For nonprofits and coalitionsNo coding required

Your organization’s apps,
built by your organization.

No coding required. The tools your program staff, volunteers and grants team keep asking for — specified from what they already have, signed off by the people you choose, and shipped to web, desktop and phone on one OS.

Cedarline Trust · Pantry
1 · What you bring

Calls, emails, notes

Screenshots, links, a photo of the paper form. Drop in whatever you already have.

2 · The spec

One blueprint, signed off

Spec Studio reads all of it and draws one spec, every decision cited to where it came from. Nothing is built until it’s approved.

3 · Your app

Pantry

App Factory builds it from the spec in Cedarline Trust’s own brand — for web, desktop and phone.

Cedarline Trust, the Harrow Bay Coalition and the Wrenfield Community Fund are example organizations.
Your stack today

Your current stack is a spreadsheet.
None of it is yours.

Stale renewal dates. Owners who left in 2023. Feature requests nobody remembers submitting. It isn’t a vendor list — it’s a map of the decisions you’ve already lost leverage on.

  1. Renewals are trapsWhen a vendor raises rates or sunsets a feature, your data is their leverage.
  2. Feature requests stall in queuesVendors build for their biggest customers. Your workarounds become permanent.
  3. Funder reports are a screenshot jobA funder asks “how many people did you serve?” and you screenshot twelve dashboards.
The grant report, at midnight

Twelve exports, one binder,
and the person who runs the place.

The funder wants the numbers by Friday. They live in a donor CRM, a finance system, a volunteer spreadsheet, a pile of paper sign-in sheets and somebody’s photo folder — so the report gets reconciled by hand, at night, by the one person who cannot delegate it. Numbers that live in one database don’t need reconciling. Put the volunteer hours, the pantry log and the outcome survey in apps you own, and the report is a view of work that already happened.

Clock23:41
Exports open0
Hours tonight0
An illustration of one report. The hours are drawn, not measured.
THE FUNDER REPORTdonor CRM export.csvvolunteer hours.xlsxtrial balance Q3.pdfsign-in sheets (scanned)outcome survey responsespantry log — paperphotos for the funderpayroll allocation.xlsxin-kind donations listboard minutes (March)last year’s report.docxthe grants calendarQ3 · Cedarline Trust · funder reportPeople served1,412Volunteer hours3,880Meals distributed22,104Program spend$418,200Outcome survey84% respondedIn-kind received$61,450nobody exported anything. it was already the work.
Migrate · early access

It’s finally time to migrate
those 20-year-old Access databases.

The pantry log, the volunteer roster, the client-intake database — built in 2004 by a volunteer who did it for nineteen years, running on a PC in the back office, holding households’ names and circumstances with no audit trail. Its tables become a real app’s database, its rows load after a dry-run preview — and not one row is ever sent to an AI model.

The organization of the future

It runs on one OS.
It gets there one renewal at a time.

Ninety tools you pay for today, most of them bought in a hurry with a grant that has since closed. Each one leaves on its own renewal date — no migration project you cannot staff — and what it did becomes an app you own. The systems of record stay, connected.

Year2026
Tools you pay for90
Apps you own0
An illustration of one organization over five years.
FINANCEDONOR CRMPAYROLLEMAILWEBSITEBACKGROUND CHECKSACCOUNTINGBANK FEEDYOUR OS202620272028202920302031today: 90 tools you pay forone program, one appthe first renewal wavevolunteers are building nowthe donor CRM stays, connectedone OS
Every dollar to programs

The first number a funder reads
is the one you have least control over.

29¢ of the dollar never reaches programs, and most of that is not negotiable — the audit happens, the insurance is real, someone has to close the books. But 14 of those 29 cents are rent, paid to five vendors on five renewal dates nobody chose together. The audit is not optional. The licenses are.

ONE DOLLAR RAISED71¢  to programs5¢the audit4¢insurance6¢the finance director4¢the donor CRM3¢the volunteer portal3¢the grants tracker2¢the survey tool2¢the case-management add-on14¢ OF RENT · FIVE VENDORS · FIVE RENEWAL DATESTHE SAME DOLLAR, DECIDED ONCE71¢  to programsone line itemthe bar doesn’t shrink by magic — but for the first time you get to decide that part.
Everyone in the work

One organization, five people.
Each one sees only their apps.

The participant in the garden, the volunteer coordinator in the hall doorway, the pantry lead between the shelves, the grants manager at his desk, the executive director at the head of the table. One app, one sign-in — and each person opens it to the apps that are theirs. A participant sees her own appointments and nobody else’s.

same organization, five people
  1. A young woman in a community garden in late light, phone in hand, looking up with a small smile
    Participants
    Public app · 4 apps
    Nora, community garden
  2. A volunteer coordinator in a community-hall doorway with a clipboard and phone, laughing at something off frame
    Volunteers
    6 apps
    Theo, volunteer coordinator
  3. A pantry lead between food shelves holding a crate, phone in her other hand, looking up warmly
    Program
    10 apps
    Bev, pantry lead
  4. A grants manager at a cluttered desk turning to talk to someone off frame, phone in hand
    Grants & giving
    9 apps
    Arun, grants manager
  5. An executive director standing at the head of a small meeting table mid-sentence, smiling, phone in hand
    Leadership
    8 apps
    Yvette, executive director
Cedarline Trust, its people and its apps are examples.
Governance

Gates at every step in the development lifecycle.
Maximum control for highly regulated industries.

