The room your business has been missing.
BRAG is a curated networking community for serious Bay Area business owners — built on weekly breakfasts, warm introductions, and referrals that actually get followed through.
Every Tuesday · 8:00am · Gina's Italian Kitchen, Friendswood, TX
Networking was broken
If you're a business owner in the Bay Area, your options have been thin. Big mixers where anyone with a ticket walks in and you leave with forty cards and zero follow-up. Rigid franchises with contracts, dues, and attendance penalties. Or a Facebook group where your post gets buried in twenty minutes.
None of them do the one thing networking is actually for: putting you in a curated room of serious owners, on a consistent schedule, with structure that turns conversations into referrals.
So we built that room. Every application is reviewed personally, there's no cover charge to walk in, and every meeting ends with a referral round — not a handshake and a hope.
A better way to network in the Bay Area
A room designed for referrals
Every piece of BRAG — the curation, the agenda, the platform — exists to turn showing up into real business.
Curated Membership
Every application is reviewed personally. The vetting is what keeps the room full of serious owners — not card-collectors.
A Weekly Rhythm
Every tuesday, 8:00am, over breakfast at Gina's Italian Kitchen. Relationships compound when you show up consistently.
Referral Rounds
Every meeting ends with a structured referral round — give a lead, ask for one, and introductions get made on the spot.
Member Spotlights
One member goes deep on their business each week, so the whole room learns how to refer them well.
A Living Directory
A searchable member directory keeps you findable between meetings — connections and messages included.
Real Accountability
Everyone leaves with a next step and someone to follow up with. Follow-through is the whole culture.
Run by people who show up
This isn't a franchise or a faceless directory. One job: keep the room worth your Tuesday morning.
BRAG Leadership
Our leadership team hosts every meeting, reviews every application, and makes the introductions. Members run this room — it isn’t a franchise or a faceless directory.
Kris Black
Kris builds and runs the member platform — the directory, events, ticketing, and everything that keeps the community working between Tuesdays.
"I'd rather have twenty owners who show up and refer each other than a room of two hundred who never follow up."
Four rules the room runs on
Give first
Referrals flow to people who lead with generosity.
Curate hard
One great member beats ten lukewarm ones.
Show up
Trust is built in reps, not in one-off mixers.
Stay local
Bay Area owners, growing Bay Area businesses.
Real relationships · Real opportunities · Bay Area
Breakfast at Gina's Italian Kitchen
Breakfast is on you — order off the menu. There's no cover charge to visit.
Come see the room for yourself.
Applying is free and takes a few minutes. Every application is reviewed personally — no pressure, no auto-approval.