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THE VOICE AND INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM FOR GEORGIA'S AMUSEMENT RETAIL INDUSTRY

GEORGIA'S AMUSEMENT INDUSTRY. CONNECTED. INFORMED. REPRESENTED.

Advocacy. Compliance. Intelligence. Community.

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Independent association. Not the Georgia Lottery Corporation. Not a state agency. Desk: (678) 271-1376.

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Tell us what you operate.

Location owners and master license holders do not need the same briefing. Choose a path — we will not pretend every floor plan is the same.

Why GARA

Four jobs. One association.

GARA 2.0 is association-first and AI-assisted, with humans in the loop. It is not a casino brand, and it is not GLC.

Advocacy
A single statewide voice for location owners and master license holders — at the Capitol, with agencies, and in the counties that write local rules.
Compliance
Plain-language education so operators can stay current. GARA explains; it does not license, audit, or enforce.
Intelligence
GARA Central Intelligence is an AI-assisted, human-governed briefing layer. Questions are reviewed. Advice is not invented.
Community
The people who actually run Georgia’s amusement retail — not a vendor forum, not a regulator portal.

Business types served

Georgia amusement retail, by floor.

All business types

High traffic, short dwell

Convenience stores
Fuel, fountain, and counter traffic — with machines as a second line, not a second store.
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Interstate corridors

Truck stops & travel plazas
Overnight dwell, 24-hour floors, and corridor operations along Georgia’s freight spine.
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The venue is the product

Game rooms & amusement centers
Dedicated rooms where neighborhood trust, hours, and local government education matter most.
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Guest experience first

Restaurants & hospitality
Dining dwell and hospitality brands — amusement that supports the table, not the other way around.
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Master license holders

Class A and Class B operators have a seat — and a different dues line.

Masters place, service, and scale machines. Locations host them. GARA represents both, without collapsing them into one brochure. Class A dues are $100/yr. Class B dues are $500/yr.

Master license desk
What GARA will not do
We will not sell you a machine, issue a license, or pretend to be the Georgia Lottery Corporation. We organize the industry that those systems already regulate.

Meet GARA Intelligence

AI-first. Human-governed. Never a substitute for counsel or GLC.

Ask GARA AI is the public door to Central Intelligence. Phase A is a working shell: your question is queued, not answered by a model inventing law. When the backend opens, staff still review what leaves this building.

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Public shell
What you can ask later

Association positions and published briefing notes.

Where to start as a new location or master member.

How to reach the desk for government or media.

What you will not get: a fake license check, a fabricated statute cite, or legal advice generated to sound confident.

Platform modules

Coming soon — built, not promised as vapor.

Phase A is the public front door. These shells are real routes with honest status. CRM, billing, the document vault, the LMS, and the bill tracker are out of scope until later phases.

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Member dashboard
A private home for dues, documents, and alerts.
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Compliance vault
Human-reviewed briefs and a document library — not a chatbot lawyer.
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Advocacy tracker
Bills, hearings, and association positions in one place.
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Knowledge library
Searchable industry intelligence for operators and counsel.
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GARA Academy
Training for clerks, managers, and master-license staff.
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Events calendar
Briefings, fly-ins, and regional meetings.
Coming soon
Partner network
Vetted professional services — association-first, vendor-neutral.

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Dues that a serious operator can explain.

Location License Holder $50/yr. Master Class A $100/yr. Master Class B $500/yr. Amounts are configurable later; these are the published Phase A figures.

Locations

Location License Holder

$50/yr

Retail locations that host coin-operated amusement machines.
  • Association voice at the Capitol and with regulators
  • Public compliance briefings and alerts
  • Access to GARA Intelligence as it comes online
  • Community of location operators statewide
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Masters

Master Class A

$100/yr

Class A master license holders placing and servicing machines.
  • Operator-focused policy and rule-change briefings
  • Location-education materials you can share
  • Master-class working group (as it opens)
  • Priority intake for GARA Intelligence questions
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Masters

Master Class B

$500/yr

Class B master license holders operating at greater scale.
  • Everything in Master Class A
  • Scaled-operations briefings and corridor intelligence
  • Government and media protocol support
  • Seat at the association’s master-class table
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Government & media

For legislators, staff, and journalists who need the industry — not a vendor.

Use GARA as the association of record for amusement retail in Georgia. We will tell you who we are and who we are not. We will not speak as GLC.

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