About Us

Progressive Clarity is a consulting and research firm that works with progressive clients, ranging from political candidates to nonprofit organizations.

Progressive Clarity's clients all have similar goals, namely:

To assist our clients in meeting these goals we help clients navigate the inherently dynamic, complex, and even chaotic, process of garnering support for their campaigns or issues. We work interactively with our clients to study particular problems of interest and experiment with potential solutions via simulation and econometric modeling before they commit to costly, often irreversible, actions in the field.

Progressive Clarity offers a suite of quantitative services that allow clients to grow in specification and complexity as their needs become more advanced. In the first stage of work with clients, we utilize standard econometric and microtargeting analyses to quickly provide high level insights into business problems. We then progressively, and systematically, apply more sophisticated technologies and methods to provide insights and actionable recommendations with greater flexibility and accuracy.

At the high end, the technologies and methods that Progressive Clarity employ go far beyond what other research and consulting firms can offer. For example, we employ spatial and agent-based technologies to model the individual decision-making processes of each member of the target population, and place these (tens, thousands, or millions of) individuals in their rich simulated environment. We rigorously calibrate each model to diverse streams of historical data, in a process similar to, but more flexible than, traditional econometric estimation. The process is extremely computationally expensive, but provides unparalleled accuracy to our understanding of individual behavior and emergent, system-level dynamics.

We accomplish this by building on the strong foundation of analytic technology already in place, and adding our cutting-edge simulation and optimization tools. For the first step, we employ traditional econometric analysis of the target population, and use GIS and social network analysis tools to understand the spatio-demographic terrain of the project. We then employ our detailed agent-based model of the population in a computational laboratory framework to optimize strategy and estimate the uncertainty surrounding each action. We provide a selection of options for the client to consider alongside their hard-won expertise, for better informed decision-making.