How does Frontir work in low-bandwidth markets?

The survey runtime is built for low-end Android and intermittent connectivity, so enumerators keep working where traditional research panels can't reach.

What stack powers the Frontir survey platform?

A React and Redux front end across web and mobile, with a PHP and Slim backend for response validation, on AWS.

How is Frontir data quality enforced for resale to corporates and governments?

Server-side response-validation checks keep the data clean enough that insights are packaged and resold to corporates, NGOs and public bodies.

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Retail & commerce · Research platform

Frontir: emerging-markets research.

A mobile survey and market-research platform for African and emerging-market consumer data, sold as insights to corporates, NGOs and governments.

The problem

The challenge.

Traditional research panels do not reach the millions of consumers living in low-bandwidth markets, so brands fly blind outside major metros.
Surveys had to work on low-end Android devices, in intermittent connectivity, in multiple languages, with conditional branching logic.
The platform needed rigorous response validation so insights sold to corporates and NGOs held up to scrutiny.

The plan

Our approach.

Built web and mobile survey experiences in React and Redux with a rules engine for branching and conditional logic.
Designed the runtime for low-end Android and intermittent connectivity so fieldwork keeps moving in low-bandwidth markets.
Added response-validation checks on a PHP and Slim backend so insights hold up to corporate and NGO scrutiny.
Localised the survey runtime for multiple regional languages.

The result

The outcome.

Research clients access representative panels in markets that were previously unreachable.
Fieldwork throughput scales because enumerators keep working through dropped connections.
Data quality is high enough that insights are packaged and resold to corporates, NGOs and public bodies.

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