Every economic development dashboard shows transactions: formation rates, wages, business counts. What none of them show is the contribution layer: the skills, capacity, and community work that produce economic value but never appear in any ledger. The NIEA is building infrastructure to measure it — and to make it legible to the departments responsible for growth.
Access is reviewed by The NIEA. You will hear back within 5 business days.
The window below is an illustrative concept, not a live screen. Today's live portal — see Grapevine — shows Overview, Map, Sectors, and Methodology views built from public data. The Audits and Pipeline views illustrated here come online as the contribution layer is measured in your city.
Industry breakdown, formation and closure rates, workforce participation, pulled from public data sources into a single portal view. The NIEA dashboard is honest about what public data can and cannot surface. That honesty is what makes the fourth layer meaningful when it appears.
Every city has capacity sitting unmeasured. Skills that exist in the community but are invisible to the businesses that need them. Contribution potential with no mechanism to surface it. The NIEA gap analysis shows you exactly where that unmet value lives — and how large the disconnect is between what your economy produces and what it can currently see.
The NIEA generates formal audit packages for businesses in your city, identifying contribution needs, capacity gaps, and the engagement pathways most likely to produce economic impact. Your department gets a view into which businesses are audit-complete, which engagement tier was recommended, and what outcomes were recorded.
As contributors are matched to businesses and engagements recorded, your department gets the first legible view of your city's contributive economy taking shape: open tasks, active matches, documented outcomes, all tied to verified identities. This is the fourth layer becoming data.
The NIEA ED Portal is being built to give economic development officers a view of the contribution layer in their city, alongside the public data they already use, not instead of it.
Industry breakdown, formation and closure rates, and workforce participation, alongside the NIEA contribution layer as it builds. Honest about what public data can surface. Updated continuously.
A sector-by-sector view of where value is being produced but not exchanged, identifying the specific industries and neighborhoods where the unmeasured economy is largest.
NIEA-generated structured assessments for businesses in your city, identifying needs, engagement options, and recommended pathways. Your department sees which businesses are audit-complete and what was recommended.
Open tasks, matched contributors, and documented engagements, all tied to verified identities. A view of your city's contributive economy as it builds.
We review every application to ensure the portal is being accessed by verified economic development professionals. Once approved, you will receive credentials and an onboarding briefing from our team.
Sign in with the credentials provided during your NIEA onboarding to access your city's full economic intelligence dashboard.