Every funder wants outcome data. We collect it in six different spreadsheets and pray it adds up.
Program staff spend weeks before each grant renewal synthesizing data that should already be structured.
We started by listening to nonprofit leaders across the country. What we heard shaped what we build and how we build it. Three sections below: the problem, the process, the focus.
We talked to executive directors, finance leads, and program staff at nonprofits across the country. Here's what they told us, almost word-for-word.
Every funder wants outcome data. We collect it in six different spreadsheets and pray it adds up.
Program staff spend weeks before each grant renewal synthesizing data that should already be structured.
When our last ED left, half of what we knew about our funders disappeared with her.
Policies, funder relationships, compliance nuances. All living in one person's head. One departure and it's gone.
I want a system where one person can run month-end in less than 8 hours.
200+ receipts coded manually each month. Close reinvented from memory. No checklist exists.
I spend three hours writing the same thank-you letter twelve different ways.
Donor communications that should take minutes take hours, because nothing connects to your actual program data.
Streamlining the data entry, close, and reporting process is my #1 wishlist item.
The same budget vs. actuals report, rebuilt from scratch in every funder's unique template. Every single cycle. Validated across every interview we conducted as a top-three pain point.
The tools available to nonprofits were built for for-profit businesses. They were never designed for fund accounting, funder reporting, restricted grants, or compliance trails. That gap is not closing on its own.
We're not a consulting firm that hands you a slide deck and disappears. We design and build AI systems that fit your team's actual workflow. Then we measure what it saves you, in hours and dollars, so you have the data to back it up.
We talk. No pitch. We want to understand your biggest time drains before we suggest anything.
We start with one workflow. Map it, design a system around it, build it to fit your team. If it takes more than a day to learn, we built it wrong.
We track what changed. Hours saved. Error rate reduction. Turnaround time. You get the data. No claims we can't back up.
Specificity over slogans. These are the exact workflows nonprofit teams told us were costing them the most time. We start with one, prove it works, and grow from there.