A letter from the team
Why we built Premium, and why the free stuff stays free
Hi there,
If you are reading this, you probably already know ImpactMojo. Maybe you have worked through one of our courses on Theory of Change or Programme Evaluation. Maybe you have used our labs to clean a messy dataset at midnight before a donor review. Maybe you found one of our handouts genuinely useful during a field training.
Everything you have used so far is staying free. All of it. The 11 flagship courses, the 38 foundational courses, every lab, every game, every handout. We built ImpactMojo because development education in South Asia is expensive, fragmented, and often disconnected from the reality of the work. That mission has not changed.
But over the past year, we kept hearing the same thing from practitioners: "This is great for learning the concepts. But I need something that helps me do the work faster."
A programme officer in Rajasthan who needed to transcribe 12 Hindi interviews before a mid-term review. A researcher in Dhaka trying to convert Stata code to R because her new organisation used a different stack. An M&E lead in Colombo who wanted realistic practice datasets so her team could train on data analysis without waiting for actual project data.
These are not learning problems. They are workflow problems. And they are the kind of problems where the right tool saves you hours, not minutes.
That is why we built Premium.
What you get
- Research Question Builder Pro -- Go from a vague idea to a well-structured research question with guided frameworks. What used to take a week of back-and-forth with your supervisor, done in an afternoon.
- Theory of Change Workbench Pro -- Build, test, and iterate on your ToC with structured prompts and assumption-checking. Export a presentation-ready version in minutes.
- WhatsApp Professional Learning Community -- A small, active group of practitioners sharing field insights, asking questions, and reviewing each other's work. Not a broadcast list. A real community.
- Field Notes from a Development Economist -- Raw, unfiltered observations from fieldwork across South Asia. The kind of insight that does not make it into journal papers but shapes how you think about programme design.
- VaniScribe AI -- Transcribe interviews and focus groups in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, and 10+ South Asian languages. A 45-minute Hindi interview transcribed in about 3 minutes. No more spending entire weekends on transcription.
- Qualitative Insights Lab Pro -- Automated coding suggestions, theme mapping, and cross-case analysis for qualitative data. What takes a research assistant two weeks, you can do in two days.
- Statistical Code Converter Pro -- Convert analysis scripts between Stata, R, SPSS, and Python with context-aware translation. When your new organisation uses a different tool and you have 40 do-files to migrate, this pays for itself on day one.
- DevData Practice -- 840,000+ rows of realistic development datasets spanning health, education, livelihoods, and governance. Train your team on data analysis without waiting for actual project data or worrying about confidentiality.
- Visualization Cookbook & DevEconomics Toolkit -- Ready-to-use chart templates and economic analysis tools built specifically for development reporting. Stop reinventing the same bar chart for every quarterly report.
- 7 Workshop Pro Templates -- Theory of Change, Logframe, Chart Selector, Stakeholder Mapping, Empathy Canvas, Policy Canvas, and AI Canvas. Each one field-tested, ready for your next facilitation session.
- Live Case Challenges -- Real-world scenarios drawn from actual development programmes. Work through them solo or with your team to sharpen your analytical skills.
- Priority Coaching & Mentoring -- Direct access to experienced development practitioners for feedback on your research design, M&E framework, or career questions. Response within 48 hours.
The honest truth
We thought hard about pricing. A lot of platforms charge $50-100/month for tools like these, which prices out most practitioners in South Asia entirely. That defeats the purpose.
The Practitioner tier is about $5 a month. The Professional tier is about $12. If you pay annually, you get two months free. We are not trying to build a profit engine. We are trying to cover the server costs for VaniScribe's transcription pipeline, the compute for DevData Practice, and the time our coaches and mentors invest in your questions.
Here is what will never change: the free content stays free. We will keep adding courses, labs, games, and handouts to the open platform. Premium is not a gate in front of what exists. It is a door to tools we could not offer for free because they cost real money to run.
If the free platform is all you need, please use it. Share it. We built it for you. But if you find yourself spending hours on transcription, struggling to convert code between software packages, or wishing you had a structured way to build your Theory of Change, Premium might save you a lot of time.
Pricing
You will be taken to the membership page where you can choose your plan.
Thank you for being part of this. Whether you stay on the free plan or decide to go Premium, you are part of a community that believes development practice in South Asia deserves better tools and better training.
We will keep building. We hope you will keep learning.
-- The ImpactMojo Team