By nonprofits, for nonprofits · Alpha · by invitation

Walk in with your eyes wide open.

RaiseMoney.ai helps you track every conversation, read every donor, and work out the next move — anchored in an approach that’s closed hundreds of millions of dollars. Engage new funders from a position of strength, with confidence, creativity, and grace. Secure the resources you need to advance your work.

Your meetings, filed and analyzed

Recount the meeting in your own words, in any order. It becomes structured records — commitments, action items, open questions — plus the analysis: the stage, the odds, what changed, and what to watch.

The read on every donor

Gain insight into every donor — how they decide, what they light up on, where they hold back. You take that understanding into every room.

The next move, worked out with you

A stall, an ask amount, a mixed signal — it works the problem with you and answers with specific moves, and the reasoning behind them.

See it work

Tell it what happened. It files the facts and reads the donor.

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Talk to me…
Just left Elena Ruiz. It was going great — she loved the pilot results and we were talking like partners. Then she asked how we’d sustain the work after her grant ends, and I spent twenty minutes defending our budget model. The energy dropped. She told me to check back in a few weeks.
Added to commitment records
Elena Ruiz  Shaping
$250K in play · revisit in a few weeks
Added to conversation records
Loved the pilot results · sustainability question · energy dropped
Today · with Elena Ruiz
One open question
What would sustaining the work look like to her?
Flagged for the next conversation
Strategist
The meeting turned on the sustainability question. She wasn’t auditing your budget — she was asking whether the work has a future she can believe in. A budget model answers a different question, and defending it for twenty minutes turned the meeting from two partners into an applicant and an auditor. That’s why the energy dropped. To recover, go back to the problem you both care about. Tell her the question stayed with you because it’s the right one, and ask for a working session on what the work looks like after the grant ends. You already know she wants it to last. Let her help decide how.
Tell me what just happened…send

Ask it what you’d ask a colleague.

It answers from your records — and shows its reasoning.

Who’s ready for an ask?
Strategist
Margaret Brennan is ready. She asked you for the next ambitious thing, and that question was an invitation. She has been leaning in for two months, and your progress shows it: the conversation is already weighted at $150K of a possible $250K. Bring her the vision she asked for, and bring one number with it — a range only invites her to pick the smaller end. Then let her react. She asked for this; answer it.
Is Voss actually in?
Strategist
Look at her language. A conditional yes, where the condition is an outcomes summary — that is not someone deciding whether to give. Outcome targets are what funders ask about once they consider themselves in. So stop selling. Work through the outcomes with her as partners, then confirm the dates and the paperwork. In her mind, she has already joined the work. The only way to lose her now is to keep pitching a decision she has already made.
What’s most at risk this week?
Strategist
The biggest risk this week isn’t any single relationship. It’s a habit. Three of your next moves are documents — Whitfield’s brief, Voss’s one-pager, and Reed’s board packet — and none of them has a conversation planned first. That leaves $1.08M resting on the assumption that paper can do the closing. A document can confirm a decision, but it rarely produces one. Talk to each of them before anything goes out, so that each document arrives confirming something you’ve already agreed to.
What’s cooling that I haven’t noticed?
Strategist
Keep an eye on two people. Okonkwo used to reply the same day; now it takes ten, and the messages are getting shorter. That looks like drifting attention, not a decision against you. And Whitfield hasn’t mentioned the site visit since April, which suggests the plan has stalled on his end. Neither one is lost. They have simply stopped hearing from you about anything except business. A short personal note that asks for nothing would likely restart either conversation.

A working file on every relationship.

Donor records

It learns how each donor decides.

What they light up on, where they hold back, how the yes actually gets made — observed across your meetings against 25 behavioral categories, dated, and graded by the strength of the evidence.

Contact record
James Okafor
Program Officer · Calderwood Foundation
BriefingProfileCommitmentsConversations
Behavioral observations
Accumulated as each conversation is captured.
POWER ANALYSIS
Real influence, but not unilateral — shapes what reaches the board and how it's framed, and needs outside validation to win the room. [strong]
DECISION MAKING
Decides on conviction first, then reaches for evidence to justify it — lead with the stake, bring the proof second. [strong]
EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS
Lights up on organizing and tenant power; goes flat the moment it's framed as services or “capacity.” [moderate]
The case

It keeps your case sharp and current.

The full argument for the work — the frames, the sequence, the reasoning — versioned as the work evolves, and tailored to each funder you meet.

