Assets, Location & Risk

Every Site You Hold,
Fully Understood

Three questions decide whether a site is worth lending on, insuring or trading from. What the asset is, where it sits, and what threatens it. ALR answers all three at property level, from a data chain Riskscape owns end to end.You do not need a portfolio to start. Point ALR at any neighbourhood, suburb, catchment or proposed site and get the full location read. It covers demographics, spending power, property market, competing brands and the gaps between them.

AssetsLocationRiskMarket ShareProperty LevelBulk Geocoder AccessSouth Africa
Flood Modelling · 2 m DTMWildfire Severity & FrequencyHD Addressing & CadastreBulk Geocoder · CSV UploadMarket Share & Penetration3D Footprint, Height & Use ClassHFI · MFD · AVMSeismic Hazard (PSHA)Crime IndexDeeds & Bond RegistryIFRS S2 ReportingConcentration & Accumulation
2 m
DTM flood resolution
12
Risk dimensions
~130 000
Neighbourhood building blocks
500k+
Records per customer book
The structure

One address. Three layers of answer.

Most risk tools return a hazard score and stop. A hazard score is not a decision. To price a premium, size a bond or site a store, you also need to know what the building actually is and what surrounds it. ALR is therefore built as three connected tiers rather than a peril catalogue.

Built from first principles

From the smallest pixel up.

Riskscape starts at the bottom. The smallest observable unit is a 2 m pixel, and everything is built upwards from there. Every area figure is the sum of real observations, computed once and consistent at every level built from it. A boundary you draw yourself therefore still returns real numbers.

Bottom-up

Most providers work the other way round

They start with a national or global dataset and disaggregate downwards, so the figure at your address is a share of a coarse average. Riskscape does not build data that way.

Redraw a boundary and the answer still holds, because the measurements underneath it do not move. Draw a radius or your own catchment and ALR resolves it to the neighbourhoods inside it.

Why it matters

It is the reason penetration, custom trade areas and concentration zones can be trusted. All three depend on the numbers underneath a boundary being measured rather than apportioned.

  1. 2 m pixel2 msource
    ↓ Everything below is built from here
  2. Stand / erfmillionsstands
  3. Neighbourhood~130 000areas
  4. Subplace / suburb~25 000areas
  5. City / town~1 500areas
  6. Municipality213areas
  7. Province9areas
What you load

Sites, networks or your whole book.

An asset is whatever you need to see on a map. An insured building, a bonded property, a bank branch, a franchise outlet, a depot, or the address of every customer on your book. Your own network and your competitors' sit on the same map.

One site

A single address

An asset report for one property, or an area report for any neighbourhood, suburb or catchment, including sites you do not own yet.
A network

Branches, stores, outlets

Upload a branch or franchise network as a plain address list. Every trading site becomes a mapped asset carrying the same area and risk intelligence.
A book

Every customer you have

Half a million mortgages, a national policy book, a loyalty base in the millions, geocoded, scored and measured against the market around them.

Coordinates are not required. A spreadsheet of addresses is enough. Every ALR account comes with access to Riskscape's bulk geocoder, which matches your list against Riskscape's own address database and returns clean coordinates, standardised addresses, SG21 property keys and a confidence band per record. No GIS or spatial knowledge required.

Who uses it

Two very different questions. One dataset.

ALR serves the risk desk and the expansion team from the same underlying intelligence. The property a lender is pricing is the property a retailer is trading next to.

Trade area, for retailers and franchise networks

Your outlet network mapped as a portfolio: where the next store goes, what each catchment can actually spend, and which existing sites are quietly being eroded.
  • Whole branch or franchise network on one map
  • Loyalty base mapped and measured by neighbourhood
  • Catchment demographics and spend capacity
  • Competitor presence and category gaps
  • Area of influence and cannibalisation per outlet
  • Gross leasable area estimation

Risk-first, for banks, insurers and property owners

Pricing adequacy, portfolio concentration and regulatory disclosure, grounded in locally calibrated data rather than global hazard layers clipped to a border.
  • IFRS S2 physical risk disclosure
  • Probable Maximum Loss (PML), accumulation and concentration limits
  • Mortgage book flood and fire exposure
  • Premium loading at site level
  • Downturn loan-to-value and collateral stress
  • Whole customer book scored and mapped
How you use it

From an address list to a decision.

Start with whatever you have. Most portfolios arrive as a spreadsheet. The same governed figures then reach you three ways, whether a relationship manager pulls one address live in a client meeting or a decisioning engine scores ten thousand overnight.

01
Upload

Bulk geocoder

Start with a spreadsheet of addresses, from ten sites to half a million customers. Coordinates, property keys and a confidence band come back matched against Riskscape's own address database.

02
Map

Site Manager

Live interactive map of the full portfolio. Every site plotted, clustered by proximity and colour-classified by any asset, area or risk dimension, switched in real time.

03
Report

Asset & area reports

One-click PDF for a single site or a whole area, structured for underwriters, credit committees, engineers and auditors.

04
API

REST integration

Synchronous scoring into origination and pricing workflows, batch endpoints for portfolio runs, versioned response contracts.

Vertically integrated

Built from the ground up. Literally.

Every other platform in this market assembles someone else's layers. Riskscape owns the chain from aerial capture to the number on your screen. That is why we can tell you how a figure was produced, and change it when the evidence changes.

07Decision surface
Site Manager, asset and area reports, REST and batch API.
Riskscape
06Composite indices
Risk aggregation, Household Financial Index, downturn loan-to-value, area benchmarking.
Riskscape
05Hazard models
National hydrodynamic flood, wildfire severity and frequency, seismic PSHA, landslide, dolomite, hail, lightning and extreme weather. All are run across multiple return periods to give a damage curve per site.
Riskscape
04Terrain, structure & use
2 m bare-earth DTM, 1 m DSM, 3D building footprint and height across 1.2M km², with each structure classified by use.
With partners
03Address & cadastre
High-definition geocoding and erf-level boundaries built for South African addressing, covering estates, office parks, sectional title schemes and informal settlements. The same engine powers the bulk geocoder that gets your portfolio onto the map.
Riskscape
02Aerial capture
25 cm stereo imagery and LiDAR flown to national coverage. This is the raw material every layer above depends on.
With partners
01Authoritative registries
Deeds and bond records, SAPS crime statistics, census demographics, satellite fire and climate observation.
Official sources

See your own portfolio on the map.

Send us a sample of your sites, or an extract of your customer book, and we will run it through ALR before the call. The demonstration is then your assets, your locations and your risk, not ours.