Strengthening Small Businesses. Structuring Growth. Scaling Impact.
AG Empower Business Solutions is a business development initiative designed to help small businesses, entrepreneurs and emerging cooperatives build stronger operations, make better-informed decisions and prepare for sustainable growth.
Powered by SIDOME™ — Integrated System for Business Diagnosis, Optimization & Mentoring, our model combines business diagnostics, structured planning, education and funding readiness into one integrated framework.
Small businesses power the U.S. economy. But building a business that lasts remains difficult.
Small businesses represent a fundamental part of the American economy, yet many entrepreneurs continue to face barriers that go far beyond launching a company.
Limited financial structure, fragmented business planning, insufficient access to qualified technical assistance and difficulty preparing for competitive financing can prevent promising businesses from reaching their full potential.
AG Empower is designed to address that gap.
Rather than replacing existing public and community resources, the model is designed to help entrepreneurs become better prepared to understand, access and effectively use those resources.
One integrated system for stronger businesses.
AG Empower brings together technology, business strategy, financial analysis, education and funding readiness through a structured framework designed around the real needs of small businesses. Instead of treating each challenge independently, the model connects diagnosis, planning, implementation and measurable progress.
Understand the current financial, operational and strategic condition of the business.
Transform information into organized business models, financial projections, measurable goals and actionable plans.
Develop the capabilities entrepreneurs need to make informed decisions and improve business resilience.
Prepare businesses to pursue sustainable growth, financing opportunities and stronger institutional relationships.
Meet SIDOME™
SIDOME is the technological and methodological core of the AG Empower model.
Designed as a bilingual digital platform, SIDOME gives small businesses a structured way to organize business information, track financial indicators and monitor their evolution over time.
The platform brings fragmented business data into a clearer decision-making environment.
See how SIDOME turns a short questionnaire into a preliminary business diagnosis, reviewed by the AG Empower team. Available in English and Spanish.
Financial Diagnostics
Monitor indicators related to liquidity, solvency, profitability and operational stability.
Business Dashboards
Transform business information into standardized, easier-to-understand performance views.
Historical Tracking
Build a traceable record of business performance and progress over time.
Bilingual Experience
Designed for English- and Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs.
Decision Support
Help businesses identify weaknesses, priorities and potential opportunities for improvement.
Funding Readiness
Create a stronger information foundation for engagement with financing programs, CDFIs and other business-support resources.
Start your business diagnosis on SIDOME.
SIDOME is available online at sidome.agempower.net. Create a free account, answer a questionnaire adapted to your type of organization and receive a preliminary diagnosis — then an AG Empower consultant validates the results and proposes a work plan.
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Classify your organization
Business, startup, cooperative or nonprofit: the questionnaire adapts to your profile.
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Answer the questionnaire
Guided questions on finances, operations, market and organization. No prior preparation required.
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Receive a preliminary diagnosis
SIDOME calculates your indicators with transparent, auditable formulas and organizes the results.
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Validation by AG Empower
A consultant reviews the diagnosis with you and translates it into priorities and a work plan.
- Transparent calculations — every indicator can be traced to its formula.
- Your data is private and reports are kept for 30 days, not forever.
- Results are preliminary until reviewed by AG Empower Business Solutions.
- The platform interface is currently available in Spanish.
SIDOMEFour solutions. One business growth ecosystem.
AG Empower is structured around four interconnected service areas designed to support entrepreneurs across different stages of business development.
SIDOME™ Business Diagnostics
Technology-enabled business diagnostics and continuous performance monitoring designed to help entrepreneurs better understand the financial and operational health of their companies.
Structured Business Planning
Business planning engagements that transform ideas and existing operations into clear, measurable strategies. The methodology integrates value proposition development, business model design, financial projections, market analysis, organizational structure and implementation planning.
Entrepreneur Education
Bilingual cohort-based educational programs designed to strengthen practical business capabilities through structured training, collaboration and applied learning.
Grant & Funding Readiness
Structured preparation designed to help businesses organize the information and documentation required to pursue grants, CDFI financing, microloans and other competitive funding opportunities.
Building for measurable economic impact.
AG Empower has been designed around measurable outcomes rather than broad promises. The five-year operating model establishes specific benchmarks for business support, employment, economic activity and workforce development.
Andrés Felipe Gil
Andrés Felipe Gil is a Business Administrator whose professional career has been consistently focused on entrepreneurship, business-model development, technical and financial project evaluation, small-business strengthening and institutional support for emerging enterprises.
His experience spans academic entrepreneurship programs, innovation and entrepreneurship leadership, public entrepreneurship initiatives, cooperative development and business advisory work in both Colombia and the United States.
