mySidewalk

What mySidewalk does

mySidewalk is a Kansas City-based SaaS company, founded in 2010, that operates a community data platform serving U.S. state and local government agencies, nonprofits, community foundations, and public health organizations. The platform unifies three capabilities in a single environment: access to a proprietary data library (WhereHouse) containing 9+ billion cleaned and harmonized data points across 9,000+ indicators, 16 geographies, and 50 years of history and projections; visualization tools including interactive charts, layered maps, and custom drawing tools; and built-in publication features for dashboards and reports. WhereHouse is more than 60% proprietary, including custom geographic boundaries, licensed datasets, and calculation-derived indexes such as the Playspace Inequity Prioritization Index (PIPI) built with KABOOM!.

On top of this data foundation, mySidewalk has layered AI capabilities: Sidekick, a natural-language community data assistant (launched February 2024 in beta), and CoWrite, a generative AI writing assistant for narratives and grant applications (launched October 2023). Other notable products include Seek (data discovery across 1 billion+ values from 40+ sources), Press Generator (dashboard automation that turns customers into channel partners), Smart Upload (2025) for blending customer data with WhereHouse, and domain-specific toolkits for affordable housing preservation (with NLIHC/PAHRC) and Vision Zero traffic safety (with MTC San Francisco).

The company earns revenue primarily through annual and multi-year SaaS subscriptions with custom enterprise pricing, supplemented by licensing of the WhereHouse data library and Press Generator deployments to organizations like Iowa Finance Authority and MTC. Go-to-market combines enterprise field sales targeting government and nonprofit accounts with product-led growth (the free Health & Wellbeing Dashboard Generator), event-driven webinars, and community-led engagement with "changemakers." mySidewalk appears to be a bootstrapped or near-bootstrapped private company with 51–100 employees, no disclosed venture funding, and a CEO (Stephen Hardy) who has led the company since inception.

Name

mySidewalk

Legal name

mySidewalk

Website

https://mysidewalk.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

mySidewalk is a Kansas City-based SaaS platform that provides government agencies, nonprofits, and public health organizations with unified access to a proprietary 9+ billion-point community data library, visualization tools, and AI assistants (Sidekick, CoWrite) for civic data storytelling and decision-making.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic and Government Data Analytics Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Software/SaaS Subscriptions (Consumer & Prosumer) (CRAFAIAB)

Keywords

• Civic data platform
• Community data analytics
• Government data software
• Nonprofit data tools
• Data visualization platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Annual or multi-year subscription model for access to the community data platform including data library, visualization tools, publication features, and AI assistants (Sidekick, CoWrite). Enterprise packages available for organizations.
2. Press Generator Licensing: Organizations can license Press Generator to create custom dashboard generators for their networks, enabling scale of data storytelling across partners and communities.
3. WhereHouse Data Licensing: License and integrate the proprietary community data library (WhereHouse) for use within organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

mySidewalk sells a SaaS community data platform that unifies access to 9+ billion pre-cleaned, harmonized data points with interactive visualization tools, built-in publication features, and AI-powered assistants. The platform is sold primarily as annual or multi-year enterprise subscriptions to state and local government agencies, public health departments, nonprofits, and community foundations, enabling non-technical civic users to move from data to published reports, dashboards, and grant narratives without coding or IT support.

Product overview

mySidewalk is a community data platform organized as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core mySidewalk Platform unifies data access, visualization, and publication capabilities in a single environment. The platform is powered by WhereHouse, a proprietary and licensed data library with over 9 billion cleaned, harmonized data values across 9,000+ indicators, 16 geographies, and 50 years of trend-ready data. AI capabilities are delivered through Sidekick (an AI-powered assistant for natural language data querying and discovery) and CoWrite (an AI writing assistant for narrative generation from visualizations). Seek provides data discovery and download, while Press Generator automates dashboard creation. The platform also includes specialized tools such as Drawing Tools, Community Profiles, Report & Dashboard Templates, and CRAIG 1300. Dedicated sub-products built on the platform include the Health & Wellbeing Dashboard Generator (free tool), BayViz Vision Zero Dashboard Generator (for MTC/San Francisco Bay Area), the Playspace Partnership Assessment and Playspace Inequity Prioritization Index (PIPI, in partnership with KABOOM!), and the Affordable Housing Preservation Toolkit (in partnership with NLIHC and PAHRC).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sidekick: AI-powered community data assistant designed for changemakers to access and analyze community data
• WhereHouse
• CoWrite
• Press Generator
• Seek
• PIPI

