Public Beta launched November 2025

AI-assisted programme analysis^*

^* This is not another chatbot.

Search through the IATI dataset of development and humanitarian programmes. Leverage AI for 1000x faster insight extraction while keeping humans in control of intelligent analysis.

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It's 2025

Millions of dollars spent on reporting

Billions of insights gathering dust in reports

Evidence-based decision making still lacking

AI-assisted analysis technology is ready and reliable.

1000x

AI is 1000x faster at insight extraction

Better

Humans are better at intelligent analysis

So we built a tool to leverage both

Search → Collect → Analyse → Explore Insights

Search 30,000+ programmes

Natural Language search
Similar sectors and geographic inference
From IATI and other sources
800k activities, 10 million documents

Collect relevant programmes

Filter based on geography, sector, status & organization
Search for more and add to workspace
Build custom collections for your analysis

Analyse programmes

Create multiple analyses from different perspectives
Depth and breadth-type synthesis
Batch analysis of 100+ programmes in < 2 min

Customise every analysis

Use preset analysis types
Use natural language for custom queries
Control output format
Choose what document types to analyze

Traceable insights

Full sourcing for each analysis
Link to original document source for verification
Export in various formats

Current Data & Roadmap

Current Data

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - FCDO

25,000 activities • 16,000 documents

United Nations Development Programme - UNDP

16,000 activities • 30,000 documents

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - DEFRA

100 activities • 290 documents

Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero - DESNZ

32 activities • 300 documents

Roadmap 2025/2026

Top 20 publishers from IATI

400,000 activities • 1.1 million documents

UNDP and OECD Evaluations

11,000 evaluations

MCP Server for IATI

1 million activities • 8,800 publishers

More Features

Evaluation Analysis • Connect your own AI tool via MCP

About DevExplorer

This is an open source search and analysis tool powered by AI to help international development professionals find and analyse programmes and projects from the IATI registry.

DevExplorer was initiated as part of a pilot programme from the Frontier Tech Hub, funded by the FCDO (UK Government).

How can AI help us improve aid effectiveness?

AI is poised to transform international development. This blog introduces our AI-powered tool called DevExplorer, which makes it faster and easier to extract insights from global development data.

Feb 21, 2025

LLMs in International Development - A Recipe for Success?

Have you ever tried a recipe box for cooking? We've developed a similar, recipe-based approach for using our LLM tool, to help users understand what's possible when creating a knowledge product.

Nov 13, 2024

A community of practice to explore using LLMs in knowledge management

A blog piece by FCDO Pioneer Seb Mhatre outlining the future of LLMs in knowledge management for international development, arguing that the creation of a community of practice is needed.

Aug 23, 2024

LLMs to improve decision making in development - what do future users want?

This blog post by FCDO Pioneer Robert Phillips explores some of the results of user engagement surrounding the pilot 'Using LLMs as a tool for International Development professionals'.

Aug 16, 2024

The final piece in our technical learning journey: LLMs for international development

Read the final installation of a three-part series about the journey and learnings from our pilot. This article discusses the UI development for the tool and directions for further improvement and scaling.