> Source: https://www.k-stra.com/for/consultants-and-agencies/ > Updated: 2026-11-03 Who it’s for · Consultants and agencies # Can consultants and agencies deliver location analysis to their clients with K-Stra? Your client asks where to open, who lives there or how a network performs. You need the answer quickly, in a form you can put your name to. In short Yes. Consultants and agencies use K-Stra to run catchment, competitor and demographic analyses for clients across Australia, then deliver them as reports with their own logo, as map images, as spreadsheets or as a link the client opens without an account. Credits are bought per project, so occasional work carries no fixed licence. [Run a client analysis](https://www.k-stra.com/a/?src=for-consultants-and-agencies) Your clients’ questions ## Which client questions can K-Stra answer? - ### Where should we open? Two to five candidate sites compared on residents, competitors and the residents’ spending each could capture. [Retail site selection](https://www.k-stra.com/solutions/retail-site-selection/) - ### What does this catchment hold? Residents, age, income, spending and housing within a drive time or any area you draw. [Catchment area analysis](https://www.k-stra.com/solutions/catchment-area-analysis/) - ### Who are we competing with? Every competitor by sector or brand, density per 10,000 residents and estimated sales bands where reliable. [Competitor analysis](https://www.k-stra.com/solutions/competitor-analysis/) - ### How does our network perform? Store catchments, shared residents and the order in which stores matter to the network. [Store network planning](https://www.k-stra.com/solutions/store-network-planning/) - ### Are the sales territories fair? Territories balanced on clients, prospects or residents, with drive times per rep. [Sales territory mapping](https://www.k-stra.com/solutions/sales-territory-mapping/) - ### What does the market say about this property? An estimated price range from comparable listings, with the market and services around it: market evidence, not a valuation. [Real estate location analysis](https://www.k-stra.com/solutions/real-estate-location-analysis/) The hard part ## Why is location work hard to make pay for a consultancy? Location analysis arrives in bursts: three projects one quarter, none the next. A yearly licence for traditional GIS software and data costs the same either way, so small practices either turn the work down or do it by hand. Doing it by hand means downloading census tables, matching them to boundaries and drawing catchments as circles. It takes days, and the result is hard for a client to check or update. Paying per analysis turns that around. Each project carries its own data cost, which goes straight into the quote, and the time saved goes into what the client is actually paying for: the interpretation. What you get ## What does K-Stra give a consultancy? - ### Reports under your name A4 or presentation reports with your logo and colour, built from the analyses, exported to PDF or PPTX for free. [AI Reports](https://www.k-stra.com/product/ai-reports/) - ### Links for clients A saved analysis opens from a link without an account, and its versions show what changed between drafts. [Sharing](https://www.k-stra.com/product/sharing/) - ### A team per client Teams with their own credit limits and an audit log of every run, under one balance. [Teams and governance](https://www.k-stra.com/product/teams-and-governance/) - ### An API for your tools A public REST API and an MCP server expose the same actions as the app; paid actions quote first. [Developer documentation](https://www.k-stra.com/developers) K-Stra runs on a dedicated server in Sydney: your datasets, your analyses and your results stay in Australia. Map tiles, payments and sign-in never see your files. Three steps can: geocoding sends only the address text, and only after you confirm; the AI assistant reads column names and values when you ask it about a dataset; email notifications carry figures from your analysis.[Where your data lives](https://www.k-stra.com/product/coverage/#where-your-data-lives) . Mark a dataset “session only” and it is deleted 24 hours after upload. Worked example ## What does a client deliverable look like? A client asks who lives within 15 minutes of a site at 500 Dean Street, Albury NSW. The catchment, drawn on the road network in two bands, holds 90,936 residents, and it crosses the Murray: 33,302 of them live in Wodonga, Victoria. A radius drawn on the New South Wales side alone would have missed them. The first draft profiles residents and age; the client then asks about housing, and a second version adds it. Both versions stay in the saved analysis, and the map goes out as an image with title, legend, scale and source. How links and versions work is on the [sharing](https://www.k-stra.com/product/sharing/) page. *[Image: K-Stra map capture of the 10- and 15-minute catchments by car around 500 Dean Street, Albury NSW, spreading across the Murray River into Wodonga, with the capture toolbar for legend, title, scale bar and source, and the export size shown below.]