Purpose-built for African research institutions

Survey data that never
disappears.

TafitiLens captures every response — including the unfinished ones. Auto-saves every 60 seconds. Brings respondents back where they left off. All data flows directly into your own Google Drive.

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Welcome back, Amara!
You reached page 4 of 6 — yesterday. Your partial response is already captured.
Background
Education
Employment
4
Skills
5
Impact
6
Feedback
How would you rate the quality of mentorship at your institution?
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Fair
Good ✓
Very Good
Excellent
● auto-saved 42s ago · 3/6 sections captured
Even if you close now, your data is safe
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Data sovereignty — your Drive, always
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From XLSForm to live survey
What we offer

Everything you'd expect.
And the layer that changes everything.

TafitiLens starts with the complete foundation every serious research platform provides. Then it adds what the rest of the industry treats as optional: a survey experience designed for the person answering it — not the enumerator deploying it — with no IT department required and every response, complete or not, staying in your own Drive.

The foundation — industry standard
  • XLSForm & ODK-compatible form design
  • Skip logic, branching & complex conditionals
  • 25+ question types (text, media, GPS, select)
  • Multi-language support
  • Rich text & custom-styled survey content
  • Direct Google Sheets integration — no database to manage
  • Live response count as submissions come in
  • CSV and Excel export
The TafitiLens layer — built on top
  • Partial response capture, on from question one — no setup required By default
  • "Continue where you left off" resume banner — no expiry Always on
  • Review all answers before submitting
  • Mobile-responsive Likert / rating matrices
  • Data lands in your own Google Drive, never on our servers You own it
  • Visual section progress stepper for respondents
  • Branded impact screen with confetti on submit
  • Zero server infrastructure required
  • Send bulk branded invitations from your own Gmail account
  • See who hasn't responded and remind them in one click New
Feature deep-dives

The details that make the difference

On by default
Partial response capture

The moment a respondent starts, TafitiLens is already saving — nothing to configure. Every 60 seconds, their current progress pushes to your Google Sheet, flagged as partial, with page reached recorded. A respondent who quits on page 3 of 7 is not lost data. They are data.

TimestampRespondentStatusPage
09:14 AM Amara D. complete 6/6
09:22 AM Kwame A. partial 3/6
09:31 AM Fatima N. partial 5/6
Drives completion
Resume where they stopped

When a respondent returns on the same device, they see a personalised banner showing their exact progress and when they left — no login, no account, nothing to remember. One tap, and they're back exactly where they stopped.

Welcome back!
Page 4 of 6 · saved 2 hours ago · data already captured
Section progress stepper

Respondents always know where they are. Completed sections mark themselves off, the active section is highlighted. Uncertainty is the top cause of survey abandonment — this eliminates it.

Background
Skills
3
Impact
4
Feedback
Mobile-first rating grids

Likert matrix questions reflow automatically on small screens — from a table grid on desktop to tappable stacked cards on mobile. No zooming. No horizontal scroll.

Technical skills
1
2
3
4
5
Leadership
1
2
3
4
5
Your data. Your Drive.

Responses submit directly from the browser to your Google Sheet. TafitiLens never touches or stores your response data — so there's nothing to export, migrate, or negotiate access to if you ever leave. Full sovereignty by architecture, not policy.

Google Sheets · Your account
Zero migration friction
Your existing XLSForms work on day one

TafitiLens is fully compatible with the XLSForm standard — the same format used across ODK, KoboToolbox, and other research platforms. If you have existing survey designs, they run on TafitiLens without modification. No vendor lock-in. No rebuild. Upload your Excel file and you're live.

# Convert your XLSForm to live survey
$ upload Alumni_Survey.xlsx
→ Converting with pyxform...
✓ Live at app.tafitilens.com/?id=Alumni_Survey
New — no TafitiLens infrastructure involved
Send bulk survey invitations — from your own Gmail

Compose once, then send branded email invitations to your full list straight from your own Google account. Your quota, your sender address, your inbox — TafitiLens never touches, stores, or relays a single email.

# Send your survey to your list
$ recipients 247 people · Alumni_Survey.xlsx
→ Sending as you@yourorg.com...
✓ 247 sent · 0 opted out · 189 opens tracked
New — one click, zero manual cross-referencing
See who hasn't responded — and remind just them

TafitiLens quietly matches every invitation you send to the response it generates. When you're ready, one click shows exactly who hasn't completed your survey yet, and sends a reminder to only those people — never a repeat message to someone who already responded, or anyone who's opted out.

# Check who's left
$ campaign Alumni_Survey · 247 invited
→ 189 completed · 58 not yet responded
✓ Reminder sent to 58 non-responders
How it works

From Excel to live survey
in three steps

No backend to manage. No IT team needed. No per-submission fees. Just your survey and your Google Drive.

1

Upload your XLSForm

Design your survey in Excel using the XLSForm standard. Upload it to TafitiLens — we convert it automatically using the same ODK engine researchers trust.

2

Connect your Google Drive

Link your Google account once. All responses — complete and partial — flow directly into a tab in your Google Sheet in real time. Your data never leaves your Drive.

3

Share and capture everything

Share a clean URL by QR code or WhatsApp — or send branded bulk email invitations straight from your own Gmail account. TafitiLens auto-saves progress as they go, and picks up exactly where they left off if they return — so no response is wasted, finished or not.

"We sent the survey to 400 alumni. 280 submitted fully. Of the remaining 120 who stopped halfway, TafitiLens captured 94 partial responses we would have otherwise lost — that's 94 data points we never had before."

Head of Impact & Measurement
Leading African University
Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.
No surprises.

No per-submission fees. No data egress charges. No feature gating behind enterprise tiers. Cancel any time.

Starter
$29/mo
For small teams running 1–3 active surveys.
  • 3 active surveys
  • 1,000 responses per month
  • Partial response capture
  • Resume banner
  • Google Drive integration
  • Section progress stepper
  • Custom domain
  • Priority support
Get started
Institution
Custom
For universities, NGOs, and multi-team organisations with governance needs.
  • Unlimited everything
  • Dedicated onboarding & training
  • White-label (your brand, our engine)
  • SLA and uptime guarantee
  • Invoice billing available
  • Data processing agreement
  • Multi-team management
  • Named account manager
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