About

Built for
this moment.

The data center boom has a sorting problem: a trillion dollars of capital, a queue that's three-quarters phantom, and communities deciding — county by county — what gets built. Buildable exists to sort it: fast, auditable answers to the only question that matters before the money moves.

What we are

And, just as deliberately, what we're not.
A verdict firm

We sell answers with evidence attached: can this site get power, permits, and permission. Fixed fee, fixed scope, days not quarters. Our incentive is to kill bad sites early — we're paid for the answer, never the transaction.

Not a broker, not a black box

No commissions, no success fees tied to deals closing, no incentive-contingent pricing. And no unauditable PDFs: the model ships with the verdict, sources and weights exposed.

Never starting cold

Our research desk keeps standing coverage of queue filings, tariffs, ordinances, and years of hearing minutes. That head start is why the prices are fixed, the turnarounds are short, and the free tier exists at all.

Our research desk keeps standing coverage of queue filings, tariffs, ordinances, and years of hearing minutes. That head start supports fixed prices and short turnarounds.

Signed work

Every Buildable verdict carries a named analyst's signature — with reasoning attached, and with licensed engineers subcontracted whenever work needs a stamp we don't carry.

The founding bet

Three things we think are true.
01Sites fail early, knowably

Most dead projects were killable on paper months before the money moved — a queue that was phantom, a setback that didn't fit, a board that was always going to say no.

02Permission is the new power

Turbine supply will ease. Transmission will build. The politics — anchored to household electric bills — are durable. The winners will underwrite permission like they underwrite power.

03Evidence beats access

This industry runs on relationships and rumors. We think published methods, open trackers, and auditable verdicts beat both — and that the firms who agree will be our clients first.

The team

Small core, deep bench.
Founder-led

Founded by a team with backgrounds across data centers, software engineering, and geospatial analysis — with a GIS practice behind it.

Licensed partners

Subcontracted electrical, structural, civil, and telecom engineers join engagements that need stamped judgment — under their license, on your side of the table.

The research desk

A standing team maintains the datasets — queue forensics, ordinance coding, tariff library, water frameworks — so every engagement starts warm, not cold.

Contact

Start with a free Mini-Screen, reply to any issue of the Letter, or write to [email protected] (demo). We respond within one business day.

Reply to any issue of the Letter, or write to [email protected] (demo). We respond within one business day.