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- Which of your projects will actually get built? Now we'll tell you.
Which of your projects will actually get built? Now we'll tell you.
Three new services from Spark, built on the same data and software you use today.
In the last month, a power producer, an infrastructure buyer and a consulting firm each came to us with a version of the same question: which of these projects will actually get built? None of them wanted more data. They wanted a recommendation they could act on.
Developers ask us the same thing about every kind of project. Will the board vote yes? Are the permits in place? Is the power real?

Site screening across data center markets: moratoria, who decides, and local sentiment, city by city.
Being early-stage means we get to keep building for where this industry is headed, on top of what already works: Spark's software and the data underneath it. That's millions of documents across 20,000+ U.S. jurisdictions, re-checked multiple times a week. Tools like ChatGPT will answer a question about a county, but they can’t cover every jurisdiction, work out which authority governs a parcel, or tie each claim to a cited source. That’s what you rely on Spark for.
Now we're putting that engine to work on the hard analysis and delivering a judgment. After hundreds of conversations with developers big and small, three services rose to the top.
Permit Matrix: the blueprint for your permits. Every approval a site needs, local to federal, with the authority and sources for each.

One page of a 14-page sample permit matrix for a 300 MW data center: every approval, who issues it, and what it costs.
Stakeholder Intelligence: know who decides. Who will vote on your project, and which local groups will support or block it. We get you smart on them fast and help you keep tabs, because projects take months and years, not days and weeks.

Sample county board briefing: roster, voting record, commissioner profiles and how to engage.
Project Diligence: is it real? A buyer recently asked whether some sites would really be online by mid-2027, as the operators claimed. When I managed acquisitions, answering that took land attorneys and a lot of manual labor. Now our AI does the research and an expert delivers the verdict.
A domain expert reviews every deliverable and walks you through it on a short call. Most come back within a week.
If you're a subscriber, nothing about your subscription changes. The services run on the same software and data you use today. Do the work yourself in the app, or have our team deliver it when you need a finished product. Subscribers get preferred pricing on every service.
Reply with a site you’re working on, and I’ll tell you which service fits.
Anuj
P.S. Heading into a hearing in the next month? Reply now. Stakeholder briefs are the one people need yesterday.