Know where your sites get cut.
A corporate site team trims two hundred sites to a dozen before anyone picks up the phone. SiteLens runs your sites through that same first pass, then prices the fix for every gap it finds.
Sites rarely lose on incentives. They lose on the first pass.
The first cut happens fast, at a desk, from whatever is on your website and in your binder. A power path that lives in an email. A water commitment nobody wrote down. Three hundred acres with no signed option. Any one of those ends the conversation, and nobody calls to tell you why.
Fatal flaws don't average out. A site that scores well on nine factors and fails one is not a 90; it's a site that isn't on the list. SiteLens finds those flaws before a buyer does, while you still have time to fix them.
Screened the way a site team screens.
Eliminators
The pass/fail tests a buyer runs first: power path, entitlement, acreage, site control. Fail one and the site is out, no matter how good the rest looks.
Scoring
Survivors are scored on weighted factors for each buyer and banded: Competitive (80–100), One fix away (60–79), Behind peers (under 60).
The fix list
Every gap comes with its fix, a 2026 cost band, a timeline, who pays, and whether the county can do it alone or needs the utility or the state.
A board-ready gap report, not a binder.
- County summary and your top three fixes
- Every site scored against all 13 buyer archetypes
- A site selector’s note for each site’s best fit
- Gap table with cost band, timeline and who pays
- Your ask of the utility and the state, written down
- A 60-minute readout with your team and board
- Year one of the SiteLens platform when it launches in 2027
Gap ReportIllustrative excerpt. Cost bands in every report are 2026 planning figures, labeled as estimates, not engineering quotes.
Good for whom? Every site, judged by its buyer.
A site that's perfect for cold storage can be dead on arrival for a data center. Each archetype has its own eliminators, weights and thresholds, so the answer is never "ready" in the abstract.
Priced by site count. No meter running.
One flat fee covers the full assessment, the report and the readout. More than ten sites? We'll quote the engagement.
The assessment becomes a habit.
The SiteLens platform keeps your readiness current between searches. Every Assessment client gets year one included.
Lens
Re-score any site when a document lands or a rubric changes.
RFI Assistant
Draft RFI responses from your own evidence, not from memory.
Tracker
Follow every fix from gap to closed, with owners and dates.
Board Report
A quarterly readiness report your board can actually read.
Questions EDOs ask first
Is this a certification program?
No. Certification says a site has its paperwork. SiteLens says which buyers would keep it on the list, which would cut it, and what it costs to change that answer.
What do you need from us?
A short intake and the documents you already have: utility letters, zoning, surveys, options, studies. We tell you exactly what to send at kickoff. If it isn’t in writing, we score it as missing, because a site team would.
Who does the work?
Devin Hillsdon-Smith, Hyphen’s founder, reviews every site and writes every site selector’s note. He has sat on both sides of the table, at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, at River Ridge and in corporate site selection.
Are the cost figures quotes?
No. They are 2026 planning bands, labeled as estimates in every report. They tell you which fixes are a phone call and which are a capital campaign, before you spend money on engineering.
See your county the way a site team does.
Start with a free County Readiness Snapshot: one page, built from public data, showing what a first pass would find before we ever see your binder.