Products and services

• mySidewalk Platform Unified community data SaaS platform combining access to 9+ billion pre-cleaned data points (WhereHouse), interactive visualization tools, built-in publication features, and AI assistants (Sidekick, CoWrite). Sold via annual/multi-year enterprise subscriptions to government agencies, nonprofits, healthcare systems, and community foundations to move from data to published reports, dashboards, and grant narratives without coding.
• Sidekick AI-powered community data assistant that answers questions in natural language, delivers data suggestions, and helps drive change in communities, grounded in the verified WhereHouse data library. Built for civic accountability with traceability, visible reasoning, and explainability.
• WhereHouse Proprietary and licensed community data library offering 9+ billion cleaned, harmonized, and pre-loaded data values across 9,000+ indicators, 16 geographies, and 50 years of trend-ready data, with more than 60% proprietary content including custom geographic boundaries and calculation-derived indexes. Available as a licensed data library within the platform.
• Seek Data discovery and download tool providing search across 1 billion+ data values from 40+ sources at 16 levels of geography, with filtering by source/time/geography, demographic segmentation, and export in GeoJSON, CSV, and Tidy Data CSV formats.
• Press Generator Dashboard automation tool that enables organizations to license custom dashboard generators, allowing anyone to request data stories tailored to specific geographies and indicators with the press of a button, scaling data engagement across partner networks and communities.
• Health & Wellbeing Dashboard Generator Free self-service tool that lets anyone generate a health and wellbeing dashboard for any U.S. geography (county, place, or zip code), with optional comparison geographies and topics covering place, environment, social, and economic security. Functions as a product-led growth entry point into the mySidewalk platform.
• BayViz Vision Zero Dashboard Generator Free Vision Zero dashboard generator for San Francisco Bay Area stakeholders (in partnership with MTC), producing dashboards with collision statistics, non-motorized road user trends, community demographics, and safety plan resources for any custom area of interest within the 9-county Bay Area region.
• Playspace Inequity Prioritization Index (PIPI) Custom equity index created in partnership with KABOOM! that culls 21 publicly available data sources to score every U.S. census tract for playspace inequity using standard z-score methodology, identifying areas with the greatest perceived inequity for targeted intervention.
• Affordable Housing Preservation Toolkit Toolkit in mySidewalk Chart created in partnership with NLIHC and PAHRC that aggregates National Housing Preservation Database data, provides best-practice examples, explains affordable housing funding mechanisms, and offers resources to help local advocates preserve affordable housing stock.
• CoWrite AI-powered writing assistant that generates first drafts of data narratives, grant applications, reports, and social media copy from data visualizations, tailored to specific audiences (policymakers, community members, funders) and purposes, integrated with the WhereHouse data library.
• mySidewalk Visualization Interactive charting and mapping tools that turn complex data into layered maps, interactive charts, and dynamic dashboards, accessible to both non-technical users and data experts without coding.
• mySidewalk Publication Built-in publishing features that let users build reports and dashboards, collaborate across teams, and publish accessibility-compliant (WCAG 2.1 AA / ADA) insights that drive action, without code or IT support.

Quantifiable outcome

• Saves public-sector analysts nearly half their week by eliminating manual data collection and cleaning tasks
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• GoDaddy Venture ForwardcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Collaboration to create Microbusiness Impact Reports. Through this work, mySidewalk subscribers can generate customized reports that tell the story of small businesses wherever they live, supporting entrepreneurship research and advocacy.
• KABOOM!coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Strategic partnership to create the Playspace Inequity Prioritization Index (PIPI), a custom index using 21 publicly available data sources to measure playspace inequity across US census tracts. KABOOM! uses mySidewalk for place-based equity mapping to support their mission to end playspace inequity in 25 communities in 5 years. The partnership has gained recognition at the White House and from the CDC Foundation.
• National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Partnership to make National Housing Preservation Database information more accessible through mySidewalk's proprietary data enrichment process. Launched the Affordable Housing Preservation Toolkit combining NHPD data, best practices, and resources for local affordable housing advocates and planners.
• Iowa Finance AuthorityflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerIowa Profile Press Generator enables easy guidance of impactful investments across the state. Organizations can generate customized dashboards showing community data for any geography in Iowa.
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission (San Francisco)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerBayViz Vision Zero Dashboard Generator enables anyone to generate dashboards for any custom area of interest within the 9-county Bay Area region, supporting the vision to eliminate severe traffic incidents. Includes collision statistics, demographic details, and implementation resources.
• BlueShield CaliforniaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNeighborhood Health project helped diverse neighborhoods generate local insights. Note: The project has sunset but demonstrated the Press Generator's applicability to healthcare community benefit initiatives.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• ESRI (ArcGIS): ESRI's ArcGIS platform is the dominant GIS and spatial analytics platform used extensively by government agencies for mapping, demographic analysis, and community planning. It overlaps with mySidewalk's mapping and geographic boundary tools but as a much broader enterprise incumbent with deeper GIS specialization.
• Tableau (Salesforce): Tableau is a leading data visualization and business intelligence platform widely used by government agencies, nonprofits, and enterprises. It competes with mySidewalk for visualization and dashboard budgets but lacks mySidewalk's pre-cleaned civic data library and civic-specific templates.
• Microsoft Power BI: Microsoft Power BI is a broadly adopted BI and data visualization platform used across government and enterprise. It is a horizontal incumbent competing with mySidewalk on visualization and reporting but is not specialized for civic use cases.

Direct peers

• OpenGov: OpenGov is a government technology platform offering budgeting, financial transparency, and civic analytics solutions for state and local agencies. Its analytics and reporting capabilities overlap directly with mySidewalk's community data and visualization offerings.
• CivicPlus: CivicPlus provides a suite of integrated government technology solutions including content management, community engagement, and civic data tools for municipalities. It targets the same state/local government buyer as mySidewalk and increasingly overlaps in data-driven decision support.
• ClearGov: ClearGov provides government transparency, budgeting, and benchmarking tools for municipalities and school districts. It is comparable to mySidewalk in targeting local government decision-makers with data-driven reporting and visualization workflows.
• Socrata (Tyler Technologies): Socrata is a civic data and open data platform now owned by Tyler Technologies, serving state and local governments with data publishing, performance dashboards, and citizen engagement tools. It is a direct competitor to mySidewalk's data + visualization + publication stack for the government segment.
• Polco: Polco is a civic engagement and data analytics platform that helps local governments combine resident input with performance and demographic data for decision-making. It competes with mySidewalk for community data and stakeholder engagement budgets in municipalities.
• CityBase (CGI): CGI's CityBase platform provides government payment, utility billing, and community development solutions for municipalities. It is comparable to mySidewalk in serving local government decision-makers, particularly in community development and economic growth workflows.

Emerging players

• Juicebox: Juicebox is a data storytelling and visualization platform that helps organizations turn complex datasets into interactive, embeddable narratives. It overlaps with mySidewalk's narrative and visualization capabilities as a more focused emerging alternative.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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