ARCED InternationalAnniversary edition · 28.08.2026
YEARONE
One year of building — products, research, partnerships, and the foundation for what comes next.
Scroll — the year, chapter by chapter
Chapter 01 — The first year in one glance
Three products. One year.
And the decade that made it possible.
Products launched
SurveyLoopr, FolderManifest, InstantHowTo.dev
International project
Research & consulting with the Commonwealth of Learning
Years of experience
Research, fieldwork, data & technology behind it
Days
From establishment to first anniversary
Launched, in order
Chapter 02 — Why ARCED International exists
Not only a consultancy.
Not only a software house.
Research teams work around tools that were never built for them. Software teams ship tools they have never had to use in the field. We have spent a decade on the research side of that gap — and built our own tools wherever nothing fit.
ARCED International exists to do both, on purpose.
- Research
- Technology
- Data
- Fieldwork
- Practical problem-solving
We build the tools.
We do the work.
Product 01 — Chapter 03
SurveyLoopr
surveyloopr.com
Survey tooling built by people who've run the fieldwork.
A platform for building and managing ODK / XLSForm survey workflows — with AI-assisted form creation, fieldwork quality monitoring, and qualitative audio transcription, translation, and analysis. Everything we kept building by hand for research projects, shipped as one product.
A decade of survey experience, distilled into software.
Product 02 — Chapter 04
Know what's in your folders.
Be able to prove it.
Folders drift. Duplicates pile up. Copies diverge, and nobody can say exactly what changed. FolderManifest exists for that moment — software for understanding, monitoring, comparing, and verifying files and folders. Manifests you can point to; verification reports that hold up.
- Understand
- Monitor
- Compare
- Verify
Product 03 — Chapter 05
Ask how.
Get structure, not noise.
InstantHowTo.dev is an AI-powered platform for quickly learning how to do something — structured guides and curated resources instead of a wall of search results. The third product of the year, and the most experimental of the three.
Chapter 06 — Beyond software
Software is half the company.
Research is the other half.
In Year One, ARCED International worked with the Commonwealth of Learning on a professional research and consulting engagement — evidence work with an international partner, alongside the product building.
Research & consulting
Study design, analysis, and advisory work for partners.
Evidence & evaluation
Turning field data into defensible findings.
Knowledge & capacity
Documentation, learning materials, and know-how transfer.
Partner · Commonwealth of Learning — Year One engagement
Chapter 07 — The longer story
One year old.
More than a decade behind it.
ARCED International carries forward the experience of ARCED Foundation and its research network — years of surveys, evaluations, fieldwork, and the technology built to support them. The company is new. The practice is not.
ARCED Foundation — research · fieldwork · data, since long before Year One
Chapter 08 — What Year One was really about
- 01ShippingThree real products, live and public — not announcements.
- 02LearningWhat works, what doesn't, and where the two sides meet.
- 03FoundationsSystems, processes, and habits that scale past year one.
- 04DirectionA clearer answer to what this company is for.
Year One was about building the foundation.
Chapter 09 — Year Two
Keep building useful technology.
Keep taking on meaningful work.
Grow the products with the people who use them. Take on research and international projects where evidence matters. No promises beyond that — just the work.
Chapter 10 — Thank you
Thank you.
To everyone who used the products, worked with us, gave feedback, or made the first year possible — this year belongs to you too.
- Users who tried the products early
- Clients & project partners
- Collaborators & contractors
- Colleagues at ARCED Foundation
- Friends & family