Six practice areas. One method.
Each service is an integrated workflow, not a sales blurb. Engagements are scoped from the methodological problem backwards: what evidence is needed, what the data actually allows, and what can be defended at the end of it. That might be a full evaluation commission, or lightweight evaluative support embedded in a programme team's workflow.
Evaluation design
Right the way through the inception process. Methodologically rigorous, structurally sound, and built faster than the traditional cycle allows.
Inception, evaluation matrices, sampling strategy and mixed-methods frameworks grounded in OECD-DAC criteria. Instrument suites — interview guides, survey schedules, observation protocols — drafted, then reviewed and refined by hand. The output is a design that holds up to peer review and a workplan that fits a real timeline.
- —Inception report
- —Evaluation matrix
- —Mixed-methods workplan
- —Instrument suite
Quantitative analysis
Reproducible survey pipelines and analysis notebooks, built once and re-run on demand as new data arrives.
End-to-end processing of household, beneficiary and key-informant surveys: ingestion from Kobo, ODK or CommCare, automated cleaning and validation, outlier detection, longitudinal merging and weighted analysis. Standard humanitarian indicators (FCS, HHS, rCSI) computed by default. Quasi-experimental designs where the data supports them, and honest communication of uncertainty where it doesn't.
- —Reproducible Python pipelines
- —Cleaning & validation reports
- —Statistical analysis & dashboards
- —Quasi-experimental designs
Qualitative analysis
LLM-supported thematic coding of interviews and FGDs, with human-in-the-loop validation and a fully traceable evidence chain.
Codebook development is iterative and human-led. Coding is then accelerated, with every coded segment linked back to its source utterance — no orphaned claims, no synthesised quotes. A sample of every pass is re-coded by hand and inter-coder agreement reported. The same approach scales to portfolio-level synthesis across multiple evaluations or country programmes.
- —Codebook & coding frame
- —Coded transcripts with provenance
- —Inter-coder consistency report
- —Thematic synthesis
- —Portfolio evidence syntheses
Reporting and quality assurance
Structured drafting workflows that compress reporting timelines while raising the bar on internal consistency.
Drafting moves from evidence base to outline to prose in clearly separated stages, with automated checks on citation integrity, on consistency between findings and recommendations, and on alignment to the evaluation matrix. Plain-language summaries and translation review are standard. Validation decks and dissemination briefs are built so that no figure on any slide is unverifiable.
- —Evaluation reports & annexes
- —Citation & consistency QA
- —Plain-language summaries
- —Translation review
- —Workshop presentations & briefs
- —Branded knowledge products
Custom MEL tools & dashboards
Bespoke tooling for implementing partners: small, focused, and built to be handed over.
Indicator dashboards, beneficiary feedback pipelines, document Q&A over programme archives, and lightweight evaluation knowledge bases. The difference is in the prompt architecture: system prompts that encode evaluation frameworks, programme terminology and donor reporting conventions, so answers come back source-attributed rather than generic. Built with open components, deployed where the data needs to live, and documented for handover. Not platform sales — a specific friction point, and a tool that solves it.
- —Indicator dashboards
- —Document Q&A systems
- —Evaluation knowledge bases
- —Beneficiary feedback pipelines
Fieldwork support & data operations
The operational layer: transcript processing, survey tracking, and respondent management during live data collection windows.
Transcript processing from recorded interviews: accent correction informed by programme context, responses mapped to evaluation sub-questions, and convergence, divergence and outlier perspectives identified across a full transcript set with source attribution. Real-time survey tracking from CAPI exports, with quota monitoring, error detection and daily status reports during fieldwork windows. Logframe indicator tracking, feedback and complaints analysis, and client comment management on draft deliverables.
- —Cleaned, EQ-mapped KII/FGD transcripts
- —Cross-stakeholder analysis summaries
- —Daily sampling progress trackers
- —Respondent mobilisation matrices
- —Comment tracking & response logs
- —Context-corrected multilingual transcripts
- —Logframe indicator tracking
- —Feedback & complaints analysis