Tailenders Analytics

What we do

Four services, one question: what reached the tail end?

Impact assessments, supply-chain diagnostics, verification and programme evaluation, built on primary field data rather than desk review. Assessments that ask farmers and forest households what reached them, in their own language, survive a board meeting and an auditor. Fees are shared privately: the reply to your enquiry carries the indicative range for the service you choose.

01 · For CSR, philanthropy and development programmes

Tail-End Assessment

Did the money reach, and what did it change? Mixed methods, primary data, a report written for the board and robust to the auditor.

Rule 8(3) of the CSR Rules requires companies with an average CSR obligation of ₹10 crore or more to commission independent assessments of projects of ₹1 crore or more. Many firms meet it with a desk report. Ours is an assessment that survives the board.

Worked example. Tailwinds 2026-03, Where, but not who, applies the Assessment to the public CSR record of India's 357 largest spenders, using open data. Explore the interactive map →

  • CSR Impact Assessment

    One project of ₹1 crore or more; Rule 8(3) compliant; mixed methods; a board-ready report in eight to ten weeks.

  • Portfolio Assessment

    Three to five projects assessed together, with comparative findings on what worked, for whom, and at what cost.

  • Programme Evaluation

    For foundations and development programmes: reach, access, adoption, persistence and distribution of benefit, measured at the household.

  • Cohort: Impact Assessment That Survives the Board

    Four weeks, live, for CSR, NGO and foundation evaluation staff.

  • Advisory day

    Programme design, theory of change, expert review.

02 · For value chains, farmers, residue and sourcing

Tail-End Diagnostic

Traceability, residue and livelihood risk, measured at the farm gate of agriculture, food and textile supply chains, in the farmer's language.

The EU's deforestation rules apply to large and medium operators from 30 December 2026;1 residue limits already turn back Indian consignments; BRSR value-chain disclosure is voluntary for the top 250 listed companies.2 Each is a traceability problem with a farm at the end.

Worked example. Tailwinds 2026-04, The tail inside the average, applies the Diagnostic to farm-gate governance in every Indian state, down the recursive tail, using open data. Explore the interactive map →

  • Farm-Gate VerificationSignature

    Tenure, access, who gained and who lost, residue practice and the grievance route, verified plot by plot and household by household, in Indic languages. Built for exporters, FMCG buyers and the standards they answer to.

  • Value-Chain Farmer Diagnostic

    EU deforestation rules, pesticide-residue risk and BRSR value-chain disclosure, measured at the farm gate.

  • Pesticide Stewardship Review

    For exporters, farmer producer organisations and agrochemical firms: exposure, safe use and residue risk from shop counter to sprayer.

03 · For restoration, carbon and nature claims

Tail-End Verification

Planting is easy to fund and hard to verify. Survival, species, tenure and access decide whether a restoration claim survives contact with the ground; who signs, who is paid and who carries permanence risk decide whether a carbon claim does.

  • Plantation Reality CheckSignature

    For tree-planting and restoration spend: survival, species, tenure, and who gained or lost access to land. One site cluster.

  • Carbon and Nature Safeguard Verification

    For project developers, buyers and registries: land access, consent, benefit sharing and grievance routes behind a credit, verified with the households on the land.

  • Nature Claim Assessment

    For disclosures under TNFD, science-based targets for nature and India's greenwashing guidelines:4 the file behind the claim, checked in the field.

04 · For governments, foundations and universities

Tail-End Research

Primary field evidence from India, designed and led by a working scholar: research design, ethics approvals, field teams in four Indian languages, and analysis you can cite.

  • India Field Research Partner

    For universities and foundations abroad: research design, ethics approvals, and field teams working in Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and Telugu.

  • Commissioned Tailwinds Brief

    A question about how a rule, scheme or grievance is moving across India, answered from public data in the method of the Tailwinds series.

  • Policy Evidence Programme

    Multi-season field evidence on a policy in motion, for a ministry, a state or a foundation coalition.

For founders and their investors

Startups built on other people's land and labour

Bangalore and India's startup culture produce climate, agri and nature ventures whose value runs through farmers, gatherers, waste workers and fishers. The raise depends on an impact claim; the model depends on who bears the cost and who captures the margin. Both can be checked before the term sheet.

  • Evidence File for a Raise

    For founders: an independent account of what the venture has delivered on the ground, written for the investor's or funder's diligence, with the claims file behind every number.

  • Strategy and Governance Advisory

    For founders and boards: funding strategy and roadmap; the distribution of margin, risk and voice between the company and the people whose labour or land it depends on; grievance routes; the governance an impact investor will ask for.

  • Investor Due Diligence

    For funds and family offices: a tail-end check on a portfolio company or a prospective investment, in the field, before capital moves.

Sources

Regulatory and market figures on this page last reviewed 6 October 2026. Rules move; where a date matters to your decision, we check it again before the scoping call.

  1. Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 as amended, application dates for large and medium operators (30 December 2026) and micro and small operators (30 June 2027).
  2. SEBI circular of 28 March 2025 on BRSR Core: value-chain disclosure made voluntary; "assessment or assurance" replaces "assurance"; applies to the top 250 listed entities, with a 2 percent value-chain threshold.
  3. Pesticides Management Bill, revised draft published 7 January 2026 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare; public comments closed 2 February 2026.
  4. Central Consumer Protection Authority, Guidelines for Prevention and Regulation of Greenwashing or Misleading Environmental Claims, 15 October 2024.
  5. Voluntary carbon market retirement and issuance figures, 2025: source to be confirmed before next review.
  6. European Commission, Roadmap towards Nature Credits, 7 July 2025.
  7. Indian agrochemical market size, 2025: source to be confirmed before next review.