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Where is support needed?
Identify unmet needs, participation barriers, missing connections and documented funding gaps.
See the Gaps. Find the Fit. Fund the Change.
Put capital where it can make a meaningful difference.
Map ecosystem assets, identify funding gaps and assess which organisations and interventions need what kind of support.
Explore the assessment journey before starting your own workspace.
Riverbend Valley Food Systems (Fictional)
In Progress- Funding objective
- Strengthen smallholder access to processing and markets.
- Challenge
- Post-harvest losses and weak aggregation limit smallholder incomes.
- Geography
- Riverbend Valley (fictional region)
- Time horizon
- 3 years
Next actions
How It Works
See where support is needed. Understand who can contribute. Find the capital fit.
A promising organisation may still face barriers that funding alone cannot resolve. CAPITALiiSE brings actors, assets, needs and evidence into one assessment so you can examine both the opportunity and the conditions required for progress.
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Who can contribute?
Understand the organisations, enterprises, cooperatives and community groups already working in the ecosystem.
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What support fits?
Examine whether the response calls for grants, investment, operating support, equipment, technical assistance or institutional action.
The Assessment Flow
How an assessment flows
A structured path from context to recommendation, with evidence attached at every step.
Read the methodology- 01
Define the scope
Set the funding objective, geography, sectors and the communities affected.
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Map the ecosystem
Record actors — from cooperatives and informal collectives to funders and intermediaries.
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Document needs and gaps
Capture constraints and unmet needs, each linked to evidence.
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Assess recipients and capital
Consider who could address each need and which kind of support fits.
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Compare, decide and report
Prioritise options, record decisions and share evidence-linked reports.
Inside the Dashboard
Explore what you'll find inside CAPITALiiSE.
Follow an assessment from its initial scope to an evidence-backed funding recommendation.
Define the funding objective, geography, challenge and intended outcomes. See the assessment's status and what needs attention next.
Riverbend Valley Food Systems (Fictional)
In Progress- Draft
- In Progress
- Ready for Review
- Reviewed
- Archived
- Funding objective
- Strengthen smallholder access to processing and markets.
- Challenge
- Post-harvest losses and weak aggregation limit smallholder incomes.
- Geography
- Riverbend Valley (fictional region)
- Time horizon
- 3 years
What needs attention next
- Complete the recipient assessment for Women Harvest Collective.
- Strengthen evidence for the equipment-finance gap.
- Record a decision on the dryer equipment loan.
Counts and next actions update as your own assessment grows.
Showing: Assessment Overview — fictional Riverbend Valley data. In your workspace these sections hold your own assessment.
Worked Example
From an ecosystem need to a clearer support decision.
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Understand the challenge
Smallholder farmers report post-harvest losses and limited access to processing and buyers.
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Recognise existing assets
A cooperative already aggregates produce, a local processor has relevant experience and a buyer has expressed interest.
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Examine the constraints
The assessment identifies equipment needs, inconsistent collection arrangements and gaps in working-capital evidence.
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Assess the support options
Equipment support and coordination funding warrant investigation. Working-capital suitability requires further information.
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Prepare a recommendation
The brief connects each proposed intervention to the need, potential recipient, suitable support and conditions to resolve.
The result is a reasoned recommendation with evidence and uncertainties visible.
Illustrative only — organisations, figures and outcomes are fictional and do not represent achieved results.
Outputs
Turn your assessment into a decision-ready brief.
Each output draws directly on the records and evidence in your assessment.
Ecosystem Assessment Brief
Summarises the actors, assets and relationships that shape the funding context.
Needs & Funding Gap Report
Sets out documented constraints and gaps with the evidence behind each.
Recipient Assessment Brief
Captures a potential recipient's contribution, capabilities, risks and scores.
Capital Fit Brief
Compares support options against the need and explains why an instrument may fit.
Funding Recommendation Memo
Records the proposed decision, its rationale, conditions and follow-up.
Inside the recommendation brief
Every report keeps its evidence attached and its uncertainties visible.
- 01Assessment objective and scope
- 02Relevant ecosystem actors
- 03Needs and constraints
- 04Potential recipients
- 05Suitable support options
- 06Evidence and assumptions
- 07Conditions and next steps
Reports are prepared in the dashboard and printed or saved as a brief from there.
Who It's For
Built for people deciding where support can make a difference.
CAPITALiiSE helps impact investors and funders connect ecosystem needs, existing community assets and potential recipients with suitable funding and support.
Impact investors
Examine ecosystem context, recipient readiness and the suitability of potential investment opportunities.
Foundations and grantmakers
Identify needs that call for grants, operating support, coordination or shared resources.
Innovation analysts and advisers
Organise evidence, assess opportunities and prepare clear funding recommendations.
Ecosystem intermediaries
Make existing assets, missing connections and collective support needs more visible.
What to Bring
Start with what you know. Make the gaps visible.
Begin with a funding question and the information already available. Build the assessment as you gather evidence and perspectives.
Incomplete information should remain visible as uncertainty. It is not treated as a confirmed finding.
- A geography, sector or ecosystem to examine
- A funding objective
- Known organisations and community assets
- Observed needs and constraints
- Relevant documents, notes or data
- Potential funding sources, if available
Your Account
Create an account to build and save your assessment.
Sign-up takes an email, a password and your name. From there you set up a workspace, invite colleagues and start your first assessment.
- Save assessment scope and progress
- Maintain actor and recipient records
- Connect evidence to findings
- Revisit capital-fit assessments
- Prepare reports and recommendation briefs
- Collaborate with authorised colleagues
Trust & Principles
Clear evidence. Visible assumptions. Human decisions.
What you can expect from every CAPITALiiSE assessment — and where the tool stops.
Evidence-linked findings
See the information supporting an assessment and where further verification is needed.
Context matters
Consider community assets, enabling conditions and institutional constraints.
Explainable support recommendations
Understand why an instrument may fit and which conditions remain unresolved.
Decisions stay with people
CAPITALiiSE supports assessment. Authorised users make funding decisions.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Get Started
Bring your funding question into focus.
Start an assessment that connects ecosystem needs, potential recipients and appropriate support.