CAPCA — Predicting the limits of a municipality.

From a municipal user's perspective, CAPCA is a dashboard of ten core services — population, health, household waste, education, security, electricity, potable water, housing, motorization, formal tourism. Each service shows a traffic-light indicator against a latency band (the lead time a municipality actually needs to react — roughly two years, for example, to procure a new waste-collection truck) and a capacity ceiling. Behind each tile sits a research-grade projection model that forecasts five years ahead on the municipality's own historical data. A scenario builder lets planners drag three macroeconomic parameters — education rate, income rate, GDP — and watch the projected curves shift live; scenarios can be saved and exported as PDFs.

At the system level, CAPCA was built by a multidisciplinary team of eleven — frontend, backend, data science, data engineering, product, design — shipping a government-grade platform out of an academic research effort. The constraints stacked: simple enough for municipal staff with limited software background, robust enough to run reliably in production, and flexible enough to model communes as different as Rapa Nui (Easter Island), El Quisco, Pirque, and Renca — coastal, rural, dense, remote. And the system had to scale from the first pilot to the 11+ communes it runs in today, each with its own data ingestion and approval workflow.