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Eleven working tools you can use right now — generate a public-records request, calculate what a tax abatement actually costs per person, estimate the bill-shock on your next ERCOT statement, check the noise at your property, model the long-term hit to your home value, and more. Nothing leaves your browser.

Tool 01

FOIA-in-a-Box

Generate a properly-cited Texas Public Information Act request letter for any of 20 covered counties. Print it, mail it, or email the clerk — the text is yours.

Demo — live data in V1
Tool 02

Tax-Abatement Receipt

Enter any abatement amount and see what it costs — per person, per student-year, and per road-mile the county could've built instead. Printable for your next public comment.

Demo — uses your inputs; no project data is real unless you enter it.
Demo — uses your own inputs; no project data is real unless you enter it. Figures show absolute per-capita cost; they do not net out property tax paid after the abatement expires. Use as a conversation-starter at public comment, not as a final economic analysis.
Tool 03

Letter-to-Editor Generator

A 250-word draft you can edit, keyed to your county and concern. Find the submission URL for your local paper.

Demo — live data in V1
Tool 04

Neighbor-Invite SMS

One short text. The single most effective thing you can do is tell one neighbor. Opens your phone's SMS app pre-filled.

Demo — live data in V1
Text my neighbor →
Tool 05

Commissioner Finder

Enter your ZIP. If we cover your county, we'll show you a placeholder commissioner card. If not, we'll put you on the list for when we do.

Demo — live data in V1
Tool 06

Water-Use Personalizer

Your household vs. a 4-million-gallon/day data center. The default 88 gal/person/day is the Texas Water Development Board's per-capita residential average.

Demo — uses your inputs
Tool 07

Grid-Rate Pass-Through Estimator

Rough-order-of-magnitude model: when a hyperscale facility joins the ERCOT grid, who picks up the transmission and capacity cost? Usually you do. Enter your kWh and the proposed MW, see the monthly estimate.

Demo — modeling estimate, not a prediction
500 MW
Tool 08

Kid / School-Impact Calculator

If you have school-age kids, construction-phase traffic is not hypothetical. Concrete trucks, water tankers, and 18-wheeler cooling-unit deliveries share the same two-lane roads the bus uses every morning. Enter your ZIP and distance to see the estimate.

Demo — modeling estimate, not a prediction
1.5 mi
Tool 09

Noise-Floor Distance Estimator

A hyperscale cooling system runs 24/7/365. Move the slider to your property's distance from the proposed fence line and see the projected dB — with a reference to something you already know sounds that loud.

Demo — modeling estimate, not a prediction
0.50 mi
Tool 10

Electric-Bill Projection

12-month cumulative increase projection for your household after a nearby hyperscale facility connects to the grid. Uses ERCOT 2024–2025 rate-trajectory analyses as the coefficient range.

Demo — modeling estimate, not a prediction
Tool 11

Property Value — Before / After Slider

A 10-year projection of what industrial-adjacency rezoning does to your home's appraised value. Based on extrapolation of the Berkeley peer-reviewed study on industrial proximity (Hoen et al. 2015) — data-center-specific Texas studies are still pending.

Demo — modeling estimate, not a prediction
1.00 mi
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