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Room 01: Research, evidence & evaluation
Research, due diligence and evaluation for decisions that need more than opinion.
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Survey sample-size calculator
Work out how many completed responses you need, and how many people to invite, for a survey estimate at the precision you choose.
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Evidence register and due-diligence checklist
List the claims a decision depends on, where each one comes from and how confident you are.
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Ghana market-entry checklist
Choose your sector, how you plan to enter and the decisions ahead.
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Feasibility study sensitivity analysis
Enter your investment, revenue and cost assumptions.
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Room 02: Management & institutional strengthening
Institutional reviews, competency frameworks, skills audits, pay structures, strategic plans and process work for organisations whose mandate has outgrown their structure, skills or systems.
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Training needs assessment
Map the skills each role needs against the skills people have today.
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RACI matrix builder
List the activities and the roles involved, then mark who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed.
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Strategic plan template
Set out your purpose and priorities, then give every objective a measure, a target, an owner and a review date.
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SOP template and process-control builder
Write a standard operating procedure with the trigger, the steps, who does each one, the controls and the records.
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Job description template
Build a role profile from the work itself.
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Salary benchmarking worksheet
Record the salary evidence you hold for a role: source, date, sample size and the range it shows.
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Room 03: Training & capacity building
Training built from the work people actually do: needs analysis, curriculum, practice, assessment and transfer back to the job.
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PMP study plan
Enter your exam date, the hours you can study each week and how confident you feel in each domain.
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Learning outcomes and assessment mapper
List each learning outcome, the level of thinking it asks for and the task that assesses it.
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Training budget calculator
Enter your participants, cohort size, sessions and your own cost quotes.
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MEL indicator builder
Define each indicator properly: level, unit, numerator and denominator, baseline, target, source, frequency and disaggregation.
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Room 04: AI governance & assurance
AI readiness, policies, inventories, EU AI Act transparency and data-protection work that gives your organisation clear owners, controls and review dates for the AI it already uses.
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AI readiness assessment
Rate eighteen statements across strategy, use cases, data, people, governance and technology.
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AI inventory template
List every AI system and use in your organisation with its owner, data, impact on people and human review.
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AI policy template
Choose what your organisation allows, what data must never go into AI tools, who is accountable and how outputs are reviewed.
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EU AI Act Article 50 checklist
Tell us your role and what your AI system produces or does.
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Data mapping template
Map each category of data you handle.
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AI governance framework template
Tell us your size, how far AI use has gone, which roles you have and which controls exist.
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Room 05: Digital solutions
Websites, portals, knowledge assistants, reporting automation, accessibility work and voice or WhatsApp services, each scoped to a user need and handed over with the tests that prove it works.
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Colour contrast checker
Check colour pairs against the WCAG 2.2 contrast ratios for text and interface parts, then record the manual tests an automated scan cannot do.
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AI knowledge assistant readiness checklist
Before you build a chatbot over your documents, check the content, permissions, questions, evaluation and ownership it depends on.
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Web app requirements template
Name your users and what they need to do, then list features with the need behind each, a priority and the test that proves it works.
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WhatsApp and IVR journey planner
Plan a WhatsApp or voice journey step by step, including what happens when the connection drops, speech is not recognised or the user needs a person.
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Room 06: Bids, proposals & intelligence
Opportunity screening, bid/no-bid decisions, tender and grant writing and SAM.gov readiness, built on evidence you hold and requirements traced clause by clause.
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Tender and grant opportunity finder
Choose your markets and whether you want tenders, grants or both.
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Bid/no-bid decision matrix
Test an opportunity against the eligibility rules that cannot be negotiated, then score it on eight weighted criteria.
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RFP compliance matrix template
Paste the tender text you are permitted to use.
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Theory of change template
Set out the goal, the outcomes you expect and the outputs and activities that lead to them, with indicators and assumptions.
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Capability statement template
Build a one-page capability statement for government and institutional buyers from facts you can prove.
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Proposal examples and templates
Choose the kind of proposal you are writing.
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Room 07: Communications, content & visibility
Communications strategy, report design, content systems, donor visibility and search and AI-answer visibility, so important work reaches the people who need it and stays true to its source.
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Content repurposing plan
Turn one approved report into a publishing plan.
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UTM builder
Build consistent tagged links for every placement in a campaign.
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Content brief template
Start from the query and the task the reader wants to finish.
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Executive bio and speaker profile template
List the verified facts of a career, the topics a leader can speak on with evidence, and the audience.
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AI search visibility tracker
Record what AI assistants actually say when asked the questions your buyers ask.
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Room 08: Growth, representation & partnerships
Market representation in Ghana and West Africa, verification for diaspora investors, white-label delivery for agencies and outbound pilots, each a defined task with agreed outputs and honest reporting.
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Appointment-setting planner
Enter your enquiries, how many of them book, how many turn up, and the hours you can give.
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Customer acquisition cost calculator
Enter the people you reach each month, your conversion rates at each stage, your average deal and your sales and marketing costs.
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Partner due diligence checklist
Compare potential local partners on weighted criteria, and record for every score whether it is verified, only claimed or unknown.
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White-label handover checklist
Plan a white-label delivery between an agency and a delivery partner.
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Stakeholder mapping tool
Place each stakeholder by influence and interest, record their current stance, and give every one an engagement action, an owner and a date.
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Room 09: Data, analytics & automation
Dashboards, analysis, financial models, document analysis, automation and data pipelines that connect reliable information to decisions, with validation first and a handover your team can run.
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Automation ROI calculator
Work out what automating a recurring task is really worth once review time, exceptions that still need a person, maintenance and running costs are subtracted.
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Cash flow forecast template
Start from your cash today, add monthly receipts and payments with growth rates and any one-off items, and see the balance month by month in three scenarios.
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KPI dictionary template
Define each indicator once: the decision it informs, the formula, unit, numerator and denominator, source, owner and how often it updates.
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Donor report reconciliation tool
Paste your results records and the totals you plan to report.
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Room 10: Executive advisory
Paid consultations, executive mentoring, keynotes, board appointments and academic partnerships with a named principal, prepared in advance and followed by a written note.
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Decision memo template
Set out the decision, the real options including doing nothing, the evidence behind each and what is still unknown.
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Board meeting agenda template
Plan a board meeting that separates decisions from discussion and information, times every item, names the paper owners and records conflicts of interest.
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Keynote speaker brief template
Commission a keynote, masterclass or lecture around what the audience should do differently afterwards.
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Executive education programme design template
Design a programme from the learning needs up.
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Room 11: Research supervision, academic coaching & publication support
Thesis coaching, methods and statistics support, academic editing without authorship, publication support, research-grant proposals, bootcamps and institutional research capacity.
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Thesis timeline planner
Enter your degree, where you are now and your submission date.
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Research question generator
Describe your interest, setting, population and what data you can realistically reach.
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Research methodology decision aid
Answer what your question asks, what data you can reach and whether you can influence who gets what.
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Research proposal checklist
Tick the sections your draft already has and set your word count.
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Reference list checker
Paste your reference list, one reference per line, and choose the style.
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Journal finder
List the journals you are considering, check each one’s details yourself at the source, and record what you find.
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University research capacity assessment
Assess your institution’s research function across supervision, ethics, the research office, outputs and integrity.
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Literature review matrix
Break your question into concepts and synonyms to get database search strings, then log the sources you have actually read with their theme, method and your own summary.
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Viva questions to practise
Enter your topic, design, contribution and limitations.
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What needs to move forward?
Tell us the decision, the challenge or the opportunity. We reply with a scoped approach, a named principal and a fee before any work begins.
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