AlphaHireEvery unit clears three gates before you commit the capital.
Before you sign the next lease, know whether each market can be built, staffed, and opened on time — for every unit on your development schedule.
Multi-Unit Expansion Intelligence™ reads every candidate market across the full decision — should we build, can we build, and can we operate here — then ranks your whole pipeline into Proceed, Conditions, or Delay.
“Moved six of our next 40 units to the back of the line — each would have missed its opening date on staffing alone.”
— VP Development, Multi-Unit QSR Franchisee
Crew-level staffing — a 60-day recruiting head start closes the gap.
Protect every opening date on your development schedule.
Flag the units that would miss grand-opening on staffing or buildout — before the lease is signed.
Catch markets that fail on workforce even when the real estate looks perfect on paper.
Rank the next 50 candidate units into Proceed / Conditions / Delay for the board — in days.
Site first, buildability second, workforce third.
Every candidate market is pressure-tested the way a developer underwrites it — competitive and site risk first, contractor and construction risk second, workforce third. Illustrative for Charlotte, Unit #47.
Should we build here?
Build — contestedDemand supports the unit, but three rivals sit within 3 miles — with a fourth permitted — and will split the trade area.
Can we build here?
Elevated riskDevelopable, but a thin contractor market, slow permits and site-work exposure push the schedule and squeeze the GC.
Can we operate here?
ConstrainedStaffable at a cost — the general manager is the gating hire, not the crew.
Every candidate market, one board-ready ranking.
Roll the scorecard up across the pipeline — composite score, per-gate reads, the binding constraint and the recommendation for each unit. Illustrative markets.
| Market | Composite | Build? | Buildable? | Operable? | Binding constraint | Call |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Raleigh | 83 | 81 | 78 | 80 | None material | Proceed |
| 2 Charlotte | 71 | 81 | 58 | 52 | Crew staffing | Conditions |
| 3 Greenville-Spartanburg | 69 | 76 | 60 | 74 | Permit velocity | Conditions |
| 4 Jacksonville | 64 | 66 | 62 | 63 | Competition | Monitor |
| 5 Boise | 54 | 61 | 46 | 48 | Build + staffing | Delay |
| 6 Reno | 51 | 60 | 44 | 47 | Build + staffing | Delay |
Construction signals from AlphaHire Development Risk Monitor™ · workforce from the Hiring Competition Tracker™.
Proceed with Raleigh; take Charlotte & Greenville with conditions. Hold Boise and Reno — both fail on buildout and staffing at once.
One market, all three gates.
The unit-market scorecard reads the full decision — not just whether it can be staffed. Illustrative market.
“Charlotte clears the market and buildability gates comfortably. The one thing standing between the lease and the opening date is crew-level staffing — so treat it as a workforce problem, not a real-estate one.”
Gate 1 — Should we build?
81Gate 2 — Can we build?
58Gate 3 — Can we operate?
52Proceed with conditions. Market and buildout are green-to-amber; sequence the opening around a 60-day head start on manager recruiting, or hold until crew-level availability recovers.
Five intelligence domains behind the score.
Each domain is a live signal set, scored per market and updated every cycle. Expand any domain to see what it reads.
Site & Market Feasibility · Gate 1 — Should we build here?Strong
Competitive Intelligence · Gate 1 — Should we build here?Watch
Development & Construction Risk · Gate 2 — Can we build here?Elevated
Workforce Intelligence · Gate 3 — Can we operate here?Constrained
Economic & Community Indicators · Gate 1 — Should we build here?Strong
All five domains roll into the three-gate scorecard — one Proceed / Monitor / Delay call per market, with the binding constraint named. 180+ U.S. markets, updated live.
Built for multi-unit growth across every category.
Franchise Operators & Multi-Unit Groups
Full-decision feasibility for every unit on the development schedule, not just the flagship market.
Restaurant Brands
Site, buildability and workforce reads for QSR and fast-casual expansion markets.
Retail Chains
Trade-area feasibility and store-level staffing across new-market and infill expansion plans.
Healthcare Providers
Market demand plus clinical and front-desk workforce availability for multi-site expansion.
Automotive Service Chains
Site demand, buildout risk and technician availability across new-site expansion.
Distribution & Logistics
Market, buildability and warehouse workforce supply for new facility and hub openings.
Corporate Real Estate & Development
Buildability and workforce readiness as standing inputs to site selection, alongside real estate and incentives.
Built on our core intelligence solutions.
Expansion Readiness™ is the engine underneath — the market-by-market feasibility read that anchors every recommendation. The rest of the bundle wraps around it for the specific demands of multi-unit, franchise-paced growth.
Expansion Readiness™
The market-by-market feasibility read underneath this solution — site demand, buildability and workforce for every candidate unit location.
Labor Availability Assessment™
Can we staff each unit? Role-level workforce supply for crew, management and specialty positions in each target market.
Workforce Risk Monitoring™
Ongoing monitoring across every market in the expansion pipeline, from signed lease to grand opening.
Workforce Due Diligence™
For acquiring franchise groups or regional operators — workforce risk validation before the deal closes.
The read that reset the rollout schedule.
“We had a real-estate-driven schedule for the next 40 units. AlphaHire’s read moved six of them to the back of the line — every one of those markets would have missed its opening date on staffing alone.”— VP Development, Multi-Unit QSR Franchisee
“Store-manager availability was our real constraint, not real estate. Having that in the site-selection model changed which markets we greenlit this year.”— SVP Real Estate & Development, National Retail Chain
A structured read on every market in the pipeline.
Every Multi-Unit Expansion Intelligence™ engagement is built to keep pace with a franchise-scale development schedule — grouped by when you’ll use it.
Market Scorecards
A structured three-gate feasibility score for every candidate and active unit market.
Site & Market Feasibility
Demand, demographics, saturation and competitive read for each trade area.
Development & Construction Risk
Contractor supply, permits, utilities and timeline risk by market.
Workforce & Compensation
Crew, management and specialty supply with current-cycle wage benchmarks.
Risk Assessment
Flags for markets where any gate may threaten the opening timeline.
Expansion Recommendations
Sequencing guidance across the development schedule.
Executive Intelligence Briefing
A board-ready summary of conditions across the expansion pipeline.
Executive Presentation
A live walkthrough for the development committee or board.
Supporting use cases and cross-industry intelligence.
Expansion Readiness™
The market-by-market feasibility read at the core of this solution.
Labor Availability Assessment™
Role-level workforce supply for crew, management and specialty positions by market.
Workforce Risk Monitoring™
Ongoing monitoring across every market in the expansion pipeline.
Site Selection
Use-case intelligence for comparing candidate sites on every dimension.
Market Expansion
Use-case intelligence for evaluating and sequencing new-market entry.