DataSage

DataSage helps management teams answer the analytical questions that change a decision. Clients have included growth-stage businesses, banks, governments, and multilateral institutions; the unifying thread is a problem where the right analysis materially affects the outcome.
The work falls across three practice areas:

1. Strategic advisory and thought partnership — helping leadership use data to sharpen commercial and operational choices.

2. Research and analysis — producing reports, for internal use or external publication, that synthesise evidence into clear positions.

3. Predictive modelling — building and maintaining credit risk scorecards, customer retention models, and other applied machine-learning systems.

Selected experience from across the team includes:

1. Credit risk modelling for Capitec Bank, South Africa's second-largest retail bank, across a portfolio of more than eight million clients.

2. The target-market analysis underpinning the United Nations Capital Development Fund's Making Access Possible diagnostics in four countries — work that fed into national financial inclusion strategies still in force today.

3. Predictive models supporting real-time property acquisition decisions for US-based investors, and a gravity model identifying export opportunities from product-level global trade data. The latter formed the statistical foundation of South Africa's National Export Strategy, adopted by the Department of Trade and Industry.

Beyond these engagements, DataSage has delivered a range of smaller mandates — all built on the same premise: that the right data, properly interpreted, sharpens any decision worth making.