Start with stronger evidence.
Track impact as it happens.
Turn data into meaningful insight.
Research and evaluation organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver clear, defensible and timely evidence — but the data landscape hasn’t kept pace. Historic datasets quickly become outdated, cohorts are often incomplete or inconsistent, and linking data sources requires time-consuming manual effort.
Growth Flag brings together historic data, the very latest insight and predictive intelligence into a single, trusted platform. Instead of working with static snapshots, you can build richer research foundations, track change over time, and generate clear, evidence-led narratives that demonstrate real business impact with confidence.
Start with a clearer, more robust understanding of the business landscape by using Growth Flag. Our platform enables you to define cohorts using real business characteristics — not outdated classifications — and explore sector, geography, size and growth dynamics in detail. You can identify emerging trends, map clusters and understand performance across local economies. Existing datasets can also be enriched with historic performance, real-time activity and forward-looking growth and risk signals — filling gaps and creating a more complete, research-ready evidence base.
Evaluation should not begin at the end of a programme. Growth Flag enables you to design evaluation frameworks from day one — establishing clear baselines, building matched control groups, and defining how cohorts will be tracked over time. Comparator groups can be created using key characteristics such as sector, geography, business size, type, and growth or risk profile — providing a robust counterfactual and strengthening the credibility of your evaluation approach.
Growth Flag can be used to identify firms that are relevant to research aims, supporting explorations into socio-economic changes that impact society. With data on individual businesses rather than just aggregated statistics, Growth Flag supports specific targeting and outreach planning.
Our team of experienced analysts and evaluation consultants are on hand to support with the use of Growth Flag for evidencing the impact of your work. We work with teams to provide cohort construction and enrichment, matched comparator analysis, spatial and sector deep dives, local economic performance reports and full research and evaluation outputs.
