Insights — commentary, analysis, and field notes.

What does this mean for the people? Education?

Why we pre-register everything, even the boring stuff

A short explainer on why our research team treats pre-registration as a discipline, not a checkbox — and what it costs us.

Costing AI-assisted coaching: the $3.12 question

Why marginal cost matters more than headline price — and what SOMA's pilot architecture tells us about scale economics.

What we got wrong in the 2022 KiuFunza midline — and corrected at endline

An honest account of a measurement error in early KiuFunza analysis and how we rebuilt the assessment instrument.

A week with the SOMA enumerator team in Mtwara

Reflections from a research lead on what the data does and does not capture — and what a good enumerator can.

How three Tanzanian regions adopted KiuFunza — and what they changed

A look at the operational adaptations regional councils made when taking KiuFunza into the public budget.

Replication packages: a checklist

The checklist our research team uses before publishing a replication package. Imperfect, but it is what we have.

The first hundred days as an independent NGO

What worked, what surprised us, and what we are still figuring out about institutional independence.