Flyover Report
Early-stage screening before you enter a purchase agreement. A site's social and political risk, read from the public record, in days — not weeks.
- Length
- 2 pages
- Output
- Go / No-Go
- Turnaround
- ~1 week
We read a jurisdiction's social and political risk — and hand you the verdict: go, no-go, and the path to approval.
Opposition is now a balance-sheet risk — and it's invisible to grid maps and zoning screens. The human and political layer is the hardest data in project success, and it's the only thing we do.
Solar · wind · BESS · data centers · nationwide. 400+ projects analyzed.
Early-stage screening before you enter a purchase agreement. A site's social and political risk, read from the public record, in days — not weeks.
Commissioner voting patterns, opposition mapping, stakeholder profiles, threshold conditions, and messaging guidance — for sites you're serious about.
A delayed 60 MW facility loses $10.8M a month (STL Partners). The report is a rounding error.
Modular — buy what you need at each stage. Portal, a self-serve search platform, is in development.
Every Flypower report passes through three structured steps — not delivered straight from a model.
Government meetings, social media, news, regulatory filings, land use plans, and more: every public signal ingested and structured.
A team of analysts reviews every finding: votes, opposition patterns, risk scores. Every word of our reports gets validated by a human being. We stand by our work.
An independent editor reviews the full report for accuracy, clarity, and consistency before it reaches you.
Human in the loop at every stage — not raw AI output delivered to your team.
You're trying to get a project approved in a politically fragile county. We tell you if it's Clear Monitor Friction or Kill — before the hearing opens.
See the productsYou're underwriting assets in counties where community risk isn't priced. We quantify it before you commit capital.
How we work with fundsNever walk into a hearing blind. We map who decides, who opposes, and what message lands — your strategic path to approval.
Plan your approval pathUnattributed by design — our clients don't disclose that they use us, and we return the favor.
"Using Flypower is like hitting the 'Easy Button.' It's an efficient, comprehensive, and cost-effective game-changer versus traditional consulting."
A leading data center developer
"We are no longer allowed to make an interconnection deposit without first obtaining a Flypower report."
"The ability to save developers millions in lost development costs makes the price a simple rounding error."
"The upfront identification of stakeholder maps, political cycles, and election timelines is incredibly helpful — we need to know who will approve this before we walk in the door."
By the time it's on a hearing agenda, the outcome is usually set. Both anonymized, from recent reports.
Opposition next door already had a nonprofit, counsel, and a state senator. We mapped the narrowing window, the water question, and the terms to negotiate from.
It shared infrastructure with a transmission line every local board had voted against, sat under a statutory city veto, and faced a 16-group coalition already mobilized.