Our Solutions

For needs the market forgot — or priced out.

Most nonprofit software is too generic, built for someone else, or priced as if you were a bank. Some of what you need, you can get free — vendors donate and discount to 501(c)(3)s, and we'll help you claim every bit you're entitled to. But a nonprofit discount doesn't fix software that was never built for you, and it won't set it up, train your team, or make it worth having. That's the rest of the work: five products co-built with organizations like yours, help making what you already own actually work, and a custom build when nothing fits. All of it on the same belief: AI should enhance the admin experience, not replace it — so your team has more time on mission.

How It Works

Real need. One partner.
Shared solution.

Our solutions aren't built in a vacuum. Each product begins as a specific problem inside a specific nonprofit — and grows into something the wider sector can use.

01

Surface a real gap

A partner nonprofit tells us about a need their current tools don't meet — or that commercial software prices well beyond their budget. We listen first.

02

Co-build with the partner

We design and build alongside the people who'll actually use it. The first organization gets a solution shaped to their workflow — not a generic platform.

03

You decide when it's right

Nothing is "done" because we say so. Changes are tested before they reach you, then you use it on real work and tell us what's wrong — and we go again. The people who have to live with the software are the ones who decide when it's finished.

04

Open it to the sector

Once proven in real use, the product becomes available to other nonprofits facing the same gap — built on what your organization taught us, not on what we assumed.

Current Offerings

Purpose-built products.
One model.

Each ChAImp solution was shaped with a real partner nonprofit and built around the same belief: AI should enhance the admin experience, never replace it. The goal is always the same — give your team back the hours, so they can spend them on mission.

A nonprofit CRM small enough to actually use.

Donors, volunteers, programs, and the people you serve — in one place a two-person team can run.

Co-built with an organization focused on the foster care system. Most nonprofit CRMs are enterprise software with a nonprofit discount bolted on. CartonCrew is the opposite: built from the ground up for community-level nonprofits, with the workflows that matter and none of the bloat you'll never touch. We run ChAImp on it ourselves. Underneath, AI works as relationship memory — surfacing what each supporter cares about, what was promised, and what comes next — so the human conversations stay human.

CRM Donor Management AI-Enhanced Admin
Visit cartoncrew.online →

The nonprofit CRM that speaks gallery.

Artists, artworks, exhibitions, and collectors — first-class, not crammed into a generic contact field.

Co-built with a community art gallery. CartonCrewStudio is CartonCrew tuned for nonprofit art galleries and community studios: the same lean CRM, but it knows your world. Instead of bending a one-size-fits-all "constituent" record around an artist, or filing a piece under "notes," it gives you the things you actually work with — artists, works, exhibitions, patrons, and programs. Underneath, the same AI relationship memory keeps track of which collector follows which artist, what a patron bought or pledged, and who's due for a show — so the conversations that keep a gallery alive stay personal. Built on the CRM we run ChAImp on, specialized for the galleries and studios doing big, meaningful work on lean budgets.

CRM Art Galleries Community Studios AI-Enhanced Admin

✨ New — a CartonCrew spin-off, currently in development.

Visit cartoncrew.art →

Everything an animal rescue runs on — in one place.

Web presence, volunteers, adoptions, surrenders, fundraising

Co-built with a dog rescue spanning the West Coast, RescueCentral grew out of what an active rescue actually needs to run, day in and day out. Animal rescues juggle a public website, adoption applications, surrender intake, volunteer and foster coordination, and ongoing fundraising — usually across half a dozen disconnected tools. RescueCentral unifies the whole operation behind a modern web presence built for the public, and a streamlined back office built for the people doing the work. AI works as triage and decision support: pre-reading adoption applications, flagging concerns for a volunteer to look at, and queuing up the next action so nothing falls through the cracks.

Animal Rescue Adoptions & Surrenders Volunteer Coordination Fundraising

📅 Case study coming Summer 2026 — our founding rescue partner goes live with RescueCentral this summer.

Visit rescuecentral.app →

A modern, mobile-first home for your PTA/PTO.

Built for the way parents actually use their phones

Co-built with a real school PTA, SchoolPTA was shaped by the people who actually run one — not designers guessing at it. PTAs and PTOs do enormous work on aging websites, email chains, and paper sign-ups; SchoolPTA brings all of that into a clean, mobile-first experience: events, sign-ups, volunteer slots, fundraising, and communication — all in one place, all on a phone. AI takes on the unglamorous work the board never had time for — drafting the weekly newsletter, generating the next sign-up sheet, nudging the parent who forgot to RSVP — so volunteer evenings stop being inbox evenings.

PTA / PTO Mobile-First Events & Fundraising

📅 Case study coming Fall 2026 — our first PTA launches SchoolPTA for the new school year.

Visit schoolpta.org →

When someone leaves, their knowledge shouldn't leave with them.

