You were made
for something
lasting.
We're here to help you build it.
TOM Enterprise is a nonprofit creative incubator in Tempe, Arizona — built for entrepreneurs who are ready to stop surviving off talent alone and start building a business that carries their name forward.
You have the talent.
You just need the structure.
Most creative founders don't fail because their work isn't good enough. They fail because no one gave them a real business framework built for their actual life — not borrowed from a corporate playbook or priced for someone who already has everything.
TOM Enterprise was built for the founder who is serious, coachable, and done hitting the same ceilings. Your creativity is not the problem. The missing infrastructure is. That's what we fix — together.
Twelve weeks.
One complete transformation.
This is not a workshop. It is not a webinar series. It is a full-immersion business experience — and you graduate with a polished brand, a working 12-month strategy, the financial knowledge to sustain it, and a community of founders who will still be in your corner years from now.
Every week is live, hands-on, and built around your specific business. You bring the vision. We bring the structure, the mentors, and the room. Cost starts at $0 — full scholarships at every cohort. Apply and we'll figure out what works for your situation.
What's happening at TOM right now.
Every event is a door in. Whether you're ready to apply or just want to be in the room — you're welcome here. All events are free or sliding scale.
Brand Your Business: Identity Design for Entrepreneurs
A 3-hour hands-on workshop where you walk out with the building blocks of your brand identity — your story, your visual direction, and a clear sense of who you're talking to. Built for founders at any stage. No experience necessary.
Legacy Builder Cohort — Week 1 Kickoff Night
This is the night it starts. The Fall 2026 Legacy Builder Cohort officially launches — founders, mentors, and community together in the same room for the first time. If you've been considering applying, this is why you submit before August 31.
Financial Foundations for Arizona Entrepreneurs
A live virtual session for creative founders anywhere in Arizona who want to get their financial house in order — pricing, budgeting, taxes, and the fundamentals of building wealth from a creative business. No finance background required.
Fall 2026 Legacy Builder Demo Day
Twelve weeks of real work. One night to show the world. Fall 2026 cohort founders take the stage to present their brands, strategies, and vision. Investors, press, partners, and community all welcome. Open to the public, free admission.
Can't make a specific event? Book a free 30-minute discovery call and we'll meet you wherever you are in the process.
Six things that move you forward.
Professional-grade work at a price built for where you actually are. Every offering is sliding scale — full scholarships always available. Cost is never a reason to stay stuck.
Not just a logo. A complete visual and verbal identity — built around your story, your audience, and the direction you're heading. It becomes the face of everything you build from here.
Sliding Scale · $0 – $500 Learn more →A real 12-month strategic roadmap with pipeline clarity and a revenue structure written for the way your business actually works — not a generic template from someone else's industry.
Sliding Scale · $0 – $500 Learn more →Pricing, budgeting, basic tax literacy, and the wealth fundamentals that let you stop undercharging and start building something that actually compounds over time.
Sliding Scale · $0 – $300 Learn more →Brand, strategy, finance, community, and Demo Day — all of it, in one cohort, with a room full of founders who are just as serious as you are. This is the flagship. This is what TOM was built for.
$0 – $1,500 · Full Scholarships Available Apply now →One-on-one strategic mentorship built around your specific situation — not a checklist, not generic advice. A real experienced guide who shows up consistently for your vision and your timeline.
Sliding Scale · By Application Learn more →Website strategy, social architecture, and SEO foundations so when someone in Arizona searches for what you do, they find you first — and what they find makes them want to hire you immediately.
Sliding Scale · $0 – $500 Learn more →Four beliefs we build everything from.
Not values on a wall. These are the decisions we make every single day about how we show up for you.
Every strategy, brand, and plan at TOM is designed to outlast the moment. We don't build for right now. We build for what lasts — a decade, a generation, a name that carries forward.
We don't lower standards to make our work affordable. We remove the financial barrier to reaching those standards. Quality should never be gated by income.
Sliding scale pricing and full scholarships are core to the model — not a footnote. Your income and your zip code are never the deciding factor in whether you get to build something great.
Nobody here builds alone. The cohort, the mentors, and the network exist so your success has witnesses — and a room of people who will hold you to what you said you were going to become.
"I built TOM because talented people kept walking away from their own dreams."
Not because their ideas weren't good enough. Not because they lacked the work ethic, the vision, or the will to do the hard thing. They walked away because professional business support — real, agency-quality branding and strategy — was priced as if it were only meant for people who already had everything.
I watched that happen enough times that it became impossible to ignore. So I built the organization I wished had existed for them. TOM Enterprise is Arizona's only nonprofit creative incubator built specifically to close the gap between creative potential and business reality.
"Your background is not a barrier here. Your bank balance is not a barrier here. Your belief in what you're building — that is the only entry requirement."
Our mission is to equip aspiring entrepreneurs and young professionals with world-class branding expertise, strategic mentorship, and financial literacy education — creating lasting legacies that transcend trends. We do it through a sliding-scale model that makes excellence accessible to every founder, at every income level, across Arizona.
If you are serious about building something that lasts — we are ready for you.
— Tralynn McCullar, Founder & Executive Director · TOM Enterprise · (623) 269-8232
You've been building
in the dark long enough.
Let's build in the light.
Fall 2026 applications are open now. Cost is never a reason to stay stuck — scholarships are available and the sliding scale starts at zero. Apply directly or book a free 30-minute call first. Either way, we're ready for you.
