Shape regional growth priorities.
Target the right businesses at scale.
Track differences across geographies.
Combined Authorities operate at a scale where understanding regional dynamics is critical — balancing growth, inclusion, sector priorities and place-based investment across multiple local economies. Growth Flag provides a consistent, comparable view of growth potential across your entire geography, helping you understand where opportunity and risk are concentrated.
With forward-looking and regularly updated data, Growth Flag enables Combined Authorities to move beyond static intelligence. It helps align strategy, delivery and investment decisions across partners — ensuring interventions are targeted, coordinated and grounded in a shared evidence base.
With Growth Flag, you can develop a deeper understanding of how growth potential varies across places, sectors and business types within your geography. Our data allows you to combine local authority-level insights into a coherent regional narrative to inform strategies, industrial priorities and long-term plans.
With Growth Flag, identify high-potential businesses and priority cohorts across your region and align delivery between Growth Hubs, local authorities and partners. Ensure businesses receive the right support at the right time, regardless of where they sit in the geography, and accounting for local differences that move beyond broad approaches to support.
Use data to identify investable firms, growth clusters and emerging opportunities across your Combined Authority area. Growth Flag builds robust evidence for inward investment propositions and regional promotion activity - including spotlight specific sectors and businesses which outperform averages.
Using Growth Flag, track cohorts of supported businesses over time across multiple programmes and delivery partners. Our portfolios and monitoring alerts allow tracking across a variety of metrics to assess what is working and where outcomes differ across places or sectors. Stronger monitoring and evaluation can support better outcomes, and in turn improve cases for future investment.
