Sector

Tools and research systems for cities and economic development teams.

From capturing community input to analyzing corridors and producing reports, Pantheon gives city and economic development teams practical software and research — free tools to start with, and applied solutions when you need a problem solved.

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Common problems

What city teams are up against.

Community input is hard to capture

Traditional surveys miss the residents who face the most barriers to participation, leaving plans built on partial feedback.

Place data is unstructured and slow

Corridor, retail, and public-space data lives in scattered, messy sources that take weeks to turn into something a team can act on.

Small businesses are falling behind on AI

Local small businesses are the backbone of the economy, but most lack the time, budget, or know-how to adopt AI and modern tech — and city teams are expected to help them keep up.

Reports take too long to produce

Turning raw input and data into stakeholder-ready reports eats the time teams should spend on the work itself.

How it plugs into your workflow

One workflow, end to end.

01Find opportunities
02Collect community input
03Analyze places
04Produce reports
05Learn and repeat

Start with our free tools

Free to use, no commitment.

Website Readiness

Website Readiness · Free tool

A free tool to help the SMEs in your community make the most of AI.

Website Readiness is a free tool you can put straight into the hands of the small businesses across your community. It scores a website in seconds, flags what is holding it back, and shows owners how to optimize their site and get found in the new world of AI search — no budget required. A simple, practical way for economic development teams to support local businesses at scale.

  • Hand it to local SMEs as a free, self-serve resource.
  • Spot website issues before they cost businesses customers.
  • Help owners get AI-ready and easier to find online.
Sancho Fetch

Sancho Fetch · Free tool

Chat with your AI to pull real public data — straight into your folder.

Sancho Fetch is a free, open-source toolkit you drive from the AI tools you already use. Ask in plain English and it fetches real data from 120+ public sources — Census, World Bank, FRED, OECD and more — and saves it as files you can open. Useful in every sector, for any team that works with data.

  • Free forever, open source, and local-first.
  • 120+ public data sources, ready to fetch.
  • Works inside Claude, Codex, Cursor, and more.

Relevant products

Products built for this work.

Community Engagement & Tactical Urbanism

SME & Economic Development Tools

Working on a community-serving project?

Community-serving projects with limited budgets may qualify for free or discounted access to Pantheon products, reviewed case by case.