Government & Economic Development

Your next economy, designed and delivered.

Governors, mayors, tribal governments, and economic development organizations: we help you build an economy your community actually owns. Strategy through execution, with our AI system deployed and our team on the ground.

Services

Everything from the first interview to the last dashboard.

Thirteen capabilities in three moves. We stay involved from strategy through execution. That's the difference between a plan and a transformation.

A

Design the Strategy

01

Economic Development Strategy

Integrated strategies built from your community's real data, assets, and ambitions.

02

AI Readiness

Preparing your government, workforce, and institutions for an AI-driven economy.

03

Industry Recruitment

Targeted recruitment that fits your story instead of chasing every deal.

04

Rural Development

The Coeur d'Alene playbook, built for small towns and proven in one.

05

Grant Strategy

Finding, winning, and deploying state and federal dollars with discipline.

B

Activate the Community

06

Community Transformation

Culture-first activation that turns residents into participants in the plan.

07

Community Activation

Gatherings, challenges, and Build_ deployment that create real participation.

08

Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

Founder pipelines, mentorship, and startup culture grown from your own people.

09

Workforce Development

Rapid skill pathways modeled on Inspire Idaho: low cost, local, and applied.

C

Build and Measure

10

Innovation Districts

Physical hubs where research, startups, and community collide.

11

Public Private Partnerships

Structures that align government, developers, universities, and capital.

12

Implementation Management

Program management and accountability from kickoff to outcomes.

13

Performance Dashboards

Continuous measurement so leaders always know what's working.

Case Study

We've done this before. In public.

Two engagements, ten years apart. One city playbook, one statewide platform.

Case 01 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho · 2013 to Today

A lake town becomes a robotics economy.

We rallied a tourism town around a single vertical, robotics, then built everything the bet required: recurring gatherings that made experimentation normal, a 25-years-vacant Elks building reborn as the 34,000 ft² Innovation Den, a robotics MOU joining Kootenai Health, Jobs Plus, and the University of Idaho, and workforce programs like Inspire Idaho that took the model statewide with U of Idaho and Apple's curriculum.

Ten years later the agenda we championed is institutional: a university robotics research center with PhD students and 20+ robots sits on the community college campus, and the city ranks #7 among Milken's best-performing small cities, top 10 every year since 2022.

Documented in BETTER (2023) and the 2026 Impact Report
40+Startups in the early ecosystem
$34MCapital deployed
+47.5%High-tech GDP growth, 2019 to 2024
Case 02 State of Nevada · 2021 to Today

The playbook goes statewide.

Nevada is what happens when the model scales: the Oddie District in Sparks, a 232,000 ft² campus officially designated by the State of Nevada as the world's largest makerspace, innovation campus, and art park under one roof, built with The Generator and Foothill Partners. And Build Nevada, launched in 2026 with Battle Born Growth and the Governor's Office of Economic Development as the AI-powered statewide front door to capital and expansion.

Culture, place, and capital, connected by our AI system, operating as state infrastructure.

GOED Director's Report and official designation, 2026
232K ft²Oddie District campus
$112.9MCapital capacity pathway, Build Nevada
World's LargestOfficial State of Nevada designation
What Engagement Looks Like

The first 90 days.

No six-month discovery purgatory. By day 90 your community is live on Build_, your first challenge is running, and your dashboard is on.

Days 1–30 Discover
  • Leadership alignment session with your team, on your turf
  • Stakeholder interviews: founders, educators, employers, artists, elders
  • Data intake: economic, workforce, real estate, and asset data into one model
  • Asset and gap map: what you have, what's missing, what's hiding in plain sight
Days 31–60 Design
  • Your vertical: the industry bet your story and assets can actually win
  • Integrated strategy: economy, workforce, entrepreneurship, and place as one plan
  • Grant and capital targets matched to real projects, not wish lists
  • Community review: the plan gets argued about in public, on purpose
Days 61–90 Activate
  • Build_ goes live: your community on the game board, UdayOS trained on your data
  • First community challenge launched with real stakes and real deadlines
  • First gatherings running on the recurring cadence that builds trust
  • Performance dashboard on: leaders see progress from day one
Day 91+

Implement and Measure, for as long as it takes. Program management, hiring support, accountability, and continuous improvement. This is the part everyone else skips. It's the part we're built for.

Who We Serve

Built for how you lead.

Governors & States

Statewide platforms

Workforce systems, industry strategy, and AI infrastructure at state scale. Build Nevada is the template: one front door for founders, capital, and expansion.

Mayors & Cities

City transformation

The full Coeur d'Alene playbook: pick your vertical, activate your people, revive your downtown, and measure everything.

EDOs

Force multiplication

We extend your team with strategy, grant discipline, implementation management, and dashboards your board will actually read.

Tribal Governments

Sovereign strategies

Economic strategies grounded in your community's sovereignty, values, and long-term vision. Designed together, built together.

Bring us your city.

Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, EDOs: tell us where your community wants to go and we will build the road there with you.