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Your ad on one side of the bag. It goes home with them.

You pay for the bags. A local business hands them out free. Your offer and QR code ride on the side — into the hands and homes of the exact people you are trying to reach.

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How it worksThree steps
01

You pick a number.

Tell us how many bags you want and where you want them handed out. A neighborhood, a city, or the whole state.

02

We print your offer.

Your offer and a QR code go on the full back panel. You see a render of your actual bag before anything gets printed.

03

A local business hands them out.

They get the bags free or close to it. Their customers carry your offer home and set it on the kitchen counter.

Where your ad ends upFollow the bag
At the counter

Somebody buys something. Your bag is what they carry it out in.

In the car

It rides home on the seat next to them, your side facing up.

On the kitchen counter

Then it sits there for days. A billboard gets three seconds. This gets a week.

And the whole time, it is the most sustainable paper packaging on the planet — 100% hemp, USDA Certified Biobased, no tree cut down to make it.

The panelWhat you get

The whole back of the bag. Not a logo in the corner.

Most co-branded packaging gives you a small mark next to somebody else's. This is the entire panel, and it is yours.

  • 01The full back panel. Your design, up to two colors.
  • 02A real offer. Something worth acting on, not a slogan.
  • 03A dynamic QR code. You see the scans, and you capture the customer on the other side of it.
  • 04A render before you commit. We show you the bag before it is made.
Back panel — your space
YOUR OFFER HERE The reason somebody keeps the bag

Dynamic QR code — scan tracking and customer capture

Illustration — not an actual sponsor bag
It already worksIn market now

A credit union paid for the bags. A grocery chain hands them out.

Hawaii State Federal Credit Union sponsored 25,000 hemp paper bags. Those bags are in select Safeway stores in Hawaii, carrying the credit union's offer and a QR code on the back.

The credit union gets its offer into thousands of households. The stores get bags they did not pay full price for. Nobody cut down a tree for any of it.

Hawaii State Federal Credit Union
The sponsor

Funded 25,000 bags and put their offer and QR code on the back panel.

Safeway
Where the bags are

Approved a multi-store test. Select Safeway stores in Hawaii are handing them out now.

25,000

Bags sponsored by one credit union, in circulation now.


1

Tree stays standing for roughly every 1,000 bags that replace tree paper.

Why businesses say yesThe honest version

Hemp paper costs more than tree paper. That is the objection, every single time.

We are not going to pretend otherwise. A hemp bag runs above a standard kraft bag today, because the supply chain to make it cheap has not been built yet.

Sponsorship is how you get around that. The business gets a bag it would never buy at full price. You get a place to put your offer that you cannot buy at any price — because it is not for sale as advertising. It only exists because somebody paid for the bag.

Every bag is USDA Certified Biobased, 100% hemp, and made in the USA. So the business gets better packaging, you get the reach, and no tree gets cut down to make it happen.

Straight answersBefore you ask

Who actually gets the bags?

Local businesses, retailers, schools, and food banks. You can name who you want them to go to, or tell us the kind of place and we will match you.

What does it cost?

It depends on how many bags, what size, and how much printing. Tell us your budget and your market and we will come back with a number and a picture of your bag.

Can I see it before I commit?

Yes. We render your bag first. Nothing gets printed until you have looked at it and said go.

How do I know anyone used it?

The QR code is dynamic, so you see the scans. That is also where you capture the customer, which is the part a billboard cannot do.

Is this a charitable donation?

No. Treat it as marketing spend, not a write-off. You are buying bags and giving them away, and your accountant will want to know that up front.

How big does my company need to be?

Small enough to sponsor one neighborhood, or big enough to sponsor a state. Both work. The bags are the same either way.

Tell us your budget. We will send back a number and a picture of your bag.