Your Insight, Decoded
What if we have been asking the wrong question about AI? The founding philosophy of decodeCoLab — and why the intelligence was always yours.
Read StoryMost organisations are sitting on extraordinary — yet often inaccessible — collective wisdom. The CoLab captures it. Decode — a trained AI evaluation assistant — decodes it and helps you build an integrated impact and data system that lets you embark on and share a powerful journey of change.
decodeCoLab is a consultancy that works with any organisation with a vision to achieve meaningful change in the world. The CoLab is a digital platform that helps you gain clarity on the change you want to see and how to get there, guided by Decode, a trained AI evaluation assistant, built to help your team grow your understanding of how change happens, evidence it, and bring that journey of change to life.
Our philosophy is simple: it's your insight that matters. Your collective intelligence, your frontline knowledge, your team's shared understanding of how change happens. Decode takes that intelligence, synthesises and analyses it against our bespoke frameworks to surface clarity, sharpen your thinking, and build a dynamic impact and evidence system your whole team owns.
You can work with me directly — through facilitation, evaluation design, and strategic support. Or use The CoLab independently, guided by Decode, at your own pace. Either way, the intelligence at the centre is always yours.
Facilitation, evaluation and AI-powered training and tools that help organisations direct, evidence and understand the change they are making in the world.
Working with teams to surface collective wisdom, build shared understanding, and map a clear pathway to impact. Whether you are starting from scratch or revisiting your strategy, we bring structured facilitation, training and deep evaluation expertise to help you think clearly about the change you want to make and how to get there.
Building practical, lightweight systems that connect your impact pathway directly to how you collect evidence — so measurement is meaningful, not just mandatory. We design frameworks your team will actually use, that generate insight rather than just data.
Designing and leading evaluations that go beyond compliance to surface what is genuinely working, what isn't, and why. Our approach is participatory — grounded in the knowledge of the people closest to the work — and our outputs are designed to drive decisions, not just document them.
Our AI-powered platform guides your team through the full pathway — from collective thinking to evaluation framework, data collection system, and report. Available alongside facilitation services or independently. We also offer hands-on training sessions so your team can run The CoLab with confidence and embed it into your practice.
Where human intelligence meets AI.
Watch a demoThe CoLab brings your team together to explore the complexity of your work — combining collective wisdom, lived experience, and diverse perspectives into a shared understanding of how change happens. Guided by Decode, your thinking is synthesised into a clear, structured pathway to impact that your whole organisation owns.
That pathway automatically connects to how you collect evidence — no set up, no mapping, no extra work. Teams log observations, record reflections, and tag evidence. Decode then helps turn that raw data into powerful stories of change.
Use The CoLab independently or with a facilitator guiding the process. Either way, the result is a living theory of change — grounded in your own thinking, growing as your work does.
Enter the CoLabTrained to think like an evaluator. Built to amplify what your team already knows.
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Reflections, stories, and learnings from testing The CoLab and working with organisations in Malawi and beyond.
What if we have been asking the wrong question about AI? The founding philosophy of decodeCoLab — and why the intelligence was always yours.
Read StoryThe origin story of The CoLab — structured thinking, clear frameworks, and AI as a collaborative tool in place of technical expertise.
Read StoryWhere participatory evaluation meets collective intelligence meets AI as amplifier. A concept worth coining — and owning.
Read StoryI am an evaluator and facilitator with over a decade of experience working with organisations striving to make meaningful change in the world — from governance to community development, from sustainable development to health and social care.
I moved to Malawi from Scotland and here I witnessed all the same challenges that every organisation I have ever worked with experienced. Despite brilliant theories of change, carefully crafted strategies and dedicated staff doing extraordinary work, they were still struggling to evidence the difference they were making — and to use that evidence to direct their programmes, adapt in real time, and drive impact. All because they lacked simple systems to capture insights, create feedback loops, and collect evidence that anyone, from a frontline worker to a MEL expert, could both contribute to and use.
So I built one — without a development team or a technical background. I held myself to what I believe: that a collaborative approach, a clear framework, and embedding learning in practice are key. With AI as a genuine partner and a methodology honed from over a decade of helping organisations express and evidence their work, I decoded the CoLab into existence.
My mission — with the CoLab — is to help anyone seeking to make a difference learn, adapt, and implement with impact, using the extraordinary technology we now have at our disposal.