About INDAGATUS
INDAGATUS is a science-led problem-solving and solution-development firm helping organisations understand complex systems, develop practical solutions, and support implementation toward measurable outcomes.
The firm combines Applied Natural Science, environmental stewardship, technical advisory, market development, and implementation support to address challenges that rarely fit neatly into one discipline or service category.
INDAGATUS works best where science, stewardship, products, people, markets, and implementation realities need to be understood together.
Built Around Three Commitments
Science-Led Understanding
Complex challenges require careful diagnosis, evidence, systems thinking, and interpretation before solutions are proposed. Evidence is used to define the problem, not only to justify a recommendation after the fact.
Responsible Stewardship
Solutions must be technically sound, environmentally responsible, operationally realistic, and aligned with long-term outcomes. A solution that cannot be sustained by the people who inherit it has not solved anything.
Practical Implementation
The work does not stop at advice. INDAGATUS supports the pathway from understanding and strategy to field realities, partners, adoption, and delivery.
Founder and Principal Scientist
Dr André Laas
Dr André Laas is an Applied Natural Scientist with more than two decades of experience across biological sciences, water science, public health, environmental systems, technical advisory, stewardship, and implementation support.
His work combines scientific interpretation, systems thinking, product and market understanding, stakeholder engagement, and practical delivery support. This allows INDAGATUS to help organisations move from complex challenges to evidence-based decisions and implementable solutions.
- 20+ years scientific and environmental experience
- 15+ years in public health, pest management, vector control, and stewardship
- Experience supporting multinational organisations, technology providers, public-sector stakeholders, researchers, and implementation partners across Africa
How INDAGATUS Works With Clients
INDAGATUS operates as a specialist practice rather than a large consultancy. Engagements are led directly, and specialist capacity is brought in through researchers, technology providers, contractors, and implementation partners according to what the work requires.
This structure suits organisations that need senior technical judgement applied to a specific problem, and that value continuity of the person doing the thinking across the assessment, design, and delivery stages.