About Us
Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, Civic Intelligence provides expertise on local policy issues for the upper midwest. Our firm specializes in providing technical capacity to local government and non-profit organizations exclusively in the Midwest. Whether you’re a city administrator, county superintendent, school principal, or district director, we will not only provide you the surge of technical capacity you need, but we’ll also support your decisions and presentations to the boards and councils. We apply extensive experience from all levels of government with professionalism to every partnership and customize our support to your local concerns.
Our analysts and administrators have been serving the public for over a decade. We’re on the pulse of local administration, and have provided decision support, facilitation, and analysis from towns to federal agencies—all to give you exceptional service where it matters most. At Civic Intelligence, we don’t just strive for excellence, we are practitioners of it. Whether the task is large or small, we apply our founding principle in our work: success is achieved when outcomes exemplify the quality of excellence.
As a public policy principal, Jeremy brings over 15 years of consulting expertise to clients. He has served in numerous capacities within the public sector, including project management, facilitation, decision support, policy analysis, and scientific and technical services. Jeremy’s policy analysis has benefitted all units of government, from municipalities to the federal government. His portfolio includes cost-benefit analyses, disparate impact assessments, program evaluation, measurement, or training and coaching in administration and analysis. Jeremy’s technical services portfolio includes grant and regulatory compliance, spatial analysis and modeling, econometric forecasting, and wetland delineation or environmental assessments.
Jeremy Peichel
Founder, Principal
Derrick is an experienced public policy analyst, journalist, and regulatory compliance expert. As an economic consultant, he has advised local government units as well as private organizations on economic forecasting, fiscal policy, and strategic planning. His experience includes consulting on public-private partnerships and business improvement districts, as well as housing and community economics. In his role as Director of Economic Development, Derrick brings strong leadership by building stakeholder consensus on complex projects. Derrick’s blend of corporate and public sector experience provides clients of both sectors a meeting point for collaborative initiatives.
