U.S. Company Expansion & Facility Intelligence

Track major company expansions, facility projects, job commitments, capital investment, and state economic-development incentives from official public sources. The Actor normalizes fragmented state records into one consistent, change-aware dataset.

What you get

• company, facility, county, and state
• projected capital investment and jobs
• incentive program and award amount when published
• lifecycle stage such as preliminary approval, final approval, amendment, or award
• stable company, project, facility, and source-event IDs
• source authority, URL, record ID, retrieval time, and content hashes
• NEW, CHANGED, or UNCHANGED classification across runs
• changed-field details and first/last-seen timestamps

Current official-source coverage includes:

• Kentucky Business Investment actions and KEDFA meeting documents
• Tennessee FastTrack contracted projects
• Utah incented companies

Common uses

• site-selection and economic-development intelligence
• sales and investment signals from new facilities and expansions
• monitoring major hiring and capital-expenditure commitments
• incentive benchmarking across states
• alerts when an approved project changes lifecycle stage or economics
• building a longitudinal economic-event dataset

Quick start

The default input runs all supported states and keeps projects meeting at least one of these thresholds: $5 million in capital investment or 50 planned jobs.

{
  "states": ["KY", "TN", "UT"],
  "minCapitalInvestment": 5000000,
  "minJobs": 50,
  "productionMode": true,
  "emitUnchanged": true
}

For recurring monitoring, use a named history store consistently and suppress unchanged dataset rows:

{
  "states": ["KY", "TN", "UT"],
  "historyStoreName": "company-expansion-history",
  "healthStoreName": "company-expansion-source-health",
  "productionMode": true,
  "emitUnchanged": false
}

Named stores belong to the account running the Actor. A fresh history namespace classifies its first qualified records as NEW.

Pricing

The Store candidate uses transparent pay-per-event pricing:

• Validated source run: $0.15 once, only after all selected official sources have been collected and the production quality gates pass.
• Dataset item: $0.003 for each record written to the default dataset.
• Actor start: Apify's standard $0.00005 synthetic start event.

Platform usage is included in these event prices. A stable monitoring run with emitUnchanged: false normally incurs only the validated-run and Actor-start events; new or changed records add the per-item charge. A fresh default three-state bootstrap producing 1,068 records would cost about $3.35.

The Actor respects the run's maximum-charge limit. If the remaining budget cannot cover every result, it returns the affordable prefix, reports PASS_LIMIT_REACHED, and leaves undelivered new or changed records uncommitted so they remain eligible for a later run.

Example output

{
  "company_name": "Example Manufacturing, Inc.",
  "state": "TN",
  "county": "Coffee",
  "canonical_stage": "incentive_awarded",
  "capital_investment": 8920000,
  "jobs_planned": 90,
  "incentive_amount": 687500,
  "change_class": "NEW",
  "source_authority": "Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development",
  "source_url": "https://www.tn.gov/ecd/resources/openecd/fasttrack-project-database1.html"
}

Change tracking

Every run first validates all selected sources and previews the complete history delta without writing it. History is committed only after every production gate passes. Distinct lifecycle actions remain distinct events, so a final approval does not overwrite the project's preliminary approval.

The SOURCE_HEALTH output reports row counts, provenance completeness, identity collisions, semantic hashes, row loss, Kentucky document health, and excessive history deltas.

Input controls

• Thresholds use OR logic. Set one threshold to 0 to disable it.
• years filters retained source-event years.
• Kentucky uses the current UTC year unless explicit start and end years are supplied.
• emitUnchanged: false emits only new or changed records while still updating history.
• For recurring paid monitoring, emitUnchanged: false avoids paying again for unchanged dataset rows.
• Production quality and cost limits are configurable in the input form.
• resetHistory is development-only and should remain disabled in production.

Reliability and limits

The Actor uses bounded retries for transient official-source failures, stable identity rules, persistent semantic fingerprints, and fail-closed quality gates. Source websites can change without notice; a structural change should fail the run rather than silently produce incomplete intelligence.

Coverage is limited to the official sources and states listed above. Published values are government-reported commitments or approvals, not guarantees that a project will be completed.

Official sources

• Kentucky financial incentives: https://fisearch.ced.ky.gov/
• KEDFA board books and minutes: https://newkentuckyhome.ky.gov/Newsroom/KEDFA_Meeting_Approvals
• Tennessee FastTrack: https://www.tn.gov/ecd/resources/openecd/fasttrack-project-database1.html
• Utah incented companies: https://business.utah.gov/recruitment/companies/

Privacy

The Actor collects public company and economic-development records. It does not collect private user data or require third-party credentials.