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brainiac/studio

Digital Studio

brainiac/studiobrainiac/studio
industries / non-profit

Non-profit software that amplifies every donor dollar.

We build donor CRMs, fundraising platforms, grant management tools, and impact dashboards for charities, NGOs, and mission-driven organisations who need technology that works as hard as their team.

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our approach

A practice, not a sales territory.

Most non-profits are held back not by lack of mission — but by technology debt. A Salesforce NPSP instance nobody configured properly, donation pages on a SaaS tool you've outgrown, and grant reporting done in spreadsheets. Your team spends hours on data reconciliation that software should handle automatically.

We build the connective tissue: a donor management system that actually talks to your fundraising platform, a recurring giving infrastructure that doesn't drop lapsed donors, and a grant pipeline that surfaces deadlines before they become emergencies. Not generic CRM configuration — purpose-built software for how your organisation actually works.

Funders and boards increasingly expect real-time impact data, not quarterly PDFs. We build the measurement layer too — program outcome tracking, donor-facing dashboards that show exactly what their gift accomplished, and funder reports that pull from live data instead of being assembled the night before a deadline.

— who we build for

Sub-verticals.

Charitable foundationsNGO & international developmentFaith-based organisationsArts & cultural institutionsEnvironmental & conservationEducation & scholarship fundsHealthcare nonprofits & hospicesCommunity development orgsAdvocacy & policy institutesSocial enterprise & B-corps
— problems we solve

Common engagements.

01

Donor CRM fragmentation

Salesforce NPSP, a spreadsheet for major donors, paper pledge cards from the gala, and a separate email list in Mailchimp. No single source of truth means your development team manually reconciles data instead of building relationships — and major donors receive three 'first gift' acknowledgements.

02

Fundraising channel silos

Online donations, peer-to-peer campaigns, events, and major gifts all live in separate systems with no unified reporting. You can't answer 'what was our best acquisition channel last year' without a two-week data project. We consolidate everything into a single donor journey.

03

Impact reporting is manual and quarterly

Funders want to see real-time impact; you're assembling 12-page PDF reports the night before a site visit. We build the measurement layer that turns program data into live dashboards — for internal teams, board members, and the donor-facing pages that drive renewal rates.

04

Gift matching revenue left unclaimed

Double the Donation is installed but the integration is partial: employers aren't matched, submissions go untracked, and your matching revenue is a fraction of what it could be. We wire up the full pipeline — detection, submission, follow-up, and reconciliation.

05

Grant management by email thread

Deadline tracking, budget compliance reports, and narrative submissions are managed in inboxes and shared drives. A missed reporting deadline puts your next grant at risk. We build grant pipelines with deadline alerts, budget variance tracking, and the document assembly that keeps your programme team ahead of funders.

06

Donation page abandonment

A giving page built on a generic landing tool — slow, not mobile-optimised, no social proof, and a checkout that looks different from your brand. Every friction point costs you completions. We rebuild the full donation flow: trust signals, suggested amounts based on donor history, and a post-gift experience that starts the renewal conversation.

— compliance

Built for regulated work.

501(c)(3) donor data stewardship & IRS reporting
GDPR & data subject rights for international donors
PCI DSS for online donation processing
UK Gift Aid HMRC digital submission
CAN-SPAM / CASL for donor communications
WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility for inclusive giving pages
SOC 2 Type II for donor data platforms
— tech stack

Tools we reach for first.

Next.js
PostgreSQL
Stripe (recurring giving)
Salesforce NPSP
Mailchimp / SendGrid
Segment / PostHog
Contentful / Sanity
Cloudflare
Python (ML / donor scoring)
Anthropic Claude
faq

Frequently asked.

7 questions answered. Still have one? Reach out.

Yes — we always start with a full audit of your existing NPSP configuration: custom fields, workflows, duplicate rules, and data quality issues. We document what's there before we touch anything. Migrations are staged with a full rollback plan, and we run parallel validation — old system and new — before you cut over. We've inherited messy NPSP instances before; nothing surprises us.

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— ready

Let's build what's next.

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll tell you how we’d help.