Today we completed the consolidation of Axiom's two intelligence products — Axiom Locus (commercial real estate) and Axiom Overwatch (maritime and commodity flows) — into a single unified data platform.
1.36 million Locus records were migrated to the shared instance, joining Overwatch's 17,900 events, 7,000+ tracked vessels, and 2.2 million AIS positions. The result: a single database with 2M+ records spanning the built world and global trade.
Why Consolidate?
The thesis behind Axiom has always been that physical-world intelligence domains are connected. A port congestion event in Savannah doesn't just affect shipping — it ripples through inland logistics corridors, warehouse demand, trucking patterns, and ultimately commercial real estate fundamentals.
With separate databases, these connections were invisible. With a unified platform, we can now trace the full causal chain:
- 1.Maritime signal → Port of Savannah TEU volumes spike 15%
- 2.Logistics impact → Warehouse absorption within 50 miles accelerates
- 3.Employment shift → LEHD data shows growing transportation/warehousing jobs
- 4.Permit activity → Building permit clustering detected in industrial corridors
- 5.CRE outcome → Location scores adjust before traditional market reports catch up
What's Shared
| Component | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Entity Resolution | Cascading match: exact ID → fuzzy name → spatial proximity | Live |
| Event Engine | 17,900 unified events with velocity/conversion materialized views | Live |
| Satellite Pipeline | Sentinel-2 NDVI for construction detection + crop monitoring | Live |
| Provenance Layer | Source → method → confidence → timestamp for every data point | Live |
| MCP Server | 32 tools across CRE + maritime + life sciences + government data | Live |
| Scoring Profiles | 7 profiles: general, QSR, self-storage, retail, office, data center, industrial | Live |
The Numbers
The consolidated platform now contains:
- ●929K building permits across 147 configured jurisdictions
- ●454K workplace records (LEHD LODES commuter flows)
- ●395K points of interest with change tracking
- ●17,900 unified events across both products
- ●13,300+ transit snapshots from 16 metros (30-second resolution)
- ●10,700 canonical sites with cross-source entity resolution
- ●10,500 schools with quality scoring
- ●7,700 clinical trials and 2,000 NIH grants
- ●5,236 permit density cells with momentum tracking
- ●15 US ports with TEU volume tracking
- ●50 cities with council meeting monitoring
This is the kind of cross-domain intelligence that no single vertical product can offer. And it's just the beginning — the same architecture that connects port volumes to warehouse permits can connect clinical trial sites to lab construction, or agricultural commodity flows to cold storage demand.
What's Next
The unified platform enables capabilities that were impossible with separated data:
- ●Port-to-corridor industrial scoring — TEU volumes at nearby ports directly feeding into industrial location scores
- ●Cross-domain event correlation — maritime sanctions events triggering reshoring signals in CRE markets
- ●Unified MCP interface — LLMs can query both CRE and maritime intelligence through a single 32-tool server
- ●Shared satellite pipeline — the same Sentinel-2 imagery that monitors crop health for Overwatch now detects construction activity for Locus
The moat isn't the data. It's the connections between the data.