Data intelligence platform
Turn your data into informed decisions.
Takwimu Intelligence brings data collection, analysis and strategy into one platform, so your organisation can base its decisions on data it has collected and insight it can check.
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Analysis you can trust: 51 of 51 statistical results match R, the standard statistics software, on 2,400 real cases from Afrobarometer Round 9, Kenya.See the full comparison
Data intelligence
What is Takwimu Intelligence?
Takwimu Intelligence is a data intelligence platform for organisations in Kenya. It turns the data an organisation collects into insight it can use when a decision has to be made.
It works with the data an organisation gathers from the people it serves and from its own operations. Its purpose is to help the organisation make informed decisions, such as where a county spends its development budget or where a campaign sends its team next week.
Each insight links to the evidence behind it, down to the individual responses, and can be checked before anyone acts on it.
The usual way
The cost of deciding without good data
Most organisations make their biggest decisions with too little data, or with data they cannot fully trust. When they need to know what people think, they commission a research firm, and the results arrive weeks later as one figure for the whole county, with no insight into the wards where the decision will land.
Feedback from citizens and customers arrives through many channels and is filed in different places. It is rarely analysed, and later no one can show what was done with each view.
That works until a decision is challenged in court or a figure is questioned in public. When a new question comes up, the work starts again from scratch and the organisation pays again for data it cannot reuse.
Benefits
What data intelligence gives your organisation
Informed decisions at every level
Study results are open to everyone in your organisation who needs them, within the limits of their role. A field officer and a director at headquarters look at the same figures and can open the same responses behind them.
Insights while they still matter
Results update as each response arrives, while the decision they inform is still open. Takwimu also follows news coverage of the issues you track and raises an alert in the app when one of your alert rules is met.
More value from every shilling
Takwimu Intelligence measures what your campaign achieved, by segment and by channel, against a group the campaign did not reach. You can see which parts of a campaign or programme delivered value and move the budget towards them.
Credible data
Takwimu checks the quality of interviews while the team is still in the field and weights every result to the census, with its margin of error shown. When a funder or a journalist questions a number, you can show how it was produced.
Accountability and compliance
Each submission in a consultation is recorded with the decision taken on it and the reason, which is the record courts have asked counties for. Consent is recorded, and every view of a person’s answers is logged, as the Data Protection Act 2019 expects.
One source of truth
All the data from a study is kept in one workspace with its analysis and reports. When a new question comes up, the team starts from the data already collected.
01 · Data on demand
Your own data, whenever a decision needs it.
The challenge
Every new question means a new research contract, and the data often arrives after the decision has been made.
With Takwimu
- Build a questionnaire, launch it and follow the data and insights as responses arrive.
- Bring existing questionnaires in from KoboToolbox, ODK or SurveyCTO as XLSForm and carry on collecting data without rebuilding them. Anything that cannot be carried over is listed with its reason before the import runs.
- Compare each new round of data with the last one and see whether the change is statistically significant before you base a decision on it.
- The Lamu refinery study, with its news monitoring and public website, was set up on 2 October 2026, two days after the groundbreaking it asks about.
02 · Your team
Your own people can run the work.
The challenge
Most organisations hire an outside research firm because nobody inside can run a study. When the contract ends, the skill leaves with the firm.
With Takwimu
- Train staff for the work your studies need: data entry, interviewing, media monitoring, data management and field supervision.
- Learners practise on the real screens in a training workspace, on simulated data, so nobody learns on a live study.
- The courses are written for training institutions to teach. The institution's assessor confirms each result, and the institution issues its own certificate, with a QR code that leads to its record.
03 · Coverage
Data from the whole population.
The challenge
Only 40.5 per cent of Kenyans used the internet in October 2025, according to DataReportal’s Digital 2026 report for Kenya. Data collected only online leaves most of the country out of your decisions.
With Takwimu
- Field teams collect data on Android phones that work offline for days and upload when they reconnect.
