INSIGHTS & PERSPECTIVES

LateriteAI Blog

Exploring the intersection of AI, research, and social impact

Conducting qualitative research at scale

Conducting qualitative research at scale

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

John DiGiacomoNovember 2025
Capturing the human voice in an AI-driven world

Capturing the human voice in an AI-driven world

Accelerating transcription and translation for social research

John DiGiacomoNovember 2025
Uncovering new insights from existing data in the development sector

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)

John DiGiacomoNovember 2025
Our evolving AI journey: Laterite's exploration into generative AI for research

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.

Dimitri StoelingaApril 2025
Intelligent knowledge hubs

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.

John DiGiacomoJuly 2024
What can large language models mean for development research?

What can large language models mean for development research?

The potential of large language models to help development research deliver faster, more targeted insights

Dimitri StoelingaMay 2024
Using Optical Character Recognition to mark student assessments

Using Optical Character Recognition to mark student assessments

How good is good enough? An investigation of acceptable levels of accuracy for OCR models

Oliver BuddMay 2024
How to use Large Language Models to categorize open answers

How to use Large Language Models to categorize open answers

A practical example and tips on how to deploy ChatGPT efficiently

Ilse Peeters SalazarMarch 2024
What if tedious research tasks could be automated?

What if tedious research tasks could be automated?

Dimitri Stoelinga on LateriteAI: tools accelerate time-consuming tasks

Dimitri StoelingaMarch 2023
From paper to data

From paper to data

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

Oliver BuddAugust 2022
Comparing methods to estimate coffee yield

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

Michael KeenanAugust 2019