Without reference, a price increase is just leverage.

A fresh read each Tuesday after federal data drops. Each edition carries the PSCI™ headline and week-over-week change, your regions' PSCI with the federal cost inputs behind each one (regional diesel plus the national lumber, wages, and OCC series), each region's 30-day projection labeled with its measured backtest coverage - currently 73% - alongside the national 30-day projection with its 80% confidence band - clearly labeled, never the index - plus links to the public methodology and CSV so your team can verify every number. Forwardable to your CFO or auditor, no login required.

Nothing. The regional read is built from public federal data, so we publish it the way we publish PSCI - open. The live regions today are Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Texas + South Central, Plains + Mountain, and West Coast - California and the Pacific Northwest currently share one PADD-5 West Coast read, and a Pacific-Northwest-specific series will split them later. A Canada add-on is planned.

Public data is free here. PSCI and the regional read are reproducible from federal series anyone can check, so charging for them would undercut the one thing that makes the index citable. We make money running pallet programs, not paywalls.

No. They are decoupled by design. We operate a neutrality wall between published intelligence and managed sourcing services. Your reading habits do not feed our managed-program team; our managed engagements do not influence the index methodology.

Each comes closest on one axis but misses the others. Fastmarkets RISI publishes regional lumber prices but covers only lumber. Argus publishes regional diesel prices but covers only diesel. Pallet Enterprise and Pallet Profile Weekly publish national averages with regional commentary, not a published regional composite index. Vendor benchmarks from 48forty, Relogistics, IFCO, and PECO Pallet are not publicly available. Market Pulse is the only source that combines a publicly-available pallet cost-input composite, individual region breakdown, published methodology with federal source IDs, and the national 30-day projection - in one place, free.