United States

500 cities across 50 states ranked on regulatory efficiency and permit processing.

500

Cities

States

335M

Population

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United States

Permitting

How fast can you build? Ranking jurisdictions on permit speed, regulatory friction, and bureaucratic efficiency.

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United States

Data Center Readiness

Where can you build the next data center? Ranking jurisdictions on power availability, permitting speed, tax incentives, and infrastructure readiness.

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Why United States

United States’s Productivity Engine

Why Permitting Speed Matters

America doesn't have a capability problem. It has a visibility problem. Permit approvals vary wildly across cities and states, and the friction hides in the shadows: planning queues, zoning delays and siloed municipal systems.

Slow permits hurt the economy. They delay housing and energy projects, push up costs and slow down the build-out the country needs.

2 yrs: Some cities take up to two years to approve a single permit.
$B+: Lost each year to slow approvals and regulatory friction.

Aligned with the AI Action Plan

The White House AI Action Plan makes speed a national strategy: faster permitting, faster data centers, faster infrastructure. RTI provides the measurement layer underneath — showing where the country accelerates and where it stalls.

Built with Labrynth — a global leader in agentic AI — RTI turns 1.5M+ permits a year into one comparable score so governments, builders and investors can act.

The RTI Engine

How the index is built

RTI analyses three layers of intelligence to create a clear map of where delays occur and what must change.

Layer 01

National Public Datasets

Federal, state and city data normalized across all 50 states for comparable measurement.

Layer 02

Municipal & Agency Data

Operational data shared directly by city planning departments and permitting agencies.

Layer 03

Reputable Private Data Sources

Vetted industry data — including 1.5M+ annual building permits — to supplement public sources.

Working with cities and agencies

RTI is a collaborative platform. Cities, agencies and partners provide operational data. RTI transforms it into real-time measurement, surfacing friction points and tracking whether reforms are working. You can't improve what you can't measure — RTI finally makes measurement possible.