Research Services: survey design, stakeholder research, and data analysis
Rigorous research support, without the full engagement. You keep the conclusions.
Featured inLOGO
logo
Logo
LOGO
When organizations use research services
Sometimes you don't need a transformation. You need someone who can build the interview protocol, run the analysis, and tell you what the data actually says.
We provide standalone research support to organizations that need methodological rigor and additional capacity, but are not looking to hire a consulting firm. You define the question. We do the work. What you conclude from it is yours. You may want to utilize research services when:
You are launching a program and need baseline data
You have survey responses or institutional data nobody has had time to analyze
You need to understand stakeholder perspectives before a decision, not after
You have been asked to produce a report and lack the capacity to gather the evidence
You are applying for a grant and need supporting research
You need an outside read that will not be questioned as internally biased
Why hire a research partner instead of doing it internally?
Most organizations can technically run their own survey. The problems show up later: the instrument was poorly designed, so the data cannot answer the question. The analysis was done by whoever had time. The findings are contested because the people who ran the study have a stake in the outcome.
We bring methodological rigor, capacity you do not have to hire for, and independence. The work holds up when a board, a funder, or a legislature asks how you know.
What We Offer
Our Research Services are fully modular and can be combined and customized depending on your needs. They’re fully modular - combine what you need.
-
We build custom surveys or rebuild existing ones, distribute them, and analyze the results. Comfortable across major survey platforms.
-
Interviews, focus groups, and listening sessions, run independently or alongside your team. We can also build the full engagement protocol and preparatory materials for your staff to run themselves.
-
Qualitative and quantitative. Coding interviews, cleaning survey data, analyzing institutional datasets. We work with data you already have, or help you collect it.
-
Synthesis of scholarship and gray literature for grants, white papers, and internal projects. Key themes, active debates, and promising practices.
-
Analysis of existing internal materials: strategic plans, org charts, policies, reports. We surface patterns, alignments, and contradictions against your framing question.
What you receive
Every project differs. Common deliverables:
Interview and focus group summaries
Thematic coding reports
Quantitative analysis summaries with tables, charts, and key insights
Written reports or slide decks of findings
Literature scans and annotated bibliographies
Survey dashboards or summary briefs
We deliver what is useful in the format you need, not what is standard.
Scope and scale
Projects have ranged from a focused literature review to stakeholder engagement reaching hundreds of people across an institution. We scope to what you need and tell you the range before you commit.
FAQs
What are research services?
1
Research services are standalone research support: designing the study, collecting the data, and analyzing it, without the recommendations or implementation work of a full consulting engagement. Organizations use them when they need rigor and capacity but intend to draw their own conclusions.
How is this different from hiring a consultant?
2
A consultant tells you what to do. A research partner tells you what is true. We deliver findings, not recommendations, unless you ask for them. If you decide partway through that you want strategic support, that is a separate conversation and never a condition of the work.
Can you analyze data we already collected?
3
Yes. This is one of the most common requests. We work with survey data, interview transcripts, and institutional datasets that have already been gathered but never properly analyzed.
How long does a research project take?
4
It depends on scope. A literature review or document review can be completed in weeks. A large stakeholder engagement study takes months. We give you a timeline before the work begins.
No. Research services are genuinely standalone. Many clients use them once and never return, which is fine.
Yes. We can build the instrument and the protocol and hand it to your team, or run the whole thing. Both are common.
Do we have to hire you for anything else afterward?
5
Can you design a survey we administer ourselves?
6
Tell us what you need to find out
Bring us the question. Before you commit to anything, we will tell you what it would take to answer it, what it would cost, and how long it would take.