Analisa: Buy vs Skip (US Public Data Retainers)
If an agency already bills government-adjacent or site-selection research and needs watchlists, alerts, and exports as a data layer inside an existing retainer, start on the $0 Free tier (100-item watchlist, 3 saved alerts, CSV exports to 10,000 rows) and upgrade to Pro at $29 per seat per month once a client needs 50 saved alerts, a 1,000-item watchlist, recompete calendar, competitor tracking, or supplier screening at 500 rows a month. If the client mandate sits outside US counties, states, and municipalities, skip Analisa entirely, because its quality-of-life, demographic, and public spending coverage does not extend past that geography.
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Analisa: Buy vs Skip (US Public Data Retainers)
“If an agency already bills government-adjacent or site-selection research and needs watchlists, alerts, and exports as a data layer inside an existing retainer, start on the $0 Free tier (100-item watchlist, 3 saved alerts, CSV exports to 10,000 rows) and upgrade to Pro at $29 per seat per month once a client needs 50 saved alerts, a 1,000-item watchlist, recompete calendar, competitor tracking, or supplier screening at 500 rows a month. If the client mandate sits outside US counties, states, and municipalities, skip Analisa entirely, because its quality-of-life, demographic, and public spending coverage does not extend past that geography.”
- The client question is a US county, metro, or municipal screen (household income, life expectancy, violent crime, grants, contracts) that Analisa already covers through maps, rankings, and its AI assistant.
- Delivery needs recurring monitoring rather than a one-off pull: Pro's 50 saved alerts with daily email and a 1,000-item watchlist replace manual re-checks across a multi-month retainer.
- A recompete or supplier screening workflow is on the statement of work, since Pro adds a recompete calendar, competitor tracking, teaming partners, and 500 screening rows a month.
- The agency can productize a fixed-scope entry offer, such as a $1,800 county intelligence starter covering up to 5 jurisdictions with 16 hours of setup, before committing to seats.
- Exports and reporting must leave the platform for client decks, and the Free tier's CSV exports to 10,000 rows plus Pro's 10 reports a month cover that handoff.
- The engagement is not US public sector work; Analisa's value depends entirely on US public data availability and freshness, so non-US clients get nothing from the seat spend.
- The client expects Analisa to anchor a standalone offering rather than sit as a data layer inside a larger research retainer, which the tool is too specialized to support.
- One-off questions dominate the pipeline, because the $29 per seat monthly cost only pays back when saved alerts, watchlists, and the recompete calendar get reused across months.
- Supplier screening volume runs well past 500 rows a month on Pro, pushing the workflow beyond the plan's stated screening limit.
- The agency has no delivery capacity for the medium-complexity onboarding (watchlists, saved alerts, API key configuration) that precedes any client-facing commitment.
More on Analisa
- StrategyWhy Analisa Is a Data Layer, Not an Anchor, for Agency Retainers
- ConceptAnalisa Data Layer Test
- Evaluation RuleAnalisa Rule: Adopt Only When a Client Mandate Names a US County or Municipality
- Failure PatternThe Analisa Watchlist Sprawl Trap: Why Agencies Fail With Analisa on Multi-County Retainers
- Implementation BlueprintAnalisa County Screening Retainer Build (6-8 days)
- Operating ProcedureAnalisa Supplier Screening Pass (Delivery)