Research & Economics Teams.
For the teams whose job is to measure what has not been measured before — and to defend the measurement.
At the frontier, the scarce resource is defensible measurement.
Research and economics teams inside institutions face questions with no established metrics and no benchmark datasets. The standard consulting product is useless to them, because the standard product summarizes what everyone else already does.
Disnesta works as a methodological partner: co-developing constructs from first principles, formalizing them to publication standard, and — where wanted — building the pipelines that turn a construct into a live instrument. Our own published indices are worked examples of the craft.
The work we do for this role.
Construct co-development
Joint design and formalization of novel measurement constructs, through to working paper.
Methodological review
Independent scrutiny of constructs, aggregation choices, and validation approaches.
Instrument builds
Production pipelines and scoring systems that keep the construct alive after the paper.