MIQ Studio
Turn a question into analysis your team can review, defend, and put in front of your board or stakeholders while it still matters. MIQ Studio gives your team the analytical capacity to answer more questions without starting another consulting engagement every time.
Ask in plain language. No datasets to learn, no report menus to navigate, no software to master.
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Work you can defend. Sources, vintages, methodology and evidence on every output.
A question in plain language, an answer with its sources and limits, and a recommended next step. Examples use illustrative data, not customer results.
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Illustrative example. All figures, sources and vintages below are fictional and are shown only to illustrate the shape of a MIQ Studio response. This is not real data and not a customer result.
Question
Prepare a briefing for next month's board meeting on how our regional economy is doing.
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Your question
MIQ asks what the board already knows, which measures it follows and what decision is coming. If you have uploaded last quarter's briefing and your strategic plan, it works from what your organization already concluded and notes where new findings differ.
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Sources and vintage
The briefing opens with five headline measures, each with its source and the period it covers. Illustrative measure: unemployment rate of 4.3 percent, down 0.2 points from the prior quarter. Derived figures include a short note on how they were derived.
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Comparison basis
Each measure is shown against the state and a stated peer group, so board members can see whether a move is local or general. The peer rule is written next to the table.
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From analysis to recommendation
The briefing closes with recommended actions, each with an owner, a dependency, a risk and the supporting evidence, plus the questions board members are most likely to ask and where each answer comes from.
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Board-ready output
A short executive memo and a slide version, with your organization name and logo, exportable as Word, PowerPoint or PDF and shareable with named board members. MIQ can repeat it on a schedule, for example before each meeting.
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An honest limitation
Asked to explain a one-quarter dip in one measure, MIQ says the evidence supports a description but not a cause, shows the two competing explanations and what data would separate them, and leaves the conclusion to you.
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A four-minute walkthrough of MIQ Studio: ask a question in plain language, see the analysis and its limits, build a report section by section, export it, and personalize it with your documents, regions and branding.
What if you could explore complex economic and workforce questions with the help of an experienced analyst, whenever you need one? This is MIQ Studio.
Sign in, and you land in the Analyst, a conversation. Here, a team in Rockford, Illinois asks about their local aircraft and drone industry, and how it compares with their peers. They just ask, in plain English. No datasets to learn, no queries to write.
MIQ Studio works from trusted public data sources, and it shows its work. It scopes the question, pulls the numbers, shows where they come from, and explains what they mean. And when the data can't support exactly what you asked, it says so, and recommends a defensible alternative. Here, it suggests comparing metro areas, rather than individual cities.
The conversation doesn't end with the first answer. Ask a follow-up, and MIQ Studio compares your region with peers like Wichita, Huntsville, and Peoria on concentration, employment, and wages, and tells you what the comparison means.
When you're ready to share what you've learned, ask for a report. MIQ Studio proposes a structure you can shape, and you decide how to build it: all at once, or one section at a time.
Building section by section keeps you in control. Review each one. Change the peer group, adjust the emphasis, ask for something different. Here, Dayton comes out of the comparison, and MIQ Studio rebuilds the section before you approve it and move on.
When the report is complete, it's saved to your library, ready to download as a PDF or a Word document, and you can reopen it whenever you need it. The reports you create are yours to use, publish, and share.
Templates give your team a head start on common work. Choose an incentive analysis, tell MIQ Studio which places the business is comparing you with, and it builds the benchmark from a ready-made structure instead of a blank page. And again, where city-level data falls short, it says so, and offers a metro-level view instead.
MIQ Studio can also work with what you bring to it: earlier studies, strategy documents, local datasets. Upload them to your organization's library, and they become context for the analysis you do next, alongside the public data MIQ Studio already uses.
Set your home region. Define custom geographies that match how your economy really works, like a region that spans several counties. Point MIQ Studio at your website, or upload an example report, and it picks up your colors and logo, so every report looks like it came from your organization.
And when your team needs a hand, built-in help explains how to get started, how to ask better questions, and where the numbers come from.
