Extra impact capacity and a second opinion for your consultancy

Organisations we work with

What you get

• Capacity when you need it

  Interim support at a day rate, a single expert question answered within three days, or a full workstream in a client project. You scale up without hiring.

• Methodological backbone

  Theory of change, indicator sets, IRIS+ and GRI, dual materiality: Jeroen brings experience from 425+ impact frameworks and 120+ organisations, as a sparring partner for your consultants.

Why we do what we do

Read the film as text

1. We all want to know
2. our place in the world.
3. Thin grey lines join dots into a web.
4. We like to believe that what we do is part of something larger.
5. It is.
6. Together we make our surroundings, our brands, our communities.
7. We shape the work of others, as they shape ours.
8. The web grows dense.
9. We live in one web of cause and consequence.
10. Each path tells a story, part of a larger narrative.
11. A system of meaning.
12. So what is our impact?
13. Whose lives do we touch?
14. What changed? For whom? How much? And what part was ours?
15. Intended or not, for better or worse.
16. Knowing that changes what you do next.
17. A dark line draws a path through the web. Impact management helps you see it, steer it, and use it.
18. A large word: Lead. A purple path runs through the web. Lead with purpose, and fund your mission.
19. A large word: Improve. A green path runs through the web. Learn what doesn’t work and design for better.
20. A large word: Engage. A blue-green path runs through the web. Share your story, and bring others into it.
21. A large word: Account. A blue path runs through the web. State your claim, and prove it.
22. A large word: Discover. A yellow path runs through the web. Find your next impact before it happens.
23. “How do you measure impact?”
24. It sounds hard.
25. It isn’t.
26. It’s not about the how.
27. It’s about
28. Portraits of people fill the screen.
29. A large word: Who.
30. About rights-holders, whose lives are touched.
31. And stakeholders, whose choices shape them.
32. The people stand side by side, at the same height. A wave of colour runs through the web. Every voice, every perspective, equally weighed.
33. The web turns many colours. Pluriform and equivalent.
34. Who determines what.
35. And what determines how.
36. That’s it. No more, no less.
37. We count what can be counted, and listen to the rest.
38. Coloured paths wind across the web. We find the stories that connect the dots, and make sense of the whole.
39. We love our craft:
40. to ask the questions,
41. to measure what matters,
42. and narrate what works.
43. One dark path remains. Let’s reveal your path.
44. The word narrate, with the line: impact in numbers and stories.

What we often hear

• “Clients don’t put my recommendations into practice. The report ends up in a drawer.”

  Together we design impact systems that fit what your client can actually run, not theoretical best practice: start where they are and build out as they grow.

• “A good project comes in, but I have no impact specialist free right now.”

  We join your project as interim or white-label capacity, working to your approach and deadlines, so you can say yes to the assignment.

• “I want an independent look at our method before the report goes to the client.”

  We give a second opinion on your theory of change, indicators or impact report before it goes to the client or funder, with concrete suggestions rather than a verdict.

• “We lose bids on price to firms that work less carefully.”

  A documented method and an independent check make your rigour visible in proposals, so you can compete on the quality of evidence rather than on day rates.

What you may be wondering

• Won’t Narrate take over my client?

  No. The client relationship stays with you, and we can work white-label. We follow your approach and your planning.

• What happens to my client’s data?

  We use it only for the engagement. We don’t share it anywhere else, and we agree the terms together.

• Isn’t a second opinion too much for one report?

  You choose the form and the depth. You get concrete improvements, not a verdict.

To read

• Who measures, who judges, who learns?

  One person often holds every role in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning and participation. Role purity and role integrity help you see where that clashes, and what to do about it.

• Choosing the right impact framework

  There is no best framework. What the common forms can do, what they can’t, and how to choose.