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Civic Apparatus
What does the neighborhood need right now?
Five metrics of civic vitality, watched in real-time. Not to manage the city, but to listen to what it's already repairing.
APPARATUS LIVE⚠ ADVISORY · PARTICIPATION-WITHOUT-POWER STRENGTHENING REGION-WIDEFRI 08 MAY 2026 · 08:00 EST · ROUNDS
DAILY FLOW · INPUT BAY
GAS · PRICE
$3.42
AIR · AQI
54
EMPLOYMENT
1,184
LABOR · PARTICIPATION
22%
INDY MARKET
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What the tubes measure:
• GAS PRICE: Stability of material input costs
• AIR AQI: Environmental health (inverse: lower is better)
• EMPLOYMENT: Regional labor activation
• LABOR PARTICIPATION: % of workforce engaged in care/formal sectors
• INDY MARKET: Aggregate stock value of major Indy corporations
CIVIC VITALS · IRRI INDEX
● LIVE● ADVISORY
53
IRRI
← Input Bay Derived
BELONGING
68/100
STABILITY
46/100
EMOT HEALTH
59/100
AUTHORSHIP
44/100
CONDITIONS · LOVE
78/100
VITAL DEFINITIONS
● BELONGING — sense of community, civic trust
● STABILITY — material security, housing, safety
● EMOT HEALTH — relational density, belonging support
● AUTHORSHIP — decision power, self-determination
● CONDITIONS · LOVE — mutual aid, spontaneous repair
IRRI = (MIN vital × 0.4) + (AVG vital × 0.6) — penalizes weak links while rewarding balance
ATTENDING NOTES — IRRI INTERPRETATION3 ACTIVE · RECOVERY TRAJECTORY
08 MAY · 0742
SIG-014 · STRUCTURAL — Participation without power remains elevated across regional civic systems. Procedural saturation rising; authorship concentration unchanged. Patient continues to exhibit response to stimuli without corresponding agency.
— M.McA
08 MAY · 0755
SIG-015 · EMOTIONAL — Suburban donut presenting as stable on most indicators; suppressed strain noted in adolescent and elder cohorts. Material conditions strong; relational density thin. Recommend continued monitoring of unstructured public life.
— M.McA
08 MAY · 0801
DEV-003 · POSITIVE DEVIATION — Informal repair behavior increasing in urban mutual-aid systems despite declining institutional trust. Volunteer spontaneity, local food exchange, neighborhood event persistence all elevated. Localized dignity resilience present. Patient appears to be repairing themselves.
— M.McA
NEIGHBORHOOD LIBERATION INDEX · GEOGRAPHIC MAP
Composite score (0–100) measuring economic equality, care infrastructure presence, and narrative visibility. Green = higher liberation and relational capacity. Red = constrained conditions, extraction risk. Sourced from ACS census data, news headline analysis, and community repair documentation.
Extraction Gap
< −30 Severe extraction
−30 to −15 High extraction
−15 to 0 Mild extraction
0 to +15 Mild resilience
+15 to +30 High resilience
> +30 Strong resilience
No data
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Tracts Loaded
0
With Index Data
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Coverage
INDY MARKET INDEX · ECONOMIC INDICATOR
Real-time aggregate stock value of five Indianapolis-headquartered major corporations. Green tube = price increases. Red tube = price decreases. Updated every 12 seconds. A proxy for the economic health and market confidence in Indianapolis's corporate base.
LLY — Eli Lilly
Pharmaceutical, biotech innovation
Pharmaceutical, biotech innovation
RHH — Roche Holding
Diagnostics, healthcare infrastructure
Diagnostics, healthcare infrastructure
RR.L — Rolls-Royce
Defense, aerospace engineering
Defense, aerospace engineering
VRSN — Verisign
Internet infrastructure, domain services
Internet infrastructure, domain services
PFE — Pfizer Indy Operations
Manufacturing, pharmaceutical production
Manufacturing, pharmaceutical production
What this reveals: The Indy Index tracks capital concentration and market sentiment around the city's major employers. Rising prices suggest investor confidence in Indy's economic institutions. Declining prices signal market skepticism or sectoral headwinds.
METHODOLOGY · INDY MARKET INDEX
Composition: Five Indianapolis-headquartered companies: Eli Lilly (LLY), Roche Holding (RHH), Rolls-Royce (RR.L), Verisign (VRSN), Pfizer Indy Operations (PFE).
Calculation: Simple average of current stock prices across all five companies, updated every 12 seconds via Alpha Vantage real-time API.
Interpretation: Vertical tube height reflects aggregate index value. Green indicates positive change, red indicates decline. Real-time visualization of Indianapolis economic heartbeat through major corporate presence.
JRCO · APPARATUS v0.1 · MAY 2026
⚙ INDIANAPOLIS · UNDER OBSERVATION
SOURCES · ALPHA VANTAGE · DATA.INDY.GOV · LIVE