Today, that experience forms the professional foundation behind AG Empower Business Solutions and the SIDOME methodology.
A career built across two countries and two decades.
Universidad de Medellín — Entrepreneurship & Business Development Unit
Seven years supporting entrepreneurship and business-development initiatives.
Corporación Universitaria Americana — Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center
Leadership experience managing entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives.
Capital Semilla — Medellín
Professional involvement supporting entrepreneurs participating in competitive public entrepreneurship funding programs.
Sazón Coop LLC — Boston
Member-owner and Strategic Director, bringing practical cooperative business experience into the U.S. market.
CCDS Boston
Member of the Technical Support Group within Boston's cooperative development ecosystem.
Center for Economic Democracy
Guest Presenter for the Economics 4 Emancipation program.
Experience supported by specialized training.
Andrés' professional background combines formal business education with specialized training in business development, quality management, cooperative development, training and intellectual property.
Business Administration
Universidad de Medellín
Professional Registration
T.P. 117876 — Colombia
Small Business Development Center Methodology
Institute for Economic Development, University of Texas at San Antonio
Internal Auditor — ISO 9001:2015
ICONTEC
Cooperative Institutes I & II
CCDS / LEAF — Boston · 44 certified hours
Training of Trainers
Universidad de Medellín · 80 hours
Intellectual Property Seminar
Universidad de Medellín · 30 hours
A methodology built on work already performed.
AG Empower does not begin from a purely theoretical foundation. Andrés' previous work includes documented outcomes in business development, cooperative entrepreneurship, institutional collaboration and competitive funding preparation.
Sazón Coop LLC obtained competitive funding from Boston Impact Initiative and COWOP in 2024.
A business prototype connected to Andrés' professional work received technical approval from Boston Public Schools.
Recognition associated with Latinx leadership in 2022 and participation in Boston's cooperative ecosystem in 2023.
Selected as a Guest Presenter for the Economics 4 Emancipation program in 2024.
Recognized across education, business development and community finance.
Andrés' professional experience is supported by letters of recommendation from professionals who have worked with or observed his capabilities at different stages of his career.
Local validation. Broader potential.
Massachusetts provides the initial environment for AG Empower to develop, test and refine its model through direct interaction with small businesses, entrepreneurs, cooperatives and community-development organizations.
Boston also gives the initiative access to an established ecosystem of business-support programs, community organizations and community development financial institutions.
But the model is not designed to remain geographically limited.
SIDOME's digital architecture allows the methodology developed during the Massachusetts validation stage to become increasingly accessible beyond the Commonwealth as the project grows.
Designed to complement the small-business support ecosystem.
AG Empower's model is designed to complement—not replace—the resources already available to entrepreneurs through federal, state, municipal and community organizations. Its methodology focuses on helping business owners become better prepared to engage with:
- Small-business technical assistance programs
- Community Development Financial Institutions
- Business financing resources
- Entrepreneurship education programs
- Cooperative development organizations
- State and local small-business initiatives
Structured. Measurable. Auditable.
AG Empower has been designed around structured management principles that allow performance to be evaluated over time. The business framework incorporates:
Business performance KPIs
Clear indicators for monitoring operations and outcomes.
Risk Management
Structured identification and monitoring of operational, financial and strategic risks.
Quality Principles
Processes informed by recognized quality-management practices.
Financial Scenario Planning
Conservative, base and high scenarios designed to account for uncertainty.
90-Day Pilot
A phased initial implementation plan moving from organizational setup to operational capabilities and initial market validation.
Continuous Tracking in SIDOME
Each engagement leaves a traceable record of indicators and progress inside the platform.
Growth with responsibility.
AG Empower is built around eight principles that guide relationships with entrepreneurs, collaborators and community partners.
Integrity
Do what can be supported by evidence.
Service
Put the entrepreneur's long-term development at the center.
Dignity
Treat every business owner with respect.
Responsibility
Make decisions with accountability.
Solidarity
Strengthen businesses that strengthen communities.
Justice
Promote fair access to opportunity.
Honesty
Communicate challenges as clearly as opportunities.
Inclusion
Build solutions that can serve entrepreneurs from different backgrounds and communities.
Stronger businesses create stronger communities.
AG Empower's long-term vision is to create a scalable business-development infrastructure capable of helping entrepreneurs move from uncertainty to structured decision-making. Through business diagnostics, planning, education, technology and funding readiness, the initiative aims to give more small businesses the tools required to become stronger, more resilient and better prepared for sustainable growth.
Structure the opportunity.
Scale the impact.
Building stronger businesses starts with understanding them better.
Start your diagnosis on the SIDOME platform, or get to know the vision behind AG Empower Business Solutions.