Who it's for
Who CIIS is for
Teams that must explain outcomes to boards, funders, or partners — and need to know what the evidence actually supports.
CIIS is best suited to teams that already need to explain outcomes across programs, funders, boards, or partners, and want a clearer way to connect evidence to the statements they make. It supports more consistent reporting where definitions, measures, evidence, and reporting expectations can be made explicit - not magic standardisation without governance work.
Audience fit
First wedge
Community organisations and NGOs
If your data is scattered across spreadsheets and stories, you use CIIS to structure what you can say to boards and partners without overstating weak evidence.
Pilot example: A pilot typically tests one annual-report claim — for example participation or wellbeing wording — against survey exports and service records before publication.
Councils and local government
If you are accountable to committees or funders, you use CIIS to show what evidence can support — with limits visible before information is shared.
Pilot example: A pilot often focuses on a place-based program or grant round where committee reporting must separate what the data supports from what is still assumption.
Primary Health Networks (PHNs) and program oversight teams
If you commission programs, you use CIIS to compare progress and data quality across providers — with depth agreed in your pilot, not promised generically.
Pilot example: A pilot may compare outcome statements across two or three commissioned providers, with evidence quality and shareability visible before aggregation.
Funders, philanthropies, and impact investors
If you oversee grants, you use CIIS so grantees report with shared definitions and honest evidence limits — knowing CIIS is not a full grant management system.
Pilot example: A pilot can test whether grantee reporting language is evidence-linked before it reaches your portfolio review — without replacing your grant operations system.
Evaluation and strategy teams
If you need sources inspectable alongside conclusions, you use CIIS to support synthesis — while your professional judgement stays central.
Pilot example: A pilot usually structures a bounded set of outcome statements with inspectable sources — useful when handing findings to executives who will sign off external use.
Fit and boundaries
- Guided demos and pilots today - not self-serve general availability. See see current status.
- Grant reporting outputs can be in scope; a full grant lifecycle CRM is not a launch feature.
- Roles and depth follow the live schema and pilot agreement (for example ADMIN / USER today).
- Compliance languagestays oriented and implementation-specific - not blanket "certified" statements.
Often a weaker fit
- • Single-lens reporting with no scrutiny on evidence support
- • Real-time operational control rooms (not the core design centre)
- • Very small programs with no multi-stakeholder reporting pressure
Test your weakest claim
We will map your reporting context to what is live, pilot-scoped, and still developing - before you invest procurement time.
Test your weakest claim