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Cuespaces
The First Pass Standard

Every commercial site deserves a First Pass.

Site, listing, property, parcel: whatever you call it, the standard is the same.

Eliminate weak opportunities before they eat your calendar. Build conviction on the ones that deserve it.

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What are you trying to do?
We go deep on both
Catchment & demandCompetitionFootfall & accessPower & gridConnectivityLand & tenureHazard & floodRegulation

We publish our accuracy against real outcomes, misses included. Track record in progress; no number ships here until it's real.

Most sites shouldn't reach your calendar.

The First Pass rejects them from your desk, with reasons you can defend to a client.

Save the week
Filter weak sites before tours, calls and client time.
Show up prepared
Walk in with the risks named and the questions written.
Catch the deal breaker
The constraint that kills a site surfaces on day one, not month three.
One standard, whole team
Two analysts, same verdict, and a file that explains itself later.
How it works

A First Pass is a standard, not an opinion.

Every site is measured against the same playbook, so two analysts reach the same verdict, and the file explains itself six months later.

01
Tell us what you are placing
You
The concept, the format, the trade area, the constraints you already know. Two minutes, once per assignment.
02
We build the playbook
Cuespaces
The engine derives what success and failure look like for this use: attributes, weights, thresholds, and the deal breakers that sit outside the score.
03
Run the First Pass
You
Drop an address. Demand, access, competition, compliance and site conditions are scored against the playbook in minutes.
04
Read the verdict, not the noise
Cuespaces
One recommendation, the evidence behind it, the confidence level, and the flagged assumptions we could not settle from a desk.
05
Decide, or walk away early
You
Proceed with a visit prep pack, investigate the two things that matter, or reject it and keep your week.

Three verdicts. No maybes.

A First Pass never claims a site is good. It tells you what to do next, and why.

Proceed
Strong alignment with the playbook. Move forward with a prep pack for the visit.
Investigate
The potential is real, but a small number of factors have to be checked on the ground.
Reject
Does not meet the standard. Save the drive, and tell the client why in one paragraph.
One standard, different weights

The playbook changes.
The discipline doesn't.

A drive-thru lives or dies on demand and access. A data centre lives or dies on power and connectivity. The same total-viability scoring runs underneath both; only the weighting between market and infrastructure moves, driven by what actually decides that build.

QSR drive-thru
market 70 : 30 infra
Retail end-cap
market 65 : 35 infra
Fitness studio
market 60 : 40 infra
Cold storage
market 40 : 60 infra
Data center
market 25 : 75 infra
A worked example

One site, start to verdict.

A 4,100 sq ft end-cap in Dorchester, brought in by a tenant rep. Eleven minutes, desk only. Illustrative example, placeholder data.

01 · Intake0 min
A tenant rep sends over an end-cap
A 4,100 sq ft space in Dorchester, listed at $38/sq ft NNN, described as having great foot traffic. No parking count, no competitor read, no reason to believe it beyond the photos.
02 · Desk research4 min
The engine assembles the trade area
Daytime population, drive-time capture, household income, four direct competitors inside 1.5 miles, and a shared parking arrangement nobody had mentioned.
03 · Scoring9 min
Scored against the retail playbook
Access and demand score well. Competition drags. The shared parking triggers a composite flag rather than a hard fail: 41 stalls at peak is thin, not fatal.
04 · Verdict11 min
Investigate, with three named questions
Not a yes, not a no. The rep gets a one-page verdict and three things to verify on site. The tour happens because it is worth happening.
Intake
What we were handed
Address1194 Dorchester Ave
Size4,100 sq ft end-cap
Ask$38/sq ft NNN
PlaybookRetail & QSR
Use cases

Built for every commercial real estate decision.

The playbook changes with the asset. The standard doesn't.

Retail
Retail & shopping centers
Co-tenancy, visibility, parking ratio, trade-area overlap.
Retail
Restaurants & QSR
Drive-thru stacking, daypart demand, competitor density.
Industrial
Industrial & warehouse
Truck access, clear height, power, labour catchment.
Office
Office buildings
Transit access, amenity base, tenant depth, parking.
Land & mixed-use
Multifamily developments
Schools, transit, flood, absorption, entitlement path.
Special purpose
Medical & healthcare
Referral catchment, payer mix, power redundancy, licensing.
Special purpose
Self storage
3-mile supply, household churn, visibility, zoning.
Special purpose
EV charging
Grid capacity, dwell demand, host tenancy, utility queue.
Data centers
Data centers
Power availability, fibre routes, water, expansion headroom.
Land & mixed-use
Land & mixed-use
Title, topography, utilities to the boundary, entitlement.

And every other commercial use: the playbook adapts to what you're building, not the other way around. See all solutions →

Location is the highest-leverage decision a business ever makes.

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