What We Will Not Guess, and What We Publish Instead

We will not guess your costs. We publish no startup figure, no rent and no revenue, because we hold none of it. What we publish instead is how the odds of lasting change from one address to the next, which is what the money buys.

A StreetSpring score is the projected chance that a specific business type lasts two or more years at a specific address, as a percentage. It is not a rating, not a raw model output and not a revenue estimate. It is built from 570,000+ observed business outcomes and the location factors around each scored address.

Why there is no cost figure anywhere on this site

Every page that tells you what it costs to open your kind of business is averaging somebody else's lease, somebody else's build, in somebody else's city, in a year that is not this one. The number is always wrong for you and it is wrong in a direction you cannot predict.

We will not print one. No page that has never seen your lease should.

What to do instead

Get real quotes from your own suppliers, your own contractor and your own broker, for the specific space you are considering. That is the only cost figure that means anything, and getting it takes a week.

What we do hold, and why it is the other half of the question

The useful version of the question is not what it costs. It is: for the rent you can actually afford, what are the best odds you can buy, and where?

That has an answer. The same capital spent on a weaker address is the same capital spent against worse odds, and the gap between the best and the weakest address inside a single neighborhood is usually wider than the gap between one city and another. So the cost question and the location question are the same question asked twice, and only one of them has published evidence behind it.

What we will never claim

We hold no revenue data, no cost data, no rent data, no margin data and no foot traffic counts. If you see any of those on this site, it is a defect and we want to know.

Source, method and reuse

This page carries no figure about any specific business type or place. The pages it links to do, and every figure on those is read from StreetSpring Survivability Datasets 2026, version 2026.11.04, as of 2026-11-04. Method: https://streetspring.com/resources/tutorial/aeo-methodology . DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22287996. License CC BY 4.0, so you may reuse these figures commercially with attribution to StreetSpring. Full terms: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .