Resources

Learn Tessera, and run programmes well.

Guides for every module, templates you can use with or without Tessera, and plain answers on how it compares.

Guides.

Getting started

Set up your workspace

Users, roles, locations and your first sector pack.

Read the guide → Forms

Build and collect a form

From a sentence or an XLSForm file to collection in the field.

Read the guide → MEAL reporting

Build your logframe

Outcomes, indicators and targets, linked to the work that feeds them.

Read the guide → Partners

Link a partner workspace

Invite a partner and have its activities count in your figures.

Read the guide → Case management

Open and refer a case

Casework, encrypted notes and consented referrals.

Read the guide → Optional AI

Connect your own AI key

Switch AI on, choose who provides it, or leave it off.

Read the guide →

Templates. Free to use, with or without Tessera.

Logframe template

A results framework with indicators, targets and sources.

Download →

Data-sharing agreement

For sharing figures between a lead and its partners.

Download →

Glossary

MEAL, protection and data protection terms, in plain language.

Open the glossary →

Compare.

Honest comparisons, including where the other tool is the better choice.

Tessera and spreadsheets

Where spreadsheets serve you well, and where they start to cost you.

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Tessera and KoboToolbox

Kobo is better for a one-off survey. Here's when you need more.

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Tessera and ActivityInfo

Reporting, plus the people and cases behind it.

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From the blog.

Guide

Five signs your reporting runs on reconciliation

If reporting week means merging spreadsheets, the problem isn't the people.

6 min read

All articles

See it shaped like your programme.

Thirty minutes with your sectors, your partners and your indicators. If it doesn't fit, we'll say so.

Book a walkthrough Data protection pack

Built by humanitarians, from over ten years in field missions with UN agencies, international NGOs and donors.