PlaceShark is a two-sided marketplace for economic development. Communities market their assets. Companies find the right location. AI does the matching.
Currently in early access. No credit card required to apply.
Communities spend thousands of hours producing marketing materials that never reach the right companies. Companies spend months on site selection with no structured way to evaluate communities against their actual requirements. PlaceShark replaces that fragmented, relationship-driven process with structured data, intelligent matching, and AI-powered tools — for both sides.
Generate polished, external-facing investment profiles targeted by sector — logistics, manufacturing, tech, agribusiness, and more. Ready to send to site selectors.
Community / EDOScores community-company fit across six dimensions: labor pool, site availability, infrastructure, cost, geography, and industry alignment. Both sides see the result.
Both sidesCompanies can publish expansion requirements anonymously. Community names are withheld too until both parties opt in. Mutual disclosure, never unilateral.
Both sidesCommunities model packages — tax abatements, TIF, training grants — sized to a specific project. Companies see the ROI before entering any market.
Both sidesCommunities list available sites and shell buildings with infrastructure specs and AI-generated marketing profiles matched to specific company sectors.
Community / EDOTrack every prospect from first contact through commitment. Stages, notes, follow-up dates, and the contact history — all in one place, never another spreadsheet.
Community / EDOMost economic development platforms are searchable databases. PlaceShark is a matching engine. When a company publishes a project, every community in the platform is scored against their specific requirements. Communities see which active projects fit them best — and exactly why.
Enter your community's demographic, workforce, infrastructure, and site data — or let AI populate it from public sources. Takes about 10 minutes.
→Every tool in the platform runs from your profile — one-pagers, benchmarking, prospect intelligence, and incentive calculator.
→Your community is scored against active company projects. High-fit matches surface automatically. Companies on the platform see your listed sites and buildings.
→Draft outreach, manage prospects in the deal pipeline, model incentive packages, and track every opportunity from first contact to commitment.
Two plans. One for communities and economic development organizations. One for companies and site selectors. Both at $249.99 per month. No contracts, cancel any time.
Everything an EDO or community needs to market itself intelligently, surface the right company prospects, manage your pipeline, and close economic development deals.
Find the right location faster. Publish your expansion requirements — publicly or confidentially — and let the match engine surface communities that actually fit.
PlaceShark Professionals are seasoned economic development practitioners embedded in the platform — available to work directly alongside you when the stakes are highest. The platform finds the match. A Professional makes the deal happen.
You've narrowed your list. Now you need someone in the room. A PlaceShark Professional works directly with your team to evaluate finalist communities, negotiate incentive packages, and coordinate every stakeholder from economic development officials to utility providers — so your project crosses the finish line.
Having the right community profile and the right tools is a start. A PlaceShark Professional brings a deep network of site selectors, corporate real estate executives, and international investors — and puts it to work for your community.
Early access members shape the product directly. We want to hear what's broken in your current process — the prospect you couldn't reach, the deal that stalled, the community that couldn't get visibility. That feedback drives what we build next.