A 60-day founding pilot for your county or region

Beacon CRE is a growth and site map of North and South Carolina built on public data. The founding pilot gives your team everything in the Founding Partner Licence for 60 days, so you can see it working on your own county before you commit. It is free for the first three economic development offices.

What the pilot includes

• A workspace for your county or region with unlimited seats for your team.
• This quarter's County Growth Report: a 6-page PDF with quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year change, a peer comparison you can choose, NC/SC ranks, wages, announcements, permits and sales by quarter, plus board-ready PNG charts.
• An embeddable, white-label map for your own website: growth, Opportunity Zones and Qualified Census Tracts, and sites.
• 100 export credits (100 rows each) of licensed sales data, only from counties whose terms allow it.
• A 15-minute walkthrough if you want one, and email support from hello@beaconcarolinas.com.

Every number comes from a public source we list on the data sources page. Data is provided as is; see the terms.

After the pilot

• Founding Partner Licence

  $12,000 a year

  One county, unlimited seats, the quarterly County Growth Report, the embeddable map and 2,000 export credits a year. Price locked for 3 years. Regional alliances: $24,000 to $36,000 a year, depending on the number of counties. Partners can split the licence (for example an EDO, a chamber and a town).

• Team

  $4,800 a year

  One county, 3 seats, the quarterly County Growth Report and 1,000 export credits a year.

• Pro

  $1,490 a year

  One county, 1 seat, the quarterly County Growth Report and 250 export credits a year.

• Custom report

  From $2,500

  A submarket or site report for one county ($2,500) or a corridor or portfolio ($7,500), delivered in 5 business days.

How the founding pilot works

1. You request a pilot below, or reply to our email. We reply within one business day to agree the county or region and a start date.
2. Your workspace opens on the start date. There is no fee, so there is no purchase order, invoice, card or vendor registration to sort out first.
3. In return, we ask for your feedback during the pilot and permission to name your organisation as a reference.
4. The pilot ends on its own after 60 days. Nothing renews and nothing is charged.
5. If you then take the Founding Partner Licence, it is invoiced through Stripe from Simply Stats LLC, doing business as Beacon CRE: pay by card or ACH bank transfer within 30 days (net 30). Need a purchase order, a W-9 or a check? Ask at hello@beaconcarolinas.com.

Founding pilots are limited to the first three economic development offices that start one. If they are taken, ask us about a pilot anyway.

Who you'll deal with

Request a pilot

Tell us who you are and which area you cover. We'll reply by email; there's no automated sequence.