Kinaki

Spec sheet

What it does

Kinaki is cloud software for nonprofit monitoring and evaluation that combines data collection, management, analysis, reporting and project-progress tracking.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Purpose

Kinaki is monitoring and evaluation software for nonprofits to collect and manage data, analyze it, and report on project progress.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Audience

Kinaki describes itself as serving nonprofits and says its tools are designed for monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning work.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Support

Kinaki lists live chat, training resources, one-on-one help from M&E specialists, self-paced courses, video tutorials, and an online user guide.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Headquarters

Pilsen, Czech Republic, and Ottawa, CanadaRead 28 Sep 2026 · kinaki.ca

Founded

2012Read 28 Sep 2026 · kinaki.ca

Maker

Kinaki says it is brought to users by Salanga, a social-enterprise organization specializing in impact measurement and MEAL.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Analysis

Users can calculate indicators, create disaggregations, compare datasets, choose chart types and add narrative, images and quotations to results.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Company founding

LinkedIn lists Salanga’s founding year as 2006.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company headquarters

LinkedIn lists Ottawa, Ontario as Salanga’s headquarters and shows a second office in Pilsen, Czech Republic.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company product description

LinkedIn describes Kinaki as an out-of-the-box cloud platform for data collection and management, analysis and reporting.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company size

LinkedIn lists Salanga as a privately held nonprofit organization with 11–50 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Dashboards

Project and program dashboards show project information, indicators, status updates and portfolio-level views with filters.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Data collection

Kinaki provides an online form builder with multiple question types, skip logic, shareable links, and real-time results.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Data collection integrations

Kinaki can import or export forms and data involving KoboToolbox, ODK and SurveyCTO, and can import Excel files.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Data management

The data-management area supports review, cleaning, revision tracking, dataset archiving, approval and merging.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Data ownership

The privacy policy says customer organizations own and manage data stored in Kinaki, while administrators may access project data for support and service improvement unless a project is kept private.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

External data tools

Kinaki supports data exchange with KoBoToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, and Excel; KoBo and ODK support online, mobile, and offline collection methods.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

GDPR rights

The policy describes access, correction, deletion, objection, restriction, portability and consent-withdrawal rights for European Economic Area users.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Hosting location

The policy says data is stored in Canada, may be temporarily transferred elsewhere for service continuity, and is not normally stored in the EU unless requested.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Independent company history

A 2018 Ottawa Coalition of International Cooperation presentation described Salanga as a private SME founded in 2007 whose profits were reinvested into Kinaki and small-NGO work.Read 15 Oct 2026 · ocic.on.ca

Independent product development

A 2024 résumé states that David Valenta led Kinaki design and testing as Salanga’s data scientist and product manager from 2019 to 2023, after designing and testing functions from 2017 to 2019.Read 15 Oct 2026 · valenta.dev

Independent project scale

The same presentation reported Salanga working with 25 organizations on more than 30 projects ranging from CAD 200,000 to CAD 27 million.Read 15 Oct 2026 · ocic.on.ca

Independent usage scale

That 2018 presentation said Kinaki had analyzed and aggregated data from more than 20,000 individuals.Read 15 Oct 2026 · ocic.on.ca

Integration scope

The privacy policy names possible integrations or connections involving Asana, WordPress, Zapier, Google, Google Fusion Tables and Microsoft BI using open standards and user authorization.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Language limit

Project and indicator content can be customized in multiple languages, but the main menu and general interface remain in English.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Limit: implementation effort

The ADRA report said early implementation challenges were also encountered while introducing Kinaki.Read 15 Oct 2026 · adranorge.no

Limit: software cannot replace MEL capacity

A Salanga presentation cautioned that software cannot replace monitoring-and-evaluation capacity and that focusing only on initial costs can create significant later expenses.Read 15 Oct 2026 · ocic.on.ca

Maker identity

Kinaki is operated by Salanga Inc., which the privacy policy identifies as the service provider.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Notable dated update

The release notes say a June 2024 update added public or password-protected report links and organization-logo customization.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Online forms

Its form builder supports multiple question types, skip logic, shareable links and real-time response collection.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Organization dashboards

Program and organization dashboards summarize projects and can filter program views by country, theme, or other configured filters.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Plan limits

The pricing page says Unlimited Plan project access applies to one legal entity and directs projects over $12,000,000 CAD to request customized pricing.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Praise: onboarding

An ADRA Norway progress report said partner users reached good proficiency after Kinaki training delivered in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Myanmar.Read 15 Oct 2026 · adranorge.no

Project design

Teams can build problem trees, logic models, logframes, theories of change and indicator frameworks with drag-and-drop editing.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Release history

The release-notes page records December 2024 dashboard, analysis and visual-report improvements plus earlier 2024, 2023 and 2022 changes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Reporting

Kinaki offers visual and table-based project reports, and program reports that aggregate results across projects.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Reports

Kinaki provides visual reports, table-based reports and program reports that aggregate projects.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Security and hosting

The Enterprise plan lists a standalone data repository or a data repository in the EU and single sign-on via OAuth.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Security statement

Salanga says it does not intentionally sell or share private information, while acknowledging that no internet transmission or storage method is completely secure.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Subprocessors

Listed subprocessors include Microsoft Azure in Canada, GoSquared and Mailchimp in the UK, MailMunch and Userpilot in the United States.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Support and training

The maker offers one-on-one support, self-paced courses, live chat, video tutorials and a searchable online guide.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

User roles

The documented roles are Member, Project Admin, Program Admin and Organizational Admin, each with different editing and user-management rights.Read 15 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Users

The pricing FAQ says paid subscriptions include unlimited users, with access configurable through admin or member rights.Read 2 Oct 2026 · kinaki.ca

Plans and prices

Every Kinaki plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

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