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§ Services · Section C · The Portfolio
Six instruments · One standard

Instruments
for a listening
republic.

In this portfolio ↙
  • i   Opinion & Exit Poll ··· p. C1
  • ii  Survey App ··· p. C2
  • iii Live Telecast ··· p. C3
  • iv Party Manifesto ··· p. C4
  • v   Print Campaign ··· p. C5
  • vi Social Media Campaign ··· p. C6
i
Opinion & Exit Poll
CAPI · 11 languages
ii
Survey App
GPS · Native CAPI
iii
Live Telecast
Multi-channel · Real-time
iv
Party Manifesto
Research + drafting
v
Print Campaign
OOH · Press · Wraps
vi
Social Media Campaign
Listening · Creative · Paid
§ C1 · Opinion & Exit Poll

Booth-level truth,
nation-scale.

The instrument the firm is best known for. A national wave with a state-representative oversample, conducted in respondents' own languages, with the margin and confidence interval disclosed on every estimate. Available on request

i

Opinion & Exit Poll

A wave is not a number. It is a signed estimate, an interval, a margin, and a field log.

Our pre-poll and exit operations combine a booth-level sampling frame, native-language interviews, and post-stratification calibration to known population frames. Every figure published is attributed to a named researcher.

For exit operations we deploy field teams across polling day, with audio audit and back-checking on a share of interviews before any estimate is released. Available on request

Wave
National pre-poll Full-constituency frame; sample and margin disclosed with each release.
Available on request
Wave
State pre-poll Oversample on marginal seats for a sharper state-level read.
Available on request
Wave
Exit operation Day-of voting, native-language interviews at the booth.
SAME-DAY
Note
Constituency profile Booth-clustered hyper-local read for a single seat.
Available on request
ii

Survey App

A native CAPI instrument built for India's language reality.

Our in-house CAPI application runs on standard Android tablets, offline-first with deferred upload over low-bandwidth networks. Every interview carries an audio record, a GPS lock, and a back-check seed.

Routing logic, multilingual question banks, and disclosure cards are managed by the central research team. Interviewers in the field cannot edit completed cases. A share of interviews is sampled for supervisor review the same evening.

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Module
Question routing Branching by demographic, prior answers, and language — no manual skips.
CORE
Module
Audio audit 12% of interviews recorded for back-check; flagged if confidence < 0.78.
CORE
Module
GPS validation Polling-area geofence; out-of-area interviews are auto-discarded.
CORE
Module
Roster removal Drop-off model for absent respondents; flagged via δ formula in methodology.
CORE
iii

Live Telecast

Polling-day live coverage for India's leading networks.

Matrize provides on-air psephology desks for national and regional networks during state and general elections � multi-language anchor support, a real-time seat-projection graphics package, and on-camera commentary. Available on request

Our control room in Noida pushes constituency-level updates to network graphics through the count, with fall-back to the last confirmed wave. Anchors receive a confidence grade on every estimate so on-air language stays honest.

Service
On-air psephology desk Analyst-led commentary, multi-language, through the live window.
Available on request
Service
Graphics feed Real-time seat projection, margin band, and swing maps.
LOWER-THIRD
Service
Constituency desk Hyper-local read on demand for any seat during the live window.
ON-DEMAND
Service
Post-poll debrief Signed re-statement after the final count; published in our error log.
Available on request
iv

Party Manifesto

A manifesto is not a brochure. It is the contract a party signs with the voter.

We research, draft and produce party manifestos end-to-end — ground sentiment to constituency-level promise specificity. Hindi-first treatment with regional-language editions in 11 languages and full English crossover.

Each manifesto goes through three reviews: factual (claims, statistics, costings); legal (constitutional and ECI-code compliance); and editorial (tone, cadence, readability). Available on request

Phase
Sentiment harvest State-of-the-electorate survey, focus groups in 4 regions, NGO consultation.
28 DAYS
Phase
Promise specificity audit Promises rated A/B/C on costing, deliverability, jurisdiction. C-grades flagged.
14 DAYS
Phase
Drafting & design Hindi-first, English crossover, regional editions, hardcover & pocket formats.
21 DAYS
Phase
Launch package Press kit, surrogate briefing book, social cards, regional pull-quotes.
7 DAYS
v

Print Campaign

Print is not dead. It is where commitment is published.

Mainline daily press, regional-language press, outdoor (OOH), bus wraps, hoarding networks, district-level handbills. We plan, design and place full print campaigns at the constituency, state and national tier — measured by reach, recall and recall-after-7-days.

Our planning team holds standing relationships with publishers across multiple languages. OOH placement uses rate-card-tracked sites with verified share-of-voice reporting. Available on request

Surface
Mainline press Front-page strips, full-page jackets, editorial-page op-eds.
Available on request
Surface
Regional press District-tier insertions, vernacular creative crafted natively.
Available on request
Surface
Outdoor / OOH Hoardings, bus wraps, station media, mobile vans. Rate-card-tracked.
RATE-CARD
Surface
District handbills Hyper-local, booth-tier collateral; printing & distribution audit.
BOOTH-TIER
vi

Social Media Campaign

Listening first. Posting second.

Full-spectrum social: narrative listening on X, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook; daily sentiment summary; creative cell with vernacular video, motion and karyakarta toolkits; and paid distribution under verified-handle compliance.

Every campaign reports on three KPIs we believe in — sentiment delta (Δ +/-), salience share-of-voice, and conversion-to-pledge. We do not optimise for vanity reach.

Cell
Listening & sentiment Multi-platform monitoring with a transparent sentiment classifier, audited regularly.
CORE
Cell
Creative production Vernacular video, motion, karyakarta-pack templates; native in 11 languages.
CORE
Cell
Paid distribution Verified-handle media planning, ECI-compliant boosting, MCC silence honour.
CORE
Cell
Counter-narrative cell Mis-information triage, mainstream-press anchoring, factual rebuttal pack.
RESPONSE
2014
Year founded
11+
Languages in field
6+
Media partners
36
States polled
50+
Elections covered
§ C7 · Engagement model

From brief to signed wave.

Every engagement follows the same rail � from sealed brief to signed, disclosed publication. Each figure is attributed to a named researcher, without exception.

Brief
Intake
Sealed brief from the commissioner. Scope, geography, deliverable and publication rights agreed.
Design
Instrument
Questionnaire authored, validated and translated into the languages of the field. Piloted before launch.
Field
Deployment
Native-language CAPI activation, with live monitoring of completion rates and flag scores.
Audit
Back-check
Audio audit and re-interview of a share of cases. Cases that fail the check are rejected.
Model
Calibration
Weighting and calibration against known population frames, with a seat projection reported as a range.
Sign
Publication
Attributed to a named researcher; margin and field dates disclosed.

Commission a brief.
Read the methodology.

Every figure published by Matrize is attributed to a named researcher and disclosed with its margin and field dates. Our full methodology � sampling, weighting, modelling, error log � is set out on the methodology page.

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§ Coda · The standard

Six instruments.
One standard.
Signed work.

Margin disclosure

Every figure published with its sampling margin, field dates and confidence interval. Without exception.

Method open

Our weighting, calibration and modelling notes are published with every wave. Replication on request.

Client agnostic

We publish what the field returns. Findings are not adjusted for the political colour of who commissioned them.