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Features

Features

The tools to formalize your location strategy—and apply it to every site.

LocationOS answers three questions for any address: Who can you reach? How much demand exists? How crowded is it?

And for your network: What happens to the stores you already have?

The Brief

The site brief

Every analysis produces a defensible brief—not a score with no context.

Score with breakdown

A composite score with every component visible:

74 = Reach (28) + Demand (31) + Competition (-12) + Accessibility (27)

Disagree with a weight? You can see exactly what to adjust.

Methodology note

Data sources, snapshot date, assumptions—documented so the brief can be audited months later.

See a sample brief

What's in the brief

Site summary

Address, coordinates, map, surrounding context at a glance.

Trade area

Time-aware catchments for 5, 10, and 15-minute drive times. See how the trade area shifts by time of day—morning commute vs. lunch vs. evening. Not a static radius.

Demographics

Population, households, median income, age distribution, density—aggregated to your trade area. Every number shows its source and vintage.

Competition

Direct competitors counted, mapped, and listed. Density per square mile. Nearest competitors by distance. Category breakdown.

Co-tenancy

Grocery anchors, gyms, national retailers nearby. Traffic generators that drive visits to the area.

Trade Areas

Trade areas that reflect reality

Static 3-mile radii don't capture how people actually travel. LocationOS builds trade areas from drive time isochrones—and lets you see how they change.

7amNoon6pm10pm

Visual preview: catchments reshaped by traffic patterns.

By time of day

A breakfast spot's 10-minute trade area at 7am is different from a bar's at 10pm. Rush hour traffic reshapes catchments.

By day of week

Weekend vs. weekday traffic patterns can shift your reachable population by 20-30%.

By travel mode

Drive, walk, or transit—depending on your concept and market.

Why it matters

The site that looks great at 2pm on a Tuesday might be inaccessible when your customers actually show up.

Explainability

Scores that show their work

Black-box scores don't survive committee. "The model says 78" isn't an answer when the CFO asks why.

Formula visible

Every score is a weighted sum of components. You see the formula, the inputs, the weights.

Reach+28
Demand+31
Competition-12
Accessibility+27

Why it matters

When you can show your math, decisions get approved faster.

Components broken out

Reach contributed 28 points. Demand contributed 31. Competition subtracted 12. Accessibility added 27. Now you can discuss trade-offs.

Sources cited

Demographics from ACS 2023. Competition from Foursquare, updated monthly. No mystery numbers.

Reproducible

Run the same analysis in six months—get the same answer (unless the data changed). Deterministic IDs and snapshot timestamps.

Your Model

Define your strategy once

You know what makes a site work for your brand. LocationOS helps you make it explicit.

Set your criteria

Strategize

Minimum population threshold. Target income range. Maximum competitor density. Required anchor proximity. Your rules, encoded.

Set your weights

Strategize

Is income twice as important as population for your concept? Adjust the weights. The model reflects your strategy, not ours.

Save and version

Strategize

Your model is saved and versioned. Update it as you learn. See how scoring changes over time.

Apply everywhere

Strategize

Every new site—whether you drop a pin or upload 100 candidates—scores against your model automatically. Consistency without effort.

Why it matters

Tribal knowledge becomes institutional knowledge. The whole team evaluates sites the same way.

Strategize plan feature

Network Risk

Protect your network

Opening a new store is good. Cannibalizing your existing stores isn't.

Example

Site A overlap

Trade area overlap

34%

with Store #47

Net new demand

82%

estimated opportunity

Trade area overlap

Strategize

See exactly how much a new site's catchment overlaps with your existing locations. “Site A shares 34% of its trade area with Store #47.”

Store-level impact

Strategize

Which specific stores are affected? How much? Ranked by exposure.

Net new demand

Strategize

Gross opportunity minus estimated transfer. “82% of this site's demand is net new to your network.”

Flag high-risk sites

Strategize

Before committee, not after opening. Catch the problem when you can still walk away.

Why it matters

The site that looks great in isolation might just be stealing from the store you opened two years ago.

Strategize plan feature

Portfolio

See your network as a system

Your locations aren't independent. They're a network with coverage, gaps, and overlaps.

Network view

Visual preview: coverage, gaps, and overlaps across markets.

Upload your stores

Strategize

Addresses, formats, open dates—your portfolio becomes the baseline.

Upload competitors

Strategize

Your competitive set, tracked the way you define it. Supplement our POI data with your intel.

Coverage map

Strategize

Where are you strong? Where are the gaps? Which markets are saturated vs. underpenetrated?

Batch scoring

Strategize

Upload 50 candidates. Score them all against your model. Rank by fit. Export the shortlist.

Why it matters

Single-site analysis misses the network effects. Portfolio view catches what pin-drops miss.

Strategize plan feature

Export

Board-ready output

The analysis is only useful if it survives the meeting.

One-click PDF

Brief with maps, tables, methodology, and score breakdown. Formatted for committee, not for analysts.

Presentation-ready maps

Trade area, competition, demographics—exportable images you can drop into a deck.

Consistent format

Every brief looks the same. Compare Site A to Site B without reformatting. Build institutional muscle memory.

Audit trail

When did you run this? What data version? What model? Documented for compliance and memory.

Data Included

Data you don't have to buy separately

All plans include:

Demographics

U.S. Census and American Community Survey. Population, households, income, age, education, commute patterns. Updated annually.

Competition

Foursquare Places. Restaurants, retail, services—13M+ POIs with categories. Updated monthly.

License records

State liquor licenses, health permits where available. Verified operating status, not stale listings.

Boundaries

Census tracts, block groups, ZIPs, counties, MSAs. TIGER/Line shapefiles.

No data fees

Flat subscription. Analyze as many sites as you want without worrying about per-query costs.

Need traffic counts, foot traffic, or psychographics? We can integrate third-party sources for Enterprise plans.

Next Step

See it on a real site

Pick an address you're evaluating. Run it through LocationOS. Compare the output to what you'd get from your current process.