Public data is a rabbit hole of splintered information

Public data that is critical to community development and infrastructure projects remains difficult to access, analyze, and update. Take a general contractor in Arizona, for example, who’s eyeing upcoming Capital Improvement projects for potential bids. They’ll need to track down the Capital Improvement Plans which lay out planned expenditures for every project a city, county, state or federal agency has lined up in the next two to 10 years—a road map of the public market and projects. 

Next, the contractor (or any other architect, engineer, supplier, or major purchase provider) will need to review thousands of pages of budgets. You’re looking at 114 different websites to download 114 separate documents totaling over 1,800 pages—endless PDFs issued at the city, county, and state agency level, each with its own format, process, information, and schedule.

To sift through all this information, identify targets, and produce analytics requires over 100 hours of staff time. Even worse—these documents don’t provide necessary details such as updated labor, wage, and commodities data. The other option? To pay a consulting firm tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to put together the relevant reports.

One central data source to rule them all

Capital Pipeline is building a bridge between the vast, splintered ecosystem of public data sets and business owners needing to identify and assess new opportunities. Built on cutting-edge RPA technology, our powerful visualization tools allow for customized data interpretation, tailored to specific needs and up-to-date market conditions.

Assisted by AI learning, we are integrating all Capital Improvement and other data sets and documents into a central data source using Intelligent Document Processing to process hundreds of thousands of dispersed PDFs and other unstructured data. This data includes market sector, construction type, phase, land acquisition, project size, geography, and financing status, which users can filter by field. By combining this trove of detailed information with a live data analytics tool, we empower our clients to use public data through a smart, reactive interface that integrates with a company's CRM. Users will benefit from continuous alerts and insights into important data that even the most sophisticated analysts could not produce in real-time. 

We offer an annual subscription service, billed monthly or annually, which provides access to the raw data, data visualizations, AI predictive models, and reports. We attract customers through marketing channels, social media, and direct sales outreach. We’ll also be rolling out enhanced data subscriptions for a premium fee, as well as new geographic data integration. Our monthly subscription revenue combined with the lease of our national raw data combine for a projected profit exceeding $1M/month.

Big data is a big market

The size of the big data technology market is projected to grow from $41B in 2019 to $116B by the end of 2027 (source), with increasing integration of AI and machine learning further boosting growth. The size of the global robotic process automation (RPA)—which we employ for our data integration system—is expected to reach $6B by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 24.9% between 2020 to 2027. Looking at our first market (the AEC industry), there are over 676,000 firms specializing in commercial or infrastructure that we’ll target. 

As of now, other movers in this space consist of local or regional business development organizations and integrated system providers, none of which match Capital Pipeline’s capabilities. We offer better and more comprehensive pricing options, independent technology with integrated data, data from original sources, and complete rather than partial forecasts, putting us head and shoulders above the rest. Our only true peer is a German company, Building Radar, which, to our knowledge, has no plans to enter the U.S. market.

Initial launch and major tech partnerships

In 2020, Capital Pipeline established our data integration processes and initial technology solutions and launched to a limited number of users. Our first data set (transforms Capital Improvement budgets and plans, and is valued at over $343B). 2021 has since brought a number of major milestones. In March, we were named a Google Cloud Startup and integrated our data to the Cloud. In May, we selected Automation Anywhere as our new Intelligent Document Processing/RPA/AI technology partner.

This partnership will reduce the time and expense of our data integration by 50% in Year 1 and 70% in subsequent years. In June, we identified 210 public datasets to enhance the National Capital Dataset, and this summer we’re launching our first REG CF raise.

We’re building the country’s most powerful public data set

Our five-year goal for Capital Pipeline is to create the most comprehensive, robust, and powerful dataset available, containing over 1.7 trillion dollars in public construction and major capital spending anticipated in the next five years, as well as the premier business analytics tool in the United States. We’ll continue to improve and build upon our best-in-class technology, enhancing our main data set with labor, commodities, and other databases. We plan to roll out to address new markets and curate data sets that will  service a larger client base including banks, fund managers, commodities brokers, transportation companies, mining companies, and more. 

As we scale our capabilities and increase our overall revenue, we’ll also be improving access to information, business operations, and data analytics in both the public and private sectors. We have the tools and data that cities, states, and companies across the U.S. need in order to improve infrastructure and advance public projects—and with your investment, we’re ready to make our vision a reality.