Revelo’s Economic Impact SaaS is built on the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) RIMS II multipliers, the federal standard for measuring regional economic effects. While REMI and IMPLAN are established proprietary models, they generally require costly consultant engagements, specialized licenses, and longer turnaround times.

Revelo offers a modern, cloud-based alternative powered by Agentic AI and guided by embedded subject matter expertise. The platform automates data ingestion, validation, and impact calculation, then produces interactive dashboards, audit-ready reports, and PowerPoint deliverables configured to align with each client’s style and branding guidelines. This means agencies and associations can generate defensible, presentation-ready analyses more efficiently than ever before, with human oversight and AI precision.

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Revelo’s Economic Impact SaaS combines the credibility of BEA RIMS II, the expertise of seasoned economists, and the efficiency of Agentic AI. It delivers a credible, affordable, and fully branded solution that helps agencies and partners measure, visualize, and communicate economic impact, without the delays, costs, or complexity of consultant-driven models.

To begin using the Revelo Economic Impact SaaS, your organization will need basic administrative and financial data that reflect your operations for the reporting period (typically annual). The core data categories for Early Childhood Education (ECE) providers include:

• Organizational Information: Site identifiers, locations, and program types (e.g., CSPP, CCTR, CalWORKs, Head Start, EHS).
• Staffing and Payroll: Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff, position categories, annual wages, and benefits expenses.
• Vendor and Capital Expenditures: Annual payments to suppliers, contractors, and capital investments (e.g., facilities, playground equipment, or technology upgrades).
• Program and Enrollment Data: Enrollment counts by age group, funding source, and total service hours provided.
• Funding and Revenue: Annual revenues or reimbursements by program and funding stream.

Revelo’s setup process includes a secure data import wizard that allows uploads from Excel, CSV, or QuickBooks exports. Once uploaded, the system validates and maps each dataset to standardized economic and social impact indicators (using models like RIMS II).

Revelo’s Economic Impact SaaS calculates results using a transparent, data-driven methodology that combines each organization’s operational data with regional economic multipliers from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (RIMS II) and other nationally recognized sources. This approach ensures that every organization, whether operating in a single county or across multiple states, receives accurate, location-specific impact estimates.

For education and workforce development organizations, the process involves four main steps:

1. Data Integration: Operational datasets (such as payroll, vendor payments, capital investments, and program or enrollment data) are uploaded securely and mapped to a standardized schema designed for educational and workforce programs.
2. Direct Impacts: The platform calculates the organization’s direct contributions to the economy, including employment, wages, and total operating expenditures.
3. Indirect and Induced Effects: Using regionally appropriate RIMS II multipliers, Revelo estimates indirect effects (supplier and vendor linkages) and induced effects (household spending driven by employee earnings).
4. Social ROI Estimation (Optional): The system can extend the analysis to include social return on investment (ROI) metrics, drawing on research-based linkages between education, workforce participation, and long-term economic outcomes.

The platform’s interactive dashboard presents these findings through Core KPIs (Direct, Indirect, Induced Impacts) and Supplemental KPIs (Social ROI, Employment Effects, Public Cost Savings), enabling organizations nationwide to confidently demonstrate their measurable economic and social value.

Revelo’s Social ROI (Return on Investment) framework quantifies the long-term social and economic benefits generated by education and workforce programs relative to the resources invested. While economic impact analysis focuses on jobs, wages, and spending, Social ROI captures broader societal outcomes that extend beyond immediate financial effects.

The measurement process includes three key components:

1. Outcome Mapping: Revelo aligns your program data—such as enrollment, completion, or family participation metrics—with research-based indicators known to influence long-term outcomes (e.g., school readiness, employment stability, reduced reliance on public assistance).
2. Benefit Valuation: Each outcome is assigned an estimated dollar value based on credible national studies and federal datasets (e.g., Bureau of Labor Statistics). This allows the system to translate social gains into measurable fiscal benefits.
3. ROI Calculation: The platform aggregates these monetized outcomes and compares them to program expenditures to estimate a Social ROI ratio, for example, “$4 in long-term community benefits for every $1 invested.”

The Social ROI module is configurable to the organization’s mission and sector focus:

• For Early Childhood Education, benefits often include improved kindergarten readiness, parental employment gains, and reduced future remediation costs.
• For Workforce Development, metrics emphasize post-training employment, earnings growth, and decreased unemployment claims.
• For Higher Education, indicators may include graduate earnings, innovation spillovers, and community engagement impacts.

Together, these analyses enable organizations to communicate not only how much they contribute to the economy, but also how deeply they improve lives and strengthen communities.

Core Key Performance Indicators (Core KPIs) represent the foundational economic metrics used by Revelo’s Economic Impact SaaS to quantify an organization’s contribution to the local, regional, and national economy. These indicators are based on well-established economic impact modeling practices and are standardized across all clients to ensure consistency and comparability.

