Prosal Badges: A Creative Way to Highlight Businesses

Prosal’s newest feature for respondents highlights different kinds of businesses in a fun, creative, and inclusive way.

What Are Badges

Badges are original designs from Prosal and a creative way for agencies and vendors to highlight their backgrounds and business. To receive a badge, we ask respondents to fill out a short form (more on that below), our team reviews their application, and in less than 24 hours, we’ll let them know via email if they received their badge.

We’ve created the following badges for different businesses:

• Woman-Owned Business: This badge recognizes this business as being founded and/or led by a person who identifies as a woman.
• Black-Owned Business: This badge recognizes this business as being founded and/or led by a person who identifies as Black.
• Latinx-Owned Business: This badge recognizes this business as being founded and/or led by a person who identifies as Latino/a/x.
• Indigenous-Owned Business: This badge recognizes this business as being founded and/or led by a person who identifies as Indigenous.
• LGBT+ Owned Business: This badge recognizes this business as being founded and/or led by a person who identifies as LGBTQIA+.
• Small Business: This badge recognizes this business as a small business with 50 or fewer employees
• Young Business: This badge recognizes this business as being newly founded, having been less than created two years ago.
• Trusted by Prosal: This badge recognizes our company trusts this business and the people leading it. They have our complete confidence as a provider on Prosal.
• Early Supporter: This badge is given to select partners committed to making Prosal equitable from the start.

Why Badges

We’ve spoken to several issuers who have and haven’t created accounts on Prosal. One thing they’ve constantly asked us is how we can call out and elevate young businesses and businesses owned by women and people of color without excluding more traditional companies.

Our team studied what other companies had done, where they failed and succeeded, and talked to many trusted partners, including our very own users. We took inspiration from Lyft, Yelp, Pangea, and small business designs that highlighted their backgrounds and the businesses they run.

The result was a creative journey that involved working with several people and companies that represent the types of companies we want to highlight to create badges. And though we might be biased, we’re thrilled with the results!

How to Get Your Badge

To apply for a badge, click the button below and fill out the short form, and our team will be in contact shortly. If you haven’t already signed up for Prosal, create your account and then either return here or visit the settings page of your profile and complete the same form.

Click here to fill out the form and get your badge.

Before closing, we wanted to thank Gabriella Mutti and Ana Urrecheaga from Muse Creative Group, two powerful women and members of Prosal, for collaborating with us to design the badges. We also want to thank all the people who offered their thoughts in the creative process, including Will Johnson from Proveloper, Estefania Mulvey and Videla Christine Dunbeck from Commvey, and Betsy López-Wagner from López-Wagner Strategies.

If you have feedback or thoughts on future badges or features, reach out to us and we’re happy to hear your thoughts.