Board prep & minutes
2–4 hrs/wk
Packet, agenda, pre-reads, minutes, action items. Then you do it all again in four weeks.
The first AI-agents built for executive directors
Your cause. Your way.
Private, always-on AI assistants for the people running nonprofits — grants, donors, board prep, and everything that never fits in a day. Live in under a week.
- Non-profit backed
- Workshops from $250
- One week to a live assistant
0% of nonprofits use AI casually. Only 0% have it deployed across their team. Causeway closes that gap.
Enterprise NP platforms
$7K–$40K
Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud implementation
vs.
Causeway Grow
$2,400
Full deployment + 30-day support
Built for
Food banks✦
Conservancies✦
Arts orgs✦
Youth programs✦
Health services✦
Housing coalitions✦
Animal welfare✦
Research foundations✦
Advocacy groups✦
Community centers✦
Environmental NGOs✦
Educational nonprofits✦
Food banks✦
Conservancies✦
Arts orgs✦
Youth programs✦
Health services✦
Housing coalitions✦
Animal welfare✦
Research foundations✦
Advocacy groups✦
Community centers✦
Environmental NGOs✦
Educational nonprofits✦
The problem
You didn't take the ED role to drown in admin.
Executive directors are first fundraiser, first communicator, first writer, and last to leave. Most of what eats your calendar is drafting, summarizing, and following up — work AI handles well when it knows your org.
Grant narratives
6–10 hrs/wk
You rewrite the draft, chase the LOI, and hit the 5pm deadline. Again. And again next month.
Donor thank-yous & stewardship
3–6 hrs/wk
Personalized retention works — but not when "personalized" is you at 11pm on a Sunday.
Email triage
10–15 hrs/wk
Half your inbox is questions a well-briefed assistant could answer in your voice — for you.
Funder & impact reports
2–4 hrs/wk
Same program story, five different funder templates, quarterly. You aren't a proposal machine.
Memos, briefs & talking points
3–6 hrs/wk
Board ask, staff memo, media talking points, 1:1 prep — all first-person, all you.
How it works
From a free 20-minute consultation to always-on assistant in a week.
You don't install anything. You don't manage a server. You don't touch a terminal. Your assistant runs on your own cloud account — we do the setup, you own the infrastructure and can revoke our access at any time.
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Free 20-min consultation
Tell us about your programs, the grants you chase, the tools you already use, and where your calendar leaks time. No tech background required — and no commitment.
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We deploy on your cloud (≤ 1 week)
You create a DigitalOcean or Hetzner account and grant us admin access. We spin up the instance, install your assistant, load your organizational context, configure the skills you picked, and connect your Telegram bot. You get a link — and root keys you can revoke anytime.
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Your team starts chatting
Open Telegram. Message
@YourOrgAssistant. That's it. Ask it to draft a thank-you, track a new grant, summarize a board meeting, or remind the team about a shift.
Privacy by design
Your assistant runs on a container only you and Causeway can access. Your conversations stay on that server — nothing goes to a third-party platform. The only external call is to the LLM provider we configure for you (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, or similar), which doesn't train on your data. Deployed inside your cloud account from day one.
Skills built for YOU
Not a chatbot. A team of specialists.
Each skill is configured specifically for your org — shaped by your programs, your voice, and the way your team actually works. We build only what fits.
🏛️
Critical
Grant Management
Keeps your grant calendar moving — from deadlines and drafts to new funding opportunities, all in one place.
📋
High
Board & Meeting Support
Turns meeting chaos into clean, board-ready outputs — with nothing falling through the cracks.
📊
High
Outreach Tracking
Tracks who you've reached, who's next, and what's still open — with spreadsheet exports whenever you need them.
✍️
Medium
Communications
Keeps your story in circulation — drafts, captions, and outreach in your org's voice.
🔬
Medium
Research Assistant
For health and science orgs: stays on top of your field so you don't have to.
⏰
Differentiator
Proactive Monitoring
Unlike a passive chatbot, your assistant wakes up on its own — checking in before you have to ask.
Find your fit
Four questions. We'll point you to the right tier.
Takes about 20 seconds. No email required.
Question 1 of 4
How is your team using AI today?
Question 2 of 4
How many staff do you have?
Question 3 of 4
What's your biggest time-drain right now?
Question 4 of 4
What's your annual operating budget?
Based on your answers, we'd recommend
Grow
$2,400 · one-time setup
Your team has momentum but needs multi-user Telegram setup, workflow config, and training.
Pricing
Start with a workshop. Graduate to a deployed AI assistant.
Two clear paths: start with a workshop to learn the tools, or jump straight to a fully deployed AI assistant on your own cloud.
Workshop
$250
Teams new to AI · no setup · learn the tools you already have
- 90-min live session on Zoom
- Hands-on with Claude & Claude Code
- Create real work live: presentations & graphics, social captions & post descriptions
- Custom prompt library & daily-workflow playbook (grants, donors, comms) — shaped around your org, yours to keep
- Session recording + presentation slides to share with your team
- 14-day email follow-up
- Bonus: $100 credit toward Seed or Grow if you upgrade within 30 days
Seed
$2,000
$1,200
Launch pricing · save $800
+ required monthly retainer from $100/mo
The ED's first AI assistant — live in under a week.
- Deployed on your own cloud account — we do the work, you hold the keys
- 1 user on Telegram (built for the ED)
- Your custom assistant handle
- Core identity, memory & org-context loaded
- Nonprofit tone and personality tuned
- Starter prompts & workflows pre-configured
- 1–3 skills configured from our library (grants, board support, outreach, etc.)
- Delivered in under one week
- Setup notes + 30-day email support
Most popular
Grow
$3,000
$2,400
Launch pricing · save $600
+ required monthly retainer from $100/mo
Your leadership team, working shoulder-to-shoulder with AI.