Digital estate planning for your nonprofit

Seven in ten nonprofits have no written succession plan. The founding ED, the volunteer who has run the gala for nine years, the board member who remembers why it's done that way — when they go, it all goes with them. KnowledgeRetention captures what lives in people's heads, inboxes, and scattered files, and turns it into answers your team can actually find. AI does the part nobody has time for: a guided interview by voice or chat that feels like a conversation instead of homework, then the messy work of turning it into role playbooks, a recurring-duties calendar, and a Q&A layer that always shows its sources — so you know where an answer came from and whether to trust it.

Succession Planning Institutional Knowledge AI-Guided Interviews Continuity

About that voice interview: the recording is transcribed and then deleted within 24 hours — the shortest retention our transcription provider allows — and model training is explicitly switched off. Your people's voices are not a training set.

🔒 In closed beta — the free tier is available now.

Visit knowledgeretention.help →
✨ Co-Build With Us

Your unmet need here

Tell us what the market forgot

If your nonprofit has a recurring software pain — something that doesn't exist, costs too much, or treats your sector as an afterthought — that's exactly where our next solution starts. Bring the need. We'll bring the build.

Open Intake Co-Development
Consultancy

Sometimes the answer
isn't new software.

Not every problem needs a product built for it. Often the tools are already there — bought twice, half configured, or never rolled out. We'll look at what you have, tell you honestly what's worth keeping, and help your team actually use it. If you don't need to build anything, we'll say so.

🔍

Solution Review

An honest look at what you already run

We review the systems, licences, and workflows you have today — what's working, what's duplicated, and what you're paying for but never turned on. You get a plain-language picture of where you stand and what to do about it, whether or not we're the ones who do it.

⚙️

Process Optimization

Fix the workflow before you automate it

Automating a broken process just makes it break faster. We map how the work actually happens — not how the manual says it does — then cut the steps that exist only because someone once needed them. Usually the win is removing work, not adding tools.

🎓

AI Training

Confident with AI — and clear on its limits

Practical, jargon-free training for the people doing the work: where AI genuinely helps, where it doesn't, and what should never go into a prompt. Especially the donor and client data questions — because the fastest way to lose trust is to be careless with someone else's information.

🎁

Donated Software Programs

Claim what you already qualify for

Nonprofits routinely pay retail for software they could get donated or heavily discounted. Your 501(c)(3) status unlocks programs from TechSoup, Microsoft, Google and others — but eligibility, validation, and setup is its own job. We help you work out what you qualify for, get registered, and actually claim it, so the budget goes to mission instead of licences.

📧

Microsoft 365 Deployment

Set up properly, once

Email, files, and collaboration on a foundation that won't need redoing in a year: tenant setup, migration off whatever you're on now, and a sensible security baseline from day one. Built by people who spent their careers inside this stack.

💬

Not sure what you need?

Start with the problem, not the solution

Most conversations start with "something isn't working and we're not sure why." That's a fine place to begin. Tell us what's painful and we'll help you figure out whether it's a process, a tool, a training gap — or something worth building.

Security

Security isn't a feature.
It's the foundation.

Every ChAImp solution is built — and kept — to the security standards mission-driven organizations deserve. Donors trust you with their data. Your constituents trust you with theirs. We treat that trust as the design constraint, not an afterthought.

Our pledge: security is the first decision we make on every product — and the standard every release is measured against. Not a checkbox. Not a launch-week scramble. The foundation, full stop.

In plain language — and in writing.

Everything below is a term of the Master Service Agreement you'd sign, not a marketing promise. If the website and the contract ever disagree, the contract is the one that counts — so we've put the contract on the website.

🚫

We never train AI on your data

Your data is never sold, never rented, and never used to train any AI model — not even anonymized or aggregated. Most vendors leave themselves that loophole. We closed it in Schedule B of the agreement, where it's binding.

👁️

You can watch us work

When we access your system to configure or support it, every administrative action is logged — and the log is visible to you, not just to us. Settings and configuration changes are recorded in an immutable activity log: who, what, when. You never have to take our word for what we did in there.

📦

Your data is yours, and you can leave with it

Your data remains your property — that's in the agreement, not just our intentions. You can export it in a commonly usable format, including on the way out, and either of us can end the arrangement with 60 days' notice. Leaving is a door, not a negotiation.

💾

Keep your own copy — we mean it

Our platforms run automated backups. Even so, no vendor should be the only copy of anything that matters to you — including us. The export exists for exactly this: take a copy on your own schedule and keep it somewhere we don't control. It's the same advice we'd give you about any system you didn't build, and we'd rather say it than have you find out the hard way.

🚨

If we're breached, you hear it from us

If we confirm a security incident involving your data, we notify you without undue delay and move to contain it — obligation in the agreement, not a courtesy we might extend. You'll hear what happened and what we did about it.

🧠

AI drafts. Your team decides.

AI never acts on its own here. It reads, drafts, flags, and suggests — the decision stays with your team. And when it answers a question, it shows you where the answer came from, so the original is always one click away. AI does get things wrong sometimes. Showing its working is how we make that easy to spot.

