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What CIIS does

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 flagship platform from Impact Intelligence Lab. It helps NGOs, community organisations, councils, and public-purpose teams test claims against evidence 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 can be said

Connect outcome statements to source evidence, context, review status, and the assumptions used to interpret them.

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.

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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.
  • Replace executive, clinical, policy, 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 pilot conversation.
  • 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: Claim Readiness Report — internal recovery workbook 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 launch features. For the detailed live, conditional, planned, and not-CIIS picture, see Current status.

See CIIS in context

Request a guided pilot conversation scoped to your outcomes, evidence, and reporting needs.

Test your weakest claim