The first step towards better funding — join our new beta program!

Númi Östlund
Aidhedge
Published in
3 min readOct 9, 2018

After about a year of lessons learned together with early-stage partners, we will be rolling out our platform on a broader scale. To make sure we do it with maintaining high quality we have designed a beta test program to follow some users more closely. Our hope is to (again) benefit from all the great insight and feedback partners can provide — and using that to improve the platform for all!

Do you one or more international projects? Interested in how you could optimize the budget (funding and/or costs)?

Don’t hesitate! Get in touch and join the beta!

(it completely free, and will take very very little time! We promise the time spent will be rewarded with great insights).

Just email Númi, and he will make sure you are onboard the program!

A bit more about the beta program

Our focus at the moment is to ensure that users get a maximum of knowledge and understanding from our analytics and reports. So, what we are planning is to follow some users a bit closer than normal to calibrate the dashboard reports. We are looking at a process like this:

  • Onboard new user and project: We will help you set up a project on the platform. Together we’ll make sure everything is set up. Should take maximum about 1 hour.
  • Continuous reporting: Depending on your project set up, we will schedule a number of reports from the platform. As they should be relevant, they will vary a bit from project to project. But they will likely provide super-short updates on financial changes that could impact project budgets (exchange rates, inflation, markets, interests, transactions).
  • Follow-up: After about 3 months we will schedule a call or meeting and talk through the dashboard and the reports. Our aim is to understand what you thought was good, what worked less well. Probably another 1-hour call.

But what’s in it for you?

So, as you can see the effort is small. And we hope it will also be really beneficial for you! In our analysis we normally provide our users with (depending a bit on the data they provide):

  1. Analysis of financial uncertainty. You work in more than one country. Struggle with exchange rates? We’ll make sure you got it covered.
  2. We also look at other things that could affect funding or costs, such as local inflation, interest rates or commodity prices.
  3. Transaction costs! Most organisations can cut A LOT of the costs for international transactions. Many can increase the total budget with 3–5%!
  4. And a lot more!

Just email Númi, and he will make sure you are onboard the program!

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Númi Östlund
Aidhedge
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Change maker. Tinkerer in all and nothing. Chronicling efforts to improve foreign aid with the team at www.aidhedge.org