Apex is a small consulting practice for nonprofits, NGOs, community organizations, and small businesses. We handle strategic planning, program evaluation, and the data systems underneath them, using the research methods our principal trained in as an epidemiologist.
We bring research methods to decisions that usually get made on instinct.
Apex Strategic Consulting is a small firm. We build data systems, evaluate programs, run strategic planning processes, and help organizations put new technology to work without adding staff.
The practice was founded by a public health scientist and epidemiologist who worked at the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, then in a regional health department and in the nonprofit sector. That background shows up in how we handle evidence: we say what a number can support and what it cannot.
A lot of consulting is process for its own sake. We start with the question you actually need answered, then build the framework or system that answers it. When the engagement ends, your staff should be able to keep it running.
Explore our servicesMost engagements pull from more than one of these. Each comes with a written method and a defined list of deliverables, so you can see how a result was produced.
Planning processes that bring your board and staff into the room, plus the measurement framework that tells you a year later whether the plan is working.
We design the data systems, dashboards, and reporting pipelines that turn scattered program records into something a director or a funder can read in five minutes.
AI-assisted tools, automation, and no-code workflows for the reporting and communications tasks that quietly consume staff hours every month.
Epidemiological methods applied to program research, grant reporting, community health assessments, and chronic disease prevention work.
Day-to-day management of complex, multi-stakeholder projects: roadmaps, budgets, and the performance tracking that keeps a schedule honest.
Before we recommend anything
Building the thing itself
Handing it over
Four representative projects in public health, nonprofit, and NGO settings. Client names are anonymized where confidentiality applies. Full case studies are available on request.
Twelve programs were tracking outcomes in separate spreadsheets. We consolidated them into one SQL warehouse with dashboards for program leads and health-equity reporting.
We facilitated the planning process with the board and staff, then built the KPI dashboard that connects each program to an outcome the board tracks quarterly.
Quarterly funder reports took two staff most of a week. We replaced the manual assembly with AI-assisted drafting and a no-code pipeline that reads live program data.
Logistic regression and survival analysis on occupational health surveillance data used in national policy work.
Occupational health surveillance and the statistical analysis behind national policy recommendations.
Ran community-level data infrastructure and program reporting, including health-equity analysis for at-risk populations.
Strategic planning, evaluation, and data systems work with youth development, health equity, and social service organizations.
Graduate training in survival analysis, logistic regression, and analytic epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Our principal is a public health scientist and epidemiologist. The work has moved from federal surveillance to regional public health data management to the nonprofit sector, which is to say the same kinds of organizations Apex works with now.
So we know what it is like to be short two staff and still owe a funder a report. Engagements are scoped with that in mind: a defined set of deliverables, a method you can read, and enough documentation that your team is not dependent on us afterward.
Every framework and analysis comes with its method written out, so a board member or a funder can see how we got there.
We have worked inside federal, public health, and nonprofit organizations, and we scope projects around the capacity you actually have.
You know before we start what you will receive, when it arrives, and what it will cost.
We hand over systems your staff can operate, with the written instructions to do it.
A few sentences about your organization and what you are trying to move forward is enough to start. We answer within two business days.