For entrepreneurs

Build your business around a market you understand.

Choose premises, investigate potential customers and prepare the local evidence for your business plan. Locus helps you connect the place you are considering with the business you want to run.

Research my business location View a sample report

Starting with a personal email? Create an account, choose a location on the map and select a one-time report or paid plan for your own-address research. No company email is needed for paid access.

Useful before the lease. Relevant after the doors open.

Choose premises

Does this place fit the business you want to build?

Explore nearby competitors, demographic context and practical access. Compare alternatives and make the important unknowns part of the decision before you commit.

Plan your launch

Who could choose you, and why?

Use the local market to shape questions about your offer, positioning and launch areas. Check those ideas with potential customers rather than treating an area profile as proven demand.

Explain your business case

Can someone else follow the evidence behind your plan?

Bring location research into a clear report for a partner, adviser or lender discussion. Pair the local evidence with your costs, financial forecasts and customer research.

Keep learning after opening

What has changed around your business?

Explore Pulse for local competitor changes, offers and review themes. Use those signals alongside your own sales and customer feedback to decide what to test next.

Your business plan

A clearer local-market case for the people backing you.

A location report can help an adviser, partner or lender understand the market evidence behind your proposal: the area, competing offers, practical access and the questions still to resolve.

Locus provides research support. A report does not establish business viability or guarantee finance; each lender sets its own evidence requirements.

See how the research is put together

Start with your kind of business.

The questions for a café differ from those for a shop or clinic. Explore the relevant industry and check what data is available for your location.

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Already open?

See how Pulse brings local competitor and market changes into a neighbourhood-monitoring workflow.

Explore Pulse after opening