Insights · Ontology Explorer

The site types we screen for.

What defines each one, why it works, what kills it, and how confident we are. Filters for confidence, owner type, capacity band, region, status, and discovery source ship with the live explorer in the app.

Industrial rooftops

Established

Large flat plates with heavy electrical service and single owners.

0.85

Confidence weight · 4 validated deployments · 23 candidates in pipeline

Self-storage yards

Established

Fenced, secure, low-traffic land with simple ownership.

0.78

Confidence weight · 2 validated deployments · 17 candidates in pipeline

Parking perimeters

Established

Underused strips that don't cost a single space.

0.72

Confidence weight · 3 validated deployments · 31 candidates in pipeline

Billboard bases

Emerging

Odd parcels already zoned for infrastructure, often grid-adjacent.

0.61

Confidence weight · 1 validated deployments · 12 candidates in pipeline

Defunct gas stations

Emerging

Corner lots with utility service and commercial zoning.

0.58

Confidence weight · 1 validated deployments · 9 candidates in pipeline

Armories & civic buildings

Established

Large-floor-plate civic and military buildings, often municipally owned.

0.74

Confidence weight · 2 validated deployments · 8 candidates in pipeline

Rail-adjacent industrial

Under test

Industrial zoning and buffer land nobody else wants.

0.55

Confidence weight · 0 validated deployments · 14 candidates in pipeline

Water & wastewater facilities

Emerging

Huge steady loads, municipal owners, resilience value.

0.69

Confidence weight · 1 validated deployments · 11 candidates in pipeline

Closed big-box retail

Under test

Intact 3-phase service and oversized parking near constrained feeders.

0.63

Confidence weight · 0 validated deployments · 47 candidates in pipeline

Cemetery maintenance yards

Retired

Adequate on geometry and access; fails on social license.

0.00

Confidence weight · 0 validated deployments · 0 candidates in pipeline

Worked example: read the full Armories & civic buildings dossier — definition, thresholds, kill conditions, evidence, and how to argue with it. Dossiers for the remaining types publish as they are written.

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