For townships, cities and villages
You are the government your businesses deal with: permits, zoning, inspections, the road in front of the shop. You also have the smallest staff. BRE Pulse is built so one person can run a real retention program and prove to the board that it works.
Problems you already recognize
You hear about a closure after the sign comes down
Nobody was talking to the business, or the person who was left. The signal existed months earlier: a lease ending, a succession question, a permit that stalled.
The business list is a spreadsheet nobody trusts
Licenses in one file, the assessor's commercial parcels in another, the chamber's roster in a third, each with different names for the same company.
Businesses say government is hard to deal with, and you cannot tell if that is true
One loud complaint at a board meeting is not data. Neither is the belief that "we are business friendly."
The BRE (Business Retention & Expansion) use case
Upload the license list and the commercial parcel export. BRE Pulse builds one record per business, scores what you know, and hands you a short outreach list: the major employers you have not spoken to, the strategic businesses with a large information gap. Share the Business Check-in link in your own newsletter or on a QR code at the counter. Flags arrive with evidence; you confirm the ones that are real; a case with a named owner and due dates follows. The monthly report and the board briefing write themselves from the record.
About BRE Pulse →Example outcomes
- A list of the businesses that matter most and the gaps in what you know about each.
- Every commitment the township made to a business, with an owner and a date, and an execution score the board can read.
- A board briefing every month that names no business and states plainly what the data cannot support.
