The statement
The outcome or reporting statement being examined stays explicit instead of disappearing into a slide deck or narrative.
Evidence infrastructure
What CIIS does
CIIS keeps outcome statements connected to source evidence, context and known limitations for human review inside some IIL engagements.
Collaborative Impact Intelligence System (CIIS) exists because outcome statements often become separated from the evidence, context and limitations behind them. CIIS helps keep those parts together inside some Impact Intelligence Lab engagements.
Impact Intelligence Lab leads the evaluation, facilitation and advisory work. CIIS supports that work when a persistent evidence record is useful.
Evidence surfaces. People decide. Limits stay visible.
What CIIS keeps visible
The value is not an automated verdict. It is a clearer record that another person can inspect, question and review.
The evidence
Sources, measures and dated measurements can stay connected to the programme or outcome they help describe.
The context and limits
Source, date, context and known limitations remain visible so the evidence is not read as more certain than it is.
The human judgement
IIL provides interpretation and professional judgement. People remain responsible for what the evidence means and what should be published.
A connected evidence environment
Sources, programme and outcome context, measures, statements, review and lineage are related parts of one evidence record. The record supports human review; it does not decide what is true or what should be published.
System view · illustrative5 layers, 1 decision
↑ People decide
Judgement and sign-off stay with your team
05Lineage
A record of sources and limits, not permission to publish
04Review and limits
Gaps, flags and limits stay visible
03Statements
A statement kept with supporting evidence and context
02Structure
Outcomes, measures and evidence on one spine
01Sources
Programme records, surveys and case notes stay attached
What CIIS never does
- Prove impact or validate outcomes on its own.
- Replace executive, clinical, policy, evaluation, or programme oversight judgement.
- Decide for you what may go to a board, funder, or the public. That call stays with your people.
- Turn weak evidence into certainty or strong-sounding claims.
Current capability
What CIIS does today
See what CIIS does today for what is available in a restricted pilot, what is available with conditions, and what is not offered.
Quick answers
Plain-language definitions of CIIS, its role and the human authority boundary.
- What is CIIS?
- CIIS (Collaborative Impact Intelligence System) is governed evidence infrastructure used inside some Impact Intelligence Lab engagements to keep outcome statements connected to source evidence, context and known limitations for human review. IIL leads the professional work; CIIS supports it.
- What can CIIS keep together?
- In a restricted pilot, CIIS can hold programme and outcome context, measures, dated measurements, evidence source details, context, known limitations and relationships between outcomes, measures and evidence. Some intake paths and review steps depend on the written scope.
- Does CIIS use AI to make decisions?
- No. User-facing AI is not offered today, and CIIS does not make evaluation, funding, policy or publication decisions.
- Is CIIS the same as Collaborative Intelligence H+AI?
- No. CIIS is the Collaborative Impact Intelligence System developed by Impact Intelligence Lab. It is evidence infrastructure and should not be inferred to be a generic human-plus-AI, collective-intelligence, or multi-agent AI framework because of the word Collaborative in its name.
- Who decides what the evidence means?
- People do. Impact Intelligence Lab provides human evaluation, interpretation and professional judgement. CIIS does not approve claims, make evaluation conclusions or decide what should be published.
- Is CIIS available as self-serve software?
- No. CIIS is pilot-stage software operated by Impact Intelligence Lab in a restricted environment. Access and the evidence in scope are agreed as part of a written engagement.
Explore a scoped use of CIIS
An IIL conversation can identify whether a restricted CIIS pilot fits the evidence question in front of you.
Scope a CIIS pilot