Start with a simple tool
One organisation, one job done well. Assembled from proven building blocks in weeks, customised to your exact reporting and operational needs, and owned outright, with room to grow when you are ready.
SBG · Kustawi · Hatua
A billion people are off the record. Datastake wires them in.
The people closest to the ground know what is happening first. Datastake designs, builds and maintains the client-owned systems that turn that knowledge into trusted evidence. Local actors keep control of what they record; banks, buyers and funders get first-hand, cross-checked data they can act on. Call it inclusive digitisation.
No brief required. Plain words about your daily work are enough to start.
The problem
Reliable data is missing where it matters most.
01
Hard to reach
In low-governance regions, information means sending experts on costly site visits. It is slow, expensive, and out of date by the time it is written up.
02
Locked in silos
Several organisations often hold information on the same mine, village, or trader, in files that never connect. The effort is duplicated; the picture stays incomplete.
03
Unrewarded
The people closest to the ground rarely benefit from what they know. So they have little reason to record it, and their reality stays invisible.
Start where you are
Turn the outcome of your daily work into trusted data.
Paper registers and field notebooks, spreadsheets that never connect, single-purpose tools that do not talk to each other: that is a system, and it works because you make it work. Datastake rebuilds it as software you own, so it captures more, loses nothing, and proves what you know.
How it stacks
One system, built in three layers.
- 01
Capture at the source
What happens in the field is recorded where it happens. Paper registers, notebooks and spreadsheets become structured digital records from day one.
- 02
Connect and cross-check
Records that used to live in disconnected tools confirm each other. One consistent history builds up, owned by the people who produce it.
- 03
Prove it to anyone
The stack becomes evidence a lender, buyer or funder can act on, shared on the owners' terms.
What a system does
Say it the way you would say it.
Pick the sentence that sounds like your week. The board lights up with what a Datastake system does about it, and names a live system already doing it.
Capture once, step by step, in your own language. The record files itself, and every report that needs it draws on the same source.
Nashiriki's monitors file incidents, grievances and field observations this way today.
Three ways in
Start with a single tool, or commission a whole ecosystem.
Whichever door you take, you own what gets built. Datastake maintains it with you as it grows; ownership means you are never trapped, not that you have to become a technology company.
Add an app inside an ecosystem
Go through an ecosystem's owner and add the application your mandate needs. You inherit the infrastructure, the standards and the participants from day one, and what you build stays interoperable with everything around it.
Nashiriki · KOTA
Commission a whole ecosystem
Commission the digital backbone for your whole value chain. You choose who joins, you set the rules and the course; Datastake is the infrastructure partner at your side. WAZI and Straatos run this way, owned by the experts who commissioned them.
WAZI · Straatos
Built to evolve at AI pace
In an AI world, the hard part is not typing code. It is designing secure, fully customisable digital systems that can scale, evolve and interoperate in places where software usually breaks. Datastake builds on a configurable framework and agentic workflows, under human supervision, so new systems stand up fast and keep improving after launch. The team that builds the system can keep maintaining it, and every improvement to the framework strengthens every app.
How it works
Proof
Backed where it counts: on the systems.
Not a logo wall. Each backer is attached to the live system it stands behind.
European Partnership for Responsible MineralsTrust Merchant BankSwiss Better Gold AssociationThe Impact Facility · Fairphone · Alliance for Responsible MiningUN WomenGold Standard · WeForestJustice Plus · HIVEThe Impact FacilityUSAID / Global Communities · Fair Cobalt Alliance
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- European Partnership for Responsible MineralsCore technology · Oreka · funder since 2019
- Trust Merchant BankKOTA · founding bank
- Swiss Better Gold AssociationSBG · owner-operator
- The Impact Facility · Fairphone · Alliance for Responsible MiningOreka · consortium
- UN WomenTazama · funder
- Gold Standard · WeForestStraatos · pilot partners
- Justice Plus · HIVENashiriki · co-creators
- The Impact FacilityKustawi · owner
- USAID / Global Communities · Fair Cobalt AllianceProgramme partners
An award from the ground up
IFEDD, a women-led organisation in eastern DR Congo, won the ILO's SDG 8.7 Innovation Challenge for child-labour risk management run on a Datastake system.
Recognised at scale
The ASM Progress App, built by the Alliance for Responsible Mining on Datastake infrastructure, was a finalist for a $1M challenge to reduce the impact of artisanal gold mining in the Amazon.
A decade of backing
The European Partnership for Responsible Minerals has funded the core technology since 2019, and shortlisted Datastake for its 2026 scaling round.
Show how your work runs today.
Describe how the work actually happens, in plain words. You will get a clear view of what is worth digitising first, even if the answer is not Datastake.
