TekmerisEconomic decision infrastructure
Research-grade methods, deterministic validation, and reusable software for institutions that cannot afford opaque results.
source.register()completedata.ingest()completemodel.construct()completechecks.run()passedreport.publish()ready01 / Research proof
Papers are research outputs and disciplined product discovery. Nothing enters the toolkit until a real analysis needs it.
Data · Model
A transparent construction and audit framework applied to South Africa, Kenya, and the Netherlands, with registered sources, reproducible pipelines, validation reports, and a complete replication package.
Software · Pipeline
The software metapaper documents the open-source toolkit, its verification architecture, and its validation across five countries and three exercise types.
Data · Model · Audit
A reproducibility, reconciliation, backtesting, and extension study of Senegal’s official SAM series, using ANSD’s supply-use tables and institutional accounts to cover 2014–2023.
02 / Toolkits
The first in a growing family of Tekmeris toolkits: a Python package for reproducible construction and auditing of national social accounting matrices from official statistics.
Inspect the codeedikit.dataOfficial-data readers, concordances, and accounting checks at ingestion.
edikit.modelAccount taxonomies, balancing, coverage assertions, and per-cell diagnostics.
edikit.reportAudit-ready workbooks with live formulas, totals, and balance checks.
edikit.pipelineEnd-to-end generation and verification workflows built on the tested library.
03 / System architecture
The durable asset is the accumulated system of workflows, concordances, validation tests, model histories, and documented corrections.
Official sources, provenance, vintages, and concordances.
Explicit taxonomies, balancing, assumptions, and transformations.
Deterministic tests, diagnostics, and clean execution.
Auditable outputs that remain updateable after delivery.
04 / Tekmeris
Tekmeris—pronounced “tek-MEH-riss” or “tèk-MÉ-riss”—is a research-led computational economics venture. It turns rigorous papers, reproducible methods, and maintained software into systems institutions can update, inspect, and trust.
The operating rule
Each analysis should make the next one faster, cheaper, and easier to verify. Over time, the accumulated workflows, concordances, accounting rules, validation tests, model histories, and documented corrections become the durable asset.
Test a scientific question on real data and publish the evidence, code, and limitations.
Extract stable methods into maintained libraries, schemas, and model templates.
Combine validated components with versioning, scenarios, auditability, and clear exports.
Preserve corrections, model performance, forecast errors, and user evidence to improve the next version.
Long-term architecture
This is the direction of travel, not a claim that every component already exists. The current research and toolkits establish the verified foundations.
Validated, versioned, and documented economic model assets.
Forecasts, scenarios, uncertainty ranges, and performance records.
Defensible indices, peer comparisons, and methodological decompositions.
Inspectable objectives, constraints, trade-offs, and policy portfolios.
A jurisdiction-level system joining data, models, forecasts, and institutional memory.
tek-MEH-rissThe name
Tekmeris comes from the Greek tekmērion: Aristotle’s term for decisive proof, the sign from which a conclusion necessarily follows. It captures the standard behind the work: transparent evidence, explicit reasoning, and results that can be checked.
Global in ambition, with Africa as a high-impact proving ground.