Independence
Advice you can act on because nothing else is being sold with it. We say what we found and what it means for you, plainly, whether or not it is convenient.
A consulting firm in Nairobi, founded on one belief: organisations grow, thrive and serve their communities best when their own systems are sound. Every engagement we take on strengthens one of those systems.
Sound systems. Communities served.
Four lines of work. Together, one sound system.
Advice you can act on because nothing else is being sold with it. We say what we found and what it means for you, plainly, whether or not it is convenient.
Every method is explained the first time it appears, so the people who have to decide can follow the argument and not only the conclusion. If a finding cannot be explained plainly, we do not trust it yet.
We start with your question, choose what fits it, and leave you with something that keeps working after we have gone: a plan people use, a policy people follow, data someone can maintain.
The shape is the same whether the work takes three weeks or a year.
We start with the question you have, not a service we want to sell.
Short, and one you can hold us to: what we will do, what you will get, what it costs, and why we chose that approach.
Done with you, not to you. You see drafts early, whether the result is a strategy, a policy, a dashboard or a review.
What stays with you: the documents, the data, and people in your organisation who can run what was built.
Whatever the line of work, the same habits.
We start from where you are and the change you want, and mark the choices in between, so the plan is a route people can follow and not a wish.
Strategy and advisoryWe look at how the organisation actually runs, against clear criteria, and agree what to strengthen first: policies people follow, roles people understand.
Organisational strengtheningYour own data, from wherever it sits, brought into one place and turned into measures a manager can read: the same data, the same answer, next quarter too.
Data and analyticsAdopting AI where it helps and declining it where it does not, with someone accountable. Keeping what matters out, and checking, then checking again.
AI and cybersecurityA team headquartered in Nairobi, and associates who have done this work across East, Central and Southern Africa.
Half an hour of talking usually beats a week of wondering.