How it's built — for those who want the detail.

The promises above rest on this. You don't need to read it; your IT volunteer, your board's tech-savvy member, or the funder doing due diligence might.

🛡️

Nothing reaches you without a person signing off on it.

Code at ChAImp is Claude Code–assisted, but it never reaches production without a human reviewer signing off. A person reads every change, understands what it does, and decides whether it ships. On top of that, every pull request is scanned by two independent automated gates — Anthropic's Claude Code security review and Aikido — flagging injection flaws, auth bypasses, unsafe deserialization, secret exposure, vulnerable dependencies, and broken access control. Findings are remediated by a human before merge — never quietly waived, never auto-passed.

Human sign-off required Claude Code security review Aikido Pre-merge, every PR
🔐

Sign in with Google or Microsoft — 2FA by default

Authentication runs through Google OAuth and Microsoft OAuth — both supported by default, covering the identity providers most of your team already uses, whether you're on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. Either way, your team signs in with an account they already secure with 2FA and recovery — no new password to reuse, no shared logins, no forgotten-password tickets. The most common cause of nonprofit breaches is a reused password. We close that door from day one.

🔎

Keys stay out of the code, and patches don't wait

Every push and pull request is scanned by Gitleaks — API keys, tokens, and credentials are caught before they can land, and rotated immediately if anything is ever flagged. Application secrets and signing keys live in Microsoft Azure Key Vault: never in code, never in a shared spreadsheet, never in email; least-privilege, rotated on a schedule, revoked when no longer needed. We track vulnerabilities and dependency CVEs against everything we build on, and patch when it matters — then tell you what we did.

🗄️

Another nonprofit can never see your data

You share a platform with other organizations; you never share their view of it. Isolation is enforced by the database itself — Row-Level Security policies, not application code. Even a bug in the app can't hand one organization's data to another, because the database refuses the query outright. The most common way this goes wrong elsewhere is a developer forgetting a filter. Here, forgetting isn't possible.

🧾

When your board or a funder asks, you can answer

Sign-ins, admin actions, and data exports are all logged with timestamps and the identity of whoever did it. If a board member, an auditor, or a grantor ever asks who did what, when? — the answer exists, and you don't have to ask us for it.

🏗️

Your data doesn't rest on us alone.

Our solutions run on platforms trusted across the industry, not a homegrown stack. Databases run on managed PostgreSQL — Supabase or Neon, depending on the product — with automated platform-managed backups. Applications are hosted on Vercel with HTTPS, managed certificates, and a global edge network by default. Application secrets are held in Microsoft Azure Key Vault. Code is version-controlled on GitHub, and sign-in goes through Google and Microsoft OAuth. AI features are powered by the provider you choose. Where a product listens rather than reads — KnowledgeRetention's voice interviews — speech is transcribed by AssemblyAI with model training explicitly disabled and audio retained for 24 hours, the shortest window they offer, then deleted. Your data is never used to train any AI model, anonymized or otherwise. Established infrastructure means your nonprofit's data sits behind the same operational security that protects thousands of production applications — maintained by dedicated platform teams, not by us alone.

Supabase Neon Vercel Microsoft Azure GitHub Google OAuth Microsoft OAuth AI provider of your choice AssemblyAI
Our Solution Principles

Built for the sector,
not extracted from it.

Commercial nonprofit software too often treats the sector as a market to mine. ChAImp's solutions operate by a different set of rules.

Pro bono, and the catch — stated up front

We build pro bono for co-build partners. The consideration isn't money, it's the story: a case study within 75 days of go-live, plus a 15-day grace period. Miss it and the arrangement converts to our published annual plan for 12 months — but never by ambush. You get a reminder before the deadline and written confirmation of the terms before a single fee is payable. That's the whole deal, on the website, before you talk to us.

Co-developed, not assumed

Every product is shaped with at least one real partner nonprofit before it goes broader. Features come from observed need — not from a roadmap meeting.

Your data, your call

You own your data. You can export it. We never train any AI model on it — not even anonymized. Governance is a default, not an upsell.

No lock-in by design

Open formats, documented exports, and a graceful exit path. If a different tool fits you better later, we'll help you move — not hold your data hostage.

Hosted with care, or self-host

Use our managed hosting, or run it on your own infrastructure. Either way, the product behaves the same.

ChAImp retains the IP

So the product can keep serving the sector long after any single engagement ends. Co-build partners get preferential terms, not invoice surprises.

Become a Co-Build Partner

Got a problem the market won't solve?

CartonCrew, RescueCentral, and SchoolPTA are live today — explore them now at cartoncrew.online, rescuecentral.app, and schoolpta.org.

If you're working around the same software gap day after day — patching it with spreadsheets, paying too much for too little, or doing without — let's talk. The next ChAImp solution might start with your team.

Start the Conversation → 📅 Book a Call or Coffee ← Back to ChAImp