Community
Readiness
Intelligence™
Better understanding. Better decisions.
Stronger families. Thriving communities.
CRI combines powerful data and analytics with community intelligence to help leaders understand not only what is happening, but why—and what to do next.
A more complete picture of readiness.
Community Readiness Intelligence™ is a decision intelligence capability designed to help leaders understand the interconnected conditions shaping people, organizations, industries, and places.
CRI brings together quantitative data, economic analysis, institutional knowledge, stakeholder intelligence, and community voice—revealing patterns and relationships that are often difficult to see when these sources are considered independently.
The result is a richer understanding of where readiness exists, where barriers persist, how conditions interact, and where action or investment can have the greatest impact.
Two forms of intelligence.
One picture.
Data + Analytics
CRI leverages Potomac, Lafayette Square Technologies' powerful place-based data and analytics engine, to integrate complex datasets, identify patterns across systems, and surface the economic, workforce, and regional conditions influencing outcomes.
Building on that intelligence, CRI incorporates simulation and scenario mapping to help leaders explore how conditions may evolve, test assumptions, understand potential tradeoffs, and examine how different interventions could influence outcomes before committing resources at scale.
Community + Context
Kin & Commons brings the human and institutional intelligence necessary to understand what the data alone cannot reveal. Through community engagement, trust-building, stakeholder intelligence, and ecosystem orchestration, K&C surfaces the lived experiences, institutional dynamics, local knowledge, and community voices shaping conditions on the ground.
This intelligence helps CRI understand not only what the data shows, but why those patterns exist, how people experience them, and what may be required to change them.
The intelligence is
in the intersection.
Data reveals the patterns. Community intelligence reveals the conditions behind them. Simulation helps us explore what could happen next. CRI brings all three together to give leaders a more complete view of the systems they are trying to influence—and a stronger foundation for deciding where and how to act.
Understand the conditions.
Explore what comes next.
See
Integrate data and analytics to surface patterns, assets, barriers, and changing conditions.
Understand
Add community voice, institutional knowledge, and local context to understand what sits behind the data.
Explore
Use simulation and scenario mapping to test assumptions, explore interventions, and understand potential tradeoffs.
Act
Translate intelligence into clearer priorities, coordinated decisions, and more informed investment.
Conditions don't operate in isolation.
A workforce challenge may also be a transportation challenge. A retention problem may be connected to housing, childcare, healthcare, or workplace conditions. An education pipeline may look strong in aggregate while people are still falling out of it at critical transition points.
CRI examines these conditions as an interconnected system—helping leaders understand where barriers compound, where assets reinforce one another, and where intervention can have the greatest effect.
Built differently
by design.
Community Readiness Intelligence™ is a joint initiative of Kin & Commons and Lafayette Square Technologies, created around a shared conviction: consequential decisions require a fuller understanding of the systems, institutions, communities, and people they affect.
Lafayette Square Technologies brings powerful data infrastructure, analytics, economic intelligence, and technology through Potomac. Kin & Commons brings expertise in community engagement, trust-building, ecosystem orchestration, and elevating community voice.
CRI brings these capabilities together—not as separate workstreams, but as a single intelligence approach designed to continuously connect data with context, analysis with experience, and insight with action.
Intelligence designed
for action.
CRI is designed to support leaders confronting complex decisions across regions, industries, institutions, and communities—from workforce and economic development to major public and private investment.
The goal is not more data. It is better understanding: what is happening, why it is happening, how conditions interact, what could happen next, and where leaders can act with greater confidence.
Interested in applying CRI to your organization or region?