Methodology, scope, license, and the questions that come up at $499.
A 13-page, 6-chart intelligence report on Drenner Group, P.C. — the most-active land use firm in the Austin Planning Commission and Zoning & Platting Commission record over the last ten years, benchmarked against the rest of the field. The report covers a peer-firm comparison (volume, approval, completion, speed), market share over time, attorney-level deep dives, district concentration, the joint distribution of postponement chain length and outcome, two file-level case studies, a forward read on the Citywide density-bonus transition, and buyer-specific decision frameworks.
Drenner Group appears in roughly 1 of every 7 agent-attributed Austin entitlement hearings over the 2016-2026 window — 632 hearings total (certified 10-year, agent-deduped). No other named firm in the dataset has comparable volume. Reporting on Drenner first is a function of where the data points loudest, not editorial preference.
No. The editorial posture is conservative, descriptive, and quantitatively grounded. The report does not characterize the firm's competence, ethics, or intentions. It describes what the public record shows about the firm's volume, case mix, attorney concentration, and procedural patterns. Drenner attorneys are themselves on the Austin Development Watch subscriber list and are welcome to purchase the report.
The data is parsed from publicly-published Planning Commission and Zoning & Platting Commission meeting minutes at austintexas.gov. The structuring, canonicalization, agent deduplication, and outcome-classification work is the value-add ADW has built on top of the public source.
A hearing counts as Drenner-attributed if any agent of record on the case is one of eight individuals associated with the firm (Amanda Swor, Leah Bojo, Dave Anderson, Nick Raffaele, Charley Dorsaneo, Jewels Nickells, Jewels Watson, plus the deduplicated Dan Anderson legacy record). Parser variants like "David Anderson" / "Dan Anderson" / "Drew Raffaele" / "Nick Raffaele" are collapsed to canonical records. Page 2 of the report disclosures methodology in full.
Total hearings (584 as analyzed in Edition 3.0; the certified 10-year figure is 632 after agent-dedup — Edition 4.0 reconciles), per-year totals, per-district totals, top action-type totals, and per-attorney totals are exact counts traceable to specific EDIMS documents. Per-attorney-per-year cells and unique case-number counts are estimates within a ±15-20% band, marked as estimates in the report body. Approximately 9% of historical hearings in 2016-2018 have no district tag; this limitation is acknowledged in the methodology.
The report invites corrections. Email [email protected] with the case number and the specific error and the next edition of the report acknowledges the correction. Any reader who identifies a parser error is credited (anonymously if preferred) in the next edition's methodology note.
Executive summary (one page), scope and methodology (one page), volume and market share with the 10-year curve and 2019 inflection analysis (two pages), recent-period lens with pre-COVID / COVID / post-COVID / DBC-era breakouts (one page), outcome distribution vs market baselines (two pages), attorney-level deep dives on Swor, Bojo, Anderson, Raffaele, the three trace-volume names, and the Stephen Drenner historical footprint (three pages), district concentration (one page), postponement chain analysis (one page), three historical inflection points (one page), and a tactical decision framework — "what this means for your case" (two pages).
The report is not legal advice. It is not file-specific recommendations. It does not characterize the firm's competence, ethics, or intentions. It does not cover Council-stage outcomes (PC and ZAP only). It does not cover Drenner's privileged work, client list, business operations, or non-public activity. And it does not predict future cases. The Diligence tier (The Deal Desk) handles probabilistic forecasting; the report handles descriptive analysis.
Yes — every purchase includes the case-level Excel appendix alongside the PDF. The appendix lets you pivot the underlying counts by district, framework, owner type, hearing body, or year. It is the working file behind the report's chart 1 (volume by year) and the per-attorney breakdowns.
A single-buyer license for the report PDF plus the Excel appendix. The license permits internal use by the named buyer and the buyer's immediate working group at one firm or organization. Citation is permitted with attribution to "Austin Development Watch Drenner Group 10-Year Intelligence Report, Edition 3.0, June 2026."
Yes — the license expressly covers the immediate working group at the buyer's firm. Sharing outside that working group, posting to public file shares, and reselling are not permitted. Resale or distribution beyond the working group requires Enterprise licensing.
Yes — the Enterprise subscription tier ($14,990/yr, contact for terms) includes five named seats with white-label data extracts permitted for client decks. For firm-wide one-time licensing of the report specifically, email [email protected] for custom pricing.
Yes. Founder's Annual Pro subscribers ($1,490/yr) receive the report at 40% off ($299). Diligence and Enterprise subscribers receive the report included free. Use promo code PRO40 at checkout to apply the Pro discount, or download the report directly from the subscriber portal if you are on Diligence or Enterprise.
Refund available within 7 days of purchase if the report does not meet your reasonable expectation, provided the file has not been forwarded externally. Full policy at refund.html.
For launch week (June 4 release), Michael personally emails each purchaser the PDF and Excel appendix within 30 minutes of the PayPal notification during business hours. Post-launch fulfillment automates via a signed download link from the post-purchase page.
Standard PDF (1.7), 13 pages, printable. Tested on Mac Preview, Windows Edge / Acrobat, and iOS Mail preview. The Excel appendix is .xlsx, compatible with Excel 2010+ and Google Sheets.
Yes. Edition 4.0 will release in Q1 2027 incorporating the full 2026 year-end record. Buyers of Edition 3.0 receive Edition 4.0 at a $99 update price (one-time edition refresh).
The Austin Development Watch subscriber list reads at roughly 22 land use attorneys, 35-40 developer principals, 25 institutional brokerage seats, 15 engineering professionals, and 8 capital partners working in the Austin entitlement market. We do not disclose specific buyer identities. The buyer profile for this report skews toward outside counsel facing Drenner across the table, in-house counsel selecting representation, CRE underwriters pricing entitlement timing risk, and capital partners evaluating Austin development funds.
Email [email protected]. Reply within one business day. Phone calls available for institutional buyers — email to schedule.
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