Momentum, not snapshots
We emphasize change across 1, 3 and 6 releases instead of making one noisy point look like a durable trend.
Updated from U.S. Census BTOS
What is changing in American business right now?
Business Pulse turns biweekly Census data into a fast read on momentum: which industries, states, DC, Puerto Rico and major metro areas are strengthening, weakening or diverging from their six-month outlook.
Public Census dataBiweekly releasesNo paywallIndependent analysis
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Business Pulse Momentum is our analytical score, not an official Census metric. Score confidence reflects data coverage and history depth — not statistical confidence.
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The fast scan
Where momentum is strongest — and weakest
Ranked by our multi-release Business Pulse Momentum score, with score confidence shown alongside direction.
Industries
All industriesLeading sectors
Industries
All industriesWeakest sectors
States & territories
All states & territoriesLeading states, DC & Puerto Rico
States & territories
All states & territoriesWeakest states, DC & Puerto Rico
Side-by-side
Compare two business pulses
Pick an industry, state/territory or major metro and compare current conditions, multi-release direction and six-month outlook.
Try Texas vs. ManufacturingWe line up the same BTOS signals for both.
Different from a dashboard
Built to answer “what changed?”
Current vs. future
See where today’s performance disagrees with the six-month outlook — one of the most useful BTOS divergences.
Sampling screen
When published standard errors are available, we show a simple 95% screening flag. It is not a substitute for official Census significance methodology.
Durable entity pages
States, sectors and top metro areas get stable pages with the latest reading, history and transparent analytical context.
Explore deeper
More ways to read the same public data
No synthetic state × industry estimates: each view only uses dimensions the Census source actually provides through the API.
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AI adoption
Current AI use by industry and state, using the Census “Yes” estimate.
Open AI tracker →Major metro areas
Business conditions for the 25 most populous MSAs included in BTOS.
Browse metros →Biweekly archive
See how rankings changed from one completed BTOS collection period to the next.
Browse reports →Source-first by design
Official estimates in. Clearer comparisons out.
Every reading traces back to the U.S. Census Bureau BTOS. Our Momentum score is explicitly separated from official Census measures.
This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.