We find the numbers that matter, go get them, and present them so clearly it doesn't take a data scientist. For a company, that is one reporting platform on your own data. For a region, it is a public site that shows what growth means for the people who live there.
Whether the numbers belong to a company or a region, this is what happens to them.
Illustrative data.
The numbers exist, spread across PDFs, spreadsheets, reports, and inboxes, each in its own format.
We gather them into one figure you can trust. On its own, one number does not tell you what to do.
Set over time and against last year, your plan, or a comparison you trust, so you can see whether it is moving and whether that is normal.
Trends, opportunities, successes, and insights, marked on the chart so anyone in the room can see them.
A short, plain explanation of what you are seeing and what to do about it. That is the part that gets used.
For owners and operators of companies with 20 to 500 people.
Your company's numbers in one place, on a reporting platform you own. The weekly report is ready Monday morning, every meeting works from the same numbers, and when you have a question you email us and get an answer with the numbers behind it.
| The report takes days | Ready Monday morning |
| Two reports, two answers | One set of numbers |
| A dashboard nobody opens | Built around your questions |
For mayors, parish and city leaders, economic development organizations, and the investors and lenders who read what they publish.
A data center, a launch complex, a new plant. The announcement lands, the headline numbers follow, and the public argues about what it means before anyone can show them. We analyze and illustrate the region's trends and momentum so its leaders can point to what is working and where the opportunity is. Most often that is a public site built on an indicator people feel in their own lives, gathered from the offices that hold it and kept current every quarter.
A reporting platform built on your own systems, run and updated by us, with a person you can email. The platform, the definitions, and the data are yours.
| Today | With one platform |
|---|---|
| The report takes days. | Numbers land in one place every Monday morning, checked and ready for the meeting. |
| Two reports, two different answers. | One set of numbers everyone works from, with the definitions written down. |
| Guessing between meetings. | Email a question any time and get a plain answer with the numbers behind it. |
| A dashboard nobody opens. | Built with the people who will use it, around the questions they ask every week. |
First numbers on a real dashboard within two weeks. Live in about two months.
Systems we have connected: RoofLink, Blackbaud Raiser's Edge, Ellucian Banner, and property management systems.
We analyze and illustrate the trends and momentum of a region, celebrate the success, and demonstrate the opportunity.
Most of the calls we get follow a large project: a data center, a launch complex, a new plant, and the billions in headlines that come with it. A mayor can point to numbers that hold up, an investor can trust what they see, and a resident can understand what it means for them.
A headline number is only the start. Until the rest is public, people fill the gap with guesses. They want to know what it means for them, from a source they can check.
One that people feel in their own lives, so nobody needs it explained.
It is not a search away. Getting it takes relationships, phone calls, and patience, and that is most of the work.
Over time and against comparable places, so a change is visible without argument.
A public page with the sources named and the methods shown, corrected as better information arrives.
Quarterly updates, and a partner on call when the editor, the board, or the state asks.
For one place the indicator is sales tax. For another it is jobs, permits, enrollment, or housing starts. The method is the same for one city or ten parishes.
It is never too early. Before the numbers move, we set the baseline, name the sources, and build the relationships that make the data flow, so the first update lands when it matters.
Then we walk your leaders through their own numbers, so they can speak to constituents, the press, and investors with facts they can point to.
A public site is scoped and priced as a build, with an ongoing arrangement for the quarterly updates and the questions in between.
NELAGrowth.com, built for Grow NELA, the economic development organization for ten parishes in Northeast Louisiana.
parishes, quarterly data back to 2021
regional sales tax, Q2 2026 vs Q2 2025
Meta announced a data center in Richland Parish in December 2024, followed by headline numbers in the billions. Grow NELA knew the impact was real but had no way to show the public what the numbers meant for the people living there.
We chose sales tax as the indicator because everybody understands it, then collected twenty-two quarters of collections from each parish's designated collector, for all ten parishes, and checked them against each parish's own spreadsheets. The series is set against the region's four-year pattern so the break is visible, and published with sources and methods named.
A public platform, updated every quarter, that a council member, a lender, or a resident can check for themselves. Regional collections for Q2 2026 came in at $113M, up 20.3% on the same quarter a year earlier. For the full year 2025, the ten parishes collected $384M, up $43.4M and 12.7% on 2024. Covered by KNOE (opens in a new tab), KPLC (opens in a new tab), and Magnolia Reporter (opens in a new tab).
Want to see the unprecedented growth happening in North Louisiana? Visit nelagrowth.com to see the momentum in plain sight!
NELA Growth was created to provide transparency about the economic benefits being felt directly by Northeast Louisiana communities and citizens.
The platform is public. Pick a parish, change the quarter, and check the numbers against the sources named on the page.
Crenshaw Analytics is led by Michael Crenshaw. He becomes part of every organization he works with, learning what it is like to be from there or to work there, so the numbers answer what people there ask. He has built reporting for roofing, higher education, nonprofit, and property companies, and now does the same work for regions.
When you email a question, he is the one who answers.
Every engagement is scoped and priced before we start. A project or a platform is priced as a build; ongoing work is priced by the month. We put the number on it during the intro call, once we know what you need.
First numbers on a real dashboard within two weeks. A full platform is usually live in about two months. A public site follows the same path; the schedule depends on how fast the offices that hold the data respond.
Because we start with your question rather than a template, and we build with the people who will use it. The result shows the numbers your Monday meeting needs, in plain English.
Accounting, CRM, operations, and payroll systems, spreadsheets, public records, and PDFs. Past work has connected RoofLink, Blackbaud Raiser's Edge, Ellucian Banner, property management systems, and parish tax workbooks.
We work with read-only access wherever possible, keep credentials in a vault and never in email, and never mix one client's data with another's.
You do. The platform, the definitions, and the data are yours from day one. If we part ways, you keep everything and get the documentation with it.
Tell us what you are trying to answer or show. We will say what it would take, and what it would cost.
Scoped and priced before we start. Everything we build is yours.
