We rank where demand, grid/fiber, and entitlement evidence actually coexist — and we show the work. A site search burns weeks of somebody senior's time before it returns a single answer, and most of those weeks go to markets that were never going to work. This is the document that decides which week is worth taking.
Screen, don't decide. It is a ranking with its evidence attached, not a recommendation: you can argue with every number in it, which is the only kind of ranking worth taking to an investment committee.
One finds the market. The other finds the ground inside it. You can read both in full, further down this page, before you speak to anyone.
Not a teaser, not an excerpt, not a template with the numbers taken out. These are real renders from our committed data snapshots. Every figure, badge, source, limit and freshness date is the genuine output. Internal decision references and staff attributions were generalised, and every page is stamped as a sample.
Ranked markets with their leg sub-scores and confidence badges, the friction watch-list with its dated citations, the sensitivity envelope, and the provenance appendix every figure points into.
Illustrative, and dated. It is a real scan of one region on the date stamped in its footer — not a current answer about your market, and not advice about any market.
A parcel-led shortlist inside Harris County — the market our published scan ranked #1. It leads with the parcel cards: acreage from the county appraisal roll, a slope sample, the mapped floodplain zone, transmission distance and voltage, fibre at the grain the data has — each with the instrument that measured it and the limit that applies to it. Then the named gaps, routed to phone calls. The scan says which market; this says which parcels.
Illustrative, and dated. The parcels are real and public, proposed by our own analysts to exercise the screen; the page says so. Nothing here says a parcel is buildable.
The problem, the method in twelve lines, both deliverables, and the reliability contract in the report's own words. No email, no form, nothing to sign up for.
Interconnection queue position is unpublished nationwide. We report queue activity where public — never a project's own position.
Friction signals are news- and legislation-based by nature. They're tiered, dated, and linked — and the report says so plainly.
Demand is a proxy stack, not a signed customer. The scan finds where the signals converge; your BD team still sells the capacity. Screen, don't decide.
We name the serving utility from its own federal filing and hand you the call list. The utility's load letter remains the definitive step — exactly as our reports state.
Every dataset feeds exactly one leg. If two legs shared a source, "convergence" would be the same fact counted twice — so leg independence is checked on every scoring run, and a violation blocks release. Not advisory. Blocking.
How much latency-sensitive activity actually sits in the ring: federal jobs data at block grain, industry mix, population and growth, named anchor institutions. Percentiles are taken against comparable counties nationwide, never against the handful in your request — so a weak market cannot look strong by being asked about in weak company.
Interconnection and peering presence, fibre depth, transmission headroom and voltage, serving utilities named from their own federal filings — and the gap ratio: demand per unit of capacity already there. White space is the product.
Dated, quoted, linked evidence of expansion. Every claim is re-fetched from the publisher's own page and the quoted sentence confirmed to be on it; what fails is discarded and counted. A market clears the floor at three qualifying signals inside eighteen months and its reading shows as measured; below that it is named as thin. The page prints the date we looked on either way.
⚠ Momentum does not move your rank, and that is deliberate. We have researched momentum in a small number of markets and not in the rest. Ranking on it would order the report by where we have looked rather than by where the market is moving — the markets we paid to research would be marked down for having been researched. So every market is ranked on the two legs every market has, demand and supply gravity, and momentum is reported beside the ranking rather than inside it. When coverage is broad enough that being researched is no longer the deciding variable, that changes — and it changes in public, with a version on it.
Moratoria, blocked projects, incentive posture — a multiplier on the whole score, shown as its own dial. A county under moratorium can't rank high no matter how loud the demand, because that's how a developer experiences reality. Friction facts never hide inside an evidence leg, they are sized against your build (a 50 MW threshold does not bind a 2 MW room, and the report shows the number rather than deciding for you), and they don't expire until repealed. A jurisdiction whose act cannot reach your market is still listed — under an explicit verdict saying it does not reach you. Disclosed, never deleted.
The Proximity Compute Demand Index — the single ranking number. A geometric mean of the scored legs, multiplied by friction. Geometric, so a market that is excellent at one thing and poor at another cannot average its way to the top.
On each market's radar, a leg we did not score is drawn as a dashed line labelled ABSENT, and the shape stops short of it. Drawing it at zero would claim we looked and found nothing. We didn't look — and those are different documents.
Every figure is badged with how we know it. MEASURED is read from a named dataset. Weaker tiers are stated as such, and the report's overall confidence is the lowest tier of the legs it used — it cannot be talked up by the strong parts.
Demand divided by the serving capacity already measured in the ring. Above 1.0 is white space; below it, the market is already served.
A required leg was absent, so the market is listed separately with its named gap and left unranked. Scoring it zero would rank it — and rank it last — which is a claim we did not measure.
Two markets within a couple of index points, or which swap places inside the sensitivity envelope. Read them as a pair, not as a ranking. The report names them rather than letting the sort order imply a winner.
No friction research has been run for that market, so its index is an upper bound. Friction can only bring a number down, so "at most X" is exactly true and "X" would not be.
A question we asked and no dataset we hold could answer — by-right zoning status, distance to the nearest substation, lit fibre at a specific address. It is printed with the call that would close it and who holds the answer, never quietly dropped.
Most market intelligence asks for your trust. Ours ships with the tools to check it — because the instrument that finds your next market should be held to the same standard as the interconnection study that follows it.
Dataset, exact vintage, pull date, how-to-verify — per figure. Find one you can't reconstruct and the scan is free. A paid order is refunded in full, by us, to the card that paid.
Momentum evidence comes from dated sources with links verified to render — our own checker re-fetches every page and finds the quoted sentence on it. Failures are discarded and counted.
Thin public momentum is labeled exactly that — badged, capped, never dressed up. An absent source is a named gap, not a guess.
A geometric mean of independently-sourced legs times a visible friction dial. The Gap Ratio formula is versioned and printed in your appendix.
Every report states how far the weights must move to change the #1. Near-ties are called near-ties, not verdicts.
Nothing auto-sends. An analyst reviews each report, approves it personally, and the release is recorded in a ledger.
If a source goes down, your report says which one and when — and the credit comes back. It never renders as a fact about your market.
Leg-independence checks on every scoring run — a violation blocks release, it does not warn — plus a data-freshness board and a calibration harness. Inspectable by founding clients on request.
Property Screen, Market Report, Site Hunt, Tower Sheet and Tower Target List are ordered on the ARUON report page. Every one is analyst-released; the order page checks whether we hold your county before you pay.
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