- Teams already using ODK Collect or KoboCollect keep their phones and send their data straight to Takwimu.
- Survey links keep working offline and send the data when the signal returns.
- USSD, SMS and voice surveys collect data from people on any handset, through your own gateway account.
- Paper questionnaires, and memoranda handed in at public meetings, join the same dataset as every other response.
- Every result can be broken down by the channel its data came from.
04 · Data quality
Figures your organisation can trust.
The challenge
A percentage based on 29 people can move several points when one of them changes their answer. A decision built on that figure is the first one critics will question.
With Takwimu
- Every result is weighted to census data to represent the whole population.
- Every figure in your data carries its margin of error, calculated to allow for the weighting.
- Figures based on fewer than 30 interviews are kept out of your findings, and counts below 5 are shown as a range.
05 · Transparency
Analysis you can trace from the data to the result.
The challenge
When a result is challenged, your organisation has to show how the data produced it. Pointing to the software will not convince anyone.
With Takwimu
- Takwimu’s statistics engine is tested against R, figure by figure, on national survey data, and the full comparison is public.
- Any analysis can be rerun a year later with the same result, or a note of what changed. Every run is recorded with its settings, the software version and a fingerprint of its data.
- Export your data to SPSS, Stata, R or CSV with a full codebook.
06 · Accountability
Accountability for every view in a public consultation.
The challenge
Courts expect public bodies to give reasons for accepting or rejecting each view. The Court of Appeal voided the Finance Act 2023 in July 2024 for that failure, and the Supreme Court restated the duty when it reinstated the Act that October. In June 2025 the Nyabuto judgment quashed the Nairobi City County Finance Act 2023. An attendance register shows who was in the room. It does not show what they said, or what was done with it.
With Takwimu
- Every view is recorded with the decision taken on it (accepted, partly accepted, rejected or out of scope), the reason and the name of the person who decided.
- Decisions cannot be edited or deleted. Corrections are added as new entries under their author’s name.
- A representativeness statement compares who took part with census data for the area, and names any group the consultation missed.
- Each report carries a digital fingerprint and a public page that checks any printed copy against it.
07 · Verification
Protect the value of your results from fake polls.
The challenge
In October 2025 and again in January 2026, Africa Check exposed fake poll graphics on Facebook carrying the names of real Kenyan polling firms. When fakes circulate, genuine data loses its credibility too.
With Takwimu
- Every report you issue gets a public verification page showing who issued it, for whom and from which study. No account is needed to open it.
- Anyone with a copy can check it against the original, byte for byte.
08 · Impact
Test your message, and measure the value it delivered.
The challenge
Campaigns report how many people they reached. Few can show whether the message changed anyone’s mind, or what the money achieved.
With Takwimu
- Test two or more versions of a message in a survey, each shown to a random group of respondents, and let the data show which performs best.
- Measure a campaign’s impact against a control group, by segment and by channel, with a margin of error. This is set up on request for each campaign, before any message goes out.
- Without a control group, results are shown as a before and after figure, labelled as such.
- Messages that had no effect, or made things worse, are reported as clearly as those that worked.
09 · Data protection
Data protection your respondents can trust.
The challenge
People share their views when they trust how the data will be used. A single breach can undermine every study that follows.
With Takwimu
- Data is stored only with consent, and each consent is saved with the exact wording the person agreed to.
- Questionnaire data can be encrypted on the phone or in the browser, with the private key held only by your team.
- Each organisation sees only its own workspace. Takwimu staff enter one only under a support grant that is logged and expires.
- Every bulk export of data and every view of a person’s answers is written to a tamper-evident audit log.
- Export all your data in open formats, including the questionnaire as XLSForm.
How it works
How Takwimu Intelligence works
Every study follows the same five stages, from the first piece of data to a measured result.
- 01
Collect
Data comes in from the people your decision affects, including those without a smartphone or internet, and from your organisation’s own records and feedback, into one dataset.
