IDEAS / EDO AI PLAYBOOK · VERSION 1.0
Better questions. Stronger EDO operations.
15 practical AI workflows built around the work economic developers actually do.
Bring your evidence. Copy a prompt. Turn the answer into a workplan your team can check and use.
A note from Andy
For three years, part of my work while editing Area Development involved processing economic-development thought leadership: conference material, interviews, presentations and panels. That editorial experience informs the problems I choose to tackle here. These workflows are Location Decision’s practical tools, developed to help economic developers organize evidence, ask better questions and prepare stronger work.
Andy Greiner, editor
Start with three public workflows
Try the website audit, RFI operating plan and site stress test. Each includes the inputs to gather, a copy-and-use prompt, a human verification check and a next step.
01 · PUBLIC WORKFLOW
Find the missing evidence between a prospect’s first click and a credible location decision.
02 · PUBLIC WORKFLOW
Convert a deadline-driven questionnaire into requirements, owners, evidence and a submission check.
03 · PUBLIC WORKFLOW
Separate documented readiness from the unknowns that could delay or eliminate a project.
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04 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Build a labor assessment that distinguishes headcount, skills, competition and actual availability.
05 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Arrive with an evidence-backed brief and questions that earn a useful conversation.
06 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Turn an employer visit into a repeatable way to surface risk, opportunity and follow-through.
07 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Develop competitive claims that survive a check of sources, denominators and geography.
08 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Test the same pitch through finance, operations, workforce, logistics and site-selection questions.
09 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Organize the day around decisions, evidence and the people who can provide credible answers.
10 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Separate confirmed loss reasons from internal folklore and identify changes worth making.
11 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Bring relevant evidence and better questions to a short professional conversation.
12 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Use an announced investment to form testable business-development hypotheses.
13 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Expose unsupported assumptions, competing priorities and initiatives without accountable owners.
14 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Turn a week of signals into a short, sourced list of decisions and follow-up work.
15 · FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Create a reusable working brief with approved context, evidence rules and human decision points.
How to use the playbook
Start with a real task. Gather the inputs listed in that workflow. Use only information your organization permits you to share with the AI tool. Copy the prompt, review the result against its sources and assign the next action to a person.
AI organizes and challenges the evidence. The EDO remains responsible for verification, relationships and decisions.
Version 1.0 · Sept. 26, 2026