Data Driven Transparency

Building analytical solutions that show the work. No black box. No hidden formulas.

What we do

Three kinds of work, one standard

Professional-grade insights for consumers

Professionals pay for the data behind a household's biggest decisions, such as where to live. We bring that standard of analysis to people and publish the method beside the result.

Residents Almanac →

Bespoke analytical products for businesses

We build tools for a question a business actually has, from data it has the right to use. Our tools measure first and explain second, and every report says what it could and could not see.

Scout →

Rigorous research for complex problems

We hold our answers to the standard of a methods paper: we read peer-reviewed sources in full, prefer primary data, label design choices as design choices, and keep a public record of what changed and why.

How we work →

The rules

What every product keeps

Every value cited

Each number carries its source, the time we retrieved it and a checksum in the record behind it.

Nothing invented

When a value is missing, we say so and count it. We never estimate to close a gap.

Limits stated

Where the evidence runs out, the product says so. We label any choice the evidence does not settle as a design choice.