Where data powers development
Helping communities and business to create good jobs together
WHERE DATA POWERS DEVELOPMENT
Helping growing businesses and thriving communities find each other
Located by EDai automates your location search
Analytics portal
Located by EDaiTM is the first stop for businesses, site selection consultants, and economic developers seeking to conduct a fast and efficient location search.
The automated portal condenses the time and resource intensive search process down to the few clicks of a button. So leaders – no matter where they sit at the negotiating table – can spend less time analyzing data and more time making decisions.
Consulting
Get expert strategy and analytics support that combines the best of consulting, practitioner, and scholarly perspectives
Economic
Developers
Get the data you need to win more projects and build community support
Site
Consultants
Access robust community, project, and incentives analytics in just a few clicks
Growing
Businesses
Build your next project’s location shortlist in minutes not months
AI Analyst
Create custom RFP responses and access purpose-built data and analytics with just a few prompts
Located by EDai analytics platform
Analyze project-specific insights on incentives availability, community costs of doing, tax and economic impact, and more
Data, analytics, and visualizations
Download trusted data on talent, taxes, real estate, energy costs, and more when you need
Consulting services
Clients and Projects
LEAP Innovations
Stamford Partnership
Common House
VGR
City of Richmond
AEDP
About Us
Owner
Sean Brazier is the owner of EDai, a tech-enabled consulting venture that helps economic developers build and execute data-driven strategies to drive growth in their communities.
He has helped businesses grow as a consultant with McKinsey and Company; communities thrive as an economic developer with Virginia Economic Development Partnership; schools and communities transform as a founding leader of Purpose Built Schools Atlanta; and workers access the skills they need to succeed while scaling McKinsey Social Initiative’s Generation U.S workforce development program across the country.
Virginia Commonwealth University | PhD, Public Policy
Harvard Business School | MBA
London School of Economics | MSc, International Political Economy
Morehouse College | BA, Economics
Business Partner and Technical Lead
Zach leads EDai’s technical development and deployment activities.
He has extensive experience leading data and technical teams to develop and deploy client-facing quantitative analytical models. He leads data engineering and analytics engineering efforts for the commercial organization of the enterprise software firm, Hyland. He also serves as the Chief Data Officer for the investment firm, Kirtland Hills Capital.
Case Western Reserve University | Master of Science in Management (MSM), Quantitative Finance – Big Data Analytics
University of Akron | BE in Mechanical Engineering