Cohorts, accelerators, associations and funders
Multiply what you already deploy
You are not buying software for your own use. You are buying leverage on money, influence or a program you already run. A funder putting $50,000 across ten nonprofits would rather those ten each raise another $200,000, and that is a different argument from any feature list.
The smaller version of the same argument
If you are not running a cohort and simply want a particular organization to be able to compete, that is the same leverage at a smaller size and it works the same way. Pay it forward sponsors a plan for one organization you name, for anything from a month to two years.
Several people do this for a nonprofit they sit on the board of, which is the cleanest version: you know exactly who it helps and you hand it to them yourself.
What a sponsor gets
- Join links with access bundled in
- Members onboard through a link you control, with privileges already attached, so you are not administering accounts one at a time. You can run several links and see which cohort or intake each came from.
- A shared credit pool
- You fund the work centrally. No member has to find a budget line of its own. When your members are small nonprofits or pre-revenue companies, this is frequently what makes participation possible at all.
- A track record across every member
- Applied, won, lost, pending, plus requested and awarded dollars, rolled up under a cohort header. The members at zero applications are visible by scanning the column, which is usually the first useful thing this tells you.
- Cohort readiness benchmarking
- Average readiness score, the distribution behind it, and category averages across market, capital, intellectual property and operations. This tells you what kind of help your cohort needs, not just how much, and we have not seen anyone else in this category offer it.
- Onboarding conversion per link
- Invited against actually onboarded. Every program like this loses people between the announcement and the first login, and this is the only place that shows up.
The line we do not cross, and why it sells
You see the scoreboard. You never see the work. Clicking a member does not open their proposals or their documents, and there is no code path that would let it.
State that plainly in your program announcement and it removes the objection your members were not going to raise with you directly. Their material stays theirs. If they want you to read something, they share that file, and they can revoke it.
One thing to be clear about: nothing alerts you when a member goes quiet. You can see who is applying and who is not by looking, and there is no per-member last-activity signal and no notification. That is a real limit and we would rather you find it here than in a demo.
If you are a funder, not a program
Community foundations, program-related investors and individual donors all hit the same ceiling: what you can give is what you can give. Funding the capacity to raise money multiplies the gift instead of adding to it, and it keeps working after the grant year ends.
It also opens the part of the field almost nobody markets. Foundations make below-market loans, guarantees and equity investments, and 480+ community development lenders sit alongside them. If your grantees only know how to ask for grants, they are not seeing most of what you and your peers actually deploy.
What we will not put in a contract
Your documents are encrypted in transit and at rest, scoped to your organization, and enforced on the server, never in the browser. We answer procurement questionnaires in detail. Send yours and we will work through it.
No white label and no API access. Both get asked for and neither is sellable today.
You cannot gift a subscription or credits to a specific member. The shared pool is the mechanism that exists. Anything you have heard about gifting is an idea, not a feature.
The security page publishes its limits beside its guarantees, which is the version worth forwarding to whoever does your diligence.
Has anyone actually done this?
Accelerators and cohort sponsors are among the hundreds of organizations we have served. The number below is the point: one customer reached $1.2M across 26 proposals. Put that capacity behind fifteen member organizations at once and the arithmetic is the whole pitch.
Rather than applying for grants directly, this customer wrote their services into other organizations' proposals, and won work from 26 of them.
Tell us about your cohort.
Pricing is custom because cohorts differ by an order of magnitude. A call gets you a real number faster than an email thread.