Your data. Clear answers. Work you can reproduce.

Tell us what you want to understand. An approved specialist checks your data, agrees the scope and price with you, and hands over the results with the files that produced them.

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Northside Community Café, customer survey

Does waiting time change satisfaction?

Yes, strongly. 80.7% of people who waited 5 minutes or less were satisfied, falling to 18.8% for waits of 16 minutes or more.

Table 2. Satisfaction by waiting time
WaitRatedMeanSatisfied
0 to 5 minutes884.1180.7%
6 to 10 minutes1483.7059.5%
11 to 15 minutes983.1634.7%
16 minutes or more162.6918.8%
From the example delivery. The café and its data are invented. Small groups, such as the 16 longest waits, are marked as rough in the full report.

What you can ask for

Choose the outcome, not the statistical test. The specialist proposes the method after checking your data.

Upload a CSV, TSV or single-sheet Excel file.

  • Clean and organise data

    Duplicates, gaps and inconsistent entries fixed, with the original kept untouched.

  • Analyse survey responses

    Summaries, group comparisons and coded comments.

  • Explore patterns and compare groups

    Relationships and differences, and how sure you can be about them.

  • Create charts and a reporting workbook

    Clear charts and tables you can update yourself.

  • Check an existing analysis

    A second look at the method, the numbers and the conclusions.

How it works

Nothing is paid out until you accept the work.

  1. Describe and upload. Your questions and authorised, de-identified data.
  2. Helpal checks it. Suitability, permissions and whether a specialist is free.
  3. You review the quote. Scope, acceptance checks, schedule and a fixed price.
  4. Work starts. The specialist confirms within two hours of payment. The deadline is recorded and does not move without you.
  5. A second specialist checks. They reproduce the main results before you see them.
  6. You decide. Accept the package or ask for a correction within the agreed scope.

What you get back

  • Findings that answer your questions, with methods, assumptions and limits
  • The cleaned or checked dataset, with your original preserved
  • A log of every change and the script, workbook or steps that reproduce the results
  • Agreed editable outputs, with handover notes
  • The independent reviewer's notes
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