Insights

Use the guided Analyze wizard to pick a community and a project type, see your ten closest competitors, run a head-to-head against any of them, read your scorecard against the whole set, and save the result as a compete report.

The math behind the Analyze wizard: how each project type weights the five layers, how similarity and the ten-peer set are built, which measures each project type compares at each level, how wins and the scorecard are decided, and what the compete report's PDF includes.

Ask natural-language questions about locations, costs, workforce, risk, incentives, and EDD regions, and get a grounded answer with a data table, sources, and follow-up suggestions, saved to a conversation you can revisit or share.

How the City level works: the fourteen indicators measured for the place itself, why small towns show dashes and a Partial ACS coverage badge, what CDP and the Incorporated only filter mean, which extra indicators are inherited from the county, and how the map decides what to draw.

Select two or more states, metros, counties, or cities in Explore to see them side by side: a compact panel in the right rail, or a full comparison screen with a metric-by-metric table and best-value highlighting.

What to trust in county and metro figures: which county values are modelled rather than measured, why county regulatory fields and electricity rates match the state, why most metros show a dash for two health metrics, why a whole state can vanish from the map, and where coverage stops.

The full metric catalogue for states, metros, counties, and cities with the source and refresh cadence behind each number, the monthly ingestion calendar, which fields are transcribed by hand and never refresh, and what happens when a source is unavailable.

Switch Explore to the Economic Development District overlay to see each district's coded business priorities, filter and search districts, drill into the district serving a state or county, and export or report on your selection.

Browse states, metros, counties, and cities on the map, table, or both, filter by any metric, select a location to see its detail metrics and benchmarks, and export or start a report from your selection.

What each Explore export actually downloads: the selection caps and their messages at every level, the file names, the columns in the state, county, metro, city, and EDD files, what a blank cell means, and which screens cannot be exported at all.

The exact formulas behind the Composite Score and the five category scores at State, Metro, and County level: which metrics feed each score, their weights and scaling ranges, how ranks, percentiles, and badge colours are worked out, and why one place scores differently at different levels.

Explore Incenti Subsidy Intelligence, a proprietary dataset of disclosed incentive awards across 51 jurisdictions, alongside the Programs Offered catalog of verified current state programs, competitiveness scores, megadeals, and company deal comps.

The methodology behind the Incentives screen: how dollar figures are normalized, how the Incentive Competitiveness Score is built, what the tiers, categories, source labels and coverage tiers mean, how recipients are classified, and how often each dataset refreshes.

Which outputs on the Incentives screen are saved to your account's report history, which only print, and which download a spreadsheet — with the file names, columns and caps for each, and what the screen cannot export at all.

Understand what Insights is, how to get to it, what each sidebar area does, the geography levels it covers, how scores work at a glance, and what is and is not included in the data.

Pick a report type and one or more locations, generate a profile or comparative report, download it as a PDF, and revisit past reports from the report history list.