Common Axis

Clearer communication. Easier access to support.

Common Axis is a nonprofit building privacy-first tools that make communication and community support easier to understand, find, and share.

Practical technology. Shared purpose.

Explore our work For organizations
PurposeMake understanding and support easier to reach. PrinciplesStart with people. Collect less. Build with partners. Show the work. SolutionsPublic tools and adaptable software for the people serving our communities.

We build for understanding, access, and connection.

Who we are

We are a nonprofit building public tools and tailoring case-management software with organizations that know the work firsthand.

Why we exist

People looking for help, and staff coordinating it, need clear next steps. We focus on communication, local resource access, and accountable program workflows.

Products & solutions

Tools for people. Solutions for teams.

Explore our public tools and software for organizations that support their communities.

Shared Language

Public tool · No account required

Understand the behavior before judging the person.

A practical vocabulary for turning workplace and community misunderstandings into better questions.

Why
Behavior is often interpreted before it is understood. Shared Language gives people neutral words and useful questions for discussing what they notice without turning a difference into a judgment or diagnosis.
Who
HR teams, managers, workplace leaders, professionals, educators, public servants, community organizations, advocates, and teams working across roles or areas of expertise.
Privacy
No account or profile is required for the current tools. AI-assisted text is used to produce a response and is not kept by Shared Language afterward. People are asked not to enter names or identifying details.
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KindLocator.org

Public tool · Location is optional

Find help. South Florida.

A community resource finder for discovering nearby services, support, and opportunities to help.

Why
Finding the right help can be difficult. KindLocator.org makes local resources and ways to contribute easier to discover.
Who
Individuals, families, community navigators, and organizations looking to find or share local support.
Privacy
No account is required. Saved resources, language, and accessibility preferences stay in the visitor’s browser. Location is optional and is not saved by KindLocator; searches should not include confidential case details.
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For housing organizations

CM HUB

Built software · Tailored to your organization

CM HUB is built case-management software for housing organizations. Its forms, automations, and workflows are configured around each organization's programs, roles, and requirements.

Start with the working platform, then define the forms, program rules, approvals, and reporting your organization needs.

Deployment and data-handling requirements are reviewed with each organization. This walkthrough uses only invented examples.

See the working CM HUB and discuss the forms, automations, and workflows your organization needs. Please do not send client records.

Illustrative walkthrough · Fictional sample data

These panels illustrate navigation, not a live CM HUB session. All names, counts, and statuses are fictional; each organization's setup is configured separately.

In development

More tools, built around real needs.

We are developing other software and websites. Each project will have its own page when we can explain who it serves, what data it uses, and what works today.

Our story

A shared home for practical ideas.

Common Axis gives SharedLanguage.org and KindLocator.org a nonprofit home. One grew from the need for a non-clinical behavior tool for workplaces and neurodiverse teams; the other from the need for free, reliable resource information across South Florida.

SharedLanguage.org helps teams ask better questions about behavior and work together across different ways of thinking. KindLocator.org helps South Florida residents find nearby services and community support.

Principles

How we intend to earn trust.

Start with people

A useful tool begins with the people who will rely on it. We listen, test our assumptions, and account for different abilities, languages, and lived experiences.

Collect less

We do not ask for information simply because technology can collect it. Each feature should work with the least personal data possible, and anything retained must have a clear purpose.

Build with partners

Community organizations and professionals understand the gaps our tools are meant to address. Their knowledge helps us decide what to build, test whether it works, and correct what we miss.

Show the work

We explain how a tool works, what information it uses, its current limits, and what is still being developed. When something changes, we say so plainly.

Transparency & privacy

Trust needs evidence, not slogans.

We explain what our tools do, what they collect, what they do not collect, and what is still in development.

Read our privacy approach
  • Collect the minimum information a feature needs.
  • Never sell personal information.
  • Write policies in plain language and make them easy to find.
  • Be honest about product status, limitations, and what we are learning.
  • Publish meaningful changes to our practices and products.

Stronger together

Help build technology communities can trust.

We welcome conversations with community organizations, nonprofits, funders, civic leaders, accessibility advocates, researchers, and responsible technology partners.

Choose a path to tell us how you want to contribute.

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Your message is delivered to the Common Axis team through our website host. We will use it only to understand and respond to your request.

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Common Axis, Inc. is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity. EIN: 42-4328002. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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