- 02
Analyse
Results are weighted to the census and each figure carries its margin of error. What people said in their own words is coded and read alongside the numbers, which is often where the insight is.
- 03
Strategy
Your team decides where to act and what to say, area by area, using what the data shows for each one.
- 04
Message
Different versions of a message are shown to random groups of respondents, and the data shows which one works before you pay to send it.
- 05
Follow up
After the campaign, the people who received your message are compared with a group who did not, which shows the value the message delivered.
All the data from a study, and the intelligence drawn from it, is kept in one place for an audit or the next campaign.
Who it is for
Who uses Takwimu Intelligence
County and national government
Evidence for county planning and budgets, and a public participation record that stands up in court.
Political campaigns
Campaign intelligence for aspirants and their teams, showing where the campaign stands in each ward and which message is working.
NGOs and development programmes
Monitoring, evaluation and learning data that shows impact and holds up in a donor review.
Businesses and brands
Customer intelligence branch by branch, and how customers compare you with your competitors.
Peace and cohesion
Early warning from what communities report, and from what is being said about the issues that divide them.
Universities and researchers
Research-grade data collection and analysis, free for students and teaching.
Each of the 15 sector packs carries the questions and indicators your field already uses, with report templates to match. All of them run on the same analysis engine.
County and national government
County public participation
Your Finance Act consultation is challenged. What can you show?
How it works for county public participationMinistries and county health
Health programmes
Is the programme reaching the people it was designed for?
How it works for health programmesWildlife authorities and conservancies
Wildlife and conservation
What do communities around the park think, and what happened to their claims?
How it works for wildlife and conservationProgrammes and implementing partners
NGOs and MEL
Will your indicators hold up in a donor review a year from now?
How it works for NGOs and MELUniversities and institutes
Research and academia
Will the outputs stand up in a methods chapter?
How it works for research and academiaBrands and public communicators
Brands and campaigns
Did the message move anything, and how would you know?
How it works for brands and campaigns
Free access
Free for students, NGOs, CBOs and humanitarian work.
Students, teaching staff, registered NGOs and CBOs, and humanitarian responses can use the Starter plan free of charge. We confirm eligibility before access is switched on.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is Takwimu Intelligence?
Takwimu Intelligence is a data intelligence platform for organisations in Kenya. Your organisation uses it to collect and analyse its own data, including surveys, opinion polls, consultations and a complaints and suggestions box, and to make informed decisions with it.
What if my team does not know how to use Takwimu?
They can be trained. Takwimu's courses are written for training institutions to teach, and cover data entry, interviewing, media monitoring, data management and field supervision. Your staff practise on the real screens with simulated data, and the institution assesses their work and issues its own certificate, so your team holds a credential for the work it does.
Is Takwimu a polling firm?
No. The organisation running a study on Takwimu conducts the research and holds any research permit it needs. Takwimu provides the platform.
We already use KoboToolbox or ODK. Do we start again?
No. Import your questionnaires as XLSForm, and teams using ODK Collect or KoboCollect can keep their phones and submit interviews directly. Anything that cannot be carried over is listed before the import runs.
Who owns the data?
Your organisation does. Under the Data Protection Act 2019 you are the data controller, and Takwimu processes the data only on your instructions. You can export all of it in open formats.
Can we publish a poll close to an election?
Not in the last five days. The Publication of Electoral Opinion Polls Act 2012 bans publishing poll results on election day or in the five days before it, and our terms of use apply the same rule.
Can respondents answer in Kiswahili?
Yes. Questionnaires can include Kiswahili and other languages, and a translation is shown to respondents only after a reviewer approves it.
What does it cost?
Plans differ by the number of users and studies. Every plan includes all channels and all analysis, and none limits the number of responses. Students, NGOs, CBOs and humanitarian responses can use the Starter plan free.
See what data intelligence can do for your organisation.
Bring a question you need answered, and the demo takes it through all five stages, from collecting the data to measuring the result.