Our Work
Stories. Systems. Strategies.
Stories. Systems. Strategies.
Born from decades of practice and observation across arts, civic, and educational institutions, QIMA engineers experiences, curates cultural property, and scales strategic vision. We partner with high-level decision-makers who are driven by cultural stewardship and institutional legacy.
Born from decades of practice and observation across arts, civic, and educational institutions, QIMA engineers experiences, curates cultural property, and scales strategic vision. We partner with high-level decision-makers who are driven by cultural stewardship and institutional legacy.
Born from decades of practice and observation across arts, civic, and educational institutions, QIMA engineers experiences, curates cultural property, and scales strategic vision. We partner with high-level decision-makers who are driven by cultural stewardship and institutional legacy.
Who We Are
Who We Are
Who We Are
Garrett and Swati are producers with experience in organizational leadership, creative direction, art curation, facilitation and performance. Their interdisciplinary work, which integrates their creative, psychoanalytic, and political strategy backgrounds has spanned multiple sectors.
What We've Done
Scaling Leadership Through Behavioral Design
The Challenge
Community organizing is often driven by election cycles, breaking news, and legislative moments. While these moments generate urgency, they rarely create the consistent habits that sustain long-term civic engagement. Traditional coaching models depend on significant staff time, making them difficult, and expensive to scale.
Our Approach
We explored how an AI-driven app could extend high-quality coaching beyond one-on-one relationships. Rather than building another information tool, we designed a behavioral coaching system grounded in habit formation, behavioral science, and leadership development.
Our process involved extensive stakeholder interviews, research into emerging AI capabilities, rapid prototyping, and multiple rounds of user testing to identify what actually encouraged sustained engagement.
The Impact
The result was a successful MVP that demonstrated a new model for scalable civic leadership development. By shifting coaching from episodic interventions to daily practice, the platform created opportunities for earlier engagement while reducing reliance on resource-intensive staff support.
The Challenge
Community organizing is often driven by election cycles, breaking news, and legislative moments. While these moments generate urgency, they rarely create the consistent habits that sustain long-term civic engagement. Traditional coaching models depend on significant staff time, making them difficult, and expensive to scale.
Our Approach
We explored how an AI-driven app could extend high-quality coaching beyond one-on-one relationships. Rather than building another information tool, we designed a behavioral coaching system grounded in habit formation, behavioral science, and leadership development.
Our process involved extensive stakeholder interviews, research into emerging AI capabilities, rapid prototyping, and multiple rounds of user testing to identify what actually encouraged sustained engagement.
The Impact
The result was a successful MVP that demonstrated a new model for scalable civic leadership development. By shifting coaching from episodic interventions to daily practice, the platform created opportunities for earlier engagement while reducing reliance on resource-intensive staff support.
Bringing Strategic Clarity to Political Campaigns
The Challenge
Many policy and advocacy organizations are rich in passion, but stretched thin by competing priorities. Organizers often spend their time responding to immediate needs, making it difficult to identify the right political targets, sequence tactics effectively, or build systems that translate organizing activity into measurable impact.
At the same time, valuable data frequently lives across disconnected membership platforms, and organizing tools, limiting an organization's ability to make strategic decisions. A national organizing network with 20 state chapters was rapidly expanding, but lacked the systems needed to support sustainable growth. Membership data was fragmented, organizing efforts varied across states, and leaders had limited visibility into what engagement strategies were actually driving participation and long-term base building. Without a unified approach to data, communications, and digital organizing, it was difficult to measure impact, identify opportunities, or scale successful practices across the network.
Our Approach
We partnered with organizational leadership to strengthen both the technical infrastructure and organizing strategy needed for long-term growth.This included identifying and implementing a CRM and membership platform that created a shared system for tracking engagement across all 20 state chapters. Alongside the technology, we coached organizing leaders on digital organizing strategy, audience segmentation, communications strategy, volunteer engagement, and conversion optimization, helping teams understand not just how to reach people, but how to move them from initial interest to sustained participation.By combining systems design with leadership coaching, we equipped organizers with the tools, data, and strategic frameworks needed to make smarter decisions and continuously improve their organizing efforts.
The Impact
The organization established a unified membership infrastructure that improved visibility across a multi-state network and enabled more consistent, data-informed decision-making. Organizing leaders adopted stronger digital engagement practices, increased conversion rates across key organizing pathways, and expanded their base by tens of thousands of members, creating a stronger foundation for long-term organizing and advocacy.
The Challenge
Many policy and advocacy organizations are rich in passion, but stretched thin by competing priorities. Organizers often spend their time responding to immediate needs, making it difficult to identify the right political targets, sequence tactics effectively, or build systems that translate organizing activity into measurable impact.
At the same time, valuable data frequently lives across disconnected membership platforms, and organizing tools, limiting an organization's ability to make strategic decisions. A national organizing network with 20 state chapters was rapidly expanding, but lacked the systems needed to support sustainable growth. Membership data was fragmented, organizing efforts varied across states, and leaders had limited visibility into what engagement strategies were actually driving participation and long-term base building. Without a unified approach to data, communications, and digital organizing, it was difficult to measure impact, identify opportunities, or scale successful practices across the network.
Our Approach
We partnered with organizational leadership to strengthen both the technical infrastructure and organizing strategy needed for long-term growth.This included identifying and implementing a CRM and membership platform that created a shared system for tracking engagement across all 20 state chapters. Alongside the technology, we coached organizing leaders on digital organizing strategy, audience segmentation, communications strategy, volunteer engagement, and conversion optimization, helping teams understand not just how to reach people, but how to move them from initial interest to sustained participation.By combining systems design with leadership coaching, we equipped organizers with the tools, data, and strategic frameworks needed to make smarter decisions and continuously improve their organizing efforts.
The Impact
The organization established a unified membership infrastructure that improved visibility across a multi-state network and enabled more consistent, data-informed decision-making. Organizing leaders adopted stronger digital engagement practices, increased conversion rates across key organizing pathways, and expanded their base by tens of thousands of members, creating a stronger foundation for long-term organizing and advocacy.
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Who We've Worked With
Our work has moved through the League of Conservation Voters, Leadership for Educational Equity, the Mayor of Oakland’s Office, the Mexican Embassy, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Eighth Blackbird, Opera Philadelphia, Midori & Friends, Sesame Workshop, Minnesota Humanities Center, the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, Yerkes Observatory, The Great Northern Festival, New York String Orchestra / Carnegie Hall, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Theater Mu, Sanpaolo Bank, Teach For America, SOLIDARIOS Madird, and education systems in Zuni, New Mexico and Sri Lanka.