Your external intelligence team. We monitor the markets, workforce, economic conditions, and public-sector changes that matter to your organization, and turn them into actionable intelligence.
Hold Alt and type 30. A keyboard returns ▲, the oldest notation in economics for a quantity that has moved.
That is the whole of the work. A tax cut moves a general fund. A plant closure moves a county payroll. A development moves a city revenue base for thirty years.
An intelligence function exists to catch that movement early and say what it means. Every question a client brings us is finally a question about how much moved, in which direction, and for whom.
We provide external intelligence for organizations navigating economic, workforce, and public-sector change: continuous monitoring, custom research, and executive-ready reporting, without adding a position to your organization.
We maintain our own records of appropriations, tax filings, and employment across fifty states and more than five hundred municipalities, back to fiscal year 1967, because measuring a change requires knowing what preceded it.
A PhD economist leads each engagement and presents the findings. We do not subcontract the analysis, and we do not send someone else to defend it.
We began in Arizona and keep unusual depth in that market. The method is identical in every state we cover, which is what lets one finding be compared against another.
We are specialists, not a dashboard vendor. Economic data, workforce, public finance, government, and local markets are a combination most research firms do not carry. We hold no lobbying registrations and take no position on legislation, candidates, or ballot measures.
An engagement is led by the economist whose name appears on it. The same person builds the model, writes the report, and answers for it in the hearing room.
Most organizations have questions about the economy, the labor market, or the public sector that no one inside has time to answer properly. Alt-30 is that function, kept outside the building. Clients receive the following, configured to their geographies and industries at the outset.
Continuous Market Monitoring Standing coverage of the conditions, industries, and geographies your organization depends on, reported as they move.
Custom Economic Research A defined question, investigated properly and answered in writing, when the topic is too specific for anything off the shelf.
Workforce Intelligence Employment, wages, occupations, and labor-force movement resolved to the places you hire, sell, or govern.
Competitive & Market Analysis How a market, a region, or a competitor set is changing, and what it implies for the decision in front of you.
Policy & Regulatory Monitoring The legislative, budgetary, and regulatory changes that reach your organization, tracked before they become news and explained in terms of what they cost.
Executive-Ready Reports Findings written for the person who has to decide, with the source and the assumption on the page.
On-Demand Research A question sent on Tuesday, answered by someone who already knows your organization and already has the data open.
The same function serves three kinds of need. Two are standing programs of monitoring and reporting. The third is a scoped research engagement for a question that does not fit either.
Each has a continuous need for economic, workforce, or public-sector intelligence, and no one on staff free to produce it. The question differs by organization; the gap does not.
Engagements are described by the question asked and the work performed. Client names appear only where the client has agreed to be named.
The clearest evidence of how we work is work already in public. Each of the following is open, sourced, and built on the same records that underpin our client engagements.
Need an insights analyst, but not a full-time employee? Alt-30 provides the research capacity, analytical expertise, and ongoing monitoring without adding another position to your organization.
Scope precedes price. We define the question, the deliverable, and the fee before analysis begins. No invoice is shaped by how long the work turned out to take.
Retainers follow the calendar. Session-length and annual relationships are structured around the legislative and budget cycles a client operates on, with rapid-response capacity during session.
The method does not change with the client. We are engaged by organizations on opposite sides of the same question, and the analysis is built the same way for each.
First step: tell us what you need to know. Describe the question in front of your organization. We will tell you plainly whether it is something we can investigate, what the work would involve, and what it would cost.
Tell us what you need to know.
A note on objectivity: Alt-30 is a non-partisan research firm. Our monitoring and analysis rest on empirical financial metrics, tax filings, and employment data without ideological bias. We take no positions on legislation, candidates, or ballot measures, hold no lobbying registrations, and serve clients across the political spectrum without conflict of interest.