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, a shareability ceiling, cautions, and the next action required before people decide what to send.
Collaborative Impact Intelligence System (CIIS) is governed impact-intelligence infrastructure developed and operated by Impact Intelligence Lab. In its current restricted release, it helps NGOs, community organisations, councils, and public-purpose teams connect outcome statements to evidence and see what that evidence can support 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.
Prepare reporting outputs
Prepare performance information for executive, funder, and grant reporting conversations, with a shareability ceiling carried through. People still decide what to send.
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
- Shareability
- Share with limits
- Uncertainty
- Medium
- Next action
- Request comparability check
Shareability status
Ready to share
Current evidence permits this level of use. Publication or use remains a human organisational decision.
Share with limits
The evidence can support this going out only with the stated limits attached. People still decide whether to send it.
Should stay internal
Useful for the team. Current evidence does not support external use yet.
Not ready to share
Missing evidence, unresolved review, or scope limits. Not a basis for sending yet.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spreadsheet export is available in pilot; 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 in facilitated guided-pilot use today. It is not a body-safe, board-ready, or funder-ready external report. Other outputs remain conditional on evidence, pilot scope, and release path.
- Primary: facilitated CIIS Executive Impact Summary in guided-pilot scope 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 statements that are not ready to share; 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 governed impact-intelligence infrastructure developed and operated by Impact Intelligence Lab. In its current restricted release, it helps teams connect outcome statements to evidence, see what that evidence can support, keep provenance and limitations visible, and carry governed evidence and claim constraints into reporting. Human evaluation, approval and organisational decisions remain with people.
- Does CIIS use AI to make decisions?
- No. User-facing AI or LLM capability is not offered in CIIS today, and CIIS does not make evaluation or organisational decisions. The current strategic roadmap contemplates bounded future assistance such as candidate extraction, classification, summarisation and gap prompts, subject to human approval and explainability. Future AI or machine-learning capability must not increase evidence strength, authorise claims or reports, make evaluation conclusions, override human review, or increase decision authority.
- Is CIIS the same as Collaborative Intelligence H+AI?
- No. CIIS is the Collaborative Impact Intelligence System developed by Impact Intelligence Lab. It is governed impact-intelligence 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.
- 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