Advisory Services

Expert guidance, grounded in practice.

Our advisory team has spent 15+ years building impact systems for organisations across sectors. We bring that experience directly to your organisation, helping you design frameworks, assess evidence, and embed impact reporting as a lasting strategic asset.

Why Advisory

Impact measurement is hard. We've spent 15 years getting it right.

Most organisations know their work matters, but struggle to prove it in a way that satisfies funders, boards, or investors. Off-the-shelf frameworks don’t fit. Internal teams lack bandwidth. And when assessment deadlines arrive, everything becomes a scramble.

 

Hivve’s advisory team works alongside your organisation to build the frameworks, processes, and evidence base you need, shaped around your context, not a generic template. And because our advisory methodology is the same one built into the Hivve platform, everything we build together can scale with you.

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Our Advisory Services

Four ways we work with your organisation

From building your first impact framework to preparing for a major assessment — our advisory team meets you where you are.

Service 01

Impact Framework Development

Build a credible impact framework — aligned to your purpose and your reporting.

 

We develop evidence-based impact frameworks and performance indicators that are flexible enough for your portfolio to report on meaningfully — meeting the expectations of boards, funders, investors, and accreditation bodies, not just internal teams.

Service 02

Impact Measurement & Reporting

Impact reporting that holds up to board, funder, and investor scrutiny.

 

We design measurement systems and produce annual impact reports structured for real decisions — board reviews, annual reports, impact assessment submissions, research centre reporting, and grant reporting. Clear, credible, and ready to stand up to scrutiny.

Service 03

Impact Assessments

Independent impact assessments — rigorous, evidence-led, defensible.

 

Our experts have helped hundreds of academics and dozens of institutions benchmark their performance against best practices. We have experience supporting over four major research assessment exercises — REF 2014 and 2021, currently supporting REF 2029, and RAE 2020 and 2026 in Hong Kong.

Service 04

Capability & Training

Impact measurement training that builds real, lasting capability.

 

Facilitated workshops, team training, and coaching to build internal confidence and capability — so impact measurement becomes part of your business as usual.

Working with us

We work alongside you, not just for you.

Most advisory engagements end with a document. Ours end with a working system. The frameworks we develop flow directly into your processes and the Hivve platform, so your impact practice becomes part of how you operate — not something filed away after the project closes.

Our differences

What sets our advisory apart

Every engagement follows the same four-stage approach — structured enough to be rigorous, flexible enough to fit your context.

Forged in real assessment performance, not theory

Our methodology didn’t come from theory — it was developed from our successes to strengthen impact performance in government assessment exercises. Having supported nearly 1,000 impact case studies across sectors, geographies, and impact types, we know what drives measurable, credible impact in practice.

Trusted at global scale

Drawing on our experience and impact reporting methodology, we developed the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings — the world’s most widely used institutional ranking, trusted by 2,500+ universities and organisations worldwide.

Advisory that embeds, not exits

Most advisory engagements end with a document. Ours end with a working system. The frameworks we develop flow directly into your processes and the Hivve platform, so your impact practice becomes part of how you operate — not something filed away after the project closes.

Rigorous approach, tailored to your context

We build for organisations doing real work at real scale and complexity. Our approach is rigorous enough to satisfy the toughest scrutiny and proportionate enough to be practical and feasible to sustain.
How We Work

A clear process, from first conversation to lasting impact

Every engagement follows the same four-stage approach — structured enough to be rigorous, flexible enough to fit your context.

01

Discovery

We start by understanding your context, goals, and the audiences whose confidence you need to earn.
02

Design

We co-develop a framework or assessment approach that is genuinely suited to your work — not a generic template.
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Deliver

We work alongside your team to collect evidence, produce outputs, and build the capability to sustain it independently.
04

Embed

Frameworks and workflows transfer into the Hivve platform — so the engagement becomes lasting practice, not a one-off project.
Start with advisory. Scale with the platform.

Many of our most successful clients start with advisory.

They build their framework and measurement approach with our team, then migrate to the Hivve platform to manage, track, and report at scale. There’s no gap between how we work in advisory and how the platform is built — they use the same methodology.

Framework & measurement design

Our team develops your theory of change, indicators, and reporting requirements — shaped around your context, not a generic template.

Evidence collection & reporting

We implement a measurement system, support evidence collection, and produce impact reports that funders and investors can rely on.

Transfer to Impact Tracker

Your framework transfers directly into Impact Tracker. The same methodology, now embedded in software — so your team can manage, track, and report at scale over time.

Not sure where to start?

Tell us about your organisation and where you are in your impact journey. We’ll recommend the right starting point.

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