Platform

One evidence base. Thirteen ways in.

Every module is a question somebody in your organization already gets asked. The difference is that here the answer arrives resolved to your region, dated and ready to cite — and anything modeled says so.

All platform modules

01

Labor Market Overview

How is this region doing right now, and where is it heading?

02

Industry Data & Trends

Which industries are here, how concentrated, growing or shrinking?

03

Occupational Data & Demand

Who works here, what they earn, and what is projected.

04

Similar Occupations

What work is closest on skill profile, what it pays, where the gap is.

05

Academic Program Data

What is being produced by program, award level, institution and geography.

06

Talent Supply Pipeline

Completions against modeled annual openings, by program family.

07

Pipeline Diversity

Who completes each program, against the resident population and who is hired.

08

Wage Benchmarking

Full wage distribution, indexed against the nation and peer areas.

09

Workforce Demographics

Age, race and ethnicity, attainment, commuting, class of worker, turnover.

10

Commuting & Dynamics

Where workers come from, hires, separations and turnover rates.

11

Regional Comparison

Any set of areas across a dozen standard metrics, side by side.

12

Narrative Reporting

A written, sourced report you can hand to a committee.

13

Data & Methods

The vintage and method behind every figure, on one screen.

Depth, not breadth theatre

The analysis a workforce analyst would run by hand.

These are standard regional-economics methods, implemented properly and shown transparently — not proprietary indices whose construction nobody will disclose.

Industry concentration against 5-year growth5-yr change
-10%0%+10%+20%0.51.01.52.0 location quotient →
Bubble size = employmentDashed line = national average concentration (LQ 1.0)
Closest occupations by skill profile — Industrial Machinery MechanicSkill profile
Maintenance workers, mach. 0.91 Millwrights 0.87 Mobile heavy equip. mech. 0.82 Electro-mech. technicians 0.78 HVAC mechanics 0.71

Similarity on standardized skill, knowledge and activity profiles. Why standardizing matters →

Location quotient and shift-share

Concentration relative to the nation, and five-year regional change decomposed into national growth, industry mix and a competitive residual — so you can tell a rising tide from genuine local advantage. Filterable by NAICS level, year, quarter and ownership sector.

Full wage distributions

Not just a median. The 10th through 90th percentile, indexed against the national distribution and against peer areas you choose, with entry-level and experienced wages separated.

Supply and demand, reconciled

Annual completions by CIP family against modeled annual openings for the occupations that family feeds — with the crosswalk's many-to-many inflation corrected, and demand defaulted to occupations whose typical entry route is actually a postsecondary award.

Pipeline diversity, benchmarked twice

Who completes each program, measured against the resident population and against who is actually being hired into the occupations it feeds. Two different questions, and the gap between them is usually the interesting one.

Working with it

Built to be used by more than one person.

Narrative reports

A written, sourced report on a region, an occupation or a program — generated from the same data, exported to Word, and editable into a board packet. Source notes travel with it.

Export everything

CSV on every table. Vector charts that print sharp at any size and inherit light or dark theme. Nothing is locked inside the interface.

Regional comparison

Any set of areas across a dozen standard metrics side by side — your service area against the state, the nation, or the three peer regions your board keeps mentioning.

Refreshed automatically

Current labor market series nightly, employment and wage panels weekly, reference layers monthly. Every figure shows its vintage, so you know how fresh it is before you cite it.

No per-seat tax

One subscription covers your whole organization. Researchers, deans, planners, analysts and grant writers can all use it without a licensing conversation each time.

Custom service areas

Counties, metros, micropolitan areas, CSAs — or a custom set of counties that matches your actual service district rather than a statistical boundary that does not.

Validation

Checked against independent authorities.

Twenty-six automated checks compare the figures the platform serves against independent published totals. Any check that allows a tolerance says why, and anything modeled is labeled as modeled — so what you cite is what you think it is.

How validation works

26
Automated validation checks
12 yrs
Of history on every series
0
Scraped or synthetic records
50 + DC
States, every county and metro

See it against your own region

A 30-minute walkthrough using your service area, your programs and your CIP codes — not a canned demo dataset.