The release gate for economic-impact claims.
Project Red Team produces decision-ready economic-impact and feasibility studies on traceable public data, with documented assumptions, downside testing, and human-reviewed conclusions. Every engagement returns a full report, a one-page brief, a technical reviewer pack, and a decision package written for the room where the choice gets made.
Every figure traced to its source
Every assumption stated and tested
Human-reviewed before it leaves
The same engine does all three, and reports its own confidence honestly in each. Every claim it ships is backed by an artifact you can open.
Economic-impact and feasibility studies with a built-in evidence and release review. Analyst-led and ready today.
Our services →An early corridor comparison that runs each candidate site through the same evidence gates and shows when a ranking is not yet stable. The selection is withheld until it holds.
See the corridor comparison pack →Send a study you did not commission. We inventory the claims a reader would repeat, attach the evidence, and make the gaps first-class findings, human-reviewed before it leaves.
How the audit works →See the actual artifacts the engine generates → How an engagement works →
A commissioner, a board, a lender, an analyst, and a skeptic each need something different from the same study. One engagement produces all of it, built to hold up when someone checks.
Full report. The complete study, with methods, assumptions, sources, and the finding, built to survive a lender, a council, or an outside economist.
One-page brief. The finding and its limits on a single page, written for the board, the council, or the credit committee.
Reviewer pack. Every figure with its source, tier, and provenance, and every assumption stated, for the analyst or lender staff who has to check the work.
Decision package. The whole engagement assembled for the room where the vote or the financing decision actually happens.
Send an IMPLAN, consultant, internal, or AI-assisted study. We inventory its quotable numeric claims, map the evidence, flag missing support and methodological concerns, and return a human-reviewed findings pack.
This is a structured claim-and-evidence review, not a re-run of the study's input-output model unless that is separately in scope.
Comparing more than one study? We can review the comparison and tell you whether a ranking is stable enough to publish. Comparison readiness.
Regional input-output analysis of the jobs, output, labor income, and tax revenue a project generates as its effect moves through the local economy, with leakage handled honestly so the numbers survive scrutiny.
Net present value, internal rate of return, payback, and debt-service coverage against the floor a lender uses, resolved into a clear recommendation and the one factor that most changes it.
The tax and revenue effect on state, county, local, and tribal governments, built for the budget conversation and the grant application that follow.
Demand and capture analysis, cost-benefit assessment, and site and location viability for a decision to open, expand, build, or buy.
An early corridor comparison that runs each candidate site through the same evidence gates and shows when a ranking is not yet stable. We name a leading candidate only when the ranking holds, and until then the comparison is delivered with the selection withheld.
Send an IMPLAN, consultant, internal, or AI-assisted study. We inventory its quotable claims, attach the evidence, run release gates, and show where support is missing or weak. A structured claim-and-evidence review, human-reviewed before it leaves.
Impact work is too often a single spreadsheet: one multiplier, one projection, one number. Our decision engine aggregates the published regional economic record and runs the project across the ranges of its declared assumptions, together, then shows which ones actually move the result. That is the difference between a figure and an answer you can defend. What red teaming means, and why it belongs on every project.
Every figure we report is labeled by its method, source, and evidence tier, whether it comes from the federal statistical record, a client, or an analyst estimate, and each one is traceable. The public sources we build on include:
Every number in a study is labeled by its method, source, and evidence tier: the figures built on the public statistical record can be reproduced independently, and analyst and decision-layer figures are marked as such and stated openly. That is what lets the work stand up when someone checks it.
The engine is the same discipline at every scale. The engagement is built around what you actually need to decide.
How we work with lenders, developers, local governments, tribes, attorneys, and grant writers.
National firm rates and travel costs can price a rural community out of the analysis it needs. We are closer, and we understand these economies from the inside.
Our focus is the US-97 spine, from Weed and Mount Shasta through the Klamath Basin, Bend, and Madras to The Dalles. Corridor studies compare candidate sites along it.
Shasta and the Sacramento Valley, western Nevada, and southern Idaho, on-site when it matters.
A storefront, a subdivision, a manufacturing plant, a public facility, a tribal enterprise. Any economic or feasibility question a decision turns on.
The engine runs on data that covers the country. When a project sits outside the region, the analysis still travels.
Project Red Team is a Native-owned economic analysis firm led by H.L. Delaney, an enrolled member of the Klamath Tribes. We pair standard, published economic method with a decision process, developed in-house, that tests a project’s declared assumptions together rather than reporting a single fixed set. The method is what we stand behind: every figure is traceable, every assumption is stated, and the reasoning is built to survive an outside review.
The methods are transparent and reproducible, the judgment is independent, and every study is built to be defended under scrutiny, and written to be read. We bring on specialist collaborators as an engagement requires, and we deliver work that reads as clearly for a council chamber as it does for a credit committee.
Project Red Team. Native-owned. Interior West.
What you are weighing, and where. We will lay out what it takes to answer it and what it costs, before you commit to anything.
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