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What can your government actually do?
The Progress Library is a public record of what U.S. city and state governments are structurally equipped to deliver. Map the institutional terrain you’re operating in, find peer governments facing the same constraints, and pinpoint the highest-leverage moves — so you can spend less time diagnosing and more time delivering.
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What’s inside
Two layers of intelligence
Place intelligence
The Diagnostic
What a specific government is structurally equipped to do. Evidence-cited capacity readings for 71 cities and all fifty states — the binding constraint on what’s possible next, structural peers facing the same configuration, and sequenced pathways forward. A mirror, not a scoreboard: no rankings, no grades.
Systems intelligence
The Systems Map
How public innovation works as a system. A navigable knowledge graph of the field — the problems that keep government from delivering, the leverage points that change system behavior, and the solutions, organizations, and initiatives working on them. The diagnostic tells you where a place stands; the map shows the system it’s standing in.
Both layers share one framework: six institutional capacity dimensions — governance, workforce, fiscal, scale, external environment, and delivery assets — read as structural facts, each with its confidence level and sources. Read the full methodology →
Available Cities
71 cities · Grouped by state · alphabetical within state
Arizona
California
City and County of San Francisco
Strategic Execution · Gateway Metro
City of Fresno
Systematization · Sun Belt
City of Long Beach
Strategic Execution · Gateway Metro
City of Los Angeles
Strategic Execution · Gateway Metro
City of Oakland
Systematization · Gateway Metro
City of Sacramento
Systematization · State Capital
City of San Diego
Strategic Execution · Gateway Metro
City of San Jose
Strategic Execution · Gateway Metro
Colorado
Florida
City of Bradenton
Groundwork · Mid Size Heartland
City of Jacksonville
Systematization · Consolidated City County
City of Miami
Systematization · Gateway Metro
City of Tallahassee
Anchor-Dependent · State Capital
City of Tampa
Systematization · Sun Belt
Miami-Dade County
Strategic Execution · Gateway Metro
Palm Beach County
Systematization · Suburban County
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Minnesota
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
City of Arlington
Systematization · Sun Belt
City of Austin
Strategic Execution · State Capital
City of Dallas
Strategic Execution · Sun Belt
City of El Paso
Systematization · Sun Belt
City of Fort Worth
Systematization · Sun Belt
City of Houston
Strategic Execution · Sun Belt
City of San Antonio
Systematization · Sun Belt