CDX DATA Data systems for opportunity

For workforce programs, foundations and education partnerships

Match people to opportunity, with data that holds up.

CDX Data builds and runs the data systems behind workforce programs, foundations and education partnerships: numbers that are audit-ready, reporting that asks less of your grantees and partners, and systems that keep working when staff turn over.

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LA County's MatchPoint, powered by the CDX Matching Engine · AWS Advanced Tier Partner · NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise

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Most programs don't have a strategy problem. They have a plumbing problem.

The data lives in six systems. Funders want outcomes by March. The one analyst is exhausted. And the people the work is for get lost in the handoffs. We fix the plumbing so your team can get back to the work.

Audit-ready.

Every number traces back to its source, and every match can be explained.

Less burden.

One shared set of measures instead of a different report for every funder.

Survives turnover.

Documented pipelines and a runbook, so nothing breaks when someone leaves.

Offers

Three ways to start. Fixed scope, fixed fee.

Every engagement has a fixed scope, a fixed fee and deliverables you own. Each one is priced to fit the budget lines you already have: needs assessments, capacity building, and data management services.

Offer 1

Contractor & Workforce Opportunity Needs Assessment

Who it's for: Directors of economic-opportunity, M/WBE, small-business and workforce offices in cities and counties; regional energy networks; and clean-energy workforce intermediaries, including programs supporting the Southeast's grid and data-center build-out.

Know who's ready before the contract is awarded.

You probably already pay for a system that tracks compliance after a contract is awarded. What most offices lack is the step before award: a reliable, defensible way to see which local and certified firms and workers are ready for a specific opportunity, and why. In 8 weeks, we map what you have, agree on the data, and run a live matching pilot on a sample of your own records. Your plan rests on evidence, not a demo.

What you get

  • Current-state map of your systems, data owners and handoffs, built from stakeholder interviews.
  • A common data model for firms, workers and opportunities across six readiness dimensions (trade, capacity, set-aside/certification, experience, financials, bonding), plus a data-sharing and governance memo.
  • A live matching pilot and Match-Quality & Equity Report: who matched, who didn't and why, and how results break down by certification and geography.
  • Options analysis: extend your current system, integrate, or deploy a dedicated platform, with the cost, risk and procurement route for each.
  • Implementation plan and budget, with KPIs and a council- or board-ready briefing.

Why it holds up

Every match is explainable and tested for quality and fairness, so you can defend a shortlist in an audit or at a council hearing. We work alongside your existing system (B2Gnow, LCPtracker, PRISM or similar) rather than replacing it, the roadmap is vendor-neutral, and you own the data and the deliverables. The same engine powers LA County's MatchPoint.

Time and effort

8 weeks. One executive sponsor plus about 4 hours a week from a program lead. Phase 1 uses data exports only; no system access needed.

Ask for a 30-minute walkthrough of the LA County model
Offer 2

Grantee Data Capacity Assessment & Shared Measurement Framework

Who it's for: Program officers, learning and evaluation leads, and funder collaboratives running a cohort or place-based initiative of 6-20 grantees, plus federal-grant primes managing subrecipients.

One set of outcomes your grantees can actually report.

When five funders ask for five versions of impact, grantees spend their time on reports instead of programs, and you still can't see the whole picture. In 12 weeks, your cohort agrees on what to measure, you learn each grantee's real data capacity, and you get a working dashboard on real data and a year-one plan sized to what grantees can sustain.

What you get

  • Funder indicator crosswalk: every reporting requirement across your grants (and your co-funders'), cut down to 12 or fewer shared core indicators.
  • Grantee data capacity assessment: a short survey and a conversation with each grantee, with a tiered profile and the support each tier needs.
  • Shared measurement framework: data dictionary, collection schedule, a data-sharing agreement template, and consent and data-ownership principles.
  • Working prototype: a cohort dashboard on real data from 3-5 grantees, including equity checks.
  • Year-one plan and budget, plus a memo for your program committee.

Why it works for grantees

Grantees co-design the measures and own their data; we report aggregates. We don't replace your evaluator. We build the data plumbing your evaluator depends on, so they get cleaner inputs. No new software is required to start.

