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Services

Analytics and AI

We build AI-powered research tools that reimagine how socioeconomic research is done and put insights within everyone’s reach. At every step, our human research experts remain in full control.

In-house apps

We build custom, AI-powered apps to uncover new insights that aren’t achieved with traditional methods.

Better decisions

We turn complex data into interactive insights that transform how decision-makers engage with research.

Reimagining research

We conduct research with fewer resources, in less time, and with higher quality than traditional methods.

AI-assisted research

We combine human research expertise with advanced AI systems to produce new research outputs, answer challenging questions, and deliver high-quality analysis faster and more efficiently than traditional approaches.

Our AI-assisted research tools

AutoQuant

Laterite’s AI-powered quantitative research agent that conducts rigorous and reproducible quantitative analysis, based on expert human guidance and oversight.

AutoQual

Unlocking the possibility of qualitative research at scale through AI-assisted transcription, translation, thematic coding, synthesis, and narrative building, saving hundreds of hours per project.

Learn about how this works.

Evidence exploration tools

Facilitating access to knowledge and evidence through innovative tools including intelligent knowledge hubs, AI-assisted evidence mapping, and visual storytelling tools, that enable user-friendly engagement with data and research.

Computer vision workflows

Computer vision is a field of computer science that enables machines to derive meaningful information from digital images, videos, scanned documents, and other visual inputs. Laterite has experience applying these techniques both internally for our research work and externally to support our partners in implementing their programs.

How we’ve used computer vision technologies in practice.

LateriteAI

Our proprietary suite of 20+ AI-powered research applications spanning qualitative and quantitative methods, designed to accelerate research processes and improve output quality. These tools are created by researchers, for researchers.

Evidence exploration

Our evidence exploration tools

Intelligent knowledge hubs

We build and host custom knowledge hubs that bring together datasets, research, and structured information. Users can ask questions in plain language and receive detailed answers—often including tables, charts, and policy-ready analysis.

What are intelligent knowledge hubs?

Public knowledge assets

We use AI tools to aggregate large amounts of existing public information on a topic. The result is an entirely new knowledge asset that’s organized, structured, and built to surface insights that are hard to see through traditional desk research alone.

Storytelling tools

We build interactive web experiences that help people engage with data and research. These tools help turn findings into something audiences can explore, understand, and act on.

Laterite Sprint

Laterite Sprint is our rapid research offering, combining human expertise with AI agents to answer urgent policy and program questions on lean timelines and budgets.

Sprint projects use tools like AutoQuant, AutoQual, and LateriteAI within a tightly scoped research design to deliver credible insights in weeks rather than months, without sacrificing analytical depth or quality.