Now in private beta with a Canadian arts organization. Request access
For small arts and culture fundraising teams

The donor record that reconciles every gift, then tells you who to call next.

Relae pulls your gifts from Eventbrite, your bank, cheques, CanadaHelps, and your CRM into one clean donor record, then tells you who to call next and why. So a team of two fundraises like a shop of ten.

Sits on top of what you use. No migration. Your data is yours to take.

~3 dozenrelationships carry most of the money

The other 900-odd gifts are noise you still have to reconcile. Relae does both: it gets the record right, then points you at the relationships that matter.

What it does

Three jobs. One engine. Turned on in the order a small shop needs them.

[01]
Reconcile · the spine

Every gift, from every source, matched to the right donor.

It pulls your payment, event, and banking sources into one record, surfaces only the genuine questions for a human, and remembers every answer so it never asks twice. The record cleans itself over time.

northwind-arts / donor records
Three spellings, three sources
sam riveraEventbrite
S. RiveraCheque
Rivera/SamCanadaHelps
Sam Rivera
one record, 9 gifts
$8,415
The clean record, every constituent
3 to review
ConstituentOwnerLifetimeTrendStage
The Hammond Foundation$128,000Steward
Marguerite Okafor$42,300Ask ready
Daniel Cho$11,750Cultivate
Sam Rivera$8,415Cultivate
[02]
Coaching

Who to call next, and the exact move to make.

It reasons over the clean record and ranks the next right move per donor, scored against recognized fundraising methodology with the formula shown. You open your day already briefed.

northwind-arts / overview
Who to call next, and the move to make
Marguerite OkaforAsk ready
Year-end gift three years running. Capacity and affinity both high.
Make the gala ask
Priya AnandRe-engage
Lapsed after two strong years. Worth a personal check-in.
Call before the season closes
Scored against your goal
78
of 100
Leading84
Outcome61
Your pipeline, by stage
1218496
QualifyCultivateAskStewardRe-engage
[03]
Capture · the easy door

Write it the way you would say it. Relae reads the rest.

Type or dictate a note after a call. Relae reads the people, money, dates, and actions inside it, shows what it caught on your own words, and turns it into records you confirm in one click.

northwind-arts / capture
You write it the way you would say it
Sam Rivera pledged $5,000 over three years, wants to fund youth programming. Follow up next Tuesday.
Relae reads it, you confirm. Nothing saves until you do.
Ready
Add a pledge
$5,000 over three years.
Check this
Set a task
Follow up Tuesday.
Check this
Contact report
Interested in youth programming.

An intelligent donor record for small fundraising teams.

Today that record lives in five exports, a spreadsheet, and your memory. Relae makes it one clean record you can trust, then points you at the relationships that matter. You fundraise like a big shop, without the back office.

[01]How it fits

It sits on top of what you already use.

[01]
Connect your sources.
Eventbrite, CanadaHelps, your bank, cheques, online gifts, and your CRM if you have one. Relae reads them all in. Nothing to migrate.
[02]
Get one clean record.
Relae matches every gift to the right donor, surfaces only the genuine questions for a quick review, and remembers every answer.
[03]
Act, then take it with you.
See who to call next, build your ask list, and export to your CRM or a spreadsheet any time. Your data stays yours.

Have a CRM already? Relae reads it in and keeps it the book of record, adding the clean data and the intelligence on top. No CRM yet? Relae becomes your donor record and feeds your finance system.

[02]Why Relae

Why Relae works when bigger tools don't.

One record, not five exports.
Eventbrite, the bank, cheques, online gifts, your CRM. Relae pulls them into one honest record, so you stop stitching spreadsheets together by hand.
Intelligence you can see.
Relae reasons over the whole record and shows the why behind every move, painted on your own words. No black box, no guessing in the dark.
It fixes the input first.
Most tools predict on messy data. Relae makes the record real first, then reasons on top of it, so everything downstream can be trusted.
Built for small teams.
When a few dozen people carry most of the giving, you need to get those relationships right, and you need to do it without a back office.
[03]Why you can trust it

Grounded methodology, a real fundraiser, and your data kept yours.

Grounded in how fundraising actually works, not our opinion.

The development scorecard is the recognized moves-management practice (Dunlop and Smith, then CASE, AFP, and Veritus). The prospect rating is Hank Rosso's LAI principle (Linkage, Ability, Interest) relabeled. Every score shows its formula and its source.

Set up by a person, not just software.

A career major-gifts fundraiser, decades in the field across university advancement, hospital foundations, and arts shops, configures Relae for how your team actually works and qualifies your first portfolio with you. A small team is never doing this alone.

Your data stays yours.
Region-pinned
Canadian data stays in Canada.
Strict isolation
Each organization's data is kept separate. Never mixed.
No raw data to models
Identifiers are redacted before any model call, then reattached locally.
Yours to take
Export everything any time. Portability is a promise, not a trap.
[04]Questions

The things people ask first.

Do I have to migrate my data?

No. Relae reads your sources in and sits on top of what you use. Nothing moves, nothing gets replaced, and you can stop any time with everything intact.

What if I already have a CRM?

Keep it. Relae reads your CRM in and leaves it the book of record, adding the clean matched data and the coaching on top. If you do not have a CRM yet, Relae becomes your donor record and feeds your finance system.

Is my donor data safe?

Canadian data stays in Canada, each organization's data is kept strictly separate, and identifiers are redacted before any model call and reattached locally. You can export everything any time.

What does it cost?

Relae is in private beta. Setup is hands-on and free during beta. Pricing for general availability has not been set yet, and beta organizations will get plenty of notice before anything changes.

What if it guesses a match wrong?

It is built not to guess. Confident matches resolve on their own, anything genuinely ambiguous is surfaced for a quick human review, and Relae never writes a record until you confirm. Every decision you make is remembered, so it does not ask twice.

Who is it for?

Small fundraising teams at arts and culture organizations, where a few dozen relationships carry most of the giving and there is no back office to lean on.

Start with a record you can trust.

A career fundraiser sets Relae up with you and qualifies your first ask list together. Private beta, hands-on, free.

Your CRA number. It lets us size your shop from the public filing, so onboarding is tailored from the first call.

Relae is in Beta. It is real and working, but still growing. We onboard new teams in small groups and will be honest about what is ready and what is coming.