The Lab takes bounded assignments where a decision depends on fragmented sources, historical vintages, disputed denominators, changing methodologies, regional comparability or a model that may be using information it could not have known at the time.
The methodology is inspectable before you buy. Client work applies it to a specific historical cutoff, model or forecasting problem.
Give us a country, indicator set and historical cutoff. We reconstruct the exact official information set that was publicly knowable then, preserving releases, vintages, definitions and source boundaries.
We test whether latest-vintage data contaminates historical evaluation, whether rebasing or methodology changes break comparability, and how conclusions move under real-time vintages.
We test Ramadan, Eid, Hajj, working-day and historically applicable weekend-regime controls against the client baseline, with out-of-sample evaluation rather than an in-sample fit story.
Source-linked evidence brief, focused data build, provenance register, QA record, limitations register and executive decision memo.
Definitions, denominators, source integrity, transformations, comparability, versioning and claim-level provenance checked as one auditable system.
Source architecture, data contracts, normalized schema, provenance, QA, dictionaries, limitations and reproducible delivery package.
Reproduction of a published or internal analysis, discrepancy logging, robustness checks, environment capture and claim audit.
This monitored mailbox remains the public route until a domain mailbox is verified end-to-end.
Measurement economics programme
MENA Vintage Vault
MENA-CAL
Methodology Shock Registry
Every paid engagement begins with a written scope covering the decision question, evidence perimeter, source access, deliverables, timeline, price and payment terms, confidentiality, publication rights, draft-review rights, suppression rights and conflict disclosures. The operating workflow is documented in the Commissioned Work Standard.
Commissioned analysis does not change the evidence labels used on public research. A client may review commissioned work within the agreed scope, but review rights, publication rights and any suppression rights are disclosed. See Funding & Independence.