Aotearoa New Zealand

The research capability your decisions deserve.

Danalytics Consulting leads research and analytics from the ground up, conducts social investment analysis, builds economic models, and develops the software tools that governments, iwi, and organisations use to make evidence-based decisions. We have been doing this work across central and local government backend teams for over a decade.

What we do

Economic research, modelling, and software.

We offer the full stack: from the mathematics that drives the models, to the software that delivers the results, to the report that lands on the decision-maker's desk.

CGE

Computable General Equilibrium Modelling

Multi-region, multi-sector economic modelling covering GDP, employment, prices, welfare, trade, and distributional impacts. We build the models and we run them — or we give you the tools to run them yourself.

Policy

Policy Impact Analysis

Economic impact assessments for central government, local government, and regional councils. Treasury briefings, Cabinet-level analysis, and long-term fiscal modelling. We work at every tier of decision-making.

Iwi

Iwi Economic Analysis

Dedicated economic tracking for Māori communities: iwi asset growth modelling, Treaty settlement analysis, regional Māori GDP measurement, and whānau employment impact assessment. Built with structural ethnic dimensions, not afterthought overlays.

Regional

Regional Impact Assessment

Territorial authority-level analysis across all 104 NZ regions. Spillover propagation, employment multipliers, infrastructure investment scenarios, and convergence/divergence tracking. Every council gets analysis at their geographic resolution.

Social

Social Investment Auditing

Evidence-based evaluation of social investment portfolios. Welfare decomposition, distributional analysis, hauora well-being measurement, and outcome tracking. We quantify the return on social spending so that the investment case stands up to scrutiny.

Sensitivity

Sensitivity & Assumption Testing

Exhaustive sensitivity analysis across elasticity assumptions and closure rules. Not Monte Carlo sampling — complete precomputed manifolds covering every plausible parameter combination. When someone challenges the assumptions, we rerun with theirs.

AI

AI Expert Service

We build AI-assisted analytical tools and integrate large language models into research workflows. The VECTR AI Assistant is one example — a natural language interface for economic scenario specification. We can build similar capabilities for your organisation's specific domain.

Dev

Software Development

Full-stack development of research platforms, data pipelines, and analytical tools. Python, TypeScript, functional programming, DuckDB, REST APIs. We build software that researchers and policy teams actually use — not prototypes that sit in a repo.

Lab

IDI SimLab

A synthetic Stats NZ* IDI Data Lab — minus SAS. Powered by world-class AI models via API, with self-hosting supported. Bring your own data, or let the AI identify what you need and build it — realistic noise, errors, and inter-variable relationships included. Develop and de-risk your methodology before committing to lab time. When you're ready, it helps you draft the application.

* not currently affiliated with Stats NZ

V.

VECTR — Danalytics' Flagship Platform

Everything we know about economic modelling, compressed into a single platform. 307 million precomputed scenarios across 104 NZ regions, 109 sectors, and 22 economic measures. Two novel contributions to the CGE literature. Sub-50ms query response. The tool that didn't exist until we built it.

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Who we are

A decade of government backend experience.

Danalytics Consulting Ltd is based in Aotearoa New Zealand. We specialise in economic research, quantitative modelling, and the software tools that deliver both. Our experience spans central government's most technical backend teams, regional council advisory, iwi economic development, and academic research partnerships.

We work on a managed research basis — where we do the analysis and deliver the report — and on a product licensing basis, where we give your team the tools to run their own scenarios. The choice depends on your capacity, your budget, and whether you want to build in-house capability or outsource the work to us. Either way, the same rigour applies.

The methodology is peer-reviewable. The code is source-available under commercial licence. The data sources are all official statistical agencies. We don't borrow coefficients from other people's research — every parameter is calculated from the underlying data, for New Zealand, specifically.

10+
Years in Govt
307M
Precomputed Scenarios
104
NZ Regions
2
Novel Contributions
Get in touch

We'd like to hear from you.

Whether you need a policy impact assessment, a VECTR licence, a custom model built from scratch, or a conversation about what's possible — reach out. We're a small team that takes on serious work, and we're selective about who we work with because the quality matters.

Email
[email protected]

Location
Wellington, New Zealand

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