The team behind the platform

The places we work are studied constantly, but slowly. We know, because we’ve run research for institutional clients there for over a decade: projects turn around in months or quarters, and even the best-run survey is stale by the time its results reach a decision. Tebini is what we built so that doesn’t have to happen. The panel, the media read, and the coding stand ready: survey-scale answers in people’s own words take hours, not months.

01The founders

Alex Moler

Co-founder · Technical lead

Thirteen years of research and evaluation in conflict-affected environments across more than 20 countries, including long deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan and Somalia. Previously Technical Director at Kurdistan Consulting and Research Director at YouGov Special Projects Iraq.

MSc Security Studies, UCL

The field organization

The operation on the ground

Behind the platform is a field command across the Kurdistan Region, Federal Iraq and Syria that gets panels built and waves fielded:

·50 trained recruiters mobilized to stand up the Kurdistan panel, door to door

·Enumerator teams with standing logistics in the markets we serve

·Native-language reviewers who gate every language before it goes live

·Adjudicators who set the human standard the coding is scored against

02The experience behind it

We know how to run real research at scale.

60,000+

face-to-face surveys and 500 focus groups a year: the scale of program the team has delivered.

National research programs

Tracking programs fielding tens of thousands of interviews a year.

Third-party monitoring

Independent verification across all of Iraq, where program staff could not go.

More than 20 countries

Research in conflict-affected and insecure settings.

Work that survives scrutiny

Written for a donor annex or a minister’s brief.

See it working