empty stools.
The Regular8:12 PM
Walt, an older regular in a flat cap, sits alone at the middle of the bar with his pint and a bowl of peanuts
The regularWalt's been coming for eleven years. Walt is not the problem.
Two blocks over8:15 PM
A different bar two blocks over: flat brick front, cool blue neon, windows packed with people
Two blocks overSame street. Same night. Different story.Foot traffic doesn't know you exist unless you tell it.

Deals like tonight's find you. Not the other way around.

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Act II · Eight WordsStacey doesn't run campaigns. She writes eight words and sets a radius.

The Eight Words8:51 PM
Stacey holds her phone toward the camera. The screen shows her live beam: Drinks Half Price at The Golden Hour, for the next 2 hours, 1:58:42 left
8:51 PMShe wipes the counter, picks up her phone, and writes eight words."Drinks half price for the next 2 hours."
The Builder8:52 PM
Stacey holds her phone toward the camera showing the Beam builder: radius and duration sliders with the live cost before launch
Write the dealTen seconds, no design skills.
Set a radius and a timerOne block or the whole neighborhood. The cost shows before she launches.
Beam itNo contract. No subscription. Live on nearby phones instantly.
A pulse of coral and teal light ripples outward from The Golden Hour, block by block
Launch9:00 PM
9:00 PM. She taps Launch. A pulse ripples out from her storefront, block by block.Every phone with Beam inside the circle lights up. Right now.

Act III · The TurnHere's what a beam looks like from the other side.

0.3 Miles Away9:01 PM
A phone lights up a stranger's face with a warm coral glow
A woman on the night street holds up her phone showing the Beam live map: coral rings pulsing around the pins and The Golden Hour, Drinks Half Price, 1:29:44 left
A customer in the doorway holds up his claimed deal: Claimed, ready to use, Drinks Half Price at The Golden Hour, with the QR code and 1:29:44 left
0.3 miles awayThree strangers. Same buzz. Half-price drinks, 90 minutes left, four minutes' walk.See it on the live map. One tap to claim. Show the code at the counter. Free for them, always.
The U-Turn9:04 PM
Two friends check the beam on their phone, look at each other, and turn back toward The Golden Hour laughing
The U-turnPlans are soft at 9 PM. A good deal is not.
The Exodus9:09 PM
Inside the other bar, every phone lights up at the same moment and the crowd runs out, phones in hand
Two blocks over, every phone lights up at once.The dance floor empties in fifteen seconds. Phones out. Door out.
The Counter9:14 PM
Full house at the counter: Stacey works the bar while customers hold up glowing phones to be redeemed, Walt watching from his stool at the middle of the bar
The counter, 9:14 PMShow the code. Pour the drink. Keep every dollar.Stacey validates each claim with one scan. Beam takes nothing at the register.
The Register9:30 PM
Stacey scans a code, pours the drinksand keeps every dollar of the sale.
Beam takes nothing at the registerNot a cut. Nothing.
Between pours she checks her phoneReach. Claims. Redemptions. All climbing, all live.
Close up of Stacey's phone scanning the QR code on a customer's phone, a teal confirmation glow between them
The Golden Hour, now completely packed. Walt turns on his stool at the middle of the bar, amazed, while Stacey pours behind him
One Beam Later11:12 PM
Same bar. Same Wednesday. One beam later.
Walt"Where'd all these people come from?"

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Tonight it was a bar. Tomorrow it's your coffee, your dinner, your Saturday.

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If it has a door and a slow hour, it can beam.

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Stacey pauses behind her bar and looks out at a room that is full on a weeknight

One app. Both sides of the counter.

Download Beam, switch to business mode, and your first beam can be live tonight. Buy credits when you want reach, spend nothing when you don't.

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What's new

Fresh in the app.

Version 1.0.13Coming soon

A launch checklist and how-to videos in the app

4 changes

  • A launch checklist on your Dashboard

    For businesses

    Once your business is verified, your Dashboard shows a short checklist for your first week: tell your followers you're on Beam, post your first beam, put your QR code on the counter, show your staff how to redeem, and share each beam. Each step says why it helps, has a button that does it, and a Watch how video.

  • How-to videos in the app

    Everyone

    Tap Guides to search short videos that show how to do things in Beam, one step at a time. Businesses find Guides on the Dashboard and in Settings, customers in Profile.

  • Deals open instantly

    For customers

    Tap a deal on the Nearby map or list and it opens right away, even when there are lots of deals around you.

  • Fixes and polish

    For businesses

    On iPhone, redeem hours are picked on a scroll wheel that stays open until you tap Done, Review & Launch now shows your redeem hours before you send the beam, and when a deal is scanned before its hours start, the opening time shows in your own time zone.

Version 1.0.12

Redeem hours, teams and planning ahead

6 changes

  • Redeem hours

    Everyone

    Businesses can set the hours a deal can be used, so shoppers can claim a happy hour deal now, redeem it tonight. If their notifications are on, they hear when it opens.

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  • Add your team

    For businesses

    Invite a manager or staff member so they can help run your beams from their own phone, without sharing your login.

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  • Plan beams on a calendar

    For businesses

    See your upcoming and past beams on a calendar and plan your week of deals at a glance.

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  • Save beams as drafts

    For businesses

    Start a beam, save it as a draft, and come back to finish and send it when you are ready.

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  • Bring your favorite store

    For customers

    Send a link to a place you love, and when they join Beam and post their first deal, you move up a reward level or hear about their deals first.

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  • A ready-made "we're on Beam" post

    For businesses

    Once your business is verified, Beam hands you a short post with your link, ready to share on Facebook, Instagram, X or Nextdoor, so your regulars know where to find your deals.

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Version 1.0.11

A map-first Nearby and your own Beam Page

2 changes

  • Your own Beam Page

    For businesses

    Every business gets a Beam Page, its own link and QR code, that you can customize with a photo, headline and light or dark look, with stats on visits and installs from each place you post it.

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  • Nearby is a full-screen map

    For customers

    Nearby opens on a full-screen map: swipe the deal cards at the bottom and the map zooms to each spot, or switch to a list with one tap.

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