An org brain for nonprofits
You did the work.Now let Candela
help you prove it.
Candela reads the documents your organization already has, remembers what they hold, and answers with a source behind every number. Years of real work, finally able to speak for themselves.
Every number sourced · Every gap named · Nothing invented
The knowledge is real.
It's just scattered.
Your organization holds years of knowledge. The grant that funded the pilot. The reason the intake form changed in 2021. The numbers behind last spring's outcomes, and the story of how you got them. It lives in folders, inboxes, spreadsheets, and in the memories of the people who were there.
None of that is a failure of effort. It's what happens when good people carry too much in their heads because there was never time to write it all down.
Candela gives that knowledge a place to live. Not another system to feed. A memory that reads what you already have, and keeps track of where every piece came from.
A program director moves on, and the part only she knew goes with her.
A funder asks a question you answered two years ago, and someone gives up a week to find it again.
A board member wants the history behind a number, and the history is in a binder nobody can locate.
Your tech stack captures the work. It never connects it.
Candela does both.
Record the meeting. Log the decision. Assign the task. You'd do that anyway. With Candela, every one of those ordinary moves lands in one memory that never forgets where it came from.
Setup is day one. Capture is every day after. Meetings become minutes, minutes become tracked decisions and tasks your team works like normal, and all of it feeds the same memory that answered your last funder question. No rekeying. No second system to feed.
The more you use it, the more it knows.
Give it. It knows it. Use it.
You give Candela your information, once and then continuously. It sorts, stores, and knows it. You use it to decide and to show your work. Three beats, one motion.
Spark reads what you already have.
Hand it your folders as they are. Reports, minutes, budgets, the messy ones too. Spark turns them into structured memory and records the source of every piece, so nothing you give it ever loses its provenance.
A screen recording of Spark reading a real folder of documents lands here.
Your team asks. The memory answers.
Ask in plain language and get an answer with its sources attached. When the answer isn't in your documents, Candela says so instead of guessing. Plan against what you actually know.
A screenshot of the working chat answering with sources attached lands here.
Studio helps the work be seen.
Board decks, funder reports, dashboards, composed from cited memory. A person on your team reviews everything before it's sealed. Candela drafts; you decide.
A screen recording of Studio composing an output from cited memory lands here.
One memory, from pile to proof.
Candela is the operating system for your nonprofit's knowledge. It is not a chatbot, a CRM, an accounting system, or a template gallery. It's the memory your organization never had time to build, and the studio that turns it into proof.
Give it your information
Drop the pile once, then let daily operations feed it forever. If you can copy it, Candela can take it.
It sorts, stores, and knows it
One cited, always-on memory your whole team and its AI can reach. Nothing becomes official until a person approves it.
Decide, and show your work
Ask anything and get an answer with sources attached. Plan on real numbers. Compose the outputs that show the world what you do.
Meet your mission
Better decisions, easier weeks, faster answers. And funders who say yes because they trust what you show them.
- Remembers what you give it. One cited org brain built from your existing documents.
- Answers with receipts. Ask in plain English; every number links to its source.
- Plans on real data. A quarter, a renewal, or a crisis, already assembled.
- Staffs the busywork. AI workers draft and track; nothing is saved without approval.
- Shows the work beautifully. Reports, presentations, donor recaps, all on your brand.
- Stays honest. Gaps shown as gaps, and the Colorado AI Act met on the record.
Every number sourced. Every gap named. Nothing invented.
The standard the product is held to
Built to be checked.
You've seen AI answers that sounded confident and turned out to be wrong. That can never be your story in front of a board or a funder, so Candela was built the other way around.
A source behind every number.
Every figure in a Candela answer links to the document it came from. Click it. Read the original. That's the whole arrangement: no number without a receipt.
It tells you what it doesn't know.
When something wasn't measured, Candela says "not measured." A gap named honestly is worth more than a number made up nicely, and the people who fund you know it. There is even a view called Where You're Flying Blind that lists the questions your data can't honestly answer yet.
A person seals it.
Nothing goes out as final until someone on your team reviews it and seals it. The judgment stays yours. Candela just makes it easier to exercise.
"If we can't cite it, we don't say it."
