Hi Spark Community,

Happy August! Summer is advancing quickly, but here in the Bay Area you’d hardly notice from the weather. The consistency in temperature is only matched by the consistency of our team’s releases, as we’ve continued rolling out new features to make Spark a better, more complete platform for your development needs.

📹️ Meeting videos, transcripts, and summaries

Spark has always let you see decisions from local authorities in any county or township in the country. Now, you can see how those decisions happen, straight from the video.

For every authority across the US, you can watch meeting videos, read transcripts, see decisions, and check out our key insights. We’ll tell you the topics covered, who said what, and what was decided — saving you hours of watching game tape for a 20-second clip.

📱 Social media monitoring for data centers

Every day, hundreds of people discuss the data center buildout on Facebook, but finding and filtering those posts is a pain. This month, Spark has released the ability to filter and summarize data center posts on the world’s biggest social media platform, so that you never have to log in.

You can filter posts by popularity or recency; read our summary of concerns; and track major developments through alerts. Social Media Signals shows you who is opposed, what they’re opposed to, and why, for any location of your choice. Find the opposition on local feeds, where it starts — before it finds you.

🔔 Full moratorium alerts

A moratorium is the ultimate project-killer: a top-down ban on development before it begins. We’ve always tracked the changes in moratoria; now, we’re sending you email alerts when one is about to hit.

See every mention of a moratorium in the places you care about. Get the updates directly to your email to stay ahead of the curve.

📈 Permit Matrices

This month has also been a huge hit for our permit matrices, orderable within Spark!

🕵️ Coming soon: Stakeholder intelligence

With rising local opposition, increasing moratoria, and floods of applications, it’s never been more important to know ahead of time how a councilmember will vote. Spark’s upcoming Stakeholder Intelligence feature will give you the full political digest: who votes, how they decide, and what they care about.

It’s no longer just about convincing the board; you have to convince the members that matter. Join the waitlist below to be the first one with access.

As always, we'd love to hear what you think. Please let us know your thoughts, stories, and features you’d like to see. You can reach us by replying directly to this email or grabbing time with our team.

Until the next time,

The Spark AI Team