We meet you where you are.
Intentional Data brings equity-grounded data science practice to nonprofits, grassroots organizations, city and local government, state agencies, and foundations. Our services span the full arc of program and organizational development — from research and design through evaluation, training, and strategic planning. Every engagement is built around your specific context, your community, and your goals.
Our Services
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We design, build, and ship production AI systems. Custom applications, multi-agent orchestrations, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
Every AI system we build invludes evaluation infrastructure from day one: golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scoring, retrieval accuracy metrics, and monitoring for behavior drift. Governance requirements translate into enforced system behavior.
What this can include:
AI application and system builds
Organizational AI readiness assessment across four dimensions: program design, community voice, data infrastructure, and AI capacity
AI use case evaluation and planning
AI policy development grounded in your team's actual practice
Community accountability frameworks for AI adoption
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We deliver AI and data literacy for teams and grantee cohorts, and we advise leadership on AI readiness, governance, and policy development for organizations navigating adoption.
Training curricula are designed around participants actual workflows rather than generic AI overviews. Advisory engagements produce concrete artifacts.
What this can include:
Tailored data and AI literacy curriculum development
Workshops on data collection, data storytelling, and nonprofit metrics
AI fundamentals sessions: how models work, where bias enters, how to evaluate outputs critically
Hands-on training using your organization's actual data and tools
Facilitator guides and training materials your team can reuse
Multi-session cohort programs for foundations and intermediaries
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We build the data backbone your organization runs on, Custom CRMs, case management platforms, participant tracking systems, and operational databases. built with or without an integrated LLM layer for natural-language querying and automated narrative generation.
When commercial platforms cost more than your orgatizaion can absorb or lock your data behind vendor licensing, we build owned infrastructure on a stack that fits your teams capacity. Every system includes role-based permissions, audit trails, and data governance patterns aligned with your compliance requirements.
What this can include:
Production data systems,
Schema and data model documentation
Migration from legacy systems
Performance dashboards tracking program metrics across service areas and time periods
District and geographic performance tracking
Funder-facing impact visualizations
Interactive reports for community presentations
Tools built in Power BI, Smartsheet, and Excel depending on your infrastructure
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We design and lead applied research, mixed-methods evaluation, community participation processes, and strategic planning grounded in the voice of the people the work is meant to serve.
Every engagement pairs technical rigor with community proximity. Stakeholder interviews and community listening sessions inform the design of dashboards and metrics. Finding translate into strategic recommendations, board and funder deliverables, and public-facing communications appropriate to the audience.
What this can include:
Research and evaluation plan, primary and secondary collection, mixed-methods analysis
Community listening sessions and focus groups
Survey design and community data collection
Facilitation of visioning and planning processes
Community voice synthesis and reporting
Strategic plans that connect community priorities to organizational action
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We build the dashboards, reports, and data pipelines that let your team, your hard, and your funders actually see the work. We design for the specific audience reading the output.
What this can include:
Production dashboards
automated reporting infrastructure, ETL pipelines connecting source systems
Documentation of metric definitions and dat lineage
Staff training and interpretation and maintenance
"Data is a tool for justice. It empowers us to identify disparities, measure progress, and hold systems accountable. By embracing data, we can transform our communities and ensure that every voice is heard and valued."
Dr. Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University Press) (Princeton University Press) (MIT News).