CASE STUDIES

Every case below started as a line in a public agenda. Months before the trigger everyone else waits for.

Each one documents the full chain, the first public trace, what followed it, the window in between, the signal, the contact on record, and the reasoning. Open any of them for the full chain with source links.

CASE STUDY Case Study: 32 Months of Signal in Amherst, New Hampshire A citizen complaint becomes a 30-year ground lease. 23-month window, 17 signals, zero federal records. Read the case study → CASE STUDY The Company That Shows Up in 123 Towns Entity resolution shows which public companies appear in municipal vendor payments weeks before quarterly earnings. Read the case study → CASE STUDY PFAS Money Shows Up in the Minutes Long Before It Moves In three towns, the first PFAS record sat in the town’s own minutes 13 to 33 months before settlement money arrived or a treatment plant started running. Read the case study → CASE STUDY The Housing Density Wave Is Rewriting Municipal Zoning in Real Time 390+ zoning events across 130+ municipalities. ADU mandates and STR regulation at the workshop stage, not the bid stage. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Case Study: 13 Months of Warning in La Marque, Texas A two-notch downgrade in October 2025. The governance signals were in the minutes 13 months earlier. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Maine's Data Center Fight Was Visible in Town Halls Months Before the State Vote Maine town halls were on the record before the state legislature took up LD 307. Every source document linked. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Data Centers Are Contested Across the Country, and Towns Are Now Writing the Rules Municipal Alpha tracks data-center zoning and siting activity across US municipalities, surfacing it months before national reporting. 80 records across 47 jurisdictions in 24 states. Read the case study → CASE STUDY E-Bike Complaints Reach the Minutes Long Before the Rules Do In three towns that adopted e-bike rules this year, the first warning sat in their minutes 3 to 14 months before the vote. Read the case study → CASE STUDY ADU Rules Start in the Minutes Long Before the Vote In three towns that adopted new ADU rules this year, the first sign sat in their minutes 5 months to more than 3 years before the vote. Read the case study → CASE STUDY While New York Needs More Housing, Maine Towns Adopt Housing Caps New York ties state money to building more homes. Maine towns are capping how many get built. Read the case study → CASE STUDY US Towns Don’t Agree How You Should Pay for Your Trash One Massachusetts city moved to paying by the bag, another moved off it, in the same year. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Business Retention Runs on the Worst Information. The Public Record Already Has Better. Most economic developers learn a local employer is in trouble from the news. Municipal Alpha reads town and county records across 4,400+ municipalities, where it's written down first. Read the case study → CASE STUDY How Cell-Tower Leases Get Decided Before a Broker Ever Sees Them Lease approvals, small-cell siting, and ordinance changes surface in town and county meeting records, weeks ahead of typical RFP timing. Drawn from 161,492 FCC-registered towers across 1,105 municipalities. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Case Study: One Town's Check Register, 15 Public Company Tickers Geneva, Illinois publishes bi-weekly check registers. Municipal Alpha resolves vendor names to stock tickers automatically — 9 years of data, 15+ tickers, from a single town. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Case Study: Hartford, VT PFAS Remediation Chain 8 signals over 2.5 years trace Hartford's PFAS response from routine biosolids testing to expanding remediation scope — each one a window for environmental services firms. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Case Study: Solar Siting Intelligence, From Moratorium to Permit One project's full regulatory pipeline, from the first planning-board signal to the permit, across Caribou ME, Litchfield ME, Enfield CT, and Bangor ME. Every source document linked. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Case Study: Waste Management (WM) Across 111 Municipalities 1,099 sightings across 28 states — contract extensions, competitive displacement, recurring payments, and regulatory signals for a single ticker extracted from public records. Read the case study → CASE STUDY Lead Pipes Are a $50B Problem Hiding in Municipal Agendas 75+ lead service line events across 39 municipalities in 13 states. The EPA's Lead and Copper Rule is creating a predictable cascade of municipal spending. Read the case study → CASE STUDY The Pickleball Boom Is Now a Line Item in Municipal Budgets 29 pickleball-related signals across 14 municipalities in 9 states. From federal grants to tennis court conversions, now a capital improvement line item. Read the case study →