See what can be said
Connect outcome statements to source evidence, context, review status, and the assumptions used to interpret them.
Evidence infrastructure
What CIIS does
CIIS connects evidence to outcome statements, shareability, cautions, and the next action required before reporting.
Collaborative Impact Intelligence System (CIIS) is the evidence infrastructure Impact Intelligence Lab builds and operates as part of its practice. It helps NGOs, community organisations, councils, and public-purpose teams see what their evidence supports before reports go out.
Important boundary
CIIS is not an automated decision engine and not a full grant CRM. It supports human judgement with structured evidence; people remain accountable for decisions.
What you can do with CIIS
See what the evidence supports, and what it does not
Surface evidence strength, gaps, cautions, and data quality issues before information is shared.
Use reporting lenses carefully
Interpret the same evidence for different audiences where the implementation and evidence support that lens.
Ready to share
Prepare performance information for executive, funder, and grant reporting conversations with evidence context carried through.
People stay in charge of decisions
CIIS supports accountable judgement. It does not automate funding, program oversight, or policy decisions.
CIIS · Collaborative Impact Intelligence System
Visible evidence. Visible limitations.
CIIS shows what supports a claim, what limits it, and what to do next.
Evidence stack
- Evidence type
- Third-party evaluation
- Review state
- Under review
- Decision-use eligibility
- With limitations
- Uncertainty
- Medium
- Next action
- Request comparability check
Claim permissions
Report-eligible
Supported and safe to include.
With limitations
Usable, but caveats must stay visible.
Internal only
Useful for learning, not external reporting.
Blocked
Not ready to claim.
Limitations are design features, not footnotes.
What CIIS does not do
- Prove impact or validate outcomes on its own.
- Replace executive, clinical, policy, evaluation, or program oversight judgement.
- Grant board, funder, or public reporting permission, that authority stays with your governance process.
- Turn weak evidence into certainty or strong-sounding claims.
- Offer open self-serve access without a guided engagement.
- Act as a full grant lifecycle CRM or automated funding decision engine.
Data and import reality
- CSV is the primary bulk import path for spreadsheet-style data.
- Excel export is strong; native multi-sheet Excel import is not a launch feature.
- Document and manual-entry workflows are scoped by deployment and pilot context.
- Quality checks are described as roughly dozens, not a fixed hype count.
Reporting today
The public report story is deliberately narrow. The CIIS Executive Impact Summary is the primary reporting output today, with other outputs conditional on evidence, pilot scope, and release path.
- Primary: CIIS Executive Impact Summary where evidence and review support it.
- Conditional: Unified Impact, funder, and grant reporting outputs where scoped.
- Also available: Evidence Gap Workbook, internal recovery only. Helps identify evidence gaps and blocked claims; does not grant board, funder, or public reporting permission.
Older eight-report, open self-serve, and full grant-lifecycle messages are not current product offers. For Live, Conditional, Developing, and Not offered detail, see Current status.
Quick answers
Citeable product definitions. Status detail lives on Current status.
- What is CIIS?
- CIIS (Collaborative Impact Intelligence System) is evidence infrastructure from Impact Intelligence Lab. It helps teams connect outcomes, measures, and evidence so reports can show what is safe to use, what remains limited, and what should not yet be relied on. Human judgement stays accountable; CIIS does not replace it.
- Is CIIS available as self-serve software?
- No. CIIS is offered through guided conversations and a restricted pilot pathway scoped to a real reporting question or claim. It is not open self-serve general availability.
See CIIS in context
Scope a restricted CIIS pilot around your outcomes, evidence, and reporting pressure.
Scope a CIIS pilot