Time and effort

12 weeks.

Book a 30-minute pre-mortem on your cohort's data plan
Offer 3

Data Management Services Agreement (annual)

Who it's for: Executive directors and data leads at cradle-to-career and collective-impact backbones, education and workforce nonprofits, and university-led initiatives with 3-10 data sources and a small (or no) data team.

Your dashboard shouldn't leave when your analyst does.

Your partnership's data, maintained all year: pipelines refreshed, dashboards current, funder reports ready on time. The system doesn't get rebuilt every grant cycle, and your data lead finally has backup.

What you get

  • A 30-day Data Health Check to start: source inventory, refresh schedules, an access review and a definition check on your core indicators.
  • Ongoing maintenance and monitoring on a predictable schedule, with funder-ready reporting.
  • A secure AWS or Salesforce environment with role-based access and FERPA-aware handling, working under your data-sharing agreements and in your cloud tenant where you prefer.
  • A written runbook, so your reporting survives staff turnover.
  • Three tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold) by number of sources, reporting cadence and support hours, with record linkage across partners at the top tier.

What it covers

Your partnership's data, maintained all year, with your data lead finally backed up.

Time and effort

12-month term that renews at your budget season, upgradable mid-year.

Book a 20-minute data health conversation

Need strategy before systems? Through Community Dynamix, we advise foundations and funds on program design, equity strategy and fund development.

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Proof

Work that ships and keeps running

Our clients own their programs and their brands. We're the engine and the plumbing underneath. Here is some of that work.

LA County's MatchPoint, powered by the CDX Matching Engine

LA County's MatchPoint helps Southern California clean-energy contractors build a profile, show their certifications and find opportunities they can realistically win. It was delivered with Emerald Cities Collaborative for SoCalREN. Behind it, the CDX Matching Engine scores and ranks matches across six dimensions (trade, capacity, set-asides, experience, financials and bonding), and every match can be explained and checked for fairness.

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A university-led workforce initiative

A multi-partner, university-led workforce initiative needed partners to report the same outcomes in the same way. CDX delivered a proof of value for shared partner reporting.

A cradle-to-career partnership

A cradle-to-career partnership keeps its data pipelines and dashboards current year-round under an annual CDX data management agreement, so funder and community reporting doesn't depend on one person.

About

We build it. We steer it.

We help the people building economic opportunity, including workforce and clean-energy programs, foundations and education partnerships, get their data working as hard as they do.

We build it: CDX Data

CDX Data designs and runs the data systems behind public and philanthropic programs: cloud pipelines on AWS, Salesforce, and impact dashboards, all built on our own tested software framework. Our CDX Matching Engine scores and ranks matches across six dimensions (trade, capacity, set-asides, experience, financials and bonding), and every match can be explained and checked for fairness. It powers LA County's MatchPoint, delivered with Emerald Cities Collaborative for SoCalREN.

We steer it: Community Dynamix

Community Dynamix advises foundations and funds on program design, equity strategy and fund development. Founded in 2021, it marks five years in 2026.

AWS Advanced Tier Partner · NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise · Seattle-based, working across Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York.

Team

Austin Thompson

Austin Thompson

Founder & CEO

Austin founded Community Dynamix in 2021 and CDX Data to help workforce programs, foundations and education partnerships match people to opportunity. He has sat in most of the chairs: he founded and ran a national donor network, the Youth Engagement Fund at NEO Philanthropy; served as Deputy to the Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU; and worked in Starlink supply chain operations at SpaceX. So he knows what a program officer needs to see, what a city or union partner needs to trust, and what it takes to ship. Austin is an HBCU graduate with an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business. An Atlanta native, he lives in Seattle.

How we work

How we work

Who we work with

Public, workforce and clean-energy programs that need the right workers and contractors matched to the work, including the Southeast's grid and data-center build-out

Foundations and equity funds that want reliable impact data across their grantees

Schools, colleges and workforce nonprofits that need data and reporting they can trust all year

Is a data, matching or measurement problem standing between your program and the people it serves?

Book 30 minutes. You'll talk to Austin, not a sales rep, and if we're not the right fit, you'll hear that on the first call.

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