Package catalogue · secondary to Design your scope
Catalogue cards show what exists. The DIY RFP (Design your scope) is where buyers put full requirements and receive indicative Year 1 pricing. Do not use catalogue ranges as your final number.
IMP drafts. Humans Accept. Nothing client-facing becomes “truth” without a human gate where it matters.
Primary channel · Design your scope
Nine steps (context → outcomes → modules → scale → workflow → data → guardrails → path → contact). Live Year 1 estimate updates as you answer. This is how buyers bypass long RFPs and still get a finance-ready number.
Unify field delivery, MERL indicators, and project finance in one workspace. Stop losing historical capacity when temporary advisors leave.
Interface focus: Delivery · MERL · evaluation workhorse · residual capacity
Pricing posture: Flat Year-1 platform + seats (Viewer free for donor oversight) · Core volume tier — the commercial moat.
3 options · expand for deliverables
People, consent, programmes, activities, milestones, team access, and basic exports — one secure org workspace.
From ~$18k Year 1 (single-org Core workspace + implementation)
Best for Single NGO or programme team getting organised around people and delivery.
Everything in Core, plus results framework, evaluations, learning log, import support, and expanded reports.
From ~$32k Year 1 (Core + MERL modules + setup)
Best for Teams reporting to funders or running formal M&E with results, evaluation, and learning.
IMP MERL for federated / multi-office programmes — shared product, country isolation patterns, HQ roll-up discipline.
From ~$45k Year 1 — MERL product + multi-country configuration
Best for INGOs and regional managers standardising cross-border programmes.
Optional add-ons
How engagements route through IMP — humans own Accept gates.
Evaluation workhorse
TOR → Accept design → inception → field → Auto-eval → pack Accept
Primary moat. Genre kits: ETR multi-country, IRB/pilot, generic eval.
ETR multi-country
ETR playbook + evaluation workbench
Multi-country evaluation with human ownership of access, politics, Accept.
IRB / measurement pilot
IRB playbook (partial legal shell)
Ethics holds and structure — not a full committee legal package.
Day-to-day MERL + Delivery
People → indicators → actuals → learning Acted → residual workspace
Operating system for implementers who need results next to people.
Finance (EMS)
Claims / vendors → approvals → reports (never auto-pays)
Humans own approvals and actual payment outside IMP.
Honest boundaries prevent bad-fit enterprise leads — and protect delivery quality.
For IT risk and procurement officers — evaluation is the moat; Kobo is climbing.
Delivery
8
Strong ops path
MERL
8
Bulk actuals, learning, health
Evaluation (moat)
8–8.5
Core differentiator
Inception depth
8
Max-agent + human-final
Deep specialists
8
Five domains
Guided UX
~9
Coach + playbooks
Finance (EMS)
7–7.5
Real EMS light — not ERP
Kobo
6↑
Connect live; map/sync next
Offline national
4–5
Out of class
Full IRB legal
3–4
Partial by design
Procurement gateway
Brochure · security overview · DPA-ready summary · pilot pack. Not a card form for Track 2–3.
