Economic Development
Manage municipal economic development operations — business registry & CRM, BR&E surveys, site selection & investment attraction, BIA management, CIP incentive programs, workforce development, and commercial property intelligence.
Business Registry
CIP Compliance
BIA Levy
BR&E Warning
Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities
Purpose & Scope
What this module owns
Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.
Owns
8Delegated to
5Business portal, site selector portal
Property mapping, spatial discovery
BIA levy collection, permit/application fees
BIA levy calculation
CIP applications, BR&E surveys
These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.
Core Capabilities
What it does
4 capability groups comprising 8 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.
Comprehensive business registry with legal/operating name, NAICS codes, contacts, employment, revenue, ownership, and property linkage with de-duplication.
Business Profiles
Legal/operating name, NAICS, contacts, employment, revenue, ownership, property linkage, custom fields, de-duplication.
Ontario Integration
Ontario Business Registry / ISED integration for automated data feeds.
Lifecycle Staging
Prospect → startup → established → expanding → at-risk → relocating → closed.
Track in-person visits, calls, emails, documents, and follow-up reminders with full lifecycle management.
Multi-Channel Tracking
In-person visits, calls, emails, documents, follow-up reminders.
Business Lifecycle
Lifecycle: prospect → startup → established → expanding → at-risk → relocating → closed.
Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.
Krutik Parikh
Creator of Civic
Data Model
Entity Architecture
3 entities with 4 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.
Entities
Select an entity to explore its fields and relationships
API Surface
Integration Endpoints
7 RESTful endpoints across 7 resource groups — plus 4 domain events for async integration.
/api/v1/economic/businesses
Business registry search & listing
Ecosystem
Products that depend on this module
3 Civic products consume Economic Development — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.
Technical Specifications
Performance, Compliance & Configuration
Business Registry
Site Selector
CIP Compliance
BR&E Early Warning
BIA Levy Accuracy
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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