Social Sector Intelligence

Cognitive infrastructure for transformation that actually works

Most social interventions fail not from lack of resources, but from inadequate tools for reasoning about complex systems. Cognifiq builds the cognitive instruments that make system dynamics visible, timing windows actionable, and transformation pathways credible.

Capacity
What Is
Viability
What Could Be
Justice
What Should Be
Transform
Pathway
Timing
When to Act
75%
of economic development interventions fail without systems approach
38%
reduction in unbanked rates achieved with three-dimensional design
10×
improvement in outcomes versus conventional approaches
feedback loops typically invisible in standard dashboards

Why transformation efforts fail despite adequate resources and intention

Organizations approach transformation with tools designed for operations. The result is cognitive infrastructure deficit—decision-makers lack tools that preserve causal relationships, constraints, and feedback loops.

Solution-Jumping

Implementing interventions before understanding root problems. "We need better care coordination" embeds assumptions about both problem structure and solution approach.

Timing Blindness

Systems know what and who but not when. Public systems routinely fail because they cannot determine when to act—the temporal positioning of intervention relative to problem evolution.

Feedback Illiteracy

Treating outcomes as linear consequences rather than inputs to reinforcing or balancing dynamics. Missing how effects circle back to become causes in self-organizing systems.

Capacity · Viability · Justice

Every transformation initiative must address three fundamental questions. This exhaustive framework prevents the common failure modes: capacity overestimation, viability blindness, and justice neglect.

  • C

    Capacity: What Is

    Existing capability to perform required functions—resources, structures, relationships, competencies, infrastructure

  • V

    Viability: What Could Be

    Conditions for economic and operational sustainability—revenue models, cost structures, feedback dynamics, time to break-even

  • J

    Justice: What Should Be

    Ethical commitments and equity implications—power distribution, resource allocation, whose interests are served

Capacity What Is
Viability What Could Be
Justice What Should Be
Credible
Pathway

Where timing and systems dynamics determine outcomes

Cognifiq's cognitive instruments are deployed across social sector domains where traditional approaches consistently fail.

01

Healthcare Transformation

ACO development, value-based care transitions, FQHC operations, care coordination systems, population health management.

Risk Stratification Care Transitions VBC Economics
02

Financial Inclusion

Financial exclusion systems mapping, credit invisibility pathways, community wealth building, banking access barriers.

FINEX Framework Trust Dynamics Extraction Loops
03

Homelessness Prevention

Eviction prevention timing, housing stability trajectories, intervention window optimization, coordinated entry systems.

Intervenability Windows Decay Functions Trigger Events
04

Early Childhood Development

Developmental screening timing, intervention window science, family support coordination, cross-system integration.

Critical Periods Neuroplasticity Impact Decay

Decision tools that preserve system structure

Not dashboards that display data—cognitive infrastructure that enables bounded rationality to function in complex decision environments.

Know when, not just what and who

AIT reconceptualizes prioritization from need-based allocation to temporal optimization—determining where acting now versus later changes trajectories most.

Trigger Event
Clock starts
Window Opens
High leverage begins
Peak Zone
Maximum impact
Window Closes
Intervention type shifts
High Leverage
Small interventions, high returns
Medium Leverage
Larger interventions needed
Low Leverage
Different intervention type
38%
reduction in unbanked rates

Compared to typical 3-5% improvements from conventional financial empowerment approaches. Mason Square Financial Inclusion Initiative.

Three-dimensional intervention design in practice

The Mason Square Financial Inclusion Initiative demonstrated what happens when you address Capital, Culture, and Craft simultaneously—rather than focusing only on economic resources.

  • Systems mapping identified four distinct exclusion pathways requiring different interventions
  • Population heterogeneity analysis revealed that "unbanked" contains five distinct segments
  • Feedback loop taxonomy documented R1-R4 reinforcing loops and B1-B2 balancing dynamics
  • Constraint-viability matrix prioritized high-impact, high-feasibility interventions
  • Community residents participated as systems experts, not data sources
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Ready to build cognitive infrastructure for your transformation work?

We work with healthcare systems, community development organizations, and social sector practitioners who are ready to move beyond dashboards that display data to instruments that enable reasoning about complex systems.