Published case studies

Why there is only one

Earlier engagements were not documented at the time to a standard that survives scrutiny: no captured baselines, no recorded measurement methods, no written permissions. Reconstructing those retrospectively is not possible, and inventing them is not an option.

Publishing aggregate client counts and efficiency percentages without the evidence behind them is exactly what this rebuild removed. Those claims are listed as unverified on the credentials page.

Engagements from this point are documented as they run. One honest case study is worth more than a page of unfalsifiable numbers.

The fourteen-field template

Every case study here answers all fourteen. Where a field cannot be answered, the case study says so; an unanswerable field is information too.

  • Client and permission status

    Named where permitted, with the permission position stated explicitly.

  • Context

    The organization, its scale, and the situation the work sat in.

  • Baseline

    What was measured before anything changed. If nothing was, that is recorded.

  • Problem

    The specific operational problem, not a general aspiration.

  • Constraints

    Deadline, budget, capacity, data, and policy limits that shaped the approach.

  • Intervention

    What was actually built or changed.

  • Human oversight

    Who reviewed what, and at which point output could take effect.

  • Systems and tools

    What was used, at the level of detail the client permits.

  • Measured results

    Outcomes, each labeled measured, estimated, client-reported, or modeled.

  • Measurement method

    How the result was arrived at. Without this, a result is an assertion.

  • Attribution and limitations

    What can and cannot be credited to the intervention, and what else was going on.

  • Client quotation

    In the client's own words, used only with permission.

  • Date and current status

    When it ran, and whether the workflow is still in use.

  • Related expertise and service

    Where to read more, and where the commercial equivalent lives.

Principle

A case study without a measurement method is an advertisement. The method is what allows a reader to disagree with the conclusion, which is what makes agreeing with it worth anything.

On attribution

The strongest temptation in a case study is to let a sequence of events imply a cause. A client used AI-assisted workflows, then secured funding; writing both facts next to each other invites the reader to connect them.

That connection is not evidence. The specification governing this rebuild is explicit on the point: do not imply that AI caused funding approval when the evidence only shows that AI-assisted production helped the client complete materials. Funding decisions turn on the merit of a proposal, the relationship, the funder's priorities, and timing.

So each case study separates what was done, what was observed, and what can be credited, and states the third conservatively.

Client permission

No client is named, quoted, or identified by inference without permission. Where a client prefers not to be named, the engagement can still be documented with the organization described by sector and scale.

Where permission is pending rather than granted, the case study says so at the top. That is the current position for the TLE Foundation study: the underlying facts are supportable and the wording is the approved form, but written consent for attributed use has not yet been recorded.

Logos are not displayed without written permission for that specific use. Generic logo bars are a credibility risk, and unapproved client logos are not published here.

Frequently asked questions

Why not include more examples, even briefly?

Because a brief example with no baseline, method, or permission is the thing this site is built to avoid. A list of client names and impressive-sounding outcomes reads well and tells a reader nothing they can check.

The list will grow as engagements are documented properly from the start.

Can I contact the client to verify?

Where permission has been granted for a reference conversation, yes. Ask via contact and it can be arranged with the client's agreement.

Contacting a named client directly without that arrangement is not something this site invites, out of respect for their time.

What if my organization does not want to be named?

That is entirely normal and easily handled. An engagement can be documented as, for example, “a Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit of roughly thirty staff” with the substance intact.

Naming is never a condition of the work, and no engagement is documented publicly without agreement.

Author:
Martin Zialcita
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