Why Makerble?

The current situation

Tracking and reporting progress towards skills, outcomes and impact becomes stressful, inaccurate and time-consuming when information is spread across disparate systems, spreadsheets and survey tools.
The result?
- You don’t know whether your programme has been successful until it’s over, when it’s too late to course-correct.

Survey software, CRM databases and Learner Management Systems are not designed to track an individual’s progress over time towards skills, outcomes and impact.

Risk: User Experience matters. When staff use a system for reasons of compliance, they input the bare minimum. This reduces the richness of your impact data and means that you miss out on anecdotes and wider context.

Makerble is a progress optimisation platform. It combines surveys, a CRM database, data analytics, reporting and project management tools so you can take a holistic approach to continuously improving the impact of your work.

What this means in practice:
- Surveys + CRM means you can cross-reference your survey results with demographic data and other information about participants (such as the number of sessions they attend, who referred them, who works with them, etc). This gives you insights into the audiences you achieve the most outcomes for, the hidden groups that require additional attention and underlying trends that would never have come to light unless you brought these datasets together.
- Surveys + Reporting means you can see the outcomes that each survey question relates to so everyone can understand the progress your programme is making towards its theory of change.
- Projects + Reporting means that the tasks in people’s workloads appear alongside related outcomes and strategic objectives. This helps staff understand why priorities might be shifting.
- Projects + CRM means you can easily collaborate with external partners to achieve outcomes for each participant. Delegate tasks related to a specific case or even a particular outcome relating to a single client.

At Makerble our mission is to enable organisations to Change the world faster.
We understand that impact reporting is sometimes a secondary priority to programme delivery and that’s why the platform contains quick-wins that enable you to gradually improve the way you measure your impact.
Makerble is designed to help your staff find insights in your impact data that help you improve programme delivery and ultimately, accelerate your impact.

It’s interesting how we only think about impact when it comes to reporting, when in fact the one thing most people want out of their work everyday is the feeling that they had an impact.
At Makerble we’re bringing the humanity of how people feel about making a difference, to the design of the systems they use day to day. That’s why our design philosophy of Playful Sophistication manifests itself in these ways:
- Democratising impact data: We continue to make it easier for organisations to get started on their impact reporting journey. That’s why we have the Surveys Store that contains outcome assessments that you can add to your project(s) in a couple of clicks.
- Intuitive user experience: Makerble is intentionally designed to look and feel like a social media platform. It means that your users find it inviting, familiar and easy to use. As such, they put richer information into it which results in your organisation having a wealth of content and data from which you can spot insights and tell your story.