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Data

Everything on this site is reproducible. Our derived dataset is CC BY 4.0 — cite "Clanked (clanked.ai)". Upstream sources carry their own licenses, recorded per-file in the manifest.

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File	Contents
rankings.json	All 393 metros: consensus, band, rank, grade
/data/cities/{slug}.json	Per-metro: index scores, top occupations, scenario grid, beta histogram (e.g. austin-tx)
manifest.json	Provenance: every source file's URL, vintage, license, SHA-256
scenario_constants.json	The full scenario model: parameters, defaults, presets, docs

Validation report

Generated by the build's gate suite (2026-06-11); the site cannot deploy if a gate fails.

PASS — Brookings San Jose anchor: 42.9% vs published 43% (tolerance ±2)

PASS — San Jose = most exposed large metro: rank 1

PASS — Las Vegas bottom decile of large metros: percentile 5 (LV level: 22.5% vs Brookings 31% — knife-edge at beta 0.5 threshold + May 2025 vs May 2023 vintage; documented)

PASS — Coverage >=50% everywhere: min 58%

PASS — <=5 C-grade metros: 2 C-grades

PASS — Programmer/writer family in top-10 consensus: ['15-1251', '15-1254', '27-3042', '27-3091']

PASS — Agricultural metros at bottom: ['Salinas', 'Visalia', 'Hanford-Corcoran', 'Yakima', 'Bakersfield-Delano']

PASS — 2026 modeled displacement <1.5%: max 0.16%

PASS — Industry: reconciles to total (±1%): max 0.04%

PASS — Industry: no sector >55% of a metro: max 48% (Elkhart Manufacturing)

PASS — Industry: >=18/20 sectors present per metro: min 19

PASS — Industry: no NaN/neg, betas in (0,1]: beta [0.15, 0.55]

PASS — Industry: known-metro sector anchors: all 8 hold

PASS — Industry: coverage (median disclosed >=90%, big metros A/B): median 99%; low-grade>=150K: none

PASS — Industry: estimator back-test r >=0.70: r=0.873

PASS — Provenance manifest complete: all key inputs manifested

Citation

@misc{clanked2026,
  title  = {Clanked: AI exposure by metropolitan area},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://clanked.ai},
  note   = {Data vintage: BLS OEWS May 2025}
}