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At Smart Data Foundry, we work with anonymised consumer financial data to build a clearer picture of economic wellbeing in every postcode.

Our Economic Wellbeing Explorer gives local authorities neighbourhood-level insight into how households are faring across indicators like income volatility, financial resilience, and benefits reliance – updated every month for near real-time insight.

For local government, this kind of evidence can support:

• Identifying communities under emerging financial pressure, before it escalates
• Targeting support schemes and discretionary funds where they're needed most
• Supplementing official statistics with more granular, timely evidence at neighbourhood level

We're a not-for-profit subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh, and we work within a robust data governance framework – so data privacy and ethical use are central to everything we do.

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