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Urban Activity Pulse

How active are major US metros right now?

Refresh
weekly
History
2.1 yrs
Plan
Paid
65.8/ 100
Rising

US urban activity — 6 major metros

2024-05-31 2.1 yrs · 27 pts 2026-06-27

Top drivers

leading_city:Miami (Miami-Dade County)lagging_city:Chicagocross_pillar_positive_pct
⌁ mcp.call("adw-114") vADW-114-live-1.0
Use cases

What it unlocks

For an agent

A commercial real-estate intelligence agent queries ADW-114 across its six covered metro composites and, when a city's Urban Activity Pulse score exceeds 70 and shows a rising trend, it automatically triggers a market-opportunity brief — pulling the IOM's top_drivers field to identify whether transit ridership, foot-traffic, or restaurant/venue activity is leading the recovery — and queues the insight for a site-selection analyst workflow. The confidence field gates the action: if confidence falls below 0.75 due to sparse input data for a given week, the agent holds the brief and flags it for human review instead.

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For the business

A retail-expansion director at a national chain uses ADW-114 to rank their six target metros by weekly activity pulse before committing to lease negotiations; a city sitting at score 65.8 and trending flat signals to hold negotiations, while a rising peer city signals to accelerate. This replaces a patchwork of foot-traffic vendor reports (each covering only some metros, each with a different methodology) with a single standardized, comparable index across markets, cutting the time to produce a metro-ranking brief from two analyst-days to minutes.

Forward outlook

Prediction

Horizon
Recommended use
Track aggregate urban-activity momentum across major US metros. Score 50 = cities at own baselines; >65 = broad above-trend urban activity. Descriptive composite; not a GDP indicator.
Methodology

How it's built

composite z-score 0-100

Version ADW-114-live-1.0 · validated to beat a naive baseline · benchmark: n/a

Live response

The object an agent receives

One call returns the answer with its reasoning attached — the live Intelligence Object for ADW-114.

GET /v1/intelligence/adw-114
{
  "product_id": "ADW-114",
  "entity": "US urban activity — 6 major metros",
  "score": 65.8,
  "trend": "rising",
  "confidence": 0.8,
  "top_drivers": [
    {
      "factor": "leading_city:Miami (Miami-Dade County)",
      "contribution": 68
    },
    {
      "factor": "lagging_city:Chicago",
      "contribution": 47
    },
    {
      "factor": "cross_pillar_positive_pct",
      "contribution": 72.2
    }
  ],
  "recommended_use": "Track aggregate urban-activity momentum across major US metros. Score 50 = cities at own baselines; >65 = broad above-trend urban activity. Descriptive composite; not a GDP indicator.",
  "methodology_version": "ADW-114-live-1.0",
  "freshness": "2026-06-27T01:00:14.109Z",
  "coverage": "US — 6 cities: Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami (Miami-Dade County)",
  "source_lineage": [
    "alpine-data city feed (Chicago/NYC/LA/Seattle/SF/Miami — Socrata/ArcGIS city open-data)"
  ],
  "allowed_use": "informational",
  "activity_score": 65.8,
  "activity_label": "elevated",
  "cities_analyzed": 6,
  "avg_pulse_score": 58.8,
  "pulse_scores": {
    "chicago": 47,
    "nyc": 62,
    "la": 60,
    "seattle": 66,
    "sf": 50,
    "miami": 68
  },
  "cross_pillar_positive_pct": 72.2,
  "feeds_ok_pct": 88.9,
  "full_coverage_cities": 5,
  "as_of": "2026-04",
  "validation_status": "descriptive"
}
IOM schema

The agent-callable contract

Every product conforms to the Intelligence Object Model — typed, versioned, and discoverable.

  • product_id
  • entity
  • score
  • trend
  • confidence
  • top_drivers
  • prediction_horizon
  • recommended_use
  • methodology_version
  • freshness
  • coverage
  • source_lineage
  • allowed_use
MCP tool: adw.adw_114
Access options

Consume it your way

  • Dashboard

    Read the score + drivers in the console.

  • REST API

    /v1/intelligence/adw-114

  • MCP tool

    adw.adw_114

  • Marketplace

    Discoverable by any MCP agent via the MCP registry.

  • White-label

    Embed under your own brand (Platinum).

Plan requirement

Depth scales with the plan

  • Free Sample object — current score only
  • Gold Full drivers + history + confidence
  • Platinum White-label + bulk + SLA
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