Xenco Labs · Infrastructure Advisory
Site pipelines in.
Investable decisions out.
Network feasibility, site intelligence, and origination for data center developers and operators. Every engagement ends in a ranked recommendation and a go/no-go with supporting rationale — a decision document, not a scoring matrix.
The wall every developer hits
Enormous site pipelines. Sophisticated screening. And no deal to show for it. Screening built to eliminate will always answer “none of them” — while competitors close on imperfect-but-workable sites and committed capital sits idle. More analysis doesn’t fix it, because analysis isn’t the bottleneck. The decision is.
Four engagements. One standard: built to be decided on.
Market Screening
Per state or region.
Ranked A/B/C sub-markets, zoning and moratorium landscape, hyperscaler activity, top counties to pursue.
Delivered in 2 weeks.
Site Pre-Qualification
Per site.
Carrier validation, true-diversity confirmation, dual-path routing design, construction and interconnection cost modeling, go/no-go recommendation.
Delivered in 30 days.
Full Feasibility
Per site.
On-site work, carrier negotiations, right-of-way validation, execution roadmap.
60–90 days, scoped per site.
Site Origination
We source and pre-screen off-market opportunities matched to your acquisition criteria.
Available within an active advisory engagement.
Pre-construction engineering — geotechnical, structural, MEP — is intentionally outside our practice. At that stage we scope and coordinate Tetra Tech-class firms, so you engage the right specialist at the right time.
Read a complete assessment
A full Tier 2 Site Pre-Qualification, prepared for a data center developer evaluating a greenfield site in Missouri: dual-path routing design, carrier landscape, construction cost projections, and the go/no-go recommendation on page one.
Download the Sample Assessment (PDF)No email required. 152 KB PDF.
Four phases. Thirty days. One answer.
Site Intelligence
Fiber presence, carrier footprints, infrastructure gaps, distances to carrier hotels.
Carrier Analysis
Dark fiber, lit services, WDM capability, provider stability.
Route Engineering
Dual-path design, construction partners, cost and timeline.
Viability Report
Ranked providers, cost projections, go/no-go with rationale.
AI-accelerated, experience-directed. Our tooling compresses research time; forty years on the carrier side of these transactions directs it. That’s the difference between a report that eliminates sites and a report a CEO can act on.
Principal-led. No handoffs.
Xenophon Giannis
Co-Founder & CEO
Two decades in network infrastructure sales and operations. Executive Director of Sales, AboveNet Pacific Region — built a $22M+ regional business across metro Ethernet, long-haul, IP transit, wavelengths, and colocation. Direct partnership history with Equinix, Digital Realty, CoreSite, DuPont Fabros, and Vantage.
Laurie Shahin
Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer
Fifteen-plus years leading data center channel sales: AboveNet, Telx, INAP, Evoque, QuadraNet, and ValorC3 Data Centers (VP, Channel & Alliances). Direct responsibility for AI infrastructure requirements and enterprise colocation.
Our principals worked together at AboveNet Communications — one of the premier fiber infrastructure companies of its era, later acquired by Zayo Group.
How we work
- Engagements begin with a working session with executive leadership — we take the mandate from the source.
- Deliverables are tiered opportunity lists and go/no-go recommendations. We do not produce disqualification lists.
- Both principals work every engagement. No handoffs.
Fifteen minutes tells us both whether we’re a fit.
Xenophon Giannis · Co-Founder & CEO
Laurie Shahin · Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer