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The Intelligence Layer for Health Justice

Community Catalyst is building the intelligence infrastructure to give communities and the organizations that serve them greater capacity, better intelligence, and more power to shape the systems that affect their health.

Three products. One intelligence layer.

Each product stands alone. Together they're the same three capabilities the other side of the table has always had: radar, muscle, and voice.

Product one · The muscle

Capacity Accelerator

Give community-based organizations infinite capacity to communicate, fundraise, and take action. Capacity Accelerator brings together AI, Community Catalyst expertise, and a trusted network of people and partners — giving every community-based organization the capacity to do more with what they already have.

AI Teammates

Your organization's always-on team for communications, fundraising, research, and rapid response. Create. Discover. Act.

Community Catalyst Expertise

Put Community Catalyst's research, policy expertise, tools, and resources directly into the hands of the organizations doing the work. Relevant expertise. Personalized to your community. Ready when you need it.

Human Expertise + Partner Network

When AI isn't enough, connect directly to trusted people and specialized services — from policy and legal support to strategy, design, and technical assistance. AI-powered when you want it. Human-powered when you need it.

Capacity Accelerator — Narrative and Brand System feature, showing a Community Catalyst brand kit, brand voice, and impact metrics
Narrative & Brand System — your organization's identity drives everything the AI produces
Capacity Accelerator — Social Media Post feature, generating on-brand story posts published to LinkedIn
Social Media — on-brand posts from real impact stories, automatically published
Capacity Accelerator — Community Website feature, a blog of community stories that writes itself
Community Website — a story hub that writes itself, with your community's help
Capacity Accelerator — Newsroom feature, monitoring health policy news and drafting thought leadership
Newsroom — reads the news and writes thought leadership on your behalf
Capacity Accelerator — Funding Intelligence feature, a funding board matching grants and funders to the organization
Funding Intelligence — funding opportunities, briefs, outreach plans, and key contacts

One place to get more done.

Product two · The voice

Health Justice Intelligence

Turn community voice and data into collective intelligence. A shared intelligence layer that brings together lived experience, research, data, and organizing knowledge — so communities can see what is happening, identify what is changing, and act together.

See What Communities Are Experiencing

Turn thousands of community voices into a living picture of health justice. Surface the issues, experiences, needs, and priorities emerging across communities — in real time.

Find the Signals in the Noise

AI identifies patterns that no single organization could see alone — emerging issues, geographic trends, common experiences, and gaps between what communities need and what systems are delivering.

Ask Your Community

Go from questions to insight in minutes. Ask natural-language questions across the collective intelligence layer and explore what communities are saying, where patterns are emerging, and what is changing over time.

Turn Intelligence Into Action

Move from insight to coordinated action — research, campaigns, policy priorities, communications, funding opportunities, and organizing strategies.

OverviewInsights
Your org · Community Catalyst Export CSV
Harm Types

12,544 labeled of 14,290 classified

Cost/Affordability46.8%
Access/Availability37.2%
Other6.3%
Administrative burden4.9%
Insurance denial3.7%
Discrimination/Bias1.2%
Systems That Failed

11,677 labeled of 14,290 classified

Other31.4%
Federal program22.6%
Insurance company17.0%
Hospital/provider14.7%
State government13.5%
Employer0.8%
Severity Distribution

of classified stories, level 1 (minimal) to 5 (acute)

Level 1Level 2Level 3Level 4Level 5
Outcomes

12,861 labeled of 14,290 classified

Unresolved/ongoing87.4%
Resolved positively6.3%
Unknown4.1%
Got worse2.2%

Demographics & Geography

Gender

1,342 labeled of 14,290 classified

Female79.4%
Male20.0%
Other0.6%
Age Range

2,480 labeled of 14,290 classified

65+75.0%
35–547.1%
55–646.3%
18–346.3%
Under 185.2%
Race & Ethnicity

129 labeled of 14,290 classified

Black/African American38.8%
White18.6%
Other17.1%
Hispanic/Latino11.6%
Person of Color8.5%
Insights — the live view of Community Catalyst's story corpus: 14,290 classified stories across harm types, failing systems, severity, and outcomes
Community Intelligence — a statewide policy one-pager built from 2,474 documented community stories, with harm index and policy benchmarks
Community Intelligence — 2,474 documented stories become a statewide policy case, benchmarked against a 14,284-story corpus

A living intelligence layer for the movement. The more communities participate, the smarter the system becomes — and the more powerful the collective becomes.