- Everything in Seed, plus:
- Up to 3 team users on Telegram
- 3–5 workflows built and tested for your org
- Pre-built skills installed: grants, donors, meetings
- Calendar + web search integrations
- Deep org-context load (programs, outcomes, history)
- Staff handoff walkthrough included
- Config backup + written documentation
- 30-day follow-up support
Compare plans, feature by feature
Every tier includes the support you'd expect from a done-for-you service. Larger differences show up in deployment depth and long-term follow-through.
| Feature | Workshop | Seed | Grow ⭐ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delivery format | Live 90-min training | Done-for-you | Done-for-you |
| Delivery timeline | Booked within 2 weeks | Live in under 1 week | Live in under 1 week |
| Hands-on AI training for your team | ✓ | — | Handoff included |
| Custom prompt library | ✓ | — | — |
| AI assistant on your own VPS | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Messaging channels | — | Telegram | Telegram |
| Team users on Telegram | — | 1 | Up to 3 |
| Workflow configurations | — | — | 3–5 |
| Pre-built skills installed | — | 1–3 skills | All skills |
| Integrations (calendar, web) | — | — | ✓ |
| Config backup & documentation | — | — | ✓ |
| Follow-up support | 14 days | 30 days | 30 days |
| One-time price | $250 | $2,000 $1,200 | $3,000 $2,400 |
Under $100K operating budget?
We offer a 50% sliding-scale discount for volunteer-run orgs and those with budgets under $100K. No grant needed — just tell us about your work. Mission-aligned pricing is baked in, not bolted on.
Book a call to discuss →Required with every setup
Choose your monthly support plan
Every Seed and Grow deployment includes an ongoing retainer — it keeps your AI assistant tuned, updated, and actually useful as your org evolves. Pick the level of hands-on care that fits. You can upgrade or downgrade at any time.
Included · choose one
Basic Support
$150/mo
$100/mo
Launch pricing
- Priority email support
- Bug fixes
- Minor config updates as you need them
- Quarterly check-in call
Most chosen
Active Management
$250/mo
$175/mo
Launch pricing
- Everything in Basic, plus:
- New skills added as your workflows change
- Monthly workflow optimization
- Active monitoring & uptime alerts
Why Causeway
Effective. And easy to launch.
90%less than enterprise AI
Way cheaper
A full done-for-you deployment on your own cloud for a fraction of what Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud or enterprise AI platforms charge. No license renewals, no per-seat fees, no annual lock-in.
< 7days to live
Easy to launch
You answer a short questionnaire and open a cloud account. We handle every other step. No IT team, no terminal, no project plan.
Meet your setup person
Ren Schneider
Denver-based, with a biology and AI background — and hands-on experience inside a nonprofit. I saw firsthand how capable teams lose hours, and sometimes grants, to admin no one has time for. That's why Causeway exists: not because your team needs to work harder, but because they need an AI assistant that doesn't sleep.
I do every workshop and setup personally. I know what it looks like when a small development team is chasing 18 active grants with one laptop and a spreadsheet. Causeway exists so your next hour goes to the mission, not the admin.
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University of DenverBiology · AI research
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Hands-on nonprofit experienceWorked inside a nonprofit and saw where AI could reclaim the hours admin quietly steals from mission — Causeway is built from that.
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Health/science sectorLiterature & policy monitoring depth
Questions
FAQ
Do we need technical staff?
No. The managed-VPS model means the server sits in your DigitalOcean or Hetzner account — we do all the setup, you hold the keys. You never open a terminal. If you can use Telegram, you can use your Causeway assistant.
What's this going to cost us every month?
You have two options. Bring your own subscription: if your org already pays for Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, or a similar $20/month AI plan, we plug your assistant into it and you pay nothing extra for usage. Pay-as-you-go: if you'd rather pay only for what you use, API billing runs most orgs $5–$25/month. Either way, infrastructure is free on DigitalOcean's nonprofit credit (year one) or ~$6/month on Hetzner after that.
Is our donor / grant data safe?
Yes. Your assistant runs on your own DigitalOcean or Hetzner account — only you and Causeway can access it, and you can revoke our access at any time. Conversations stay on that server. The only outbound traffic is to the AI model API we configure (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, or similar), which doesn't train on your data.
What's the difference between a Workshop and the setup tiers?
Workshop is training-only: we teach your staff how to use tools they already have access to — Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT — in their daily work, with a custom prompt library for your org. The setup tiers (Seed and Grow) add a deployed always-on assistant running on your own cloud account. Many orgs start with a Workshop and graduate to Seed or Grow once their team is comfortable.
What if Causeway goes away?
You keep the container, the data, and the skills. The underlying framework is open source — we'll hand over SSH access and documentation so you (or any consultant) can take it from there. No lock-in.
How long does setup actually take?
From the intro call to a live, working assistant: typically 5–7 days. Most of that is you filling in an onboarding questionnaire at your own pace. The actual deployment is a few hours on our end.
What's the tech underneath?
For setup tiers, we deploy an open-source agent framework (OpenClaw) on your own cloud account (DigitalOcean or Hetzner), configured with nonprofit-specific skills, and connected to whichever LLM provider fits your needs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, or similar). For Workshop clients, we train your team on Claude (web + Claude Code) and any AI tools you already have. In both cases, the software is open and the infrastructure is yours — Causeway is the service layer.
An AI assistant that doesn't sleep —
Run the mission. Not the paperwork.
Book a 20-minute consultation. No pitch, no pressure — we'll walk through your org's top time-drains and tell you honestly which tier (if any) is the right fit.
Typical response time: under 24 hours.