The Optics Suite

Six tools, one practice.

MERLx's open AI tooling for monitoring, evaluation, research and early warning. Each tool is small, opinionated, and built to interoperate with the data systems your programme already runs.

Browse the portfolio · 6 tools

IIRIS

Information risk intelligence.

◐ BETA
PPRISM

Compound risk and forecasting.

◐ BETA
AAperture

Satellite analysis for non-specialists.

◐ BETA
TToC Tester

Theory of change, run as a simulation.

◐ BETA
OOASIS

Where to go first, ranked.

● LIVE
EECHO

Offline-first AI for field interviews.

◐ BETA

Three analytical domains

Information, terrain, compound risk.

Optics tools cover three analytical domains. Alongside those, three delivery tools turn analysis into programme decisions. When a question needs a bespoke component, we build it.

INFORMATION

What is the discourse doing?

Hate speech, disinformation and violent-extremism narratives across social media. Multilingual classifiers and an analyst chat for triage.

IRIS

TERRAIN

What is changing on the ground?

Earth observation for non-specialists. NDVI, surface water, settlement expansion, radar backscatter and active fires, abstracted to a click-and-go interface.

Aperture

COMPOUND RISK

Where is the system tilting?

Conflict, socioeconomic, environmental, health and coping-capacity data on a single spatial grid, with cell-level forecasts and narrative summaries.

PRISM

DELIVERY

How do you turn analysis into decisions?

Theory-of-change simulation, recovery mapping, and on-device KII assistance — the tools that move analytical insight into programme decisions.

ToC Tester · OASIS · ECHO