For state economic-development organizations and agencies
A state retention program works through regional business development managers and local partners. BRE Pulse gives the state one platform its regions and communities can run under their own permissions, with aggregate reporting upward and shared cases when a project needs the state's tools.
Network package arriving The platform models these organizations today; the Network package (partner sharing, upward roll-up) is in progress.
Problems you already recognize
Coverage depends on local capacity
Communities with staff have a record; most do not. The state's picture has holes where it matters most.
Local partners will not hand over raw notes
Nor should they. The state needs the project and the aggregate, not every conversation.
Statewide reporting is assembled by hand
Quarterly numbers arrive by email from regions in incompatible formats.
The BRE (Business Retention & Expansion) use case
The Network package: the state as the parent organization, regions and communities as members. Each member runs its own BRE program; the state sees aggregate counts by region and works shared cases with the incentive, workforce and infrastructure tools it controls. Sponsored licenses for communities without staff follow the model states and utilities have used for BRE tools for years.
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