The donor system a tiny team can actually afford and actually use.
Relae pulls your giving from every channel into one clean donor record, handles the receipts and year-end summaries finance needs, and tells you who to follow up with next.
No migration, no marketer, no enterprise price. Works on top of your CRM, or as your donor record if you do not have one.
Donors who give a second time stay: roughly three in five give again. Relae finds the donors waiting for a second ask and tells you who to reach, so the follow-through actually happens.
First-year and repeat-donor retention figures from the AFP Fundraising Effectiveness Project.
Built for the littlest shops, where one or two people wear every hat.
The books first, then the relationships.
Get the record right first, then act on it. The same clean data underneath every screen.
Every gift, from every source, matched to the right donor.
Every source merged into one record. It auto-matches the obvious, sends only the few in doubt to the Review queue, and remembers every decision.
See how matching worksAuto resolves on its own. Review waits for a human. Nothing saves until you confirm.
Paid, promised, and hoped for. Never blurred.
Progress fills by certainty: paid deepest, written pledges lighter, verbal lighter still. A forecast is labeled a forecast, and every number ties out.
See how the numbers tie outWho to follow up with next, and the exact move to make.
It ranks the next follow-up per donor, with the reasoning shown: who is ask-ready, who is worth a call.
Every donor, one dossier, the whole relationship in view.
Every gift matched into one place, the relationship read at a glance, and the next move already surfaced.
Write it the way you would say it. Relae reads the rest.
Type a note the way you would say it. Relae reads the people, money, and dates, and you confirm.
Relae reads the people, money, and dates. You confirm before anything is written.
An intelligent donor record for the smallest fundraising teams.
Today it lives in five exports, a spreadsheet, and your memory. Relae makes it one.
See your own book clean. Apply for the September cohort.
It fits whether you have a CRM or you don't.
Relae sits on top: it reads your CRM in and exports back out. Nothing migrates, and your CRM stays the book of record.
You get the clean matched gifts and the follow-up list a CRM never builds for you.
Relae is your donor record from day one: one clean, deduplicated record of giving, without standing up a heavy CRM.
Bring what you have. Eventbrite, CanadaHelps, the bank, cheques, spreadsheets. Your data stays yours.
Most small teams do not raise more by switching systems. They raise more by trusting the numbers in the one place their giving lives.
Grounded methodology, a real fundraiser, and your data kept yours.
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.
A career major-gifts fundraiser configures Relae for how your team actually works and qualifies your first portfolio with you. A small team is never doing this alone.
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, or none at all?
Either works. With a CRM, Relae reads it in, leaves it the book of record, and adds the clean matched gifts and the relationship intelligence. Without one, Relae is your donor record from day one.
Does Relae issue tax receipts?
Yes. Relae issues CRA-compliant donation receipts straight from the clean giving record, split-receipting rules included, with your charity as the issuer of record. It is switched on with you during onboarding. If you would rather keep receipting in your current system, Relae produces the clean per-donor totals and year-end summaries to receipt from instead.
Is my donor data safe?
Canadian data stays in Canada, each organization's data is kept strictly separate, and known identifiers are stripped before AI reads your notes. 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, but the whole point of Relae is to be affordable for the smallest shops, well under what the incumbent CRMs charge. Founding organizations from the beta keep a preferred founding rate when pricing launches, and will get plenty of notice before anything changes.
How does the private beta work?
We onboard in small cohorts so every organization gets real hands-on setup. The next cohort opens September 2026. Apply now, and if Relae is not the right fit for your shop we will tell you straight. Founding organizations talk directly to the people building Relae.
Is my shop too small for this?
No. The smaller you are, the more Relae is for you. It is built for the long tail of tiny orgs where one or two people do everything and there is no back office. If you are a large shop with a full development team and a CRM admin, Relae is probably not the right fit, and we will tell you so.
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.
Trustworthy numbers, and the hours to follow through.
A career fundraiser sets Relae up the way your shop works, reconciles your gifts, and qualifies your first follow-up list with you. Hands-on, and free during beta.
Onboard in September and your books are clean for this year-end, receipts included.