Public investment and ecosystem analysis
You invest in your region. Is it producing innovation?
Start with a locally tailored analysis from the public-sector perspective. Then invite economic development, universities, investors, and community partners who see the ecosystem from other angles. Ecosystem Navigator shows where public investment connects to outcomes and where the evidence points to a different priority.
Strategic plans set direction. A shared ecosystem analysis shows whether council, staff, economic development, and anchor institutions agree on what is working and what needs attention.
Start with your perspective
Build the first analysis in five minutes.
Choose a place and your role. The diagnostic configures its questions around the institutions and conditions in that ecosystem.
One ecosystem, analyzed together
Turn different vantage points into a shared analysis
The government and policy perspective is one part of the evidence. Ecosystem Navigator brings it together with the people who experience the ecosystem differently, then gives the group a structured analysis to investigate and revisit.
Individual analysis
Run a locally tailored diagnostic from your own vantage point. The free version takes 10 questions and about five minutes.
Group exercise
Invite people who see the ecosystem from different angles. Everyone answers the same question spine independently.
Shared analysis
Compare where perspectives align, where they diverge, and which constraints or priorities recur across the group.
Deeper investigation
Use Explore and five Deep Dive modules to test what the first analysis puts on the table.
Repeated measurement
Repeat a fixed exercise to see what changed, what held, and where the next round of work should begin.
Sound Familiar?
These are the questions that keep mayors and city managers up at night. The diagnostic tells you where you actually stand.
"How do I justify innovation spending to taxpayers?"
Innovation investment has long payoffs and short election cycles. The diagnostic gives you scored, evidence-based analysis you can take to council — showing exactly where public investment is producing returns and where it's leaking value.
"We fund education, then graduates leave."
Brain drain isn't a university problem — it means the ecosystem lacks the employers, capital, and quality of life to retain the talent your tax dollars helped produce. The diagnostic pinpoints the specific gap.
"We approved an innovation district. Now what?"
Rezoning is step one. The diagnostic reveals whether the surrounding ecosystem — anchor tenants, talent pipeline, capital access, transit connectivity — can make that district succeed or sit half-empty.
"Our strategic plan mentions innovation but doesn't measure it."
The diagnostic scores your region across 35 dimensions and connects them to the municipal instruments you control — official plan, procurement, capital budget, and inter-governmental coordination.
What You Get From the Platform
One report can brief council. Multiple perspectives create the evidence base for policy, budget, and partnership decisions.
Localized Baseline
A scored read on how public investment, institutions, talent, and capital connect inside your jurisdiction.
Session Diagnostics
Invite departments and partners to answer the same question spine so you can see alignment, friction, and delivery gaps.
Evidence Base
Each run adds answers, scores, local assets, citations, and recommendations to a record you can revisit during planning cycles.
Decision Outputs
Council-ready reports, PDF export, share links, stakeholder briefs, and recommendations framed around instruments you control.
Not a Consultant Report. Not ChatGPT.
Consultant studies take months and cost six figures. This diagnostic scores your ecosystem in 5 minutes — and you can share it immediately.
- “Foster a culture of innovation”
- “Attract and retain talent”
- “Support entrepreneurship”
- “Leverage our strengths”
- “Phase IV scores 1.8 — success is leaving the jurisdiction. Reinvestment mechanisms (local procurement, founder retention, capital recycling) are weak.”
- “Your zoning decisions created an innovation district, but transit access scores 2.1 — the infrastructure doesn’t support the vision.”
- “Three workforce programs overlap with no coordination. Recommend inter-departmental alignment...”
Questions from Government Leaders
I'm a mayor, not an innovation expert. Is this for me?▾
Can I use this in a council presentation?▾
How does this relate to our strategic plan?▾
How is this different from hiring a consultant?▾
What does the free version include?▾
Should our EDO run this too?▾
Five Minutes. Your Region. Your Evidence.
You already know your region has potential. Find out if your policy instruments are unlocking it.
No account required · Results in 60 seconds · Share with your council