Regional Collaboration Strategic opportunity to offer cross-border regional planning services, leveraging their focus on Chicago’s tri-state economic competitiveness to expand engagements with business, government, and academic partners.

Public Policy Tech Potential upsell of cloud and web infrastructure modernization, given their tech stack includes Google Cloud CDN, WordPress, MySQL, Nginx, and monitoring with Sentry; emphasize scalable, secure platforms for policy portals and coalition coordination.

Funding Readiness With reported revenue in the mid-range and active coalition activity, position for grant management software, fundraising analytics, and stakeholder engagement tooling to enhance funding diversification.

Regional Talent Small team size presents a value proposition for efficient, low-overhead solutions and managed services, enabling rapid deployment of policy dashboards, collaboration portals, and event coordination platforms.

Competitive Positioning Opportunity to benchmark against regional policy think tanks by offering data analytics, economic impact modeling, and regional trend reports to strengthen their competitive edge and visibility.