The Method

Auditable,
or it doesn't ship.

Most siting advice is a black box: a brand name, a PDF, and a "trust us." We publish how we work instead. Every layer sourced. Every assumption exposed. Every claim labeled. If you disagree with a weight, change it — the model is part of the deliverable.

The pipeline

Every engagement runs the same seven stages.
1 · INGESTGather everything

Queue filings, tariffs, ordinances, hearing records, parcel and grid layers, water and fiber data — pulled fresh per engagement, not from a stale library.

2 · STRUCTUREMake it comparable

We structure filings, ordinances, and minutes into records you can compare — each one carrying its source and retrieval date.

3 · MODELRun the layers

A reproducible GIS model: setbacks and receptors mapped, queue context joined, tariff economics computed, risks scored with exposed weights.

4 · REFUTEAttack the draft

A dedicated adversarial pass tries to break every conclusion, using our catalog of documented project failures as the checklist.

5 · LABELGrade every claim

Confirmed · Likely · Unverifiable. Nothing ships without a label, and "unverifiable" comes with exactly what a ground visit must check.

6 · SIGNA person owns it

A named reviewer signs every deliverable and defends it line by line. Accountability never leaves a person.

7 · SHIPVerdict + evidence

Written verdict, the model itself, and a full source appendix. You can audit us — that's the point.

ALWAYSWhat we never do

No transaction fees. No incentive-contingent pricing. No stamped engineering (we bring licensed PEs in when you need stamps). No verdicts we can't defend line by line.

Confidence labels

The three words that make a verdict honest.
CONFIRMED

Verified against primary sources — filings, statutes, recorded votes, executed documents. Cited so you can check.

LIKELY

Supported by strong indirect evidence, stated with its reasoning and what would change our mind.

UNVERIFIABLE

Cannot be established remotely. Flagged, never guessed — with the exact question your ground visit or utility meeting must answer.

The Backtest Book

We ran our screen against eight documented failures. Would we have caught them?
ProjectWhat killed itWould the screen have flagged it?
PW Digital Gateway, VA — $24.7BRezoning voided on a public-notice defect; partners exited; project terminated 2026FLAGGED — procedural-trap check catches notice requirements per jurisdiction
NV Energy / Tract dispute, NVDeveloper says promised power wasn't delivered; litigation 2026FLAGGED — commitment-language vs. contract review is core S3 scope
Fort Meade area project, MDHalted on water permitting despite local approvalsFLAGGED — water regime screened independently of zoning status
Karis Critical, Naperville ILRejected 6-1 even after design concessionsFLAGGED — vote-history and sentiment scoring; concessions don't cure formed opposition
Brandy Station, Culpeper VA — $12B426-acre rezoning unanimously deniedFLAGGED — board composition and land-use vote record
Tract, Goodyear/Buckeye AZ — $14BWithdrawn: heights, noise, resource strainFLAGGED — ordinance-parameter survival check against concept massing
Meta-linked project, MI — $1BWithdrawn over water, grid strain, transparency; township then imposed a moratoriumFLAGGED — water grievance + transparency posture in permission score
Roundhouse, Cascade Locks ORCanceled after officials who backed it were recalledFLAGGED — electoral-risk signal in jurisdiction scoring

Backtests use only information available before each project's failure. Full evidence files in the published Backtest Book white paper. (Demo content — illustrative of the planned artifact.)

Fast because we never start cold

We maintain standing coverage of queue filings, ordinances, tariffs, and years of hearing minutes — reading that costs a traditional consultancy a quarter of billable time, done before you ever call. That head start is why our prices are fixed and our turnarounds are days. And every Buildable verdict is signed by a named analyst, with their reasoning attached.