* Map capture · Albury A map ready for the client’s reportMap capture frames the area, adds title, legend, scale bar and source, and exports an image at twice the screen resolution, for free. Example ## What does the client’s catchment hold? Residents within 10 and 15 minutes by car of 500 Dean Street, Albury NSW, and how they split between the two councils on either side of the state border. Residents by drive-time band and by council within 15 minutes of 500 Dean Street, Albury NSW Part of the catchment Residents 0–10 min by car 51,281 10–15 min by car 39,655 Albury (NSW) 57,605 Wodonga (VIC) 33,302 Sources: K-Stra analysis of 1 November 2026, 10 and 15 minutes by car in average traffic from 500 Dean Street, Albury NSW. Residents from ABS population estimates at 30 June 2025, placed on addresses by K-Stra. A handful of residents fall in a third council, Greater Hume. Reading the numbers ## What does the job cost the consultancy? Each run of the analysis is a version and is charged on its own: version 1 cost 4 credits, and version 2, a second run with housing added, 6, so the job cost 10 credits in all. The map, the link and the exports cost nothing. Even with a full sector analysis of the competition at 40 credits, the data cost of a catchment report is a small line in the quote. The ready-made Site Comparison report, which ranks two to five sites and profiles each catchment, costs 26 credits a site. AI-written conclusions — strengths, risks and what to check on site — add 2 credits, and you edit them before they go out. Cost ## How much does a client catchment profile cost? Choosing all three topics in one run costs 6 credits. The example cost 10, because the client asked for housing after the first draft and that was a second run. There is no fee per seat: a consultancy shares one balance across its people and can cap each team by month. [How credits work](https://www.k-stra.com/pricing/how-credits-work/) - People & Economy, three topics2 credits per topic 6 credits - Map capture, link, PDF and Excel exports Free - The Albury profile, in a single run\= 6 credits - ≈ A$9 at the Single report pack rate of A$1.53 a credit; less with larger packs and monthly plans. A new free account’s 40 welcome credits cover it. Optional, not in the total - Markets & Brands, the client’s sectorper sector, any area \+ 40 credits - Site Comparison reportper site \+ 26 credits The cost appears before anything runs, and an analysis that fails costs nothing. FAQ ## What else do consultants and agencies ask? ### Can I put my own logo on the reports? Yes. The logo, name and details of your organisation appear on the cover, header, footer and closing page of a report, and your brand colour can be the accent of every new one. Maps exported as images carry the K-Stra source strip, as every K-Stra output does. ### Does my client need a K-Stra account to see the work? No. A saved analysis opens from its link for anyone who has it, with the results and without spending your credits. Reports can be shared by link too, or exported to PDF and PowerPoint. ### Can I keep different clients’ work apart? Yes. Each analysis and report is saved with its own name, and in an organisation you can create a team for each client or project, with its own monthly credit limit and its own log of what was run. ### Can I upload a client’s data? Yes, stores, sites or customers by postcode, without personal data, which the terms ask you to remove before upload. A dataset marked “session only” is deleted 24 hours after it is loaded. ### Is there a licence or a minimum commitment? No subscription is required. The smallest pack is 150 credits; subscriptions exist for teams that work every month. Packs expire after 12 months, so buy what the next few projects need. Related pages - [Who K-Stra is for](https://www.k-stra.com/for/) - [AI Reports](https://www.k-stra.com/product/ai-reports/) - [Sharing](https://www.k-stra.com/product/sharing/) - [What is geomarketing?](https://www.k-stra.com/geomarketing/what-is-geomarketing/) - [Data sources and years](https://www.k-stra.com/product/data/) - [Geomarketing glossary](https://www.k-stra.com/geomarketing/glossary/) Your turn ## Answer the client this week. Draw the catchment, run the analysis and send the link or the report under your own name. [Open the app — free to explore](https://www.k-stra.com/a/?src=for-consultants-and-agencies) Exploring the map is free; you pay only for the analyses you run