Find high potential firms earlier.
Prioritise scarce resources confidently.
Spot growth and risk proactively.
Local Authorities are being asked to deliver more — inclusive growth, economic resilience, investment and productivity — with tighter capacity and rising expectations for evidence-led decision making. Growth Flag helps you move beyond historic, patchy intelligence by providing a comprehensive view of your business base and clear signals of where growth potential (and risk) is emerging.
Growth Flag is used across local authority teams to plan and deliver more effective business support, understand key sectors, develop plans and strategy, and to manage business relationships more efficiently.
With Growth Flag, teams can build a robust, repeatable evidence base on local economies — understanding business dynamics by sector, size, geography and other characteristics, and comparing performance across places. This supports economic strategies, policy development and deeper insight into what’s happening “on your patch” — with clear visuals and downloadable data for decision papers and partners.
Our data helps identify and reach the right businesses at the right time — including those that can be hard to spot in traditional lists (such as micro businesses and rural firms). Using growth potential and risk signals to segment cohorts for outreach, programme recruitment and proactive support, efforts can more easily be focused where early intervention can deliver the greatest impact.
Track specific groups of businesses over time, using company-level reporting and live monitoring alerts to spot changes early — whether for improving performance or emerging risk. Growth Flag also supports due diligence (including credit reporting) and provides a stronger foundation for the tracking and evaluation of business cohorts, helping teams evidence progress and learn what works.
Use Growth Flag to showcase local strengths and opportunities in bid writing, funding applications and stakeholder engagement — backed by robust local business intelligence. With Growth Flag you can identify business growth opportunities, develop clearer narratives about priority sectors and clusters, and create evidence-led investment propositions and prospectuses when promoting your place.
