We make marketing tools that hundreds of economic development organizations have integrated into their website to promote their location’s advantages.
Localintel is a location intelligence platform providing the software, integrations, and resources you need to identify and showcase what makes your location appealing to businesses and talent.
Attracting talent and businesses starts with identifying and communicating your location's advantages in a compelling, succinct, and engaging way. Localintel helps you do this in two ways:
Furthermore, our network of partner companies offers a range of services that leverage and amplify the value of Localintel’s products (e.g. investment attraction strategies, website creation, digital marketing and more).
We take a “marketing-first” approach to our products and have pioneered the concept of Location Advantages Marketing. This means we are focused on creating products that identify and showcase what makes your location appealing to help you attract site selectors, businesses and talent.In contrast, generalist GIS or demographic data products present a broad range of data that can communicate negative and positive aspects of your community. If you are trying to stand out from the competition, it’s best to start with the strongest sales pitch your community can offer – and that’s what we do.
Localintel works with hundreds of innovative economic developers across 27 US states and 8 Canadian provinces. Our clients range in size from the Texas Economic Development Corporation and Canadian Federal Government through to the Village of Waunakee in Wisconsin and Town of Sundre in Alberta.
Localintel was established in 2016 and has offices in Seattle, Vancouver and Calgary.
Localintel’s catalog contains a large range of “ready to go” data visualizations that hundreds of organizations have embedded into their website to:
Each data visualization addresses a specific topic that economic developers frequently want to communicate about their location to businesses and talent, including:
Localintel sets up, hosts and maintains all the tools in our catalog, including the data which we automatically source and update for you.
Localintel sources and updates all data used in our tools automatically. We use accurate data from sources that you can trust and rely on from government and third-party data providers. In the US this includes the Bureau of Labor of Statistics, US Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis.In Canada, we use the latest data from Statistics Canada and other Federal and provincial government sources. The frequency of updated depends on the dataset. Localintel’s uses hundreds of datasets with some being automatically updated each month whilst other datasets are updated bi-annuals, annually or as new census surveys are released.
Our tools are optimized for all device types and provide an incredible experience on any screen size. We encourage you to try our tools on your cell phone or tablet.
The colors used in most of our charts can be customized to align with your brand. Fonts and colors of headers may also be customized depending on the tool. If you subscribe to our Target Sector Advantages tool, then you can select the name of your target industries and the NAICS codes associated with each of your target industries.
We charge an annual subscription fee based on the number and type of products you select. There’s no set up fee.
Not at all, there are small rural communities with less than 1,000 people using our products.
Localintel has a dedicated Customer Success team that are available to assist our clients and make sure they are getting maximum value from our products. In addition, we regularly share the latest industry news, trends, and best practice from across North America.
Yes, our data visualizations integrate easily into any existing or new website.
Yes, our clients can access User Analytics Reports from Localintel’s Client Portal.
