Before data collection begins
- What the design can describe, compare, or credibly attribute to the program.
- The assumptions and risks that could change those conclusions.
- What would need to change before stronger conclusions were possible.
Independent review
Get an independent view of what an evaluation, analysis, report, or important claim can actually support.
Prova provides a signed professional judgment explaining which conclusions the work supports, where its limits are, and what remains uncertain.
Prova reviews the work. Your organization remains responsible for what to do with the finding.
Design or existing work
What needs an independent review?
Choose the review
Choose the review
What needs an independent review?
An existing evaluation design
Question, protocol, measures, sample, comparison, analysis plan, and implementation conditions.
Design ReviewAn existing claim or body of evidence
The claim, materials used, source locations, method, other plausible explanations, and limits.
Evidence ReviewCan Prova remain separate from building or substantially improving what it will judge?
Independence starts with how the review is set up
The reviewer must be free to reach an unfavorable conclusion.
The relevant questions are who created the work, who chose the review question and standard, which materials the reviewer may use, who benefits from the result, who signs the finding, and who makes the final decision.
What is reviewed → How independence is protected → What Prova concludes → What the client decides
01What is reviewed
The design, claim, conclusion, or set of materials is defined.
02How independence is protected
The question, standard, fee, materials, conflicts, and sharing rules are fixed.
03What Prova concludes
A named Prova professional owns and signs the conclusion.
04What the client decides
The client remains responsible for what to do with the finding.
What Prova will not do
Prova will not help create or substantially revise the work and then present its review as independent.
Prova can still help improve the work, but that help cannot later be presented as an independent review.
What the review can state
A signed review showing the conclusion, the materials behind it, the assumptions that matter, and the limits of what can be said.
Before a claim is used
- What the agreed materials support and what they only suggest.
- Which definitions, populations, periods, comparisons, and other plausible explanations matter.
- What additional material could change the conclusion.
AI-assisted review
AI may expand the amount of material a reviewer can inspect. It does not own the finding.
Within Prova's proprietary evidence systems, frontier AI can help Prova search, extract, compare, group, and trace information within the materials agreed for the review. A Prova professional checks the sources behind any important finding and signs the conclusion.
A practical first step
Start by agreeing on what Prova will review.
The first conversation clarifies the question, materials, standard, timing, and independence requirements. It is not the review itself, and no files are needed yet.
Discuss an independent review