Working material for the board and invited collaborators.
Who is doing this work.
A small real estate development team that built its own tools to underwrite and pressure test its own deals, and now uses them on other people's projects.
On this engagement the work is reading, arithmetic and sequencing. Sixteen documents read and indexed, eighteen places where two Brighton documents state different numbers reconciled, Seattle's adopted plans and funding programs read as they stand in September 2026, and a figure register that holds one meaning per number across every document we produce. Where we estimated a figure instead of reading one, we said so.
Twenty five years of ownership and operation in this neighborhood.
Named plainly, with what each one advises on.
Michael Shuman advises Now City on local economy measurement. His published work on how to measure whether money stays in a local economy is one of two frameworks we bring to a project unchanged, and it is cited from the book rather than paraphrased. See the value page.
Named because the study plan asks several of them to reconcile their own work, which only they can do.