The Visual Thinking Company builds tools that help people see and shape their world.
We put one reconciled, verified record of civic infrastructure under public decisions, so families choose well, institutions plan well, and the record outlasts all of us.
Built for the people shaping communities.
A housing decision becomes a school question. A transit investment changes access to work. A development approval reaches infrastructure, public services and household life.
VTCo brings the data behind those systems into one accountable view.
Every civic system. One accountable record.
VTCo integrates public evidence across domains and keeps the source, date and transformation attached to the result.
School Guide
The public record behind one of the largest decisions a household will make.
One civic layer. Four ways to use it.
Each product is shaped around a distinct user and decision, while reading from the same source-traced public record.
Territory Intelligence
Neighbourhood intelligence for professionals who need to understand a territory before the questions arrive.
Explore Territory Intelligence
School Guide
A clear, public-facing view of schools, catchments, programs, capacity and neighbourhood context for people deciding where to live.
Explore School Guide
Pattern Recognition Workshop
A facilitated working session that uses your real decision, your team and the public record to surface actionable patterns.
Explore Pattern Recognition Workshop
Social Infrastructure Database
One source-traced civic record, beneath every VTCo product.
Explore the SID
Clarity has to survive scrutiny.
Every figure in the Social Infrastructure Database links to the official publication behind it, and the distance from raw record to published value is always on record.
Read the methodologyOfficial publications only; every source registered, every metric linked back to it.
One standardized schema, discrepancies reconciled, every geographic level covered.
One governed database behind the public apps, the APIs and the tools.
Read the public record like a decision-maker.
Analysis from the platform, alongside product releases and updates from the company.
A site let go, and bought back thirty-five years later
Richmond let a closed school site go in 1990 at a valuation of $5.67 million. In 2025 the same district paid $60 million to buy it back. Both figures are public, and neither file contains the other.
Now officially available across Metro Vancouver, School Guide answers school and catchment questions from one integrated public record, with a source and a date on every figure.
Territory Intelligence gives realtors the integrated public record behind every neighbourhood, by dissemination area, at a flat $7 per dissemination area per month.
Put civic intelligence behind the next decision.
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