Your Guide to Understanding Indicators
At Citylitics, we’re all about helping you discover the most relevant early-stage infrastructure intelligence with ease. That’s where our indicators come in!
You can imagine indicators as broad umbrella labels, categorizing the project types within each Citylitics market. They’re designed to help you quickly understand what an insight is all about.
To give you even more detail, indicators can be associated with specific indicator tags. These tags are like extra descriptive notes, helping to pinpoint project elements such as:
- Specific technologies, equipment, problems, materials, and more!
Indicators > Indicator Tags

Your team’s customized Search Plan is built from one or more indicators, selected and configured to match your unique needs and criteria. This means you're always getting data that's laser-focused on what matters to you.
Examples
Let’s look at how indicators help you home in on insights across a few of our industries:
Drinking Water 💧
An insight labelled with the Pipe Initiatives indicator could be associated with indicator tags,
such as Transmission, Root Intrusion, Protective Coating / Painting, 30-60", or Trenchless Pipe work.
Transportation 🛣️
Similarly, an insight with the Road Initiatives indicator could be associated with indicator tags, such as Intersection, Pavement / Resurfacing, or Curbs & Gutters.
Power and Energy 🪫
In our final example, an insight with the Electrical Transmission and Distribution Initiativesindicator could be associated with indicator tags such as Power Lines, Utility Poles, Medium Voltage (1,000V to 52kV), or Switchgear.