Question
How many families finished all 12 weeks of the 2025 cohort?
Sealed answer
Not collected, so not estimated. This cell stays empty until the data exists.
Where the work gets seen.
Everything below is composed from your cited memory, reviewed by your team, and ready for a careful reader. The citation chips are working parts, not decoration. If a number has no source, Studio won’t invent one.
A board member asks: “What moved most last year?” You steer to the node. The answer arrives with its source.
SEALED · WHAT THE ROOM SAW IS FROZEN AND LOGGED
Present your whole organization as a navigable map. Steer it live as the room asks questions, with the source on screen the entire time. No slide deck answers a question it wasn't built for. This does.
One build, two forms. A print report for the board packet and a cinematic scroll page for everyone else, from the same approved facts. Every figure is clickable to its source, and where the data ends, the chart shows the gap instead of smoothing it over.
A live picture of what your organization knows, private for the team or curated for the public, and honest about what it doesn't know yet. That empty cell is doing its job: it's telling you what to measure next.
A year in review for every donor. Composed from the giving records you already keep, one personal link per donor, reviewed before anything goes out. Candela composes it; your team sends it.
One link instead of an attachment chain. When a funder does diligence, hand them a curated, view-only room of sealed outputs. Your team controls the link and can take it back any time.
Studio is not a second product. It's where the arc lands: the same approved memory, made presentable.
Browse the full Studio galleryYou don't wait a season for the payoff.
Your whole organization, in our words, cited. On day one.
Before Candela asks anything more of your team, it hands you something: the Synthesis Report. Your organization, described back to you in plain language. What your data says. What we noticed. The questions worth asking next, and where to start.
Every claim in it cites your own documents. And the section most first-time readers stop on is the honest one: where you're blind. The gaps, named as gaps, so you know exactly what to measure next.
Walk into the ask prepared.
The same memory that answers your board answers your fundraising. Before a donor meeting, Candela drafts the brief: what they care about, their history with you, the framing that fits, a suggested ask. When you plan a campaign, the Narrative Planner lays out the story it recommends, next to the alternatives it set aside, so you see the reasoning and not just the result.
One page before every meeting. Drafted from your records, reviewed by you, never sent anywhere by Candela.
It shows the drafts it rejected. The same honesty that marks a gap “not measured” tells you why one story beat another.
Priced for budgets that answer to a board.
One flat price for your whole organization, banded by budget size. No per-seat fees, because an org brain wants everyone in it. Published here, so you can put Candela in a budget line without booking a call first.
StarterFREE
$0FOREVER
The free Compliance Inbox. Colorado AI Act checklist, deadlines tracked, a place to keep the evidence. No card required.
Core
$1,950PER YEAR
For budgets under $1M. The org brain, planning views, and the Studio basics.
Growth
$4,950PER YEAR
For budgets of $1M to $5M. Adds deeper analysis, the grant writer, dashboards, and AI staff.
Impact
$9,950PER YEAR
For $5M+ or output-heavy organizations. The full Studio, the Living Presentation, and white label.
CoveredHIPAA
CUSTOMTALK TO US
For organizations handling protected health information. Dedicated infrastructure, BAA included.
The Colorado AI Act is in effect. You're closer to ready than you think.
If your organization uses AI in decisions that affect people, the law now asks you to be able to explain it. The Compliance Inbox is free for any nonprofit: the checklist, the deadlines, and a place to keep the evidence. If this page is why you came, you can be ready without paying us anything. We're not your lawyers, and we'll always say so.
I've spent years watching good people come and go from nonprofits. They give themselves to the mission, they make it better, and one day they move on, the way good people do. But too often the best of what they built leaves with them. The reasons behind a decision, the relationships, the lessons learned the hard way. Out the door.
I built Candela to change that. The idea is simple: let the mission carry the memory, not the people who deliver it. When someone moves on, what they gave stays. And the people who are here get every tool they need to do the mission's best work.
Clayton · FounderThe work deserves a memory as good as the mission.
Bring one folder of real documents. Watch Candela read them, cite them, and tell you honestly what's there and what's missing.
Starter is free, and stays free. Paid tiers are flat, published, and billed to the organization, never per seat.