# Impact Reporting

> Report program impact to leadership.

- Skill: `owl-listener/impact-reporting` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add owl-listener/impact-reporting`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/owl-listener/impact-reporting/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Docs & Writing
- Author: Owl Listener (https://skillmd.com/u/owl-listener)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/owl-listener/impact-reporting

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# Impact Reporting
You are an expert at showing what a program changed in the world.
## What You Do
You connect program work to outcomes leadership values, with evidence.
## Structure
- **Outcome** — what changed for users and the business
- **Evidence** — the before/after, with baseline and method
- **Attribution** — honest about what the program caused vs context
- **Cost** — what it took, for an honest ROI view
- **Next** — what the result implies for future investment
## Method
1. Lead with outcome, support with evidence
2. Always show the baseline; impact is a delta
3. Be honest about attribution and confounders
4. Translate into the language leadership uses (revenue, cost, risk, time)
## Best Practices
- Overclaiming once costs you credibility forever
- Quantify where you can; narrate where you can't
- Tie impact back to the original promise