Data Stories
Patterns only visible at 2,500 municipalities
Each story is built entirely from public records. The pipeline classifies every document, resolves vendor names to public company tickers, and tracks policy contagion across jurisdictions. These are the patterns that fall out.
PFAS Is Spreading Through Municipal Agendas Faster Than Groundwater
The Company That Shows Up in 123 Towns
The Housing Density Wave Is Rewriting Municipal Zoning
Lead Pipes Are a $50B Problem Hiding in Municipal Agendas
Data Centers Are Now a Zoning Fight in 20 States
The Pickleball Boom Is Now a Line Item in Municipal Budgets
See a pattern relevant to your portfolio?
Every story above was built from the same pipeline that powers our data products. Tell me what you're watching.
Entity-Resolved Vendor Payments
Check registers and AP warrants resolved to public company tickers. One payment is a curiosity. Thousands across jurisdictions is a revenue signal.
Download sample CSV →Contagion & Policy Signals
Cross-municipal event tracking for regulatory waves, infrastructure mandates, and spending cascades. Which town moved first, how fast it spread.
Download sample CSV →Tower & Infrastructure Prospects
Cell tower sites cross-referenced across assessor records, FCC, FAA, and municipal payments. Parcel-level with owner ID and confidence scoring.
Download sample CSV →Building Permits & Contractor Signals
Structured permit records resolved to public company tickers. Leading indicator for construction activity and government contractor revenue.
Download sample CSV →Credit Quality Indicators
Budget trends, fund balances, debt service patterns, and fiscal stress signals from source financial documents. Structured daily instead of annually.
Download sample CSV →Full Methodology
Coverage maps, freshness guarantees, known gaps, and classification details. How the pipeline works, what it captures, and what it misses.
Read methodology →What the pipeline sees in a single municipality. Document volume, signal classification, entity resolution, and vendor landscape. Auto-generated from continuous monitoring.
Falmouth, Maine
Coastal New England town with active development, climate, and infrastructure lease signals.
Geneva, Illinois
The alt data story: entity resolution maps vendor payments to public company revenue across 1,700+ sightings.
Pocatello, Idaho
The town nobody's watching, producing more high-priority signals than cities ten times its profile.
What should we investigate next?
The pipeline monitors 2,500+ municipalities in real time. If there's a trend, policy wave, or spending pattern you want us to dig into, we'll build the data story.
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