The eVTOL aircraft are ready. The question is where they'll fly first.
AirIndex is the independent market readiness rating system for Urban Air Mobility — scoring 25 U.S. cities on the ground conditions that determine where commercial eVTOL operations launch.
What We Do
We turn scattered public data into decision-grade, independently verifiable intelligence — and we expose where the industry's own record falls short. Every figure traces back to an identifier-keyed audit record.
Score the markets
Readiness scoring across 25 U.S. AAM markets — current standing, 30-day direction, and the binding constraint, every score traceable to audited records.
See the marketsAudit the landing record
Independent data-integrity on every U.S. heliport on the FAA register — surfacing where it is stale, uninspected, or plotted miles from the real site, per facility.
Read the auditTrack what's next
Regulatory, operator, and infrastructure signals as they land, with rules-based forward calls logged on a verifiable, dated ledger.
See the ledgerMake it verifiable
AIX identifiers and an immutable audit chain anchor every classification, score, and finding — citable by underwriters, operators, and regulators alike.
How it worksWho We Are
AirIndex is built by Vertical Data Group, LLC, a South Carolina-based data intelligence company founded in 2026. We are not an aviation company. We are not a software company. We are a data intelligence company that builds continuously updated scoring systems for emerging infrastructure markets.
AirIndex is our first product — the UAM market readiness index we built because it didn't exist and the industry needed it. Where others track the aircraft and the companies building them, AirIndex tracks the geography — the regulatory, infrastructure, and political conditions that determine which markets win the race to commercial operations.
We built AirIndex to bring ratings-agency rigor to a market that lacked a standardized readiness benchmark, and we stay engaged with the DOT, FAA, and NASA programs and the Vertical Flight Society community shaping AAM market development.
Our scoring methodology is developed in consultation with infrastructure developers, weather intelligence providers, and industry organizations active across multiple US markets. Factor weights and thresholds are field-validated against real capital allocation decisions — not theoretical models.
AirIndex does not represent operators, municipalities, or investors. Our ratings are independent. That independence is the foundation of their value.
Our Mission
Urban air mobility is generating enormous quantities of fragmented public data — FAA filings, state legislation, city planning documents, operator disclosures, SEC filings. No single entity was aggregating it into organized, auditable intelligence.
City planners were making infrastructure decisions without knowing what peer markets had already done. Operators were evaluating market entry without systematic readiness data. Investors were conducting due diligence on UAM companies without understanding the regulatory landscape those companies would operate in.
AirIndex exists to close that gap. We approach UAM market intelligence the way a ratings agency approaches credit markets — every score is standardized, every change is sourced and timestamped, and the methodology is public. Not a forecast. Not a projection. A live index built on what is actually happening.
What We Track
Every market receives a 0-100 AirIndex Score (AIS) computed from seven weighted factors. Scores update continuously as conditions change. Methodology v1.3 is fully published.
Data Categories
Every score change is sourced, timestamped, and traceable. We don't rate cities on press releases or announcements — we rate them on verifiable primary-source data. Specific providers and ingest pipelines are shared under license.
Intelligence Architecture
AirIndex scores are backed by a five-container intelligence system — each container stores a different class of structured evidence. Scores are traceable through the full chain: from the raw regulatory filing to the factor it affects to the market score it changes.
This architecture ensures that every score change has a paper trail — from source document to factor impact to market score. When a state enacts AAM legislation, the document enters RPL, maps to the LEG factor in FKB, and the market score updates with full provenance. See our terminology reference for standardized definitions used across the platform.
Who We Serve
AirIndex serves professionals making decisions in the UAM ecosystem. The index is designed to be the benchmark the industry cites — an open, auditable standard that grows more useful as more people use it and challenge it.
How We Work
Our research is published in the open — it's how the industry finds us. The commercial work is the depth behind it: decision-grade intelligence for a specific facility, market, or portfolio, built on the same audited substrate. Every engagement is relationship-based; there is no checkout.
Intelligence reports
Verifiable, methodology-anchored dossiers for a single facility, market, or decision — Site Intelligence Reports, Facility Risk Profiles, heliport audits, and market-entry packages.
Commission a reportData licenses
Institutional and enterprise access to the AIX-keyed substrate through the API — for underwriters, operators, and platforms that build AAM data into their own systems.
License the dataAdvisory & partnerships
Select engagements where AirIndex's intelligence directly informs a market-entry, basing, or infrastructure decision. Direct work with named buyers.
Start a conversationResearch access, data partnerships, API inquiries: info@airindex.io
Platform and subscription questions: hello@airindex.io
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