And it's more than a report builder. Ask how to brief your mayor on what you've found, and MIQ Studio offers practical guidance you can refine.
Ask for examples from other cities, and it searches the web, then makes clear that those are reported programs, not data it has verified.
Ask how to tell a business that an incentive isn't coming, and it drafts talking points that keep the relationship intact. It supports your judgment. It doesn't replace it.
From the first question to the finished report, MIQ Studio helps your organization turn information into action. See what your team could do. Request a demo.
Conversation is the interface, not a feature attached to one. Ask a general question. Upload your own files so they are part of the conversation, either as context or as the thing being analyzed. Commission a custom report and describe what it should contain. It is one conversation, and nothing has to be learned before it starts.
MIQ Studio is built to a standard you can put in front of your board. Every figure carries its source and the period it covers. Where the evidence does not support a conclusion, MIQ says so. You review the work, and you own it.
MIQ is built on curated and normalized economic and workforce data, documented methodologies and practitioner workflows. It draws on trusted economic, workforce, government and other relevant sources, so your team spends its time on the question rather than on gathering sources.
Load a library of reference material into MIQ Studio: your strategic plan, prior studies, policies, board items, the local knowledge that lives in people's heads. MIQ Studio uses it to tailor what it produces to your priorities and your context. The same question asked by two different organizations should not come back with the same generic answer, and here it does not.
Manage your organization's brand inside the product, so what comes out is formatted for a board packet, a council item, or public release. No rebuilding it in another tool afterwards. A correct analysis that still needs an hour of reformatting has not finished the job.
The current condition and trajectory of your regional economy, in a form you can publish.
Whether an industry is growing here, what is driving it, and what it means for strategy.
Whether the workforce exists for an occupation, an employer requirement, or an expansion.
How your region compares against peers, the state and the nation, with the peer basis stated.
Justification, impact, structure, risks and alternatives.
Specific actions with owners, dependencies, risks and the evidence behind them.
What comparable places did about comparable problems.
Analysis that accounts for authority, funding and what is feasible.
Upload prior studies, strategies and board materials. MIQ works from what your organization already concluded.
A standing library of organizational material that shapes every answer, not just the one conversation.
When work becomes ongoing, MIQ saves the context so the next question builds on the last one.
Word, PowerPoint and PDF. Executive memos, board briefings, full reports, tables and charts.
Your name, your logo, your layouts. Outputs arrive ready for a board packet or public release.
Living views of the measures your organization actually tracks.
The test is not whether the writing sounds good. It is whether you would put the analysis in front of your board and be prepared to answer questions about it.
Every figure shows its source and the period it covers. Derived measures explain how they were calculated. If data is suppressed, modeled, incomplete, or otherwise limited, MIQ says so. If credible sources disagree, MIQ shows the difference and explains why rather than hiding it behind a single number. And when the evidence does not support a conclusion, MIQ says that too.
That transparency is part of the product.
MIQ provides the data, methods, evidence, and context. Your team reviews, verifies, and approves the work before it is published or used in a decision, just as you would with analysis produced internally. The reports and analysis you create with MIQ are yours to use, publish, share, and incorporate into your own work.
Answer complex questions without rebuilding the analysis from scratch.
Prepare briefings, compare places and industries, and respond to employer questions.
Turn prospect and business questions into defensible analysis quickly.
Connect occupations, industries, training, and labor-market evidence.
Bring stronger evidence into plans, grants, reports, and recurring decisions.
Set recurring analysis and reporting so your team does not have to start from scratch each cycle.
Tell MIQ what matters and receive updates when meaningful changes occur.
Connect MIQ with the systems and information your organization already uses.
The first person to sign up becomes your organization's default administrator. Your administrator then controls who has access, each person's role, what they can see, and who can manage users, sharing, and organizational usage.
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MIQ Studio is the complete analytical product. Organizations that need MIQ integrated into their own identity, systems, governance and recurring institutional processes should look atMIQ Enterprise StudioIn development, which includes everything here. Organizations building MIQ intelligence into their own applications should look atMIQ APIComing March 2027. Most organizations need MIQ Studio.
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