What began as a solution to automate manual research is evolving into a customer-facing intelligence platform, helping Mercer Group create new business value.

Turning Research into Revenue

Mercer Group needed timely planning and zoning information from municipalities across their service areas, but collecting and monitoring this data required hours of manual research across dozens of websites.
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FastCloud is building an automated platform that continuously gathers, organizes, and structures publicly available planning board information into a single, searchable resource. What was once a labor-intensive internal process is becoming a scalable platform that delivers value to Mercer's customers.
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By solving Mercer's own operational challenge first, FastCloud helped create the foundation for a premium service – allowing Mercer to transform an internal necessity into a new business opportunity.

The result goes well beyond operational efficiency. Planning Board gives Mercer a differentiated customer offering while creating a new source of recurring revenue and long-term business growth.

Planning Board doesn't just justify its own investment. Revenue generated by the platform pays for Mercer Group's entire FastCloud engagement 3x over. A single solution is effectively funding Mercer's broader technology partnership with FastCloud while continuing to deliver value to the business and its customers.