FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2026
TractIQ and Self Storage Income Partner to Bring Institutional Storage Data to First-Time Investors
Every SSI member now gets institutional-grade data as part of their membership, lowering the barrier to entry for all self-storage investors.
Austin, TX. TractIQ, the market intelligence platform powering institutional self-storage decisions, today announced a partnership with Self Storage Income (SSI), the leading membership community in the self-storage industry. Every SSI member will now receive access to TractIQ’s data platform as a standard part of their membership.
The partnership lowers a barrier that has shaped self-storage investing for decades. Facility-level occupancy, rental rate histories, and operating financials have long been the exclusive domain of the largest institutional players, leaving new investors to evaluate their first deals on instinct, broker decks, and incomplete comps. SSI members will now underwrite, track markets, and evaluate acquisitions using the same verified dataset relied upon by Brookfield, Public Storage, Nuveen, and other leading groups.
“The best storage decisions are made on the best data,” said Noah Starr, founder and CEO of TractIQ. “SSI has built the leading community in self-storage, full of investors actively looking to do their first or next deal. The institutional players have always had ground-truth data. New investors have not. This partnership gives every SSI member the same foundational data institutional groups trust.”
“For too long, the data needed to underwrite a real storage deal sat behind institutional paywalls,” said AJ Osborne, founder of Self Storage Income. “Most of our members are doing their first or second deal, and they deserve to walk into it with the same intelligence the institutional players take for granted. TractIQ is the platform those institutional groups actually use. Bringing it inside SSI is one of the most meaningful upgrades we have ever made to the membership.”
What Members Get
Every SSI Active Member receives TractIQ Starter as part of their membership, with full access to TractIQ’s facility database, market-level rate trends, and supply analytics across 70,000+ U.S. self-storage facilities.
SSI Inner Circle members, the community’s most engaged cohort, receive TractIQ Pro+, the platform’s most comprehensive investor tier. Pro+ unlocks facility-level occupancy, historic operating financials, rental rate histories, supply pipeline, owner data, and demographic analytics, the same depth used by institutional underwriters at the country’s largest storage groups.
Inner Circle members also get the TractIQ AI Connector, which puts that data directly inside Claude and ChatGPT, so members can underwrite deals, run market analyses, and build investment memos through conversation, not spreadsheets.
TractIQ will also embed directly into the SSI community experience, running training webinars, contributing data-driven thought leadership to the SSI member portal, and hosting ongoing office hours for member questions on underwriting, market selection, and competitive analysis.
A Bigger Idea
The partnership reflects a broader shift in self-storage: the data advantages that once defined institutional ownership are increasingly accessible to anyone willing to do the work. By embedding TractIQ inside SSI, the two companies are removing one of the largest barriers to entry in the sector, and giving the next generation of storage investors a foundation to build on.
About Self Storage Income Self Storage Income (SSI) is the leading membership community and mastermind for self-storage operators and investors. Founded by AJ Osborne, SSI equips its members with the resources, education, and peer network they need to find, evaluate, and operate self-storage assets at a higher level. Learn more at selfstorageincome.com. If you would like to learn more specifically about Self Storage Income memberships, you can schedule a call with our team at selfstorageincome.com/learn
About TractIQ TractIQ powers serious self-storage decisions across 70,000+ facilities, combining facility-level occupancy and financials with owner data, rental comps, and supply analytics. The TractIQ AI Connector puts that data inside Excel, PowerPoint, Claude, and ChatGPT for instant model population and institutional-grade memos. TractIQ is the official data provider of the Self-Storage Almanac and is trusted by Brookfield, Public Storage, Nuveen, 10 Federal, SAM, and other leading groups. Learn more at tractiq.com.
Media Contact: nikki.morrison@tractiq.com
