Who We Are
Independent, data-driven, and dedicated to Latin America and the world’s future.
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About Our Mission
Studio1848 exists to ensure that policy in the world, and especially Latin America, is guided by the region’s own data, its own questions, and its own priorities. We build the tools, evidence, and foresight needed to help governments, businesses, and communities navigate uncertainty instead of reacting to it. In a region where choices are often shaped by short-term pressure or external templates, our mission is to create the space for strategic, grounded, and future-oriented decision-making.
About Our Values
We are driven by five core values.
We believe in independence, which means every finding must stand on evidence, not influence.
We believe in rigor, because insight without discipline misleads more than it helps.
We believe in transparency, making our methods, data, and funding visible.
We believe in inclusion, not as a slogan, but as a condition for relevance.
And we believe in action, because analysis that doesn’t travel the last mile—to policy, to design, to implementation—is not enough.
These values shape how we work, who we work with, and what impact we seek. We are not here to simplify problems. We are here to clarify complexity—so that our region can choose its future on its own terms.
Our Methods
Studio1848’s methods are designed for one purpose: to turn uncertainty into usable insight. We combine rigorous quantitative tools—statistical modeling, economic indicators, and AI-assisted data analysis—with grounded qualitative research like interviews, case studies, and contextual interpretation. This mixed-methods approach lets us capture not just what is changing, but why it matters, and what can be done about it.
Still analysis alone isn’t enough. Every research process at Studio1848 is structured around scenario thinking: we ask not only “What’s happening?” but “What happens next, and what if it doesn’t?” We test strategies across plausible futures, stress-testing assumptions before they become policies. The result is work that equips decision-makers not just to respond, but to anticipate—and to act with clarity even when the future is still uncertain.
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We pair exhaustive literature analysis with panel regressions and field interviews to catch what experts are saying, what numbers miss, and what anecdotes exaggerate.
Toolset: Consensus AI, Mendeley, Stata, R, Python.
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Borrowed from Shell and Brookings playbooks, we use it to identify critical uncertainties, craft divergent futures, stress-test policy across all of them.
Cycle: Internal → External → Future → Back-cast.
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Large-language-model classifiers tag thousands of legislative bills in minutes; computer-vision spots illegal mining scars from Landsat; and so on. In short, AI accelerates, humans validate.
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Funders sign a no-interference clause. All methods pass our Research Integrity Committee and external peer review.
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All code and data go public within 30 days—unless they contain legally protected information, in which case we release synthetic microdata.
Founder’s Note
I started Studio1848 with a conviction that’s both simple and difficult. Latin America deserves policy built on its own evidence, shaped by its own debates, and aimed toward its own long-term future. For too long, our region has been studied from the outside, prescribed from the top down, and pushed to choose between urgency and understanding. I wanted to create a space where those trade-offs are not taken for granted.
Studio1848 exists to bring structure to that ambition. It is a place where research is published and used, where data becomes strategy, and where analysis informs real-world decisions. Our work isn’t neutral, but it is independent: we take positions, not sides. We believe that policy grounded in rigorous evidence, critical inquiry, and regional insight can do more than describe the present. It can shape what comes next.
This project is still growing. But from the beginning, it has always had one purpose: to equip those who care about Latin America’s future with the tools to understand it, influence it, and defend it clearly, publicly, and on their own terms.
Daniel Albuja
Founder, Studio 1848.