INSIGHTS & PERSPECTIVES
LateriteAI Blog
Exploring the intersection of AI, research, and social impact

Conducting qualitative research at scale
Using AI to accelerate time-consuming aspects of qualitative research to do more

Capturing the human voice in an AI-driven world
Accelerating transcription and translation for social research

Uncovering new insights from existing data in the development sector
An opportunity for the social impact sector to innovate with knowledge graphs and retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG)

Our evolving AI journey: Laterite's exploration into generative AI for research
How Laterite has been exploring and implementing generative AI solutions for research since 2021.

Intelligent knowledge hubs
Laterite is building AI-powered intelligent knowledge hubs– a transformative new approach to curate and manage knowledge in the social impact sector.

What can large language models mean for development research?
The potential of large language models to help development research deliver faster, more targeted insights

Using Optical Character Recognition to mark student assessments
How good is good enough? An investigation of acceptable levels of accuracy for OCR models

How to use Large Language Models to categorize open answers
A practical example and tips on how to deploy ChatGPT efficiently

What if tedious research tasks could be automated?
Dimitri Stoelinga on LateriteAI: tools accelerate time-consuming tasks

From paper to data
Optical character recognition technology to support decision-making in development contexts

Comparing methods to estimate coffee yield
Laterite collaborator Michael Keenan outlines the challenges to coffee yield measurement, and makes the case for the use of farmer recall in Central Kenya