COMMUNITY & POLITICAL RISK INTELLIGENCE FOR AMERICA'S BUILDOUT
Model local opposition risk before investing time and capital.
Prevolt transforms community data into hyperlocal permitting risk intelligence for energy, transmission, and data center development.
Trusted by leading infrastructure developers and independent power producers across the U.S.
~20 GWSCREENED FOR DEVELOPERS IN LAST 12 MONTHS
Solar · BESS · Wind · Powered Land · Data Centers
“To be honest, people were blown away.”
Sr. Director of Development, M&A · IPP
THE AMERICAN BUILDOUT
America must build.Communities are saying, “Not here.”
More power. More compute. A new industrial base. America's reindustrialization demands speed. That speed depends on earning local trust and permission.
Yet a critical information gap persists:
Local data is fragmented, siloed, and messy
Surfacing local nuance is difficult and time intensive
No standard benchmark - each community is unique
PROJECTS BLOCKED OR DELAYED
~$130B
In U.S. data center projects blocked or delayed by local opposition in Q1 2026. [1]
CLEAN ENERGY
865
Local restrictions on U.S. renewable energy siting, through 2025. [2]
DATA CENTERS
500+
Active U.S. data center bans, including temporary moratoriums, as of 8/26. [3]
Introducing
Prevolt helps developers surface community and political risks that lie ahead.
And the tools to earn social license to operate.
DE-RISK PERMITTING
Community & Political Risk Screens. For Your Project.
Turn vast amounts of data into bespoke intelligence that reveals the human landscape and how to move forward.
PERMITTING / CAPITAL / LOCAL CONTEXT
Prevolt in 3Audio briefing · 3 minutes
One order. Three deliverables.
01
The tear sheet
The principal risks and local conditions at a glance, with the issues that warrant a closer look.
02
Prevolt in 3
A three-minute audio briefing on the project's most important risks. A digestible way to get the entire team on the same page.
03
The risk screen
A community and political risk screen covering the permitting pathway, capital flows, trust deficits, and local nuance, with source citations and a recommended path forward.
How it works
01
You provide the input.
Share your project details. We tailor the research to your site.
02
We synthesize.
We synthesize vast amounts of geospatial data, local government records, and third-party datasets into community and political risk intelligence, with human-in-the-loop verification.
03
We deliver.
Your tear sheet, audio briefing, and complete screen, delivered to your inbox, in days. The work is done for you.
NEWPREVOLT PORTFOLIOS
Now for project portfolios.
Determining permission requires much more than a sentiment map and vote counts. You need to understand nuance at a hyperlocal level. And to do that for a portfolio? That's a lot of work. Until now.
Every site in your portfolio is screened the same way and ranked side by side. See where community and political risk concentrates before you commit capital.
BUILT FOR
M&A · Linear development · Project pipelines
PRICING
Priced per portfolio
ILLUSTRATIVE SOLAR PORTFOLIO / 10 SITESRANKED BY OVERALL RISK
Site 028.4 overall risk, high
Site 077.6 overall risk, elevated
Site 046.1 overall risk, elevated
Site 105.8 overall risk, moderate
Site 015.3 overall risk, moderate
Site 084.9 overall risk, moderate
Site 054.2 overall risk, moderate
Site 093.6 overall risk, moderate
Site 033.1 overall risk, moderate
Site 062.8 overall risk, moderate
HighElevatedModerateOverall risk score / 10
FOR AMERICA'S BUILDOUT
Solar · Wind · BESS · Transmission · Data Centers · Manufacturing
THE VIEW FROM THE FIELD - CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVES
“We're starting out 10 steps ahead of where we'd be otherwise.”
Director of PermittingIPP
“Invaluable.”
Public Policy & AdvocacyUtility-Scale Solar Developer
“This is significantly better than the alternatives in terms of the deep dive.”
Chief Development OfficerIPP
“We had absolutely no idea the opposition was there.”
Community Engagement DirectorUtility-Scale Solar Developer
WHAT CONVENTIONAL DILIGENCE MISSES
Permitting is about people.
Know the town before you walk into it.
PROMISED IN 2017Road repairsCommunity fundNeither delivered.
IN THE ROOM1 in 4 residentsfought the last project
COUNTY BOARD2 of 5 seats up in November
INFORMAL INFLUENCEFarm Bureau chairLargest landowner in the township
INFORMAL INFLUENCETownship Facebook group4,200 members
INSIDE THE SCREEN
The nuance that doesn't make headlines but dictates local permission.
Permitting pathways, capital flows, and the local context that rarely makes headlines but shapes what gets built.
THE APPROVAL SEQUENCE
Know the steps.
Understand the friction.
Identify the governing bodies, required approvals, and dependencies along your permitting path. Understand where an ordinance, a moratorium, or a prior decision could change the route.
BACKED BY SOURCE CITATIONS
Governing authorities · Ordinances · Development precedent
PERMITTING PATHWAY / ILLUSTRATIVE STRUCTURE
01
Establish jurisdiction
Governing bodies and approval authority
02
Map required approvals
Permits, dependencies, and review sequence
03
Identify points of friction
Restrictions, precedent, and local discretion
A clearer route to your next decision.
A permitting pathway tailored to the project and jurisdiction.
THE LOCAL ECONOMICS
Follow the investment.
Understand the expectations.
