Find high-growth markets — in your dashboard, your code, or your AI agent.
W.A.L.D.O.™ aggregates employment, demographic, and supply data from authoritative government sources into demand insights for every CRE property type — accessible through our dashboard, our REST API, or directly from Claude and ChatGPT via MCP.
Aggregated from authoritative sources
Aggregated from authoritative government sources
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment & wages
U.S. Census Bureau
Demographics & housing
QCEW
Quarterly industry employment
FRED
Federal Reserve economic data
Census Building Permits
Construction pipeline
WARN Database
Layoff & disruption notices
Market Analysis Shouldn't Be This Hard
Traditional CRE research means piecing together data from a half-dozen government APIs, then watching the answers languish inside one tool. W.A.L.D.O.™ aggregates the data, runs the analysis, and pipes the result wherever you need it.
Make Confident, Data-Driven Decisions
W.A.L.D.O.™ gives you the complete picture of market demand so you can identify opportunities with confidence.
Speed
Get comprehensive market insights in minutes instead of weeks. Our AI-powered analysis processes government data instantly.
Trust
Built entirely on official BLS and Census Bureau data. No proprietary estimates or questionable third-party sources.
Clarity
Clear demand vs. supply gap analysis for any property type. Know exactly where the opportunities are.
Built for Real Estate Professionals — and the Teams That Wire Them Up
Whether you're attracting development, selecting sites, analyzing markets, or piping CRE data into your stack via API and MCP, W.A.L.D.O.™ delivers.
Economic Development
Show developers exactly what your market needs - housing, retail, office, or industrial. Attract development with data developers trust.
- Demonstrate job growth to real estate demand connection
- Analyze demand for any property type
- Compete effectively for developer attention
Developers
Identify emerging markets before they're obvious. Demand analysis for multifamily, retail, office, industrial, hospitality, and self-storage.
- Find high-growth markets before competition
- Justify market selection to investors and lenders
- Consistent methodology across all property types
Site Selection
Complete your site selection with demand intelligence for any property type. Deliver the data your clients expect.
- Demand analysis for retail, office, industrial & more
- Population growth and labor data
- Justify recommendations with employment data
Data & Engineering Teams
Skip the BLS, Census, and FRED plumbing. Pull WALDO analyses straight into your warehouse, BI tool, or AI agent over REST, webhooks, or MCP.
- One auth, one schema, one API across five sources
- HMAC-signed webhooks when analyses complete
- MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor
Use it however your team works
Run market analyses in the dashboard, pull them into your stack via API and webhooks, or query them live from an AI agent over MCP. Same data, three doors.
Dashboard
The full W.A.L.D.O.™ UI — select a market, run an analysis, export a PDF or Excel deck. Built for analysts and brokers who want answers, not endpoints.
- Point-and-click market selection
- PDF, Excel, and PPT exports
- White-label reports (Pro)
REST API + Webhooks
Pull fresh analyses into your CRM, BI tool, or internal dashboard. Subscribe to webhooks and get an HMAC-signed POST the moment a market analysis is ready.
- Read & write API at /v1/*
- Signed outbound webhooks
- Rate-limited, audit-logged
MCP for AI agents
Connect Claude Desktop, claude.ai, Cursor, or ChatGPT to W.A.L.D.O.™ via the Model Context Protocol. Same data as the API — but as typed tools the AI can call live in a chat.
- 8 typed tools (search, run, get analysis)
- Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor
- No glue code required
Demand Analysis for Every Property Type — Delivered Anywhere You Work
Multifamily, retail, office, industrial, hospitality, self-storage. One platform for every CRE analysis — consumed in the dashboard, pulled through the API, or queried by your AI agent over MCP.
Employment Growth Analysis
Track job creation trends across all industries in your target market.
Industry Trends
Understand which sectors are growing and driving local employment.
Demand Forecasting
Calculate projected demand for any property type based on employment and population growth.
Construction Pipeline
Track new supply entering the market from permits and projects.
Supply vs Demand Gap
See exactly where supply falls short of demand for your target property type.
Market Classification
Know instantly if a market is undersupplied, balanced, or oversupplied.
How It Works
Select
Pick any US metro or county and a property type to analyze
Analyze
W.A.L.D.O.™ aggregates employment, demographic, and supply data into a unified market analysis
Integrate
Pull results into your CRM, BI tool, or AI agent via API, MCP, or webhooks
Automate
Schedule recurring exports, push updates to AcquisitionPRO® or your CRM, or trigger downstream workflows
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about W.A.L.D.O.™ and how it can help your business.
W.A.L.D.O.™ is built entirely on official government data sources. We use the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) for employment data, and the U.S. Census Bureau for demographics and housing data. No proprietary estimates or third-party data of questionable origin.
Our analysis uses industry-standard economic methodologies taught in professional courses like CCIM CI 102. The accuracy depends on the underlying government data, which is the same data used by federal agencies, economists, and major research institutions. We provide transparent methodology so you can understand exactly how conclusions are reached.
CoStar focuses primarily on existing properties and rent comps. W.A.L.D.O.™ focuses on demand forecasting for ALL commercial property types - understanding WHERE demand is coming from before supply catches up. We analyze employment growth to predict demand for multifamily, retail, office, industrial, and more. Plus, W.A.L.D.O.™ is significantly more affordable.
Yes! You can export your analysis as an Excel spreadsheet with all the underlying data, or generate professional PDF reports for presentations and investment committees. All exports include the data sources and methodology for full transparency.
W.A.L.D.O.™ covers every Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and county in the United States. That's over 380 metros and 3,000+ counties. If the BLS and Census track it, you can analyze it.
Not at all. W.A.L.D.O.™ is designed for real estate professionals, not data scientists. The interface guides you through a simple 6-phase workflow, and all technical analysis is done automatically. You get clear, actionable insights without needing to understand the underlying statistics.
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