Why Flypower — a verdict, not a data dump

The alternatives

What a verdict replaces

Every Flypower report ends in a takeaway you can act on — “this county will approve you if you arrive with the water study and public-cost protections.” Here's why the other tools on your desk can't say that sentence.

You're choosing between	What you get	The strategic insight it can't give you
GIS & data platforms	Parcels, buildable area, transmission adjacency — hundreds of layers, instantly.	Whether the county will say yes. The political layer isn't in any dataset.
Permitting trackers	Filings, hearing dates, ordinance requirements, on a map.	Which requirement becomes the fight — and who shows up to start it.
AI-drafted memos	A fast document that reads well.	Whether any claim in it survives contact with the record. No analyst signs it.
Traditional consultants	Deep local judgment — in six weeks, for one site.	Screening speed, portfolio coverage, and a price that works before you own the land.
A Flypower verdict	A strategic verdict: go or no-go, the path to approval, and the terms to offer — 12 indicators, analyst-verified, sourced to the public record, in about a week.	This is the column we exist for.

Our stance

How we work — and your fair questions

Primary documents only

Findings trace to meeting minutes, votes, filings, and local records — not scraped sentiment scores or keyword alerts.

No black box

Every consequential claim links to the public record behind it. If we can't source it, we don't print it.

Humans sign every report

Analysts review every finding and an independent editor reviews every report. We stand by our work.

Confidential by default

Client names, jurisdictions, and scores are never disclosed — yours included.

How is this different from asking ChatGPT to research a county?

A model alone gives you plausible prose with no accountability. Flypower runs a structured 12-indicator methodology over the jurisdiction's full public record, then analysts verify every finding against primary documents and an independent editor reviews the whole report before it ships. You get sourced claims and a verdict someone signs — not an unsourced summary.

How do you verify what's in a report?

Every consequential claim links to the record it came from: board minutes, recorded votes, ordinances, filings, local press. If a claim can't be traced to a primary source, it doesn't appear. That's also why our reports hold up when they're passed to investment committees and counsel.

Why don't you name your clients?

Siting intelligence is competitive advantage — our clients don't disclose that they use us, and we don't disclose them. The same confidentiality applies to your projects and scores from the first conversation. What we can share: anonymized samples, with fictional place names, that show exactly how a report reads.

What does it cost?

Pricing is shared on the first call and scales with scope — a two-page Flyover screen versus a 60-to-70-page Due Diligence Report. For context: a delayed 60MW data center loses roughly $10.8M in revenue per month (STL Partners). Either report is a rounding error against one month of delay.

Do you cover my technology and region?

We cover renewable energy (solar, wind, BESS) and data centers across the United States. If your project is adjacent to those, just ask.