From thousands of locations to your shortlist. In days.
Locata combines public European location data with multiple AI models to score every candidate against the criteria that matter to you — whether you're placing substations, charging stations, deposit return machines, mobility hubs, or new restaurants.
Solutions
For organizations that scale infrastructure.
Five verticals, one platform. Same multi-model scoring, different data sources and prompts per use case.
Grid operators
Accelerate substation, transformer, and grid asset siting under congestion pressure.
For utilities like Liander, Stedin, Enexis, and TenneT.
EV charging operators
Win concessions and retail partnerships by identifying high-yield locations first.
For CPOs and energy companies.
Deposit return & circular
Scout bulk return machine sites and collection infrastructure in days, not months.
For deposit return systems, packaging organizations, and waste processors.
Shared mobility
Design coverage-optimized hub networks with built-in stakeholder data.
For municipalities, consultancies, and operators.
Retail & restaurants
Score new store and restaurant candidates against your network strategy.
For retail chains and quick-service restaurants.
Different rollout?
Tell us about it.
If your candidates are physical and your decisions are repeated, Locata probably fits.
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How it works
Four steps, repeatable across every vertical.
- 01
Define your set
Upload candidates or define them by criteria — e.g. all gas stations in a region, all parcels over 500 m² in a congestion zone.
- 02
We enrich automatically
Cadastral records, demographics, traffic, infrastructure, Street View, web data — standardized per location.
- 03
Multiple AI models score in parallel
Claude, GPT, and Gemini evaluate against your prompt. Disagreement signals locations that need human review.
- 04
Shortlist with reasoning
A ranked list with evidence per location, ready for permitting, internal approval, or stakeholder review.
Why Locata
Three things that hold up under scrutiny.
Ensemble
Multi-model AI, not a black box.
Three models score each location independently. You see where they agree and where they don't — disagreement is the signal that flags a location for human review.
Native
Built for European location data.
Kadaster, BAG, BGT, BRO, NDW, PDOK, and municipal open data — connected by default, not bolted on. The system speaks plankaart, MS/HS, and RVM out of the box.
Speed
Decision speed that fits your calendar.
Days, not quarters. Fast enough for tender deadlines, council cycles, and competitive markets where the first credible proposal wins.
Bulk return machine candidates · NL
Schematic preview · indicative only
Statiegeld Nederland.
From 1,000+ gas-station and transfer-station candidates to a 100-location shortlist for bulk return machines. Scouting time reduced from months to weeks. The methodology now extends across every adjacent collection category.
- Candidates evaluated
- 1,000+
- Shortlist size
- ~100
- Time to shortlist
- 3 weeks
- Scouting reduction
- 10×
FAQ
Common questions about Locata.
What is Locata?
Locata is an AI-powered location intelligence platform that scores thousands of candidate locations against custom criteria. Three frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini) run in parallel against European public data — Kadaster, BAG, BGT, BRO, NDW, PDOK — to produce a ranked shortlist with reasoning per location.Who uses Locata?
Grid operators (Liander, TenneT, Stedin, Enexis) for substation and transformer siting; EV charging operators (Fastned, Allego, Powerdot) for charge point placement and concession bids; Statiegeld Nederland for bulk deposit return machine rollout; municipalities and consultancies for shared mobility hub networks; and retail chains like McDonald's for new-store site selection.How is Locata different from Placer.ai, CARTO, or Esri?
Locata is purpose-built for European infrastructure rollouts, not US retail foot-traffic analysis. We run multi-model AI scoring instead of single-vendor confidence, integrate natively with Dutch and EU public data sources (Kadaster, BAG, BGT, NDW, PDOK), and ship per-location reasoning that holds up in ACM consultation and municipal council review — not just a heatmap.What data does Locata enrich each location with?
Cadastral records (Kadaster), buildings and addresses (BAG), large-scale topography (BGT), subsurface registry (BRO), traffic intensity (NDW), national geo-portal (PDOK), CBS demographics, grid operator public capacity indicators, Google Street View, aerial orthophotos, OpenStreetMap, and per-vertical sources like RDW EV density or municipal plankaarten. All enrichment is standardised across candidates, so locations are comparable on the same axes.How fast is a Locata engagement?
A typical pilot delivers a scored shortlist in two to three weeks from kickoff — week one for prompt definition and data integration, weeks two-three for the scoring run and reasoning review. Ongoing subscriptions support continuous evaluation as new candidates emerge across investment-plan or expansion cycles.How much does Locata cost?
Pilot engagements start at €15,000 fixed-scope, fixed-price. Ongoing subscriptions start at €2,500/month with quarterly refresh cadence. Enterprise engagements for grid operators and major retail chains are scoped per program — talk to us about scope, integration, and timing.Is Locata GDPR compliant?
Yes. All processing happens under GDPR with EU data residency. Customer candidate sets, scoring prompts, and outputs are never used to train public AI models — inference only, audit-logged. ISO 27001-aligned processes, available DPA, sub-processor list provided per engagement.Can Locata integrate with our internal GIS?
Yes. Locata exports to GeoJSON, CSV, PDF, and a REST API. We integrate with ESRI/ArcGIS, FME, internal asset-management systems (Maximo, IFS), and project-portfolio platforms via export or API. Your single source of truth stays where it is — Locata feeds it.
Get in touch
What would you scan?
Tell us about your rollout — the candidate set, the criteria, the deadline. We'll get back within one working day.
Sample run on your data in under 30 minutes
EU-resident, GDPR-compliant by default
No obligation, no contract until pilot