All of it is fiction. Most of it is familiar.

Project Confidential is a satirical publication about economic development — the feasible studies, the recruiting trips, the ten-year incentives, and the quiet hope that the site selector actually calls back.

It is written for the people who explain tax abatements at the dinner table, who have sat through a ninety-slide economic impact deck, and who hold strong opinions about the chicken at the annual banquet. The work is serious. The people who do it have earned one place where they can recognize themselves and laugh.

Nothing here should be quoted in a board memo, cited in an RFP, or repeated at a press conference. Everything here has already happened to someone in your office.

There is a book, bound like a comprehensive plan nobody voted on but everyone must now live with. There is also, against our better judgment, a keynote.