Dataset owner, update frequency, geography, methodology, citation format, and usage limits for every data source in the platform.
Local intelligence your council, investors, and funders will trust.
We turn your local economic data into cited briefs, council notes, and investor packages. Every claim sourced. Every output yours to approve.
How it works
Two ways the platform works for your team.
Draft cited outputs on demand, or let Signals Radar monitor your data and surface what matters automatically.
Draft cited outputs in minutes.
Briefing Agent and Report Agent draft council notes, investor packages, grant evidence sections, and full economic reports from your approved data — ready for staff review and approval.
What your team can produce
- Council briefing note
Turn permit activity, labour data, and seasonal baselines into a defensible briefing note with charts and source caveats.
- Investor attraction package
Pull workforce profiles, commercial availability, and demographic proof points into a tailored, cited investor response.
- Grant evidence section
Assemble cited indicators, trend charts, and regional comparisons for funding applications — every claim traceable.
- Site selection evidence pack
Overlay trade areas, mobility data, and commercial listings for a developer inquiry, backed by local source data.
Know what changed before the next meeting.
Signals Radar monitors your datasets and flags meaningful changes, anomalies, and opportunities automatically — so your team acts on current data, not last quarter's.
What your team will catch
- Permit activity above baseline
Catch unusual building permit volumes before the next council meeting and draft a cited context note automatically.
- Labour market deterioration
Detect quarter-over-quarter workforce changes and surface the relevant indicators before they become a council question.
- Sector growth or contraction
Flag shifts in business counts, sector concentration, or commercial vacancies as soon as updated data arrives.
- Retail spending leakage
Surface retail gap indicators when spending patterns shift and queue a retail opportunity brief for staff review.
Trust model
Designed for public-sector scrutiny.
Every claim traced to an approved source. Every output stays in draft until a staff member approves it. Built around the workflows that make AI safe to use in public-sector work.
Claim-level traceability to tables, maps, documents, date ranges, and caveats. Inspect any sentence before it leaves the system.
Draft-only agents, human review gates, audit logs, and export history. Nothing is published without a staff decision.
What powers it
Raw data, refined into answers.
Public statistics, commercial data, and municipal systems — connected and unified inside one workbench.
Explore your data
The environment where your team works.
Maps, charts, and report output in one place. Staff explore data spatially, inspect time series, and push approved visuals directly into briefs, investor packages, and council reports — without switching tools.
Business locations, trade areas, listings, permits, and mobility context.
Filter by category, click any marker to inspect it, and export map states as evidence for an AI-generated brief.
Data source: Statistics Canada, local workforce estimates. Caveat: latest wage estimate is regional.
Every chart carries source, geography, time range, and caveats.
Agents recommend visuals for a claim, but users can still inspect the underlying metric and export charts into branded reports.
Building Permit Activity
+18.7% above seasonal baseline — strongest quarter since 2021
Source: Municipal permit feed · Statistics Canada · Updated Mar 31 2026
Move from interactive analysis to reviewed publication.
Approved visuals, evidence, and narrative blocks flow into council notes, investor packages, grant evidence sections, and public-facing dashboards.
From question to answer
Questions you get every week, answered in minutes.
A growing library of structured and ML models purpose-built for economic development. A few examples.
Retail gap model
A developer calls asking about retail demand in your downtown.
You send them a cited gap analysis — by category, by trade area — before the end of the day.
Permit anomaly detector
Council wants to know why permit volumes are suddenly up.
Signals Radar flagged it two weeks ago. You already have a drafted context note with sources.
Site suitability scorer
A site selector needs to compare three locations in your region.
Each listing is scored by demographic fit, competitor proximity, and traffic access — in one package.
Investment readiness index
A federal grant application is due in three weeks.
Your investment readiness index benchmarks your community against regional peers with cited evidence.