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Texas Entitlement · Land Use & Development Intelligence

Structured intelligence on Texas land use, zoning, and entitlement — starting with Austin.

Sourced, conservative, and built from a 10-year case database. Our flagship is Austin Development Watch — the weekly brief and report series on the city's Planning Commission, ZAP, and Council cycle.

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Founder's Annual Pro

The Watch Desk — you will never be surprised by an Austin entitlement move again.

Annual subscription · Single-seatMonday Memo · watchlists & alerts · counsel scorecards · the certified entity record

A standing watch desk for the people who underwrite, entitle, or finance Austin deals.

In development

Diligence — The Deal Desk

A proprietary entitlement-outcome model trained on ten years of Austin's hearing record.

In development · Includes Pro when it shipsPro + Outcome Predictor + Agent Performance Index + Neighborhood Resistance Index + API access

The Pro database plus the predictive layer that sits on top of it.

In development — pricing not yet set
Contact for pricing

Enterprise

Diligence capabilities plus five seats, expanded API, white-label extracts, and named contract.

Annual · Contact for pricingDiligence + 5 seats + 5,000 API calls/mo + white-label extracts + dedicated briefings

The institutional tier for multi-seat firms and capital funds.

$14,990 / year (target)
Available

Solo

A single-seat Watch Desk for the solo land-use practice.

Annual subscription · Single-seat · Charter cohortYour own Watch Desk · dais-prep pack before each hearing · watchlist & alerts · your firm page · one custom exhibit a year

The Watch Desk, sized for a practice of one — for solo practitioners and small land-use shops.

One-time reports

Start with the two free reads — the State of Austin quarterly and the DB-90 retrospective. The Drenner Group report is the paid firm-level deep dive that sits on top of them.

Available

The 10-Year Records — Vol. II: Armbrust & Brown

What 490 hearings reveal about Austin's #2 entitlement firm — and the hardest-district bet.

Edition 2.0 — July 202614 pages · certified per-district + dais analysis · §10 head-to-head crosstab

The #2 firm, the hardest-district franchise, and the new dais record — decoded.

Available

The 10-Year Records — Vol. I: Drenner Group

What 632 hearings reveal about Austin's most-active entitlement firm.

Edition 4.0 — July 202613 pages · 11 sections · 4 charts · peer-firm benchmark · §10 head-to-head crosstab

1 in every 7 agent-attributed Austin entitlement hearings, decoded.

Available

The 10-Year Records — Vol. I + II (the pair)

Drenner Group + Armbrust & Brown — Austin's top two entitlement firms, head to head. Both certified 10-year records.

The 10-Year Records — July 2026Two reports · 27 pages total · save $99 vs buying separately

Collect the leaderboard — Vol. I + Vol. II for $899 (vs $998 separately).

Available

State of Austin Land Use — Q1 2026

The full quarterly read on Austin's PC and ZAP filings, agents, frameworks, and outcomes.

Q1 2026 edition — May 2026PDF · multi-section dossier · free

The quarterly market read — free, built from the same database behind the weekly brief.

Available

DB-90 at Two Years

Two years of DB-90 data — what worked, what didn't, what's replacing it.

Special edition — May 2026PDF special edition · free

The DB-90 retrospective the city did not publish — free.

Available

The Firms That Move Austin — 10-Year Leaderboard

Which firms actually carry Austin's entitlement docket. Ten years of agent-attributed PC and ZAP hearings, ranked.

Free edition — June 2026PDF + web · 10-year firm leaderboard · free

The most-active Austin entitlement firms, 2016-2026 — free, and the on-ramp to the Drenner report.

The tiers at a glance

Every subscription tier, one table — this is the full price ladder for the site.

TierWhat it isPrice
SoloThe Watch Desk, sized for a practice of one$490 / yr (charter cohort; $690 standard)View →
Pro — The Watch DeskThe standing watch desk for people who underwrite, entitle, or finance Austin deals$1,490 / yrView →
Diligence — The Deal DeskThe predictive layer on top of ProIn development — pricing not yet setPreview →
Enterprise — Firm IntelligenceThe multi-seat tier for firms and capital funds$14,990 / yr · by contactContact →

One price per tier. No discounts, promo codes, or cross-tier percentages. The report member price for Pro subscribers is a named benefit, delivered through the Pro flow.

Texas Entitlement · Austin Development Watch · Michael Msebenzi · info@texasentitlement.com
Data source: the 10-year Cases database, parsed from public City of Austin meeting minutes.
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