Alt-30 provides independent economic, workforce, and market intelligence to help organizations understand what’s changing and what it means for them.
Most organizations have questions about the economy, the labor market, or the public sector that no one inside has time to answer properly. Alt-30 is that function, kept outside the building.
Two are standing programs of monitoring and reporting. The third is a scoped research engagement for a question that fits neither.
Alt-30 provides the research capacity, analytical expertise, and ongoing monitoring without adding another position to your organization. Every engagement is scoped and priced before work begins.
We combine economic data, workforce data, public finance, and government with a working knowledge of local markets. That is a narrower claim than most research firms make, and it is the point. It is a different thing from a dashboard with a data feed, and a harder thing to replace.
Hold Alt and type 30. A keyboard returns ▲, the oldest notation in economics for a quantity that has moved.
That is what an intelligence function exists to catch. A shift in the labor market. A change in a shared-revenue formula. A competitor entering a region. A budget line that quietly disappeared. Each is a question of how much moved, in which direction, and what it means for the organization watching.
Alt-30 is built to be that function for organizations that cannot justify staffing it. We maintain longitudinal records of appropriations, tax filings, and employment across fifty states and more than five hundred municipalities, back to fiscal year 1967, because noticing a change requires knowing what came before it. The firm began in Arizona and keeps unusual depth there. The method is identical in every state we cover.
A PhD economist leads each engagement. We do not lobby, we do not poll, and we do not advise on message. We tell you what is happening, and we show our work.
These are open to the public and built on the same records that underpin client monitoring. Retained clients receive dedicated, access-controlled versions configured to their own geographies and peer sets, and work from our research hub at base.alt-30.com.
Research is published independently through PoliMetrics, the firm’s research arm, covering state fiscal policy, shared-revenue formulas, labor economics, and policy diffusion.
Evidence over ideology. PoliMetrics publishes independent, data-driven analysis of current policy issues, drawn from the same records that underpin client monitoring.
Describe the question your organization needs answered. We will tell you plainly whether it is something we can investigate, what the work would involve, and what it would cost.
Thank you. We will read your question and respond within one business day with a plain answer on whether and how we can help.