PlaceShark is the working platform for economic development — whether you're a regional EDO or a city hall of one: run your recruitment pipeline, keep your sites current, and answer any prospect or RFI in minutes — with AI that writes from your community's real numbers and never invents a fact.
Recruitment platforms fail when they demand that companies sign up before there's anything worth signing up for. PlaceShark deletes that problem: one login — yours. The companies you're pursuing interact through shareable artifacts that need no account, no password, and no patience.
Your public link — placeshark.com/i/your-community — lets a company or site selector submit a project at 11pm without a phone call. It lands in your pipeline as a scored New Lead.
Every site in your inventory gets a polished, always-current page — specs, utilities, workforce, pricing. Send a link that's never six months stale instead of a PDF that always is.
Each active deal gets its own page for the company: where they stand in your process, their featured site, their tailored one-pager, and the incentives on the table.
Everything an economic developer needs between "we got an inquiry" and "we made the announcement" — numbered the way you'll see them in the app.
Every active project on a kanban board, aged by stage, with next steps and due dates. A "Needs attention" panel surfaces overdue actions and stalled deals, and an AI briefing writes your Monday morning memo.
Your product on the shelf — acreage, zoning, power, rail, status, pricing. The AI and the matcher read directly from it, and every site publishes as a shareable sheet.
Enter what a prospect needs; every site gets a 0–100 fit score with an analyst's rationale — including the honest reasons a site doesn't fit. Attach the winner to the deal in one click.
AI writes investment one-pagers and full RFI responses from your profile and inventory — nothing invented, gaps flagged instead of papered over. A six-day RFI turnaround becomes same-day.
Model an abatement package and walk into council with the 10-year fiscal picture on one page: incentive cost, net new revenue, occupational tax, and return per incentive dollar.
Wins, jobs, capex, win rate, and a pipeline funnel — plus an AI-written quarterly report in board voice or plain-language council voice, ready for the packet.
A 10-point readiness assessment scored the way site selectors screen, an AI 90-day action plan, and the federal and state funding programs that pay for the fixes.
Ten field-tested templates auto-filled from your own inventory and pipeline, personalized by AI under the playbook's rules: one fact per email, under 150 words, never invent.
Every generated document is written from your community profile and live inventory. If the data doesn't answer a question, PlaceShark tells you what to gather — it never makes numbers up.
Site selectors shortlist the communities they can recall and the ones that answer fast. PlaceShark is built around a 48-hour standard: intake to pipeline instantly, RFI to response same-day, prospect question to answered before lunch.
In most American towns, economic development is the mayor, the county judge-executive, or a part-time chamber director. PlaceShark's Toolkit was built for exactly that desk.
Ten yes/no questions covering what site selectors actually screen: a named point of contact, documented sites, utility capacities in writing, 48-hour response ability.
AI writes a 90-day action plan a part-time official can execute — the cheap, inquiry-blocking gaps first, the long infrastructure projects after.
The program families small governments build with — EDA, USDA RD, CDBG, Brownfields, ARC, state site funds — ranked for fit against your profile and gaps.
How to pursue companies and site selectors: the strategy (be specifically memorable before the project exists), the rules (one fact per email, never bypass a consultant), and ten templates for every situation from cold consultant intro to re-engaging a stalled project. Every PlaceShark subscription includes the full playbook — it arrives with your welcome email, and inside the platform the templates fill themselves from your data.
Get startedBuilt to cost less than a single conference sponsorship — and to pay for itself the first time an RFI goes back in a day instead of a week.
Tell us about your community. We'll have your workspace configured within one business day, with the Outreach Playbook in your welcome email.
No — and they never will. Companies interact through links you send: the public intake form, live site sheets, and private prospect rooms. No signup wall between a serious project and your community.
Yes. The Toolkit was built for the mayor or county official doing economic development off the corner of a desk: it tells you what site selectors will check, writes your 90-day plan, and points at the funding programs that pay for the fixes. Reports even switch to plain-language council voice.
Only from what you put in: your community profile and your site inventory. It's instructed never to invent figures — when your data can't answer an RFI question, it tells you exactly what to go gather instead.
Submit the form above and we'll have your workspace configured within one business day — profile, sites, and your public intake link, with the Outreach Playbook in your welcome email. The Community plan is a monthly subscription at $249.99. Questions first? Email BrandonB@placeshark.com and you'll hear back same day.