Case study · Report-to-app conversion

The world's best research — now accessible to millions

Project

Landmark research, turned from PDF into an explorable app

Approach

Findings become structured data; the app is built around the reader's questions, not the document's chapters

Already live

Demography of Europe · the Draghi Report Tracker

Institutions spend millions on flagship research — competitiveness reviews, demographic studies, evaluations that set the agenda for a political cycle or a generational one. The analysis is world-class. Then nearly all of it is read the same way: a long PDF is skimmed by a handful of specialists, quoted in a few op-eds, and filed away. The findings stay true; they just stop being read, used and communicated.

We convert reports into instruments: apps where a policymaker, journalist, or citizen can explore the evidence themselves instead of trusting a summary. Commission the analysis once; make it legible forever.

The challenge

A report describes a moment, in the shape of a document: hundreds of pages, organized by chapter, fixed on the day it is published. The reader who needs a particular country's numbers or wants to know what's changed since publication has nowhere to go. So the evidence that cost millions to produce reaches a fraction of the people it was meant for and ages the moment it's printed.

When the public doesn't understand the policy, fake news and propaganda flourish. Expert research should also have a strong communication layer.

The static, hard-to-read format of reports is the problem that we fix.

What we built

A repeatable conversion from report to app. The method is the same whatever the source:

The result reaches audiences the PDF never will. Two live examples:

Example 1 — The Draghi Report Tracker

The Draghi report on EU competitiveness runs to hundreds of pages — energy, technology, defence, skills, dozens of dependencies and recommendations that set the agenda for a whole generation. We rebuilt it as a policy dashboard:

A report describes a moment; a tracker keeps score. That difference is what turns last year's landmark study into this year's accountability tool.

The Draghi Report Tracker scorecard: headline proposals and indicators laid out as a status board, tracking what has happened since the report was published.
The Draghi Report Tracker — 18 headline proposals and 177 indicators as a live scorecard: not what the report said, but what has happened since.

Example 2 — Demography of Europe

Eurostat's Demography of Europe – 2026 edition is genuinely extraordinary work: population structure, ageing, migration, marriage, fertility, life expectancy, all rigorously sourced and clearly explained, country by country, year after year. Few statistical offices anywhere produce something this thorough and this well-written. It deserves more readers than the format it's published in tends to reach.

That's because the report spreads its work across dozens of chapters, each with its own separately embedded chart — a scroll and a click at a time. We built an explorable atlas that puts every one of those trajectories on a single screen: an automated pipeline pulls the same Eurostat data, and one interactive map lets anyone compare countries and trace decades of population change without leaving the page.

Because the pipeline is automated, the app doesn't age the way a report does. When the data updates, so does the story.

Demography of Europe app: an interactive map of Europe shaded by a demographic indicator, with a panel for comparing countries and tracing trajectories over time.
Demography of Europe — every country's population trajectory, on one map, built on Eurostat's own data.

Who this is for

Institutions that fund serious research and want it to reach millions of citizens: EU institutions and agencies, international organisations, think tanks, national ministries. If your last flagship report deserved more readers than it got, this service line exists for you.

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