FieldBy Prova.

Field by Prova is Prova’s collaborative evaluation and measurement practice for nonprofits and foundations.

Field makes evaluation-caliber analysis and learning fast and affordable for nonprofits and foundations.

Field uses AI-assisted analysis to read across the program files, reports, data, notes, and relevant studies scattered throughout an organization. A Field principal turns that material into clear answers for the board, funder, or program decision that matters now.

For nonprofit leaders—and foundations giving grantees room to work through questions that matter.

Strategic decisions improve when leaders can see the program files, reports, data, assumptions, and unanswered questions together.

A board meeting, public claim, or program choice can demand a clear answer now. The useful material is usually spread across program files, grant reports, staff notes, data, and years of learning.

Field brings the two sides together.

Inside the work

What the program team knows.

Detailed knowledge built by running the program and working with people every day. It is spread across files, notes, meetings, and the people who carry the work.

Ready to use

What the organization can stand behind.

Clear conclusions tied to sources, with the limits stated plainly enough for a board, funder, partner, or leadership team.

That analysis can strengthen program logic and establish measurement that supports future decisions.

Three focused engagements move from the information you already have, through the assumptions behind the program, into measurement that becomes more useful over time.

01 · Existing material

Claims and Sources Map

See what sits behind the claims you already make—and where the support is thin or missing.

See if it fits

02 · Program logic

Research-Linked Theory of Change

Make the assumptions beneath the program visible, then connect them to relevant research and local learning.

See if it fits

03 · What comes next

Measurement Architecture

Choose measures, workflows, and review points that fit the decisions your team makes and how the program actually runs.

See if it fits

Field can examine more of what your organization already knows.

AI systems developed within Prova help Field read across program files, reports, notes, and relevant research, then connect important conclusions back to their sources.

Field uses those systems to extract, compare, and synthesize information across more of the agreed material. Authored logic structures the analysis around claims, sources, limitations, and measurement, while traceability keeps important conclusions connected to the material behind them.

AI addresses a specific constraint: the time required to read all of this together. Models can miss context and produce confident mistakes, so Field adds professional review and brings the organization’s context into the interpretation. AI performs defined reading and comparison tasks, and a Field principal remains responsible for consequential judgment.

ProvaModel-independent
01

Frontier models

High-volume reading, structured extraction, comparison, and synthesis.

02

Authored domain logic

Field’s structured rules for claims, sources, limitations, and measurement.

03

Senior review

A Field principal brings context, interpretation, and judgment.

04

Source traceability

Important conclusions stay connected to the files, reports, and research behind them.

Result Clear conclusions you can inspect, use, and stand behind.

A Claims and Sources Map shows what the analysis supports and connects each conclusion to its sources.

A Claims and Sources Map puts each claim beside the files, data, and research behind it—and makes the limits clear.

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Illustrative example — not client work

For Nonprofits

Know what you can stand behind.

For nonprofit leaders who need clearer board and public communications, better program decisions, and measurement their teams can maintain.

Field for nonprofits

For Foundations

Give a grantee room to work through a question that matters.

For foundations that want to make senior measurement support available through one defined engagement. The grantee sets the question, selects the materials, and decides what is shared.

Field for foundations

Each Field assignment has a defined scope, decision, and deliverable.

  1. 01

    Start with the deadline and decision

    We clarify the board question, public claim, program choice, or measurement decision that needs an answer.

  2. 02

    Choose the useful materials

    You decide which files, reports, program data, and research belong in the work. Field does not need direct access to your operational systems.

  3. 03

    Read across them, then review

    Field uses AI-assisted analysis for the intensive reading and comparison. A Field principal reviews the analysis and brings your program context into the interpretation.

  4. 04

    Put the answer to work

    You receive clear, source-traceable work built for the decision or measurement choice in front of you.

Bring the decision that needs an answer.

Choose Field and book a twenty-minute scoping call. If the assignment is a fit, Prova will send a written scope within two business days.

Start an assignment