Habitus reads place, time, and behavior as one continuous signal — the rhythms that tie people to the places they return to. The same engine narrates a personal story, maps a neighborhood's memory, and gives planners and investors something they can act on.
The way a place holds its habits — its rhythms of movement, dwelling, and return.
Every place carries a fingerprint — in open data, in old photographs, in the stories people tell about it. Most of it is already there, waiting to be read.
One spatial key, many sources — stitched into a model you can question, compare, and trust.
Each lens answers a different question about a place — and about the people whose stories give it meaning. They share one model, so an insight in one shows up everywhere.
Map-driven storytelling that turns places — and the people in them — into a guided experience: scrollytelling, custom cartography, narratives anyone can follow.
The pulse of a place over time — when it fills, empties, and peaks; how people move through it and linger, across day, week, and season.
The recurring behaviors beneath the noise — the habits, routines, and returns that, repeated, make a place someone's own.
Change an input and watch the place respond — and the people with it. What-ifs and trade-offs made legible, whether you're planning a trip or planning a city.
Mobility, demographics, the built environment — the raw signal of how places work is increasingly public. What's missing is the connective tissue: one spatial key that binds the sources, a model that respects behavior, and an interface that lets a non-modeler ask a real question and get a defensible answer.
Habitus is that layer — purpose-built for the people deciding how regions grow, how buildings earn certification, and where capital should go.
Before a capability lands in the platform, it earns its keep on something real and public — under Rooted & Remembered, our consumer brand for preserving vanishing American places. The current project points the whole Habitus stack at the most-traveled story in the country.
An interactive map of America's vanishing neon signs — discover them nationwide, scrub a century of light, and let a location agent plan a real neon road trip. A live proof of the same engine that powers Habitus, headed for BUILD with Mapbox.
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