Thibi

What Thibi does

Thibi is a Singapore-headquartered data and design consultancy founded in 2018, with remote team presence in Myanmar (Yangon) and the United States and a headcount of 11-50 spanning designers, developers, and data experts. The company was founded by veterans of Myanmar's civic-tech and open-data community and operates three integrated service lines: data visualisation and storytelling, full-stack data-driven product development, and data training. Its underlying methodology is the proprietary Masterfile Tool — a structured, hypothesis-testing framework for reverse-engineering data-driven stories — paired with a Data Story Recipe Methodology adapted from Mark Lee Hunter's Story-Based Inquiry approach, which together aim to enable reproducible, collaborative, and transparent data investigations.

The product surface combines bespoke deliverables (interactive data stories, dashboards, microsites, and data portals such as Eco-Solve for wildlife-trafficking tracking, the Community GIS Tool for local government decision-making, and the Just Energy Transition Policy Toolkit for Oxfam) with recurring programmes such as the Environmental Data Journalism Academy and the Mekong Data Journalism Fellowship, delivered in partnership with Internews' Earth Journalism Network and partially funded by donors including SIDA. The company runs complementary owned-and-operated audience assets — Thibi Academy (free tutorials), Thibi Bytes (monthly newsletter), and Thibi Recipes (bite-sized guides) — that together function as a top-of-funnel content engine and a talent/training network of more than a hundred trained journalists across Asia-Pacific.

Thibi monetises primarily through professional-services engagements: direct consultancy fees for visualisation and product builds, training and capacity-building programmes, and grant-funded co-creation of data stories. There is no public pricing; engagements are scoped per project and frequently intermediated through high-credibility partner organisations (Internews, Oxfam, Interpeace, GI-TOC, KAS Media Programme Asia, East-West Center, Stimson Center). Customers are concentrated in media outlets, civil-society NGOs, and research institutions across Southeast Asia and the broader Global South, and the company has earned third-party validation including the 2024 WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Asia 'Best Data Visualization Award' (Small Newsroom Category).

Name

Thibi

Legal name

Thibi

Website

https://site.thibi.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Thibi is a Singapore-based data and design consultancy founded in 2018 that delivers interactive data visualizations, full-stack data products, and data journalism training for media outlets, NGOs, and journalists across Southeast Asia and the Global South.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Data Visualization and Data Journalism Consulting Services

NAICS

Graphic Design Services (54143), Information (51), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Data, Analytics & AI Consulting (BPAHAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Digital Development & ICT4D / GovTech Technical Assistance (BPADAEAL)

Keywords

• Data visualization
• Data journalism training
• Interactive data tools
• Data storytelling
• Data product development

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Consultancy Services: Data and design consultancy services for building interactive web-based data tools, visualizations, and data-driven products from conceptualization to full-stack solutions following user-centred design approach.
2. Training and Capacity Building: Data journalism training programs, mentorship for co-creating data stories, and data skills training customized to organizational needs. Programs like the Environmental Data Journalism Academy provide structured training with story production components.
3. Collaborative Data Storytelling: Co-creation of interactive data stories and data portals with media and civil society partners, often funded through grants from organizations like Internews Earth Journalism Network.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Thibi is a Singapore-based data and design consultancy that helps media organisations, NGOs, and civil society groups in Southeast Asia and the Global South communicate complex data through interactive visualisations, data-driven stories, full-stack data products, and journalism training programs. The company delivers consulting across three service lines (Data Visualisation & Storytelling, Data-driven Product Development, and Data Training) and co-creates custom data portals, microsites, and fellowship programs with development sector partners like Internews, Oxfam, and Interpeace.

Product overview

Thibi is a data and design consultancy offering three core service lines: Data Visualisation & Storytelling, Data-driven Product Development, and Data Training. The company operates several sub-brands including Thibi Academy (free online learning platform with practical tutorials), Thibi Bytes (monthly newsletter), and Thibi Recipes (quick data skills guides). Thibi also delivers specialized programs like the Environmental Data Journalism Academy and Mekong Data Journalism Fellowship in partnership with Internews' Earth Journalism Network. Product offerings include web-based data tools such as the Community GIS Tool and Eco-Solve data portal. The company produces original content through Thibi Originals and Co-Created Interactives series.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Environmental Data Journalism Academy: Six-month long investigative and data-driven reporting training for journalists and media outlets
• Thibi Bytes
• Thibi Academy
• Thibi Recipes

Products and services

• Data Visualisation & Storytelling Consultancy service combining data, ideas, and research findings into impactful stories and interactive custom visualisations, including data visualisations, data-driven stories, and interactive dashboards for media organisations, NGOs, and research institutions.
• Data-driven Product Development Full-stack data product development service from conceptualisation to deployment following a user-centred design approach, delivering UX research and prototyping, interactive microsites, and data portals.
• Data Training Training service empowering journalists and communicators to enhance data literacy, visualisation, and storytelling skills through data journalism training, mentorship for co-creating data stories, and customised organisational training programs.
• Environmental Data Journalism Academy Six-month investigative and data-driven reporting training program for journalists covering data literacy, visualization, and storytelling on environmental issues, delivered in partnership with Internews' Earth Journalism Network.
• Mekong Data Journalism Fellowship Fellowship program awarding journalists in the Mekong region mentorship and guidance to report on water security and natural resources using data journalism, co-run with Earth Journalism Network, East-West Center, and Stimson Center.
• Community GIS Tool Web-based geospatial data platform supporting data-driven decision making for local government in multiple countries in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, built with Interpeace using extensive design research.
• Eco-Solve Data portal tracking online wildlife trafficking, built in collaboration with Kontinentalist and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
• Just Energy Transition Policy Toolkit Microsite providing policymakers and civil society with accessible data and information about the Just Energy Transition in Asia, built in collaboration with Oxfam and Free Finance Asia.
• Thibi Academy Free online learning platform offering practical tutorials in data visualization and storytelling, created by journalists across Asia with real-world project-based lessons using tools like Datawrapper and Flourish.

