ABOUT XL
Senior expertise. Practical innovation. A company built to help organizations turn information into better decisions and stronger performance.
XL Strategic Information is a U.S.-based, women-owned consulting and technology firm helping organizations strengthen data strategy, digital systems, analytics, AI, MERL, and performance improvement. We combine senior technical leadership with hands-on implementation, local expertise, and a flexible network of specialists to solve complex information and operational challenges.
WHO WE ARE
A senior-led consulting and technology firm built around data, systems, intelligence, and performance.
XL Strategic Information helps organizations turn complex information and operational challenges into practical solutions. We work across data strategy, digital platforms, analytics and decision intelligence, AI and automation, MERL, and performance improvement—connecting technical expertise with the realities of implementation.
Senior-Led by Design
Experienced professionals remain close to the work, providing technical direction, quality oversight, and hands-on problem solving.
Global + Locally Grounded
XL combines U.S.-based leadership, deep Mozambique experience, and an international network of specialists and partners to adapt solutions to the environments where they must work.
Technical + Operational
We do more than analyze problems. XL designs and builds systems, dashboards, workflows, platforms, tools, and operating processes that organizations can actually use.
Flexible by Structure
Our core team can expand with specialized consultants and trusted partners, allowing XL to assemble the expertise required for each assignment without unnecessary organizational layers.
What makes XL different: we connect strategy, technology, analytics, evidence, and implementation rather than treating them as separate disciplines.
WHAT DEFINES XL
Six principles shape how we think, build, partner, and deliver.
XL is designed around a small set of principles that guide both client delivery and the systems we build. They help us stay practical, responsive, technically rigorous, and focused on solutions that create lasting value.
Senior Expertise
Experienced professionals remain close to the work, bringing judgment, technical depth, and hands-on problem solving.
Integrated Thinking
We connect strategy, data, technology, analytics, AI, MERL, and performance rather than treating them as separate workstreams.
Practical Innovation
Innovation matters when it improves how people work. We focus on tools, systems, automation, and approaches that are usable, maintainable, and fit for purpose.
Local Context
Solutions are adapted to institutional realities, operating constraints, language, culture, workflows, capacity, and the people expected to use them.
Flexibility
XL can combine core leadership, specialized consultants, and trusted partners around the needs of each engagement.
Results Focus
We design around the decisions, behaviors, and performance improvements the work is intended to enable, not simply the deliverables produced.
Together, these principles define the XL approach: technically strong, locally grounded, flexible in delivery, and focused on outcomes that matter.
OUR STORY & EVOLUTION
Built from deep strategic-information experience—and evolving into a broader data, technology, and decision-intelligence company.
XL began with a strong foundation in monitoring, evaluation, strategic information, health information systems, data quality, analytics, and performance improvement. Over time, that experience has expanded into digital platforms, workflow automation, AI-enabled decision support, configurable business systems, and proprietary solutions such as the REI System and XL CRM.
Strategic Information Foundations
MERL, PEPFAR SI, data quality, reporting, dashboards, health information systems, and program performance.
Analytics & Decision Support
Expanded use of data visualization, performance dashboards, district profiles, modeling, quantitative analysis, and decision-support products.
Digital Platforms & Performance Systems
Development of digital learning tools, configurable workflows, CQI/PDSA approaches, and integrated operational systems.
AI, Automation & Decision Intelligence
Greater emphasis on workflow automation, connected systems, governed AI, decision rules, and intelligent operational support.
XL-Built Platforms & Scalable Solutions
REI System, XL CRM, modular business systems, and reusable architectures that can be configured across industries and use cases.
XL’s evolution reflects a consistent idea: better decisions require more than data, they require trusted systems, usable tools, strong workflows, and the ability to turn evidence into action.
LEADERSHIP
Senior leadership stays close to the work.
XL’s leadership model is intentionally hands-on. Senior leaders remain directly involved in strategy, technical direction, client engagement, quality assurance, solution design, and delivery—helping ensure that expertise is applied where it matters most.
Carla Xavier Lee Executive Director & Principal Consultant
Carla leads XL’s technical direction and delivery across strategic information, MERL, health information systems, data quality, analytics, digital systems, decision intelligence, and performance improvement. Her work combines deep technical expertise with practical implementation, helping organizations strengthen the systems and evidence behind better decisions.
Daniel Lee
Chief Growth Officer
Daniel leads XL’s growth, partnerships, business development, market positioning, and strategic expansion. He works across XL’s service lines and partnerships to connect the firm’s technical capabilities with new clients, markets, collaborators, and opportunities.
Leadership at XL is not separated from delivery. Senior leaders remain engaged from strategy and solution design through implementation, quality, and client partnership.
XL GLOBAL NETWORK
A flexible network of specialists and partners that expands XL’s reach without adding unnecessary layers.
XL’s delivery model combines a senior core team with trusted consultants, technical specialists, country-based professionals, and partner organizations. This allows us to bring in the right expertise for each assignment while staying agile, context-aware, and closely connected to client needs.
VALUES & HOW WE WORK
How we work matters as much as what we deliver.
XL’s values shape how we engage clients, design solutions, work with partners, and make decisions. We aim to be technically rigorous, practical, transparent, collaborative, and accountable—while keeping client needs and long-term usability at the center of the work.
Integrity & Accountability
We communicate clearly, honor commitments, document decisions, and take responsibility for the quality of our work.
Client Partnership
We listen first, work collaboratively, and design around the client’s actual priorities, constraints, and operating environment.
Technical Excellence
We bring disciplined methods, strong analysis, quality assurance, and appropriate technology to each engagement.
Practicality
Solutions must work in the real world. We favor usable tools, clear processes, maintainable systems, and realistic implementation approaches.
Learning & Improvement
We treat implementation as an opportunity to learn—using evidence, feedback, and performance data to refine both the solution and the way it is delivered.
Respect for Context
We recognize that institutions, communities, markets, and countries operate differently. Good solutions reflect local knowledge, culture, capacity, and ownership.
Our standard is simple: deliver work we are proud to stand behind, in a way that clients and partners value working with.
WORK WITH XL
Bring senior expertise, practical innovation, and a flexible delivery model to your next challenge.
XL works with organizations that need stronger data, systems, analytics, AI, MERL, and performance improvement. Whether the need is strategic, technical, operational, or implementation-focused, we bring the right combination of leadership, specialists, local expertise, and partners to move the work forward.