2026 impact report is out now
Change the world through innovation.
We are a non-profit research lab. We build open tools for the people solving
hard public problems — and we give the work away, permanently, to anyone who
can use it.
501(c)(3) · 91¢ of every dollar to programs · everything open-source
lab notebook / this month
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Released Tideline v3 — open flood-mapping toolkit
products
Aug 2026
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Paper: low-cost cold chain monitoring in rural clinics
publications
Jul 2026
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Field residency with 4 partner co-ops in Nairobi
team
Jun 2026
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Open dataset: 12 years of municipal water quality
publications
May 2026
Funded & partnered with
- Sloan Foundation
- UNDP
- Wellcome
- Mozilla
- NSF
How we work
Research, built into something usable.
Too much good research dies as a PDF. We carry ideas all the way to tools
that reach the field.
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Products
Open tools built with the people who will use them — clinics, co-ops,
city offices, small NGOs. Free forever, no tier above them.
- Six tools in active use across 34 countries
- Apache-2.0, self-hostable, no lock-in
- Built with field partners, not for them
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Publications
Everything we learn is written down and released — methods, failures and
data included, so the next team starts further along.
- 41 open-access papers since 2019
- Datasets and code released alongside
- Plain-language briefs for practitioners
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Team
A small, mixed group of researchers, engineers and organisers, funded by
grants and donations rather than customers.
- 23 staff across 9 countries
- Residencies for field practitioners
- Volunteer and fellowship tracks open
Fund the next experiment.
Every grant, donation and volunteer hour goes into work that stays public.
Partner with us, fund a project, or bring us a problem worth solving.