Quantifiable outcome

• 38 journalists selected, 15 received grants for data journalism projects in Philippines
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• KontinentalistcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing collaboration on data storytelling projects including the award-winning 'Alternate World of Copy Songs' story on Myanmar's copy song culture, and the Eco-Solve wildlife trafficking data portal built with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Thibi provides data visualization and development expertise while Kontinentalist contributes editorial and storytelling capabilities.
• Internews Earth Journalism NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMajor partnership implementing the Environmental Data Journalism Academy in Philippines and India, and the Mekong Data Journalism Fellowship. Thibi co-leads training to support journalists in producing high quality data stories on environmental issues. The programs provide story production stipends and mentorship to fellows.
• CamboJA NewscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on interactive data story 'Cambodia's land grab endangers people, forests, and the climate' examining land concession impacts on local communities. Thibi developed the data visualization and interactive elements.
• Dialogue EarthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on interactive explainer 'Can carbon capture help Asia reach its climate goals' featuring 3D animations and data visualizations on carbon capture technologies in Southeast Asia.
• OxfamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with Free Finance Asia to build the Just Energy Transition Policy Toolkit microsite providing policymakers and civil society with accessible data and information about the Just Energy Transition in Asia.
• Cuttlefish DigitalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided online training on data visualization through weekly virtual sessions and remote mentorship program. Thibi trained Cuttlefish Digital communicators to create an engaging data story on Southeast Asia's energy policies.
• Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized CrimecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to build the Eco-Solve data portal tracking online wildlife trafficking data, in collaboration with Kontinentalist.
• InterpeacecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration to build the Community GIS Tool, a web-based geospatial data platform supporting data-driven decision making for local government in multiple countries in Africa, South and Southeast Asia.
• Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Media Programme AsiaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Center for Investigative Reporting Sri Lanka to organize Data-Driven Storytelling Workshop training 30 mid-career journalists in Sri Lanka.
• East-West CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-program with Earth Journalism Network and Stimson Center to award Fellowships to Mekong region journalists for data journalism training on water security and natural resources.
• Stimson CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-program with Earth Journalism Network and East-West Center providing Mekong Data Journalism Fellowships and mentorship on water security and natural resources reporting.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Code for Africa: Code for Africa is the continent's largest civic technology and data journalism network, building digital tools, training journalists, and supporting accountability reporting across African newsrooms. It is directly comparable to Thibi in mission, services (data tools + training), and customer base (NGOs, media, civil society).
• Stamen Design: Stamen Design is a San Francisco-based data visualization and cartography studio that designs interactive maps, data stories, and visual tools for media and nonprofit clients. It is a direct peer to Thibi on the data visualization and product development service lines, serving similar clients.
• Tactical Tech: Tactical Tech is a Berlin-based NGO that produces trainings, tools, and visual resources to help civil society and journalists understand and use data and technology. It is directly comparable to Thibi on the data literacy training and capacity-building service line for civil society globally.
• Kontinentalist: Kontinentalist is an Asia-based data-driven storytelling studio that produces interactive, narrative-led data stories on social and environmental issues in Southeast Asia. It is a direct peer and frequent co-creation partner of Thibi, sharing the same data journalism niche, target audience (media and civil society), and creative methodology.
• Development Seed: Development Seed is a data visualization and geospatial technology consultancy that builds data platforms and maps for humanitarian, environmental, and development organizations. It is a direct peer to Thibi on the data-driven product development side, with comparable nonprofit and donor customers.

Emerging players

• School of Data: School of Data is a global network and training program under Open Knowledge Foundation that teaches journalists and civil society to work with data. It overlaps with Thibi Academy and Thibi's training programs, serving the same journalist persona.
• Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Knowledge Foundation is a UK-headquartered nonprofit that works on open data, data literacy (School of Data), and civic data tooling worldwide. It overlaps with Thibi on data literacy training and open-data advocacy and is an existing Thibi partner.

Others

• Internews: Internews is a major international development organization supporting independent media and information ecosystems worldwide; Thibi is a delivery partner to Internews' Earth Journalism Network. It is included as an ecosystem partner rather than a competitor, but its scale and grant-making role shape Thibi's market context.

Broad incumbents

• Al Jazeera Contrast / AJ Labs: AJ Labs is Al Jazeera's experimental data, visual, and interactive storytelling team producing award-winning investigative data journalism and tools. It is a broad incumbent peer with much larger resources, offering overlapping capabilities in data-driven editorial products for global audiences.
• Reuters Graphics: Reuters Graphics is the data visualization and visual journalism team of a major global newswire, producing interactive data stories at scale. It is a broad incumbent peer with overlapping data journalism capability but operates as part of a much larger news organization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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