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Helping communities and business to create good jobs together

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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.

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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

Analyze project-specific insights on incentives availability, community costs of doing, tax and economic impact, and more

Download trusted data on talent, taxes, real estate, energy costs, and more when you need

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Clients and Projects

LEAP Innovations

Supported LEAP in developing a new SaaS product that leverages their expertise in personalized learning to deliver a unique career and college readiness product targeting middle and high school students.

Stamford Partnership

Supported the Stamford Partnership and a coalition of public, private, and academic partners in crafting a proposal for a multi-million dollar grant to support the establishment of a transformational innovation project in the region.

Common House

Customized our location scoring models ​to include 100+ variables with custom weighting capability to help Common House identify which markets are best fits for expansion.

VGR

Led the development of a business attraction strategy to identify supply chain prospects that can deepen VGR’s growing advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing cluster.

City of Richmond

Customized our dynamic state and local tax revenues model and conducted an economic development incentives review and benchmarking study to identify opportunities to enhance their current incentives portfolio.

AEDP

Led the development of Alexandria’s business attraction strategy and supported leadership in hiring a Business Development team to execute the strategy.

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

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