Data, models and tools built around the decisions you actually make
One Design Solutions is an analytics consultancy run by two PhD economists. We build data pipelines and dashboards, do the analysis behind your decisions, and solve the problems that do not fit off-the-shelf software — as a one-off project or on an ongoing basis.
Questions we help answer
Most work starts with a question like one of these. Each ends in something you can use, not just a report.
“If we change this price or fee, how will demand and revenue change, and for whom?”
What you get A pricing or willingness-to-pay study, and a simulator your team can try new prices in.
“If we approve, build or incentivize this, what will it add, what will it cost us, and when?”
What you get A fiscal and economic impact model, with every assumption written down and the result given as a range.
“Can we see and share our key numbers reliably, without hand-built spreadsheets?”
What you get A dashboard, map or regular report built on your own data, which your staff can run.
“What will next quarter look like, and how sure can we be?”
What you get A forecast with its uncertainty stated, kept current on a retainer if you need it every month.
“Did the program, policy or change actually work?”
What you get An evaluation with the method, the evidence and the uncertainty written up, plus the code and data behind it.
“We have more documents than anyone can read. What is in them?”
What you get A pipeline that uses AI to read and sort them at volume, with its output checked before you rely on it.
Three ways to work with us
Data solutions and dashboards
We pull your data together from wherever it lives, clean it, document how it got that way, and put it in front of the people who need it. Open-source, in open formats, and yours to keep running.
See the servicesOngoing analysis
On a retainer we keep your reports, forecasts and dashboards current, answer the questions that come up between them, and act as the senior analysts a growing team does not yet have.
See the servicesBespoke projects
When the problem is new, we design the solution for it: pricing research, demand and impact models, forecasts, evaluations and custom tools. Every project ends in a written recommendation with the uncertainty stated.
Read our approachHow a project runs
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Design the study
We start with the decision you are actually making, and build the study backwards from it.
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Estimate the model
Measured behavior where we can get it, stated preference where we cannot, and honesty about which is which.
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Deliver the tool
Models, maps and dashboards your team keeps running after the engagement ends.
How we work
Assumptions on the table
Every input, its source and its range, written down where you can argue with it.
Quantified uncertainty
A range and a probability, not a single number with false confidence.
AI where it earns its place
Used where it saves real time, checked before it is trusted, and run on your own hardware when the data cannot leave.
Open-source by default
No license required to run, audit or extend what we hand over.
Tools you keep using
Models, maps and dashboards your team can rerun after we leave.
Right-sized pricing
Scoped to fit a business, a department or a project team, not a national budget.
Who you work with
Two PhD economists, and no layer of account managers. Both partners know your account, so the work never waits on one person.
Brian Monroe, Ph.D.
Economist and data scientist
Mark Schneider, Ph.D.
Economist and project lead
Have data you are not getting enough out of?
Tell us what you have, what you need to know and when you need to know it. We will tell you whether we are the right people, and what a first engagement would look like.
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