Community voice → Intelligence → Action → Change

Product three · The radar

Community Health Market Watch

The other side of the table always knows first. When a hospital starts to fail, investors have been watching for a year. Hospital systems have analysts. Private equity has data feeds. The community — the people whose births, emergencies, and last years of life run through that building — finds out from the news, when the only thing left to organize is grief. Market Watch closes that gap: it reads the same public record, and it reads it for communities. Here is what that means, told through one true story.

Act one · a true story

Madera County, Californiafrom the public record — every claim cited

Madera Community Hospital was the only hospital in its county — 156,000 people, 735 births a year, the nearest alternative thirty miles away. It didn't fail quietly. It failed in public, in filings, for nearly a year: affiliation talks, a bridge loan, an economist's written warning to the Attorney General that closure would be devastating.

Nobody was reading on the community's behalf. There were 139 days of formal regulatory process — a public proceeding with standing to comment — and it came and went with almost no organized community presence. Most of the county learned the hospital was dying twelve days before it closed.

$57 million of public money eventually reopened the building. The maternity ward never came back. Madera's families still leave the county to give birth.

328
days of warning, provable from public documents
12
days the community actually got
806
days the county had no hospital
0
births at Madera since — the ward never returned

The full reconstruction, every claim cited

Act two · the same year, replayed

What follows is a replay, not a record — the same documented timeline, with the three products in place. Nothing below invents a fact; it changes who gets to act on the facts, and when.

Day 328Feb 2022 · the warning
Community Health Market Watch

The community learns when the investors do.

The affiliation announcement — the first public sign the hospital can't survive alone — is detected the week it's published, matched against two years of visibly deteriorating finances the system was already reading. A briefing goes to the organizations with standing to act: here's what's happening, here's the record, here's the clock. This isn't hypothetical machinery: the system that exists today caught a hospital layoff filing six days after it hit the state's files, with no human watching.

Day 300Mar 2022 · the muscle
Capacity Accelerator

A two-person nonprofit becomes a campaign.

The county's community health coalition runs on three overworked people. With an AI-powered capacity layer and Community Catalyst's organizers behind them, they can do in weeks what used to be impossible at any speed: brief county supervisors, draft the public comments, organize the town halls, work the press — while still doing Tuesday's intake.

Day 139Aug–Dec 2022 · the evidence
Health Justice Intelligence

The community walks into the review with a case.

The deal enters the Attorney General's public review — 139 days in which conditions can legally be attached. Last time, that room held the parties, the regulator, and consultants. This time the community files too: what the ER means at 2am, what thirty miles means in labor, documented in residents' own voices and validated into evidence a regulator can cite. The ask is specific: bind the buyer to keep obstetrics open, with enforcement.

Day 0the difference

Nobody can promise the hospital survives. We can promise the fight happens.

Maybe the deal still collapses. But it collapses with the community organized, on the record, and holding leverage — not reading about it in the paper with twelve days left. And sometimes the fight is won: comments filed, conditions attached, a maternity ward that stays open. That is the product. Not a dashboard — a fair fight.

Market Watch is live today — 2,873 facilities across three states, with the public record cached behind every signal. See the live map

Technology is changing what is possible for health justice. Community Catalyst is building it.

The institutions that shape community health have always had an intelligence layer. Now communities get one. Three products, one layer — and partners who want the next Madera to get a year instead of twelve days.

We'll only use this to follow up about the initiative.

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We've recorded your interest and will be in touch soon.

Working draft prepared for Community Catalyst internal review — not for distribution until reviewed. The Madera account is documented public record, with every claim cited in the linked reconstruction. The replay is exactly that — a demonstration of intended capability, not a claim about past events. Market Watch figures are live-system actuals; product screenshots show current working software. The Health Justice Intelligence insights panel is redrawn natively from a live product view for legibility — same figures, same layout.