What We Do
Services
Flagship engagements with defined scope, deliverables, and leads — plus ongoing retainers for the work that doesn't end at delivery.
Flagship Services
Metadata Infrastructure Health Check
Measure metadata quality, improve identifier integrity, review crosswalk use cases, then fix the catalogues in bulk, not one record at a time.
Lead: Sara. Indicative: Basic 6 to 10 weeks; Advanced 12 to 20 weeks. From €10k.
Read more →PID Strategy & Implementation
From first identifier decisions through minting integration to coverage reporting — DOI, ORCID, ROR, IGSN, Handle, ARK.
Lead: Joint, Sara and Li. Indicative: Basic 8 to 12 weeks; Advanced 14 to 24 weeks. €20k to €60k.
Read more →Knowledge Graph Blueprint
Turn a flat catalogue into a semantic layer that answers connected questions and machines can traverse.
Lead: Sara. Indicative: Basic 12 to 20 weeks; Advanced 20 to 32 weeks. €40k to €120k; FDO variant €15k to €30k.
Read more →User Research for Scholarly Tools
Find out how researchers actually use your tools, and turn that into concrete interface and workflow fixes.
Lead: Li, with Sara on metadata capture. Indicative: Basic 6 to 10 weeks; Advanced 12 to 20 weeks. €8k to €25k.
Read more →Retainers
See all retainers in detail →Strategic Advisory & Roadmapping
Infrastructure strategy and grant-writing support as an extension of your team — from call analysis to the full technical narrative and budget.
€2–5k/month as a retainer, or scoped per engagement for discrete proposal-writing.
Consortium & Grant Programme Office
The operational spine for a funded project — deliverable tracking, partner coordination, and funder reporting, reporting to the PI.
€3–8k/month, typically 6–24 months aligned to the grant cycle.
PID Adoption Monitoring & Impact
A monitoring pipeline that answers one question: are your PIDs actually being adopted, and where does the bottleneck sit?
€2–5k/month as a retainer, including the initial audit and pipeline setup.
We also do
- —Training & workshops
- —Policy & governance drafting
- —Data curation & AI readiness
- —Developer experience & implementation support
- —Analytics & impact reporting on PID-rich metadata
- —RDM assessments, ELN/LIMS selection advice
Ready to make your metadata infrastructure work?
Start with a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll understand your challenges and outline how we can help.