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Spark

Permitting intelligence for solar, storage and data center development

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Spark is an AI-assisted permitting intelligence platform for energy infrastructure and data centers. It helps teams evaluate prospective sites, extract permitting and zoning requirements from ordinances and moratoria, interpret community sentiment, and monitor changes across U.S. counties. The platform is designed to support site selection, portfolio and M&A diligence, and ongoing risk monitoring.

Key capabilities include Planning & Zoning Reports with parcel search, zoning and land use analysis, permitted use breakdowns, and moratoria tracking; Document Diligence for extracting answers from complex policies and data rooms; Bulk Screening for filtering markets and parcels; and Monitoring & Alerts for zoning, moratoria, and sentiment changes. Spark supports utility-scale solar, storage (BESS), and data centers, with broader infrastructure diligence through its permitting matrix workflow. It crawls authoritative public sources multiple times per week, storing findings with citations and timestamps, and covers all 50 U.S. states down to county and township levels where online public-source presence exists. Uploaded documents are not used to train AI models or shared with model providers for training.

Spark is built for energy infrastructure and data center developers, permitting teams, and diligence professionals. It is packaged as an annual software subscription, with pricing typically depending on seats and usage volume.

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