How a cohort works
9–20 Nov 2026 · the sprint
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Ollie
- Non-fellow co-founders get low-quality photos.
- The CEO picks which one.
- They are not displayed on the main page alongside the fellow co-founders.
- Their page says absolutely nothing about their career or their achievements.
- We allow them to tag some of their work.
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What came out of cohort one
03 PROJECTSProject 01 · cohort one
Integrate UK
FormLens reads handwritten forms — refugee applications and programme evaluation forms alike — produces a digital copy from a template, and generates the report at the end of it.
Not enough refugee applications were getting processed. Every form arrived on paper, filled in by hand, and had to be re-typed before anything could happen with it — so the bottleneck sat on the staff, not on demand.
Five one-hour sessions with the team to find where the hours actually went. The answer was transcription, not decision-making — which is exactly the kind of work a machine should be doing.
A handwritten form goes in as a photo or a scan. No special equipment, no re-typing.
The fields are read and dropped into the charity's own digital template, ready for a human to check.
The report that used to be written by hand at the end is generated from the same data — every number counted in code, not guessed at by a model, so the totals are exact and reproducible.
“Quote from Integrate UK goes here — one or two sentences on what changed for the team.”
NAME, ROLE — INTEGRATE UK
SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERTS
Nachiketa Thakur · Rhianna Thomas
Project 02 · cohort one
Nxt Ladder Up
Whistle is an events page where children — and the adults who bring them — can find and register for sporting events near them.
Not enough children were turning up to the events. The programme worked; the problem was that the families who would benefit most had no straightforward way to find out an event was happening and say they were coming.
Five sessions with the team traced attendance back to the moment of discovery. Nothing about the events needed changing — the gap was between hearing about one and registering for it.
Events listed by area, so a parent can see what is happening near them without asking anyone.
Sign a child up in a few taps, on a phone, without an account or a phone call.
The charity sees who is coming and which volunteers are covering each event, in one place.
Whistle, in use
DEMO · NXT LADDER UPRECORDED BY CHARLOTTE · SOUND ON
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SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERT
Jamie Lunnon
Project 03 · cohort one
Charterpath
Attest lets volunteer accountants carry out independent examinations of a charity’s financial health more quickly and more easily.
Not enough independent examinations were being completed. The volunteers were willing and qualified; each examination simply took more of their evenings than it needed to, and the supply of evenings is finite.
Five sessions walking through a real examination end to end. Most of the effort was in chasing documents and re-checking the same figures — work the volunteers had not trained for and would happily hand over.
The charity uploads what the examiner needs once, instead of answering the same questions by email.
A guided workflow keeps the checks in order and flags the figures that do not reconcile.
The examiner’s report draws on the work already done, rather than being written from scratch.
“Quote from Charterpath goes here — one or two sentences on what changed for the team.”
NAME, ROLE — CHARTERPATH
SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERTS
Alice Clementis · Andy Moore
COHORT TWO — REGISTER INTEREST
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That's what you develop on the sprint.
THE NEXT SPRINT
9–20 November. Five one-hour sessions, scheduled around you.
Selected sprinters continue into a paid fellowship across December and January.
That's with us.
We'll come back to you within a week. In the meantime, the three tools already in the field are worth a look.