Who we work with
Our methods travel across sectors, but the questions differ. Here is what we are most often asked in each.
Agriculture and producer organizations
Producer-controlled research organizations invest levy money in research that may take a decade to pay off. They face a particular set of problems: choosing between projects with uncertain, distant returns; showing levy payers what their money achieved; and dividing decisions sensibly between elected directors and staff. We also produce market reports, economic impact studies and policy analysis for commodity commissions and agri-food associations.
Government and public policy
Ministries, agencies, municipalities and research funders need to know whether programs work and what proposed policies would do. We evaluate existing programs with quasi-experimental methods, and simulate proposed policies, such as income supports, taxes, subsidies and price changes, before they are introduced.
Health research and life sciences
Research teams need designs and analysis plans that survive peer review. Life-sciences companies and their HEOR partners need cost-effectiveness and budget-impact models, and real-world comparative evidence when trials cannot answer the payer’s question. We work directly with research teams and companies, and as a specialist subcontractor to HEOR consultancies.
Business and economic development
Companies, economic development corporations and associations make strategy, investment and pricing decisions on a handful of uncertain numbers. We estimate them, show how much the decision depends on each, and turn the analysis into a plan.
Organizations adopting AI
Most organizations now have AI pilots; fewer know which ones are worth scaling. We help choose use cases on evidence, build agentic workflows for research and reporting, and evaluate whether deployed tools actually save time or improve quality.
Insurance, workers’ compensation and non-profits
Insurers and compensation boards run return-to-work and prevention programs whose effects are hard to separate from who chooses to take part. Foundations increasingly ask grantees for evidence of impact, not just activity. Careful comparison designs answer both.