See where capital has landed, what the community received, and which needs remain. Connect investment history with fiscal pressures and the local expectations your project will encounter.
BACKED BY SOURCE CITATIONS
Investment history · Public finances · Local commitments
CAPITAL FLOWS / AREAS OF ANALYSIS
INVESTMENT HISTORYWhat arrived.
Projects Employers Public commitments
FISCAL CONTEXTWhat is needed.
Local revenues Budget pressures Infrastructure needs
PROJECT RECEPTIONWhat your investment means here.
The financial context behind community priorities.
THE CONNECTIONS THAT MATTER
Read between
the report sections.
A rule, a funding decision, and a past project can tell a different story together. Prevolt connects those findings to surface constraints and opportunities that isolated research can miss.
BACKED BY SOURCE CITATIONS
Permitting context · Trust deficits · Political calculus
Connections that change how you assess a project's path.
Findings connected across the screen, with source citations.
01 / ASSESS
Community and political risk
Understand the issues that could change project reception, timing, or the approval process.
02 / INTERPRET
Local nuance
Connect the formal requirements with the financial and political conditions around them.
03 / PREPARE
A practical path forward
Give your team the context to prioritize diligence and prepare for informed local conversations.
FROM PERMISSION TO PROGRESS
Cut time to approval.
Respect is the fastest path. Know the community's story before you become part of it.
Silent infrastructure montage: the camera moves past solar panels at sunrise, through an illuminated data center aisle, between battery storage units, past wind turbines, and beneath transmission towers.
01 / GENERATION & STORAGE
Power for what comes next.
Solar, wind, battery storage, hydro, and nuclear. Understand the local conditions around the site and the approvals ahead.
02 / LINEAR DEVELOPMENT
Local context along the route.
Transmission and linear infrastructure cross jurisdictional boundaries. Understand the permitting authorities and community priorities along the corridor.
03 / POWERED LAND & DATA CENTERS
Readiness beyond the grid.
Power access is one part of site readiness. Understand land-use decisions, fiscal expectations, and the political context around a new campus.
BUILT FOR YOUR NEXT DECISION
Critical for every stage of development.
BEFORE YOU COMMIT
A promising site. A clearer picture.
Bring community and political context into your earliest site decisions. Understand development precedent, local decision-makers, and permitting constraints before you invest.
Surface local opposition exposure
Understand the permitting environment
Prioritize sites with local context
BEFORE YOU FILE
Walk into the process prepared.
Build an informed engagement strategy around local priorities, decision-makers, and regulatory requirements before the first application is filed.
Map stakeholders and local priorities
Identify procedural hurdles
Shape a community engagement strategy
WHEN THE LANDSCAPE SHIFTS
Understand the concern behind the controversy.
When opposition emerges, understand what's driving it, who is amplifying it, and where a more informed response can help move the conversation forward.
Understand emerging concerns
Trace influential voices and narratives
Identify practical engagement options
BEFORE THE DEAL CLOSES
Know the exposure you're acquiring.
Understand the permitting, political, and community exposure across a target's sites before you price the risk or commit to an acquisition.
Screen community and political exposure
Identify risks across target sites
Bring local context into investment decisions
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Questions. Answers.
Have something else in mind?
Every order includes a tear sheet, a three-minute audio briefing, and a community and political risk screen. The screen connects the permitting pathway, development history, capital flows, fiscal context, trust deficits, and political calculus. Findings include source citations and recommendations to inform your next steps.
Prevolt synthesizes structured and unstructured information from public records, local meeting minutes, regulatory filings, planning documents, geospatial data, web sources, and third-party datasets. Research is cross-checked and connected across the screen, with source citations so your team can examine the evidence.
LLMs can generate great writeups, but development risk is not a text problem, it's a place problem, and capital is on the line. Even with web access and tool use, general-purpose AI doesn't come with purpose-built geospatial and regulatory datasets. More importantly, you'd have to laboriously structure and layer the contextual inputs needed to derive real local nuance across jurisdictions. That's what Prevolt is. Structured community intelligence, not a cold start.
Prevolt covers the United States and major infrastructure categories including solar, wind, battery storage, hydro, nuclear, transmission, data centers, and advanced manufacturing.
Of course not. Conversations at the local diner. Little League games. AI doesn't belong there. Prevolt synthesizes data that we surface or can access. But development is a people business. That's why we're building here. You can't automate your customers here. But you can augment their decision making. You can lighten the work they'd either spend days doing or pay for down the line when it's too late. Prevolt provides the intel. You deliver the handshake.
Prevolt sits earlier in your process. We're a screening tool for site selection, community/political strategy, and acquisition diligence, helping you identify risk before you commit capital. Consultants have shown interest in using our screens to supplement their own efforts as well.
Many of our customers do. They use Prevolt as intelligence insurance, an independent layer that surfaces risks and stakeholders their internal teams might miss, especially during high-volume screening when bandwidth is limited.
Prevolt adds an independent layer of intelligence to your development, permitting, and community relations work. It helps your team prepare for local conversations and identify risks early. Relationships and on-the-ground engagement remain essential.
Individual screens, bulk, and unlimited plans are available. Request a demo to discuss the right fit for your development pipeline. Prevolt does not offer free screens.
ACCELERATE AMERICA'S BUILDOUT.
Learn their story. Earn local permission.
Know the community's story before you become part of it.
