Slot 01 — one per edition
Presenting sponsor
$5,000 / edition
or $12,500 for three editions
- "Brought to you by" line at the top of the edition
- Logo, link, and a ~50-word message in your voice
- First position in the sponsor strip
Founding rates locked through December 31, 2026
Sponsorship
Put your brand in Detroit's builder story.
The Signal is the academy's monthly transit newsletter — the buses, the rails, the maps, and the people building them. Sponsors underwrite the editions, and every edition funds the work.
The audience
Builders, parents, and partners.
The Signal goes to the people around Detroit's young builders: students and families, engineers and founders, educators, and the partners betting on this city's technical future. The buses, the rails, the maps, and the people building them — free to read, built to forward.
We're in the founding season: early sponsors get founding placement and founding rates, and their brand becomes part of the story from the start.
Slot 02 — three per edition
Supporting sponsor
$2,000 / edition
or $5,000 for three editions
- Logo and link in the edition's sponsor strip
- One-line description of your company
- Listed on the Signal archive page
Coming later
Site placements
Contact us
priced when traffic justifies a rate card
- "Supported by" strip on academy pages
- Season and program partnerships
- Never on the voter guide — that page stays ad-free
The guardrails
Sponsors fund the work. They don't shape it.
Sponsorship buys placement, not influence. Sponsors don't review, approve, or shape editorial content — and the academy's nonpartisan civic tools (including the voter guide) stay permanently ad-free. The academy reserves the right to decline any sponsor that doesn't fit the mission.