Illustrative application

• Whether a strategic plan is still on track, with its original assumptions pinned and later evidence compared on the same basis.
• Which components explain whether a capital investment's realized results matched its original business case.
• Whether a major infrastructure or delivery programme is proceeding against its committed schedule and scope.
• Whether a workforce or operating change produced the improvement it was expected to, decomposed into its measurable parts.
• Whether two systems of record measuring the same supplier or procurement outcome are defining it the same way.
• Whether a sustainability or emissions commitment reflects a real change or a shift in how it is measured.

How an engagement works

Write to engagements@countability.ca with the question, decision and deadline. Countability first assesses what the evidence can support. A written engagement then sets the scope, rights, confidentiality, deliverable, timing and any reassessment schedule.

The workflow describes the intended shape of a scoped engagement.

The deliverable

The organization receives a dated reading with its evidence, disclosed calculations and assumptions, limits, decision implication and next trigger. Where the available evidence cannot settle the question, the deliverable states that boundary plainly. Any reassessment cadence is agreed separately.

What qualifies

• Commissioned intelligence on a specific question, answerable from data.
• Data and evidence audits of an organization’s own claims against the official record.
• Bespoke research and public-record investigations.
• Tailored data packages and recurring intelligence briefs.
• Source and measurability assessments.
• Projection-resolution work — holding forecasts against outcomes.
• Institutional and sector dossiers.

What to bring

A defined question, the decision it serves, the deadline, and the evidence available. Work begins only after the evidence, rights, scope and confidentiality boundary can be established.