Core concepts
Four surfaces come up everywhere: city reports, saved reports, decision cases, and Workspaces (Beta).
Account
A free account is required for custom searches, saved reports, uploads, and decision cases. City snapshots on the approved list do not need an account. Settings live under Manage account, not on My reports.
City report
A public snapshot for an approved local authority. Essential counts, source dates, and coverage notes only. See City reports.
Report
A frozen snapshot from a signed-in search. Each report stores its inputs and model version from the day it was created. Opening it later shows that stored snapshot, not a live refresh of the latest data. CSV is a tabular extract; JSON is the structured payload. See Reading a report.
Decision case
A structured comparison of two or more named alternatives with assumptions, evidence, and a deterministic cash forecast. Cases are separate from place reports. They do not share a headline probability. A dedicated compare-locations journey is not in this release.
Workspaces (Beta)
A shared space for advisers and founders. It is free while collaboration behaviour is being validated. Members can see workspace cases after an explicit share or invite, use the review queue, and view pilot metrics.
Evidence types
- User fact: something you entered as known.
- User assumption: a planning input you can change.
- Unverified evidence: descriptive context (for example OpenStreetMap venues).
- Observed benchmark: published statistics (for example Office for National Statistics openings and closures rates).
- Model estimate / derived calculation: computed in versioned domain code, never by the LLM.