Commitment record
Margaret Brennan
Shaping · 60% · $150K of $250K
BriefPitch1-2-3Actions
Strategic frames
Developed from your meetings, versioned as the case evolves.
This isn't a repairs program — it's the first time tenants hold the data the city has always controlled.
Reframes the work from a service the city provides into a shift in who holds the evidence — and the power that comes with it.
Applied Jun 26
V2Captured
1
Prove it: build a tenant-controlled record of housing conditions on the blocks the city has written off — evidence no agency can dismiss.
2
Scale it: turn that evidence into an organized tenant base, block by block, with the standing to force repairs and enforcement.
3
Change the rules: write the standard into housing code and procurement, so the gains outlast any landlord, election, or grant.
The pitch

It tracks which parts of your pitch are working.

Every captured conversation updates the case — what’s landing, what keeps meeting the same objection, and the exact words funders use about your work, kept for the next draft.

Commitment record
Margaret Brennan
Shaping · 60% · $150K of $250K
BriefPeoplePitch1-2-3
Case for support
Tracked across your captured conversations.
2 · This is what we do
Covered · landing
“The thing the field's been waiting for someone to do.”
Naomi gave you this unprompted — it reframes the work from a program into a field-defining first. Lift it into the case verbatim.
4 · We have a challenge
Under attack
“Sustainability” — the same pushback from three funders running.
The word reads as a hedge, not a stake. Reframe the challenge around what's lost if no one acts, before the next ask.
8 · Together we have what it takes
Covered · landing
“Take ground, not build capacity.”
Lands every time because it tells funders they're backing a fight they can win, not overhead. Keep leading here.

Your whole pipeline, staged and weighted.

It builds this as you talk, from your captured conversations — truthful about where the year stands, even when it’s behind. When the board asks, you have the answer.

The full board — every card carries its next move and its odds.

$2.7M towards $3.5MWeighted pipeline
$0M$1.5M$3M$4.5M$6M JANAPRJULOCTDEC TARGET $3.5M TODAY

It lives inside Claude.

It’s embedded where you already work. You don’t have to come to it — it’s there in your chat while you write the program plan, work the budget, and prep the board meeting. And it does more than help with the task in front of you: it sees the whole picture as you go, and its fundraising advice arrives connected to the rest of your work. The full app at raisemoney.ai keeps the same records and the same memory. Nothing to migrate.

Claude
RaiseMoney: quick capture — call with Marcus Reed. The October board packet is on their agenda, and he asked for final numbers by the 20th.
⚙ Used  RaiseMoney
Filed: action item — final numbers to Reed by the 20th. Conversation logged; commitment unchanged (Hartwell Foundation, $650K). One thought from the strategist: if the numbers are due on the 20th, the decision is being written now. Worth a call with Marcus before you send them, so the numbers arrive confirming what you’ve already agreed.
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Built to make you more powerful.

RaiseMoney.ai is an accelerant: more conversations carried, faster follow-through, sharper reads — the work still yours, done with more behind it. It doesn’t replace you, your judgment, or your relationships. It extends them.

It advises. You decide.

Your donors give because of you — the trust is yours. So it never contacts a donor, never sends anything, never makes an ask. When it doesn’t know something, it says so and takes the time to work it out.

Your donors are not training data.

Every fact stays exactly as you said it — amounts, dates, who said what — yours to inspect, correct, or delete. Nothing about your donors trains anything for anyone else.

It works with what you already have.

Spreadsheets, CRM exports, years of notes — it reads them all. If your org requires a CRM, keep it; you’ll have better notes to paste into it. Setup takes about twenty minutes.

Where the guidance comes from.

Ask a general-purpose AI about fundraising and you get the average of everything ever written about it — most of it neither insightful nor useful. RaiseMoney.ai doesn’t draw on that. Its guidance comes from its assigned canon: a documented body of fundraising practice, taught in person for years as a twelve-hour workshop — with a waitlist — to founders and directors who raise their own budgets.

Its facts work the same way. It works exclusively with what you’ve told it and the records you’ve built. When it doesn’t know something, it says so. It never invents a meeting, a number, or a donor. It never hallucinates.

RaiseMoney.ai is built by nonprofits, for nonprofits — by people who have started from scratch. It is a project of Aspiration, a nonprofit.

"I now have the tools and the fundamentals to enter philanthropic spaces with my eyes wide open. I feel powerful in those spaces."

Karen · White House Office of Science & Technology Policy

"It shifted my mindset from being a recipient to building strategic, mutually beneficial funding relationships."

Angela · Executive Director, Ushahidi

"It got me fired up — and made me realise how much I actually enjoy this part of my job."

Claire · EDRi
Fundraisers coached at Mozilla · Consumer Reports · Tor · Ushahidi · Fight for the Future · EDRi · VotingWorks

Those are reviews of the approach, taught in person — the software applies it to your records.

In alpha now.

It works, and it isn’t finished. We’re adding a small group of fundraisers who’ll run it on live pipelines and tell us what’s wrong. Its read of your donors gets sharper with every meeting you give it.

A person reads every request.