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.

In short:

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 Revelo’s Economic Impact SaaS, your organization will need a few core datasets that represent your operational, financial, and program-level activities. These can typically be exported from your CRM, finance, or grant management systems.

Common data categories include:

• Organizational Information: Program names, sites, or regions served.
• Financial Data: Operating budgets, capital investments, and grant expenditures.
• Employment Data: Staff and contractor counts, payroll, and benefits.
• Program & Innovation Data: Startups supported, accelerator participants, and research or commercialization activities.
• Investment Data: Venture capital raised, public-private funding matches, or infrastructure investments.

Once uploaded (Excel, CSV, or QuickBooks export), Revelo validates and maps your data to standardized BEA RIMS II economic indicators, automating the entire setup process.

Yes, Revelo was purpose-built for innovation-led economic development. You can upload data from research parks, incubators, accelerators, small business development centers, or startup programs.

Examples include:

• Startup and SME activity: Formation, job creation, revenue, and survival rates.
• Research and Development (R&D): Grants, patents, licenses, and SBIR/STTR awards.
• Capital Flows: Venture investment, angel funding, or infrastructure spending.
• Program Participation: Number of entrepreneurs served, cohort outcomes, mentorship sessions, and partnership networks.

These data are mapped to economic multipliers and supplemented with secondary sources (e.g., BEA, BLS, USPTO, NSF, PitchBook) to estimate how your ecosystem’s innovation pipeline drives measurable regional growth, investment, and job creation.

Revelo uses input–output modeling based on official U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) RIMS II multipliers, the federal standard for regional impact analysis.

Your data is analyzed in three tiers:

1. Direct Impacts – Jobs, wages, and spending from your organization’s operations or programs.
2. Indirect Impacts – Supplier and vendor spending generated by your activities.
3. Induced Impacts – Household spending resulting from increased employee income.

The result: a complete picture of your organization’s total economic footprint, including GDP contribution, labor income, and tax impacts, tailored to your region’s economic structure.

Core KPIs quantify your organization’s direct economic impact:

• Jobs supported
• GDP contribution
• Labor income generated
• Regional tax revenue

Supplemental KPIs capture innovation and ecosystem outcomes that extend beyond traditional metrics:

• Startup survival and growth rate
• R&D leverage ratio
• Capital formation rate
• Cluster strength and competitiveness
• Social ROI (long-term community and equity outcomes)

Social ROI (Return on Investment) extends economic impact to include long-term social and fiscal benefits such as improved employment outcomes, reduced public costs, and increased community resilience.

Methodology:

1. Outcome Mapping: Links your data (e.g., business formation, employment gains) to research-based indicators of social and fiscal benefit.
2. Benefit Valuation: Assigns a monetary value to each outcome using federal and academic datasets (e.g., BLS, Census).
3. ROI Calculation: Aggregates total community benefits per dollar invested (e.g., “$5.20 in long-term value per $1 invested”).

The module is configurable to your mission, from entrepreneurial ecosystems to cluster development or regional revitalization.

Revelo provides benchmarking at regional, state, and national levels using integrated datasets from BEA, BLS, EDA Tech Hubs, and AURP’s Communities of Innovation database.

Your dashboards can compare metrics such as:

• Jobs and wages supported per $1M in investment
• GDP contribution per employee or firm
• Venture capital attraction per capita
• Cluster competitiveness (industry specialization)

These benchmarks provide context for board reporting, policy advocacy, and performance improvement across innovation districts or regional development networks.

The Agentic AI module automates analysis, reporting, and presentation generation. It continuously interprets data, identifies patterns, and produces human-readable insights and slide decks in minutes.

Capabilities include:

• Automated Report Generation: Ready-to-use PowerPoint and PDF summaries.
• Narrative Insights: Context-aware explanations of trends and anomalies.
• AI-Guided Data Validation: Detects and flags potential data inconsistencies.
• Custom Templates: Branded reports aligned with your organization’s visual identity.

This feature reduces reporting time and ensures every deliverable is consistent, credible, and presentation-ready.

Key safeguards include:

• AES-256 encryption for all stored and transmitted data
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for user permissions
• Hosting on FedRAMP-authorized, SOC 2-compliant infrastructure
• Daily encrypted backups and full audit logging
• Compliance with FERPA, COPPA, CCPA, and applicable data privacy laws

Your organization retains full ownership and control of all uploaded data. Revelo does not share, sell, or repurpose client data for any external use.