Built by people who've filed the grant report at 11pm.
Fifteen years inside nonprofit programs and evaluation, much of it spent watching strong organizations struggle to secure or renew funding because they could not clearly demonstrate what their programs achieved.
Instrumento started as a spreadsheet. A very large, very fragile spreadsheet rebuilt for every reporting cycle because each funder wanted the same evidence in a slightly different shape.
Program directors already knew what had changed. They had attendance records, assessments, interviews, and the comments families shared at pickup. What they did not have was several uninterrupted days to reconcile it all — the evidence was there, just scattered across too many files, tools, people, and reporting requirements.
That is the gap Instrumento was built to close: the distance between having evidence and being able to understand, defend, and use it.
Instrumento is AI-native because AI operates across the workflow—not as a chat window added to a dashboard. It helps draft surveys, analyze participant feedback, answer questions about program data, flag claims that need more support, and prepare a first draft of a report — all connected to the organization’s Theory of Change and underlying evidence, with human review remaining part of the process.
The problem was not theoretical.
Diogo Pereira has spent 15 years leading, operating, and evaluating nonprofit programs in the United States and Brazil. Instrumento grew from his experience managing multiple programs, participant data, grant requirements, evaluation frameworks, and funder reporting—often without a dedicated data team.
His work spans nonprofit leadership, program design, impact measurement, fundraising, and the daily operational reality of turning fragmented evidence into decisions that boards, teams, and funders can understand.
“Too often, the organizations doing the strongest work are the least equipped to prove it. That asymmetry shapes who gets funded—and it has very little to do with who is creating more change.”
Organizations running more than one program.
Enough programs, funders, datasets, and reporting cycles that the evidence no longer fits comfortably in a spreadsheet—and nobody whose entire job is data. That gap is the design brief.
Answering to a board and multiple funders with different definitions of success—without a full-time analyst to reconcile them.
Closest to the work and the participants, but spending too much time assembling spreadsheets instead of learning from the evidence.
Responsible for the reports and proposals that influence next year’s funding, often working from multiple disconnected sources.
How we build Instrumento
Traceability by design
Figures and quotations remain connected to their source material. Claims that need additional evidence are flagged for review before they are used in reporting or decisions.
Participant voices are evidence
Qualitative evidence is organized alongside quantitative results to provide a fuller, more defensible account of change.
Configured around your programs
Instrumento is provisioned through guided onboarding so its data model, evidence rules, access controls, and reporting workflows reflect your organization.
Some organizations want an evaluator alongside the software.
Instrumento is designed to produce useful analysis and reporting without requiring a consulting engagement. For organizations that want additional support, we also take on a limited number of advisory projects involving evaluation design, methodology review, reporting strategy, and funder requirements.
Your evidence is already there.
Bring one reporting challenge. We’ll show you how Instrumento can help your team connect the evidence, understand what it means, and put it to work.