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Overton
Tracking the impact of research on policy
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Education
- Learning
- Business Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Governments
- SaaS
- API
- Science
- London, UK
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Company mission
We're all about helping the best evidence translate into real world policy and making the policymaking process more transparent. We help NGOs, think tanks, universities and research funders understand how their ideas are influencing policy around the world, using our platform containing 5+ million policy documents and their links to academic papers and researchers.
50% female employees
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
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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Overton
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- We want to create a positive, flexible and supportive working environment that works for people of all backgrounds and circumstances – we want people to love coming to work and to feel respected and valued when they're here. We do this through our hiring process, through the employee benefits we offer and by creating a working environment built on mutual trust.
- As a young startup, we are trying to take a proactive approach to helping overcome barriers within the application process and the role itself, but we are always open to suggestions about how we can do more
- We know that the statutory allowances for family leave can be restrictive, particularly for women and for those with non-traditional families – so we offer generous family leave and pay that we hope supports all caregivers
- We offer flexible working and part time options as standard, and where possible we offer roles with the option of fully remote or hybrid working to give people flexibility to work around their commitments and to benefit those with different working styles and mobility issues
- We don't put unnecessary requirements into job descriptions – if we think vocational training or professional experience is fine for the role, we won't ask for a specific qualification
- We proactively ask people during their application if they need any adjustments to fully participate, so that they don't have to raise it themselves
- We arrange interviews at times that suits candidates, rather than at pre-set times, and offer the option of in-person or virtual interviews
- We respect candidates' time so we always speak to them before asking them to commit to a tech test to make sure the role is a good fit. We'll only ever ask people to spend up to 2 hours on a vocational test (and we give people a Deliveroo voucher to thank them for their time!)
- We are an accredited Living Wage Foundation employer
- Our office has step free access via lift and accessible toilets
- Light touch application process – we don't want to waste your time filling in lots of forms!
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Endorsements
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Meaningful work (2)
Opportunities to learn (1)
Intelligent people (1)
My opinions are valued (1)
Open and honest communication (1)
People of all backgrounds are welcomed (1)
Innovative product (1)
Clear values (1)
We operate across the policy space, from universities to government via IGOs and think tanks, but our over-arching goal is to increase the transparency of the policymaking process by surfacing the evidence on which policy. We want to turn a profit but we're socially responsible about how we do it.
Sales & Account Management
Clear values
Oct 2022
A great mix of people from different backgrounds: different subjects, different countries and experience in different types of organisations. All keen to help each other out, share ideas and get great stuff done together.
Sales & Account Management
Intelligent people
Oct 2022
Overton is a really well thought-through product. We get great feedback from our users - clients and trial users - and there's nothing else out there that's quite like us. Users regularly tell us how much they enjoy using the product.
Sales & Account Management
Innovative product
Oct 2022
Since joining Overton, I've learned a lot about the sectors we operate in. Our leadership team have been great - open, responsive and proactive about encouraging us to attend events, shadow other team members, learn new skills (both technical and otherwise), and supporting us to define where we want to see our roles grow over the next few years. Very forward thinking and agile company when it comes to supporting their staff to develop further. Highly recommend!
Data
Opportunities to learn
Oct 2022
Our senior leadership team regularly invite and act on feedback from team members. Always accessible to answer queries/sound out ideas. Updates frequently given on how things are going in business-wise, and this open and honest communication defines how our goals are developed as a collective team :)
Data
Open and honest communication
Oct 2022
Evidence use in the development of public policy is so important - it delivers policy that is stronger, more effective and more efficient. Supporting people operating in this space through the provision of our database and the metadata that we extract is a great place to be. Day to day, we can make an impact on the company from the get go, it's clear to see where our roles add value- both to the company itself and the sector as a whole.
Data
Meaningful work
Oct 2022
I find it very motivating to work on a product that is having a positive impact on the world by getting good quality information in front of government policymakers and helping NGOs, researchers and IGOs understand how ideas translate into real world decisions
Operations & Strategy
Meaningful work
Mar 2022
I always feel able to share my opinions and contribute to decisions and my thoughts are always welcomed and encouraged (even if people disagree!). As a small team we all tend to get involved in discussions across the whole organisation, so it's a very collaborative environment where you can get learn about and contribute to areas that don't directly relate to your work
Operations & Strategy
My opinions are valued
Mar 2022
It's a very un-judgmental environment and there is an awareness of the importance of creating a workplace that works for different people's circumstances through flexible/hybrid/part time working, thoughtful maternity/family leave policies, an accessible office, etc. It's a genuinely really friendly and helpful team.
Operations & Strategy
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
Mar 2022