Pilot partnerships

Process

1. Weeks 1–4
   Co-designWe agree one assessment or observation scheme with you, in the terms your people already use, along with the outcome measures it will be compared against.
2. Weeks 5–6
   Set-up and trainingWe set up your teams, roles and branding, and run half a day of training for your observers or evaluators.
3. Months 2–5
   RunningYour people carry out assessments and observations, and an evaluator reviews each session once it's submitted. The dashboards update as sessions are completed.
4. Month 6
   ReviewWe go through what your data shows with you, including anything that didn't turn out as expected, and you decide what happens next.

Time and cost

On your side, we'd need a named lead who can give a few hours a month, and access to the outcome data you want to compare against, under a data sharing agreement that we put in place before anything is collected.

The cost depends on the size of the scheme and how much analyst time you'd like. We agree a fixed price with you at the start, and it won't change during the six months. If you decide to carry on afterwards, you keep a founding-partner rate.

We can't promise that a pilot will produce a particular finding. Six months is usually enough to see whether a pattern is there, presuming a reasonable number of sessions, but some questions take longer to answer, and we'll tell you during the design stage if we think yours is one of them.