Quickstart
From API key to your first stored and queried indicator report in ten minutes. Start →
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Common Approach Lab
A platform to build data capsules and bring your impact data to life. Build and exchange capsules in the console, or integrate through the Lab API.
Data standards for developers
The Common Impact Data Standard’s five core classes, how they link, and a worked example. Read more →
How Lab works
The console for senders and receivers, the API for developers, and how data gets in — modeling calls or capsule import — is validated, and comes back out. Read more →
Common Impact Data Standard
A shared ontology for impact data, so organizations and funders can exchange impact models and results regardless of how they measure. Conformance tiers, SHACL validation, examples, and code lists. Read more →
API reference
Every endpoint, grouped: namespaces, organizations, outcomes, indicators, indicator reports, table reads, capsules, export, jobs, Common Framework. Read more →
Console
Choose a role, build and exchange capsules in the browser, manage namespaces and API keys, and try endpoints in the Playground. Read more →
New to the Common Impact Data Standard? Start with the CIDS MAP overview or the non-technical intro on commonapproach.org.