Bricolage is a research and development consultancy offering bespoke services in the area of Text Analytics (TA) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), and related software design and testing. We specialise in the use of operational and administrative data for research and use in areas such as policy assessment, intelligence analysis, decision making, and outcome prediction. We build bespoke industry specific ontologies and taxonomies for NLP and Machine Learning (ML) routines. Working with partners, we develop software solutions for automating data collection, reporting, and analysis tasks, and for extracting data from complex formats and structures. Detail of services offered: • Practical software tool assessment and testing • Software trial design and implementation (including development of assessment software) • Development of scoring methods and systems to assess data extraction accuracy • Development of bespoke industry specific ontologies, taxonomies and schema • Implementation of 4D ontologies (HQDM) • Extraction of financial and technical data from tables, forms, figures and diagrams. • Developing functional specifications • Research design and implementation • Data Preparation and Analysis • Project Management • Integrating large and diverse datasets for combined qualitative and quantitative analyses • Designing and implementing data collection and analysis strategies and models Recent clients have included: • Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (North Carolina State University) • Elemendar Ltd • National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) • Defence and Security Accelerator (UK Ministry of Defence (MOD)) • Amnesty International (pro bono) • DataKind (pro bono) • Newman Spurr Consultancy (NSC) • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) • MOD (ACDS Logistic Operations)