About

Designing, delivering and supporting data initiatives since 2015

Over that time, we've worked across the full life of data initiatives — from early research and policy development to technical delivery, adoption and long-term support.

A multidisciplinary team, built around the work

Our team brings together expertise in research, strategy, policy, design, data and technology.

That allows us to work across the full shape of a challenge — from the people, organisations and policies involved to the data, systems and services that support them.

Bringing those perspectives together from the start helps us see how decisions in one part of the work affect another, and carry that understanding through into what we design, build and maintain.

Our team

Our team combines specialist expertise with experience of helping data initiatives develop over time.

Worker-owned since 2015

ODS is a worker co-operative.

The people doing the work share responsibility for how we run the organisation, where we invest, and the standards we set for ourselves.

That shapes a collaborative culture, with responsibility shared across the co-operative, and decisions grounded in what will work in practice.

Where we can, we make our code, methods, and learning open for others to use and build on.