Overton

Overton connects research with policy

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Business Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Governments
  • SaaS
  • API
  • Science
London, UK

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Company mission

Our goal is to enhance the links between research and policy, to ensure that the necessary data and insights get across to the people making decisions. We want to empower these decision-makers to recognise and use good evidence, and help experts understand how to influence and affect change.

Our take

Overton has built one of the world’s largest searchable indexes of policy documents, think tank publications, working papers and guidelines in a bid to help universities and other research teams measure how their work influences policy-making decisions.

The company is still in its early stages, having been founded in 2019, but it's got an ambitious long term goal of making government policy making, or rather the evidence behind it, more transparent.

Given the fact that Overton has built a pioneering product, and is targeting sales from well-funded universities, NGOs and government agencies, its prospects are pretty bright. The company is focused on refining its software to ensure source coverage, and introducing new features.

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Benefits

  • Hybrid and flexible working
  • A supportive, friendly work environment within a company that cares about its staff and its impact on the world (we are accredited by the Living Wage Foundation and the FSB Good Business Charter and we’re Net Zero!)
  • Enhanced employer pension contribution of 6%
  • 28 days leave plus 8 bank holidays (36 total), pro rata for part time
  • 3 months' of maternity leave paid at 90% of base salary and a return-to-work bonus payment, after 6 months' service
  • 3 months' of shared parental leave paid at 90% of base salary (less any time already taken as paid maternity/paternity leave) and a return-to-work bonus payment, after 6 months' service
  • 6 weeks' of paternity leave paid at 90% of base salary, after 6 months' service
  • With no minimum length of service, 2 weeks' paternity leave paid at 90% of base salary and the option to take an additional 4 weeks' unpaid leave
  • We’ll provide a new Mac, PC or Linux laptop along with a stipend for other equipment
  • The chance to have a real, customer facing impact on the product and team from your first week here
  • Private health insurance with Bupa

Company values

  • Having a positive impact on the world through our product and our company operations
  • Being friendly and helpful
  • Being honest and transparent

Leadership

Euan Adie

(CEO)

Prior to Overton, Euan founded Altmetric, a company that tracks the attention paid to scholarly works online. Altmetric was acquired by Digital Science in 2015.