Your data is already telling a story. We help you tell it rightly.
Cypher exists to turn your data into a revenue engine that remains mission-aligned.
We build systems that ensure impact with integrity, protect communities, and preserve cultural memory.
Define radically
Cypher is a data strategy and knowledge management firm helping nonprofits, cities, and mission-driven organizations turn community insights into sustainable funding.
Our approach centers three core values:
Trust (built through authentic community engagement and transparent data practices),
Access (ensuring communities control what stories get told and who benefits), and
Sovereignty (empowering organizations to own their narratives and data infrastructure).
Purpose
We’re a data strategy firm helping founders, nonprofits & cities agencies turn data into funding.
Why
People who live their story, live their data should own their data — completely, permanently, and in their own terms.
We believe all businesses are sitting on raw data full of fundable insights and products. We provide needed infrastructure through partnership, bridging the gap between knowledge & action.
Proving we that all organizations are data organizations and all knowledge starts where you are.
How
Data Monetization is not technical, it’s strategic and cultural.
Our approach:
- We treat memory as data and data as memory. Building data tools that takes evidence of success and packages its to move funders, partners and decision makers.
- We build to data practices before we build projects. Partnerships means Cypher provides the architectures to embed data, storytelling, and community memory into how your organization operates, measures impact, and stays fundable year after year.
- We elevate the standard and value of community data. We relish the opportunity to create rituals , repeatable community practices (see Remembrance page), interviewing, archiving, celebration, and fundable narratives.
What
Cypher helps communities, companies and founders turn data into aligned technology — through AI impact labs, storytelling campaigns, and long-term partnerships that fund the future while preserving memory and define their impact.
Our work spans grant-funded oral history projects, measuring 7-figure fellowship and grant impact, corporate storytelling campaigns, and city-wide partnerships that turn pilot programs into movements. We generate fundable data infrastructure through:
- impact measurement
- data monetization
- ethical storytelling
From helping municipalities secure $350K+ in preservation funding to building custom KPIs for youth-serving agencies, Cypher creates infrastructure that scales mission, not just reports that collect dust. To date we’ve unlocked more than $1.5 million through data our services.