Research · Evidence · Impact
Mtafiti Analytics transcribes, translates and analyses interviews, focus groups and other qualitative data in Swahili and English: themes, verbatim quotes and valence in one private workspace. Processed in Tanzania, or on your own servers.
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The workflow
01 · Capture & transcribe
02 · Code & theme
03 · Feel the data
04 · See what matters
05 · Act on it
06 · Design your instruments
Capabilities
Separates who said what across interviews and focus groups.
Transcription and faithful translation for real code-switching.
Emergent and pre-defined codes grouped into themes, each with its quotes.
Per-quote sentiment and a feeling-by-prevalence map of every theme.
Themes ranked and classified against your study objectives.
Track how themes shift across baseline, midline and endline.
Compare findings by group, gender, region, role, branch and more.
Design or import surveys; export to XLSForm, REDCap, Kobo and ODK.
Word reports with a methods appendix, Excel code books and charts.
Use cases
Interviews for master's and PhD research, coded and quoted to the standard supervisors expect.
Client, staff and stakeholder interviews: banking, mobile money, insurance, CSR and strategy.
Patient, provider and community interviews, needs assessments and implementation research.
Baseline, midline and endline studies, focus groups and beneficiary feedback.
Stakeholder consultations and desk reviews, compared against what people report in the field.
Product feedback, user interviews and open-ended survey answers, turned into themes you can act on.
Why Mtafiti
Swahili-first transcription and translation, tuned for code-switching and Tanzanian fieldwork, not an afterthought.
Every step runs on our own machines in Tanzania, or on your institution's servers. Sensitive interviews are never sent to an outside AI service.
Mtafiti drafts the codes, themes and quotes. You review, merge and decide, with every finding traceable to its evidence.
Deployment
Hosted by Mtafiti
Upload from any browser and get results without setting anything up. All processing happens on our own machines in Tanzania; nothing is sent to a third-party AI service or data centre.
On your own infrastructure
Mtafiti installed on your servers, inside your network. Recordings and transcripts never leave your institution, which suits ethics boards, data-protection rules and confidential work.
Yes. Transcription and translation are built for Swahili fieldwork, including speakers who switch between Swahili and English mid-sentence. Every transcript is kept in both languages, and the analysis runs on the English translation.
All data is processed within Tanzania. Transcription, translation and analysis run on Mtafiti's own machines; your recordings and transcripts are not sent to a third-party AI service or data centre.
Yes. For institutions that need complete control of their data, Mtafiti can be installed on your own infrastructure, so recordings and transcripts never leave your network. We advise on the hardware and set it up with your IT team.
Any qualitative data: academic theses and dissertations, health and social research, monitoring and evaluation, policy work, and business, finance and customer research such as interviews with clients, staff or users of financial services.
Interview and focus-group audio (MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, AAC) or existing transcripts (Word, PDF or text). Policy documents and literature can be added as reference material for the analysis.
No. Mtafiti does the slow work of transcribing, translating and drafting codes, themes and quotes. You review, merge and decide, and every theme links back to the exact quotes behind it.
Word reports with a methods appendix, Excel code books and downloadable charts. Questionnaires export to XLSForm, REDCap, KoboToolbox and ODK.
Message or call +255 686 997 146 (WhatsApp or a normal call). We will walk you through a demo and send a quote for your study.
Pricing depends on the size of the study and on whether Mtafiti is hosted by us or installed on your servers. Ask us for a quote on WhatsApp or by email.
The company
Mtafiti Analytics is a product of ISS Company Limited, a Tanzanian technology company. We built it to remove the biggest bottlenecks in rigorous research: the hours lost to manual transcription, translation and coding.
Our tools respect the realities of field research in East Africa: local languages, limited bandwidth, sensitive data and the high bar of academic, business and policy work, so more of your time goes to insight, not admin.
