Understand a community
For: State offices, chambers, and economic developers
Start here
- Choose a representative Business already known to your team.
- Review the Business information available to you.
- Use a valuation as one input to a broader community analysis.
Capabilities to use
| Job | SMB capability | Available through |
|---|---|---|
| Review one representative Business | Get a Business | API · MCP |
| Add it to the team's Workspace | Add a Business | API · MCP |
| Organize community work | Create a Room | API · MCP |
| Define a community outcome | Create a Goal | API · MCP |
| Estimate a representative Business | Run a valuation | API · MCP |
Example: value one representative business
Use one business_id per call when studying independent businesses. A geographic cohort is not a portfolio, so do not set combine_as_portfolio merely to aggregate a community.
{
"reference": "community-representative-business",
"items": [
{
"business_id": "biz_123",
"details": {
"annual_revenue": 950000,
"employee_count": 9
}
}
]
}Published Business data and valuations do not by themselves prove community outcomes or the needs of a specific owner.