Built for real people
The person using the product is where we start.
Technology for human development
The world’s hardest problems deserve better technology.
Different problems.
Different people.
One technology partner.
HEALTH
Care, journeys, the frontline
- HEALTH
- CLIMATE
- EDUCATION
- EQUITY
- LIVELIHOODS
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Technology that removes work, cost and friction.
Tested in the field
Real users, real constraints, early.
Ready to scale
Designed at the size the program needs to reach.
The gap
Development has a technology gap.
Technology has transformed how billions live, work and communicate. Development deserves the same ambition for the least privileged.
Yet technology and global development have largely evolved apart. The best technologists build for the privileged. The people who understand development best are rarely technologists.
We bridge that gap. We bring the best of technology to the people working on the world’s hardest problems.
The idea
Frontier technology meets global development expertise.
AI, product, engineering, behavioral science and field experience, brought together in one team from the first idea to real world scale.
Technology
Frontier AI. Product thinking. Engineering discipline. Fast development. Beautiful, simple experiences.
AI · Product · Engineering · Data
AIDevelopment
Deep understanding of programs, people, institutions and the realities of work in the field.
Programs · Behavior · Field · Scale
DEVWhat we build
Three ways technology can make development work better.
Technology solutions for program management, delivery and evaluation. Consumer-led products that raise usability, utility and value — and cut the cost and time it takes to get there.
01 · Reach people
Put useful technology in their hands.
AI assistants, WhatsApp services, digital tools, games and job aids designed around everyday life.
- →Shared phones
- →Low bandwidth
- →Multiple languages
- →Very little time
02 · Run programs
Help programs work better.
Give managers and frontline workers the information and tools they need while the work is happening.
- →Supervision
- →Caseloads
- →Performance
- →Decision making
03 · Know what changed
Make measurement useful.
Research and measurement that live inside the work, producing evidence people can use while a program is still moving.
- →Research
- →AI data collection
- →Feedback
- →Outcomes
The difference
The real world is the design brief.
Technology should work for the person holding the phone.
A health worker with twelve minutes between patients. A family sharing one phone. A field researcher with a weak signal. A ministry that eventually needs a system to work for millions of people.
Usability
If it needs a lecture, we redesign it.
Utility
The next action should be obvious.
Value
Every feature should earn its place.
Cost
Technology should make scale more affordable.
Beyond the pilot
A successful pilot should be the beginning.
Not the end.
If you need a product, not a pilot theatre, talk to us.
We design with the next million users in mind. Prototype quickly. Test in the field. Learn what works. Build for scale.
How we work
From difficult problem to working product.
01
Understand
Learn from the people, the problem and the context.
02
Build
Turn the idea into something people can actually use.
03
Test
Put it in real hands, early.
04
Learn
Watch what people do. Improve what gets in the way.
05
Scale
Match the technology and economics to the size the program needs to reach.
Weeks to build.
Months to scale.
Years of impact.
Principles
Technology designed for people.
Most technologists do not understand the last mile. Most development professionals understand the last mile and are not asked to design the product. We sit both rooms at one table.
01
The user was never the problem.
Most programs assume rural women cannot use technology. That is a fallacy. If a two-year-old can use it, so can they. The technology needs to be designed around them. Designs are dumb. People are not.
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02
Every extra button is a trade-off.
Flexibility and usability pull in opposite directions. We choose the smallest set of actions that still does the work — because the person holding the phone has twelve minutes, a shared device, and a weak signal.
Usability on the left. Flexibility on the right. We sit as far left as the job allows.
03
Scale is different physics.
A design that works in a district can fail in a nation. We do not treat a successful pilot as the product. We design with the next million users in mind, and we price and staff for that from the start.
What flies at one scale does not fly at another.
What this looks like
Real problems. Real products.
Consumer-led products, already in people’s hands — designed around usability, utility and the real constraints of daily life.
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Product people and field people. One table.
Great technology starts with great engineers and product thinkers. Great development work starts with people who understand communities, programs, institutions and the realities of the field. We bring them together.
Chief Executive
Ex BBC Media Action · Ex Gates Foundation · Ex Meta, Head of Social Impact and Communities
Leads the unit. Two decades of media, philanthropy and platform work on social impact and communities.
Chief Technology Officer
Large technology companies · EY, large-scale government programmes
Owns architecture, delivery and the engineering standard. Years leading large public-sector systems.
Product
20+ shipped technology products
Turns a field problem into something a person can actually finish using.
Research and Strategy
Two decades · 12+ countries · USAID, Gates Foundation and multi-country donor programmes
Keeps the work honest to ground reality — what people do, not what the logframe hoped they would do.
Technology
Frontier AI. Product thinking. Engineering discipline. Fast development. Beautiful, simple experiences.
AI · Product · Engineering · Data
Development
Deep understanding of programs, people, institutions and the realities of work in the field.
Programs · Behavior · Field · Scale
Human behavior
Research, behavioral science and user experience, in the same conversation as the build.
Research · Behavioral science · User experience
Field
Programs, frontline workers, communities and governments — the people the product has to survive.
Programs · Frontline · Communities · Governments
Partnership
Howard Delafield International
Thirty years developing innovative solutions in the development sector, across more than thirty countries. Game-based learning, AI research tools, and field programs — the institutional memory this unit is built on.
What we believe
The best technology.
For the hardest problems.
Start with the person. Make the next step obvious. Use AI where it matters. Design for scale early. Measure what matters. Keep improving.
Start something
Have a hard problem?
Tell us who needs to use it, what needs to change and what is getting in the way. We’ll help you figure out what to build.
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