Research training meets thirty years of hands-on systems work.
VEDAT was founded in 1992 as an independent IT consultancy in Stockholm. Its founder, Gerd Hagmeyer-Gaverus, is an economist by training who spent much of his career as an empirical social science researcher inside one of Europe's foreign-policy research institutes — before, during, and after building that institute's entire internet presence from scratch.
That combination is unusual: research training, hands-on systems experience, and three decades of watching how institutions actually adopt — or resist — technology. VEDAT exists because that combination is useful to more than one kind of client, from housing cooperatives untangling an access-control contract to research institutions thinking about early-warning systems.
How VEDAT works
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Get close to the actual system, contract, or dataset before proposing anything.
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Write things down — protocols, calculations, comparisons — so decisions are defensible later.
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No jargon that isn't earning its place. If a board or a client can't follow the reasoning, it isn't finished yet.
