Services
Expert Help, on Your Terms
The people who built Focal also do the work. Bring us in for a single plan, a survey, or a grant — or keep an advisor on call for whatever your community needs next.
8+
practice areas
from strategic plans to grant administration
On call
monthly retainers
covering every practice area on this page
6
federal sources
behind every recommendation
~2 weeks
our commitment
from first call to kickoff
On-call advisory
Keep an advisor on retainer.
One monthly retainer, pointed at whatever matters most that month — no new scope, no new contract each time something comes up.
Any work area, one agreement. Strategic planning one month, a grant deadline the next.
A named advisor who knows your community. No re-explaining your council, your budget, or your history.
Month to month. Scale hours up for budget season, down when things are quiet.
Better with the platform
Add a Focal subscription and your retainer goes further.
Retainer clients who also run the platform get more, because your advisor works inside your live data instead of asking you to send it.
Priority response times and standing office hours
More included advisory hours each month
Work delivered straight into your plans, budgets, and public dashboards
Retainer, project, or RFP — we meet you where you are.
Some communities want one plan written well. Some want a survey run right. Some are issuing a formal solicitation — we respond to those, too. Start with the need; we’ll shape the engagement around it.
If your community already works with a planning consultant, we’re glad to work alongside them — bring them to the first call.
Where we help
Areas we can help with.
Take one of these as a standalone project, or fold all of them into an on-call retainer.
Strategic planning
Vision through adoption. We facilitate the process, ground it in federal and local data, and hand you a plan your council can approve and your staff can run.
Performance management
Define the measures that matter, build the reporting cadence, and hold departments accountable to targets instead of anecdotes.
Tourism plans
Destination strategy backed by visitor, lodging, and spending data — so marketing dollars follow real demand.
Special business district plans
District and BID work from formation to annual program: assessment scenarios, merchant and property-owner buy-in, and a defensible work plan.
Project management
Owner's-side management for initiatives that need a steady hand — scope, schedule, stakeholders, and reporting.
Survey administration
Instrument design, fielding, and analysis your council can trust — run on Focal's engagement tools.
Grant administration
Find, win, and administer grants without drowning your staff — applications, reporting, and compliance.
Something else?
If it touches data, planning, or performance, ask. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.
Talk to an advisorHow it starts
From first call to kickoff.
Intro call
30 minutes on what your community needsScope or retainer
a one-page engagement, priced plainlyKickoff
we're working inside two weeks of scope approval
From first call to kickoff in about two weeks.
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