PROJECT RED TEAM Commission a study
Independent economic-impact and feasibility studies

Economic studies built to survive scrutiny.

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.

Built for counties, tribes, lenders, public agencies, and developers.
Every engagement FOUR DELIVERABLES
Full reportthe study
One-page briefthe board
Reviewer packthe analyst
Decision packagethe room

Every figure traced to its source

Every assumption stated and tested

Human-reviewed before it leaves

One engine, three jobs

Produce a study, compare candidate sites, audit someone else's study.

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.

Job one

Produce a study

Economic-impact and feasibility studies with a built-in evidence and release review. Analyst-led and ready today.

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Job two

Compare candidate sites

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.

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Job three

Audit an existing study

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.

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Every engagement

One engagement. A document for every person in the room.

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.

What you get

01

Full report. The complete study, with methods, assumptions, sources, and the finding, built to survive a lender, a council, or an outside economist.

02

One-page brief. The finding and its limits on a single page, written for the board, the council, or the credit committee.

03

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.

04

Decision package. The whole engagement assembled for the room where the vote or the financing decision actually happens.

Already have a study? We review it.

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.

What we do

The studies we produce, and the review that proves them.

Economic impact

What a project brings to the region

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.

Feasibility & viability

Whether it should move forward

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.

Fiscal impact

What it means for public revenue

The tax and revenue effect on state, county, local, and tribal governments, built for the budget conversation and the grant application that follow.

Market & cost-benefit

Whether the case holds together

Demand and capture analysis, cost-benefit assessment, and site and location viability for a decision to open, expand, build, or buy.

Location comparison

Comparing candidate sites

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.

Red Team review

Already have a study? Test it first

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.

The engine

A study that tests its assumptions together, and shows which ones move the decision.

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.

The whole range
Each assumption enters as a range, not a fixed value. The engine samples the whole space and reports where the outcome holds, where it flips, and which single variable moves it most, so the result does not collapse the moment one input is questioned.
Your projection is a hypothesis
The optimistic case is weighed against the rival explanations for a project's effect, including displacement, substitution, and leakage, and the engine reports which one the evidence actually supports. The rosy number does not get to be the premise.
The lender's own test
Viability is measured with the finance a bank runs, including debt-service coverage against the standard floor, so the financing conversation holds no surprises.
Pre-registered and defensible
Thresholds are fixed before the analysis runs, while the answer is still unknown, and a credibility check blocks anything the model cannot stand behind.
The data foundation

Every figure carries its method, source, and provenance.

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:

Bureau of Economic Analysis

  • National Input-Output Accounts: the Use and Make tables behind every multiplier
  • Regional Economic Accounts: a region's measured income, GDP, and industry structure
  • RIMS II multipliers: BEA regional multipliers, used where a project supplies them and mapped explicitly, with their assumptions and limits disclosed

Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • QCEW: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, by county and industry
  • OES: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, what the jobs actually pay
  • LAUS: Local Area Unemployment Statistics, month by month

U.S. Census Bureau

  • American Community Survey: who lives in the place and how
  • LEHD / LODES: employment below the county, where projects actually sit
  • Gazetteer: the geographic backbone that ties data to a location

Geospatial & regulatory

  • Parcel and land-use overlays: whether a site sits inside a constraint
  • Land valuation: what the ground is worth under each scenario
  • Siting layers: the regulatory picture a location analysis needs

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.

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Who we serve

Public and private clients, from a single storefront to a regional plan.

The engine is the same discipline at every scale. The engagement is built around what you actually need to decide.

Cities, counties & economic development offices Real estate developers & investors Business owners & operators Tribes & tribal enterprises Ports, chambers & districts Nonprofits & foundations

How we work with lenders, developers, local governments, tribes, attorneys, and grant writers.

Where we work

The interior West, with people who know the ground.

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.

The Highway 97 corridor

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.

The wider interior West

Shasta and the Sacramento Valley, western Nevada, and southern Idaho, on-site when it matters.

Every kind of project

A storefront, a subdivision, a manufacturing plant, a public facility, a tribal enterprise. Any economic or feasibility question a decision turns on.

National reach when needed

The engine runs on data that covers the country. When a project sits outside the region, the analysis still travels.

About the firm

An economics firm with a technical edge, not a template.

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.

Tell us about the project.

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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