Durango Business Network
Swipe. Match. Trade services.
Cahoots matches Durango businesses that want to work together. Trade what you do for what you need, swap referrals, and turn the businesses around you into your best customers — one swipe at a time.
How Cahoots works
Discover
Swipe through Durango businesses — logo, industry, and what they offer.
Show interest
Swipe right on businesses you’d love to trade with, work with, or refer.
Match & make a deal
When it’s mutual, you match — chat in-app and set up a service trade, a referral swap, or a first project.
Every Durango business, one deck
Members you can match with today — and businesses not on Cahoots yet, who'll get an invite when you show interest.
Why local businesses use Cahoots
Trade services, not just cards
Your slow week is another business’s unmet need. Swap what you do for what you need — signage for bookkeeping, web work for catering — without touching the budget.
Built for Durango
Every business in the deck is local — no national noise, just the ~2,000 businesses actually here.
Referrals, partners, vendors
Find the businesses you already refer customers to, or the vendor you keep meaning to call — one swipe away.
Free for every business
Swiping, matching, and claiming your profile is free, full stop. Featured placement is optional.
Real work builds real reputations
Every trade makes you another local business's genuine customer — and that's how reputations are actually built in a small town. Real experiences turn into word of mouth, repeat work, referrals, and honest reviews. All earned, never traded.
Cahoots never asks for, exchanges, or rewards reviews — that would break review-platform rules and, worse, break trust. We make the connection; your work does the talking.
Free to match. Featured to stand out.
More reach than a chamber listing, a fraction of an ad budget.
Free
$0
- Swipe the full Durango deck — every local business
- Mutual matching with direct contact after a match
- Claim and complete your business profile
- Invite businesses that aren't on Cahoots yet
Cahoots Featured
$27/mo
$99 for your first year — founding members only, first 300
- Featured placement — your business surfaces earlier and more often in the deck, with a Featured badge
- See who's interested — businesses that swiped right on you, before you match
- Reach analytics — profile views, interest rate, and matches over time
- Monthly Boost — a 24-hour top-of-deck spotlight window
30-day money-back guarantee on Featured — not a fit? Full refund.
Frequently asked questions
What is Cahoots?
Cahoots is a swipe-and-match network for Durango, Colorado businesses — a faster way to find local businesses to trade services with, refer, and partner with than a directory or a chamber mixer.
How do service trades work?
When two businesses match, they chat in-app and agree on whatever works for them — a straight swap (your signage for their bookkeeping), a discounted first project, or a referral exchange. Cahoots doesn’t take a cut and doesn’t police the deal; it just makes the introduction.
Can I trade services for reviews?
No — and that matters. Exchanging or incentivizing reviews violates Google’s and other platforms’ policies, so Cahoots never asks for, brokers, or rewards reviews. What a trade DOES give you is a genuine customer: someone who actually experienced your work. If they later choose to refer you, mention you, or write an honest review, it’s earned and real — which is the only kind worth having.
Is Cahoots free?
Yes. Swiping, matching, claiming your business profile, and inviting businesses that aren’t on Cahoots yet are all free, for every business, forever. Matching is never pay-gated.
What does "Featured" mean?
Cahoots Featured is a paid placement upgrade — it’s clearly labeled and only affects how often and how early your business surfaces in the deck. It is not a rating, review, or ranking of any kind.
How do invites work?
Some businesses in the deck haven’t claimed their Cahoots profile yet. If you swipe right on one, we send them a one-time invite email on your behalf so they can claim their profile and match back with you.
Who’s behind Cahoots?
Cahoots is built and operated by Animas Marketing, based in Durango, Colorado.