The practice

A room off Suwinthawong Road, still drawing the week.

A small night studio with wood shelves, ivory paper, and a copper lamp
The drawing roomMin Buri

Name and year

The official registered business name is Think Ripple Analytics Co., Ltd. The company was established in 2016.

That year Mali Thongchai finished a recount of evening boardings on the eastern stretch of the Sukhumvit line, during the station-extension period. Supervisors would read a drawn plate. They would not open the spreadsheet that held the same hours. She rented a room off Suwinthawong Road and began taking commissions. The office is still at 45/3 Suwinthawong Road, Saen Saep, Min Buri, Bangkok 10510.

Niran Somsak joined in 2018 and took over the draughting. The practice remains two people, plus a printer we trust in Lat Krabang for the ivory stock. We have not opened a second room.

How a file is treated

We read the counts before we draw them. The week is named on the plate, including Songkran, a substitute holiday, or a day the Saen Saep boats did not run. We sit with the people who use the sheet, not only with the person who sent the file. Your counts are not reused on another client's plate.

English and Thai are both used in sittings and in the notes. The language is chosen when the commission is agreed.

The two of us

Portrait of Mali Thongchai seated in a wood-paneled room
Mali Thongchai Principal. She reads the files and writes the notes. Before 2016 she spent years on survey crews along the Airport Rail Link and the eastern bus trunks, counting boardings that later had to be explained to a desk.
Portrait of Niran Somsak beside a dark wood table
Niran Somsak Draughtsman since 2018. He draws the plates and refuses to stretch a thin midday so that it matches the peak. He leads the sitting when the room wants the page explained from the ink outward.

Beside the canal

Saen Saep is not a backdrop. The boats pass this road, and a hard rain still stops them. Living next to that service is why a weekly average makes us suspicious. A pier count that hides a cancelled hour is the same kind of lie as a station total that hides the 18:10.

If you want the longer version of how we name a corridor, it is on the corridors page. Fees start on the rates page.