The Core KPIs include:

1. Direct Impact – Measures the immediate economic activity generated by the organization’s own operations, such as jobs supported, wages paid, and direct spending on goods, services, and facilities.
2. Indirect Impact – Captures the secondary effects that occur when the organization’s vendors and suppliers increase their own purchases and production to meet demand.
3. Induced Impact – Reflects the broader community-level spending that results when employees, contractors, and vendors spend their earnings within the local economy (e.g., housing, retail, transportation).

Each Core KPI is calculated using region-specific economic multipliers to ensure that results accurately reflect the structure of the surrounding economy.

Together, these Core KPIs provide a comprehensive picture of an organization’s total economic footprint, illustrating how educational, workforce, or community programs create value beyond their direct expenditures.

Supplemental Key Performance Indicators (Supplemental KPIs) expand upon the Core KPIs by capturing the social, workforce, and community outcomes that complement traditional economic impact measures. These indicators allow organizations to demonstrate how their programs contribute not only to economic growth but also to social well-being, equity, and long-term community development.

Examples of Supplemental KPIs include:

• Social ROI (Return on Investment): Estimates the long-term social and fiscal benefits—such as increased workforce participation, higher lifetime earnings, or reduced public assistance, per dollar invested in the program.
• Employment and Workforce Participation Metrics: Tracks the number of individuals gaining or retaining employment as a result of program access, training, or early childhood education supports.
• Public Cost Savings: Calculates estimated reductions in future public spending related to education, health, or social services due to improved participant outcomes.
• Program Access and Equity Indicators: Measures the reach and inclusivity of programs, such as the proportion of families served in low-income or underserved areas.

These Supplemental KPIs are customizable within the Revelo platform, allowing each organization to select metrics most relevant to its mission and funding requirements.

How they are used. Supplemental KPIs help organizations translate data into strategic insights for reporting, advocacy, and funding. They are commonly featured in:

• Annual impact reports and grant applications,
• Board and stakeholder presentations, and
• Public-facing dashboards demonstrating program outcomes and accountability.

By combining Core and Supplemental KPIs, the Revelo Economic Impact SaaS offers a holistic view of both the economic and societal value created by education and workforce development programs.

The Agentic AI module in Revelo’s Economic Impact SaaS is an optional enhancement designed to automate complex analysis and reporting tasks. It allows organizations to generate professional-grade summaries and insights with minimal manual effort.

Agentic AI functions as an intelligent assistant within the platform, continuously interpreting data patterns, identifying key findings, and producing narrative reports tailored to the organization’s goals. While the base SaaS focuses on accurate economic modeling and KPI dashboards, the Agentic AI module adds automation and interpretive capabilities that enhance efficiency and usability.

Key functions include:

1. Automated Report Generation: Creates ready-to-use summaries in PDF and PowerPoint formats that highlight Core and Supplemental KPIs, trends, and regional context.
2. Context-Aware Insights: Interprets KPI data to explain economic and social implications (e.g., job creation, family stability, or workforce readiness).
3. Template Customization: Allows users to select or customize report templates that reflect their organizational branding, preferred metrics, and stakeholder audiences.
4. AI-Guided Data Review: Identifies potential anomalies or outliers in uploaded datasets to improve data integrity before modeling.

This optional module is particularly valuable for early childhood education, higher education, and workforce development organizations that produce frequent reports for boards, funders, and public stakeholders.

Revelo ensures that all client data within the Economic Impact SaaS is protected through a comprehensive, multi-layered security framework that meets national standards for data protection, privacy, and regulatory compliance. Whether your organization operates locally, regionally, or across multiple states, the system is designed to safeguard sensitive information throughout every stage of data handling and analysis.

Key Security Measures:

1. Encrypted Transmission and Storage: All data uploads and transfers occur over secure HTTPS (TLS 1.2+) connections, and all stored data are encrypted using AES-256 encryption, the same level of protection used by federal agencies and major financial institutions.
2. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Access privileges are assigned based on user roles (Administrator, Analyst, Viewer), ensuring that each user only sees the information relevant to their role.
3. Secure Cloud Hosting: The platform operates on FedRAMP-authorized and SOC 2-compliant cloud infrastructure, providing physical, network, and application-level protections for all clients across the United States.
4. Regulatory Compliance: Revelo adheres to applicable federal and state privacy laws, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and state-level data privacy standards such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
5. Data Backup and Recovery: Encrypted data backups are conducted daily and retained for a rolling 30-day period to ensure rapid recovery in the event of an outage or data loss.
6. Comprehensive Audit Logging: All user activity, including uploads, edits, and downloads, is logged to maintain full transparency and support compliance audits.

Revelo’s data security practices are continually reviewed and updated to align with current cybersecurity standards and emerging threats. Organizations retain full ownership and control of their data, and no uploaded information is shared, sold, or repurposed outside the scope of authorized project activities.