Choose the gates you want — the request, the spec, the build, security, production. Each one is enforced in the code, not in a policy the board approved in 2019, and every decision lands in one trail you can hand a funder, an auditor or the board.

turn a gate on in watch mode first —
see what it would have blocked
  1. Y. MarshExecutive director · sponsor
    APPROVEDrequest · 08:12
    New app
  2. B. OcampoProgram lead
    APPROVEDspec rev A · 09:41
    Spec sign-off
    A volunteer asked for it.
    A volunteer can’t approve it.
  3. D. ReyesOperations · any 1 of 2
    APPROVEDhand-off to build · 10:05
    Build
  4. Latest scan 11:240 critical · 0 high
    CLEAREDsecurity posture · 11:30
    Security
    no scan yet? blocked.
    no scan is not a clean scan.
  5. A. Nkemdi · P. CaldwellBoard treasurer · Operations
    APPROVED · 2 OF 2commit b52d70c · 14:06
    Production
    b52d70c is approved.
    a17f339 has to ask again.
Governance auditEvery governance decision in your org, in one trail you can hand an auditor.
TimeGateResultWhoWhat
08:12New appClearedY. MarshPantry request, sponsor approved
09:41Spec sign-offClearedB. Ocampospec rev A
10:52SecurityBlocked—release held: no completed scan
11:30SecurityClearedscan 11:240 critical, 0 high
14:06ProductionClearedA. Nkemdi, P. Caldwellcommit b52d70c, 2 of 2
14:31ProductionBlockedT. Hallorancommit a17f339 has no approval
People and programs are examples. Gates are off until your organization turns them on.
Born compliant

A participant’s name never leaves quietly.
Every crossing gets a receipt.

You hold people’s names, addresses and circumstances because they trusted you with them, and you have a tenth of the IT a hospital has. Declare your regime and the platform fails closed: personal data goes only where you approved under a written agreement, what goes to an AI model is redacted first, and every crossing is receipted before the call — in a chain that shows if anyone edits the past.

Governance, in the product

Your approval committee,
built into the software.

Org HQ ▸ Governance. Four screens your compliance officer will actually open.

Org HQ ▸ Governance ▸ Gates
Every lifecycle gate — its governor, approvers, and enforcement — in one registry.
New app
Spec sign-off
The rule: Before anything is built, at least 2 of these people must approve the spec.
Who can approve: Dr. A. Rahman · K. Osei · J. Tran
Kept in the loop — Notified of every request and decision — they don’t approve.
Changes save automatically.
Security posture — block a production release while serious findings are open
Security scan — approve running a scan or pen testOff
Org HQ ▸ Governance ▸ Approvals Inbox
PendingHistory
Waiting on your decision (3)
Bed Board — launch to production1 of 2 approved
commit a41f9c2 · requested by R. Patel · 13:58
Optional comment…
RejectApprove
OR Schedule — schema changeadds a column
Credentialing — access changegrant to 4 West managers
Org HQ ▸ Governance ▸ Audit
Every governance decision in your org in one trail you can hand an auditor.
Category ▾From dateActor, gate, app, or summary…
14:31ProductionBlockedb7e0d13 · no approval
14:06ProductionCleareda41f9c2 · M. Lee, S. Grant
11:30Security postureCleared0 critical, 0 high
10:52Security postureBlockedno completed scan
09:41Spec sign-offClearedspec rev A · K. Osei
Org HQ ▸ Governance ▸ Data Boundary
Your data boundary
Everything below is measured, not scored.
Regime packsHIPAAAdd regime
Enforce the boundaryEnforcing — regulated data fails closed
Approved destinations — The only places data may go.
AI model · dedicatedBAA on file
Email deliveryBAA on file
Disclosure ledger — every receipt, what left and where it went →
you can’t approve your own request · an approval covers one exact commit, once
any one · at least N · all of them — you set the quorum
hand this to your auditor
declare HIPAA and it fails closed by default
Gates are off until your organization turns them on; the people, apps and times here are examples.
Real software

Build an app once.
Ship it to every device.

One build becomes a web app at your own address, a signed desktop app, and native apps on both phones. No second codebase, no separate mobile team — which matters when the person doing intake is standing in a parking lot with a phone and no desk anywhere near them.

One version, four placesEvery surface comes off the same build, so the web, the desktop and both phones cannot drift apart. The commit is the version.
A funder changes the formThe affected app is re-specified, re-tested and re-shipped inside the week — every surface at once, because they all come from one build.
No second codebaseThe phone apps are rendered natively from the same app, not hand-written twice. Nobody maintains a separate mobile team to keep them in step.
The desktop app is signed and notarized for macOS and runs the app’s own surface in a native window. Pantry and Cedarline Trust are examples.
The new economics of the sector

Nobody understands a pantry line
like the people standing in it.

Not us. Not a vendor whose smallest plan costs more than your program budget. Sector software has always been built by outsiders and priced for organizations ten times your size. This inverts it: built by the coalition that runs the work, and installed by the one two counties over — arriving in their colors, on their OS.

01You build itThe shift tool your coordinator made because every product on the market was priced for an organization with a development team.
02It worksProven on your volunteers, your sites, your Saturday — the kind of evidence no vendor demo can fake.
03The coalition two counties over installs itIt arrives in their colors, on their OS, governed by their gates. Your price, your revenue — when the marketplace opens.
The marketplace is not open yet — this is where it goes. Cedarline Trust, the Harrow Bay Coalition and Shift Board are examples.

See your own stack first.

The free stack assessment maps your vendors, your spend, your overlap, and the five-year rent-vs-own curve — on your numbers, before anyone asks you to believe anything on this page.