Services
Three positions, one evidence base
A supplier, an investor and an economic development agency ask different questions. The corridor's facts do not change to suit whoever is asking. That is why one practice can serve all three without contradicting itself.
Market entry & site strategy
For suppliers placing a first footprint, a second one, or relocating an existing plant — particularly where USMCA content rules and physical proximity to the customer pull in different directions.
Site screening that leaves the desk
Published site data and operating reality are often different documents. We verify deliverable power, water rights, road weight limits and how tight the local labour market actually is, on the ground.
What an incentive package really looks like
State, county, school district and municipality each run different instruments with different counterparties. We map where the real discretion sits and what to put on the table at which stage.
USMCA content design
Regional content, the wage threshold and core-part treatment designed backwards from the footprint, at the stage when changing it is still cheap.
Local partners who deliver
Contractors, customs brokers, staffing, candidate Tier 2s. Selection with verification behind it, not a list of introductions.
Corridor intelligence & diligence
For investors, corporate strategy teams and acquirers. We find the assumptions inside a deal that nobody has tested, and test them.
Assumption testing
Growth rates, utilisation, labour cost, border dwell time — traced back to which source and which year each number in the model actually came from.
Supplier base verification
A directory of plants and a set of operating plants are not the same population. We establish what is actually around the target.
Quarterly corridor briefing
Announcements, siting decisions, policy shifts and crossing conditions — with a judgement about what changed, not a summary of press releases.
Deliberate counter-case
On request, we will build the strongest available argument against the deal. It is a role that is hard to hold from inside the organisation.
Cluster strategy & investment attraction
For counties, chambers, EDOs and state bodies. Recruitment outcomes turn on whether the material matches how the decision is actually made — not on how much of it there is.
Benchmarking against who you lose to
The comparison that matters is not the national average but the specific region that won the last project, and what decided it.
Ranked target lists
The five project types have different prerequisites. We sort them by what your jurisdiction can satisfy today and what it cannot.
Material built for Japanese counterparties
Japanese OEMs and suppliers decide differently. We prepare material in Japanese and in a form that survives an internal approval process.
An honest account of the gaps
If power, land or skills is the weak link, the answer is to plan for it, not to write around it. We give you what is needed to decide which.
How engagements are shaped
Start small, finish with something checkable.
Bounded scope — about two weeks
One question that is blocking a decision, answered. The deliverable is short on purpose.
Project — six to twelve weeks
Site selection, an entry strategy or a recruitment strategy carried through to a decision.
Continuing advisory
Quarterly briefings and access between them — something to consider after a first project, not before one.
What we do not do: lobbying, representing a government body, or taking a success fee on a siting decision. None of those survives contact with independent advice.