The Funding Engine for cause-driven nonprofits
First I find exactly where the money is. Then I build AI employees that work 24/7 to bring it in. Live in about two weeks, from $2,500.
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Lapsed donors. Open pledges. Declined monthly gifts. I've been hired to consult with over 317 organizations, from St. Jude to Sony Media. Every single one had uncollected money, and needed three things to get it.
But most leaders are too busy to pin down #1 and #2. So they bolt AI onto #3... and get mediocre results faster, for more money.
We find the money, make the plan, then deploy ASIEs to get it done.
Found in their marketing and operations.
St. Jude
$22 to $34
Average gift.
TechnicalLead
$20K to $300K+
Monthly revenue, after a 90% drop. We rebuilt the pricing and the offer.
Collectorz
$3M to $15M
In 24 months.
Corel
$24M campaign
With a 29.4% buy rate.
"They got to the root of problems we didn't even know we had."
"Joshua... immediately tripled his client's business in less than three months."
"I wish we could hire you as one of our national sales guys. The way you word stuff, and the results we're getting, is just incredible... some of the best I've seen."
What's an ASIE?
An AI employee that does one job well, 24/7. Like...
Hear one at work
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That's my AI front desk. It books you a time with me.
Your Funding Engine, up and running in about two weeks.
You, me and your key people walk through how the organization really runs and dig into your real numbers.
We focus on fundraising and operations, find high-leverage ways to capture untapped funding, and map it out in your Funding Roadmap.
We build and deploy your first ASIE so you see results right away.
Every option includes your Funding Roadmap and the build. Your Funding Roadmap decides where each ASIE works.
$2,500
On your #1 opportunity.
$1,250 to start
$1,250 on delivery
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$5,000
On your top two opportunities.
$2,500 to start
$2,500 on delivery
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$7,500
Biggest jump, shortest time.
$3,750 to start
$3,750 on delivery
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Your fee carries forward. Add more ASIEs within 60 days of your Roadmap and every dollar you paid counts toward them.
Hosting runs about $100 to $500 a month after delivery.
Terms. Start with a 50% deposit, refunded if we miss 10x. The other half is due on delivery. Pay by card here, or email hello@strahes.com to pay by ACH or invoice.
Not sure how many you need, or want your board's okay first? That's normal.
Call (832) 430-6855. My AI front desk will work through it with you and book you a time with me.
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If we don't find 10x your Funding Engine fee in untapped funding opportunities, you get every dollar back.
You pay half to start. You approve the 10x at your Roadmap readout, before we build anything.
On a $2,500 Funding Engine, if we don't find at least $25,000, we refund your deposit and the Roadmap is yours.
Every dollar we count names the process it comes from and ties to a number from your own books. Nothing gets counted twice. You and I sign off on the total together.
Your Funding Engine, live in about two weeks. From $2,500.
Start with a 50% deposit. Refunded if we miss 10x.
These four are businesses, not nonprofits, and every number is from a real client. The jobs are the same kind your team carries... the follow-up, the records, the work that eats your evenings.
CopywriterMarketer
37,000 students
Mentored on their own custom learning paths by one AI system I built.
BrickROI
40 days
From zero to built, branded and selling.
"Another team burned six months and $57,500 of mine with nothing to show for it. Joshua had my whole platform built, branded, and selling in under 40 days. He doesn't just write code, he understood my business and built exactly what it needed."
AI Beauty Consulting
10 hours to 30 minutes
For every client assessment, with no drop in quality.
"Every client assessment ate more than ten hours, and I was the only one who could do them. Joshua built me an AI system that runs the whole thing in my own voice, and now it takes about thirty minutes with no drop in quality. He handed me back my business."
TabulaWorks
1 system
Runs an entire company's daily operations.
"Joshua engineered the AI operating system that runs TabulaWorks. The daily operations and follow-up that used to eat our team's evenings are all carried by the system now. It runs without us, and it's why we can serve the clients we do. He understands the business as well as the engineering, which is almost impossible to find."
The work hasn't changed. I find the money.
What's new is that I can now build the employee that goes and gets it.
Your Funding Roadmap, with your top 3 untapped funding opportunities ranked by what each one is worth. An 80/20 System Design built around how your organization really runs. And your ASIEs built and deployed, with all the training needed. One, two or three, depending on the option you pick.
An Autonomous Super Intelligent Employee. It's an AI employee that does one job well, 24/7, alongside your team or on its own. Think of a win-back rep who calls donors who stopped giving, or a matching-gift specialist who makes sure every gift that qualifies for an employer match gets submitted and paid.
Only if you want one to. Many ASIEs never talk to a donor at all... they key gifts, match every gift to your books and flag the donor who's drifting away, so one of your people can make the call. Where one does reach out, you pick which donors, how and when, nothing goes out until you've seen what it will say and said yes, and it says it's an AI. It honors your do-not-contact and deceased flags. Any donor you name, like your major donors, hears only from your people. The point is to take the follow-up off your desk, so you have more time for your donors, not less.
Show them the promise. If we don't find 10x your Funding Engine fee in untapped funding opportunities, you get every dollar back. You approve the 10x at your Roadmap readout, before anything is built, and the Roadmap is yours either way. Every dollar we count ties to a number from your own books, so your treasurer can check it. The one-page PDF at the bottom of this page has the options, the terms and the promise on one sheet, ready for a board packet. And if your finance office would rather pay by ACH or invoice, we're happy to work that way.
I wouldn't. Year-end is when gifts pile up and follow-up slips. Your part is 30 minutes to 3 hours in all, and nobody on your team builds anything. Your first ASIE can be at work in about two weeks. If your Roadmap points at lapsed donors, open pledges or donors who gave last year but not yet this year, it can be working on them while your donors are still deciding where to give.
No. Most organizations keep the tools they already run, even if part of it lives in a spreadsheet, and we build a smart AI layer on top of them. Messy files are normal... that's usually where the money hides. If a clean file turns out to be worth the most, a database keeper or a list merger can be one of your ASIEs. If you'd rather have a new system built, we can do that too. Either way, you'll hear what fits at your Roadmap readout, before anything is built.
No. An ASIE takes a whole job off their plate... the gift entry, the reminders, the follow-up nobody gets to. What comes back to your people is only the part a person should do, like a donor who wants to talk, or one who's ready to give more. You decide how much it hands back each week, so it fits the hours your team really has. And if a job would only make more work, it won't make your Roadmap.
No. The fee is flat... $2,500, $5,000 or $7,500, depending on the option you pick, plus hosting after delivery. Nothing I'm paid moves with your gifts, and every dollar your donors give stays with your mission. The 10x promise is about what we find, not a share of what you raise.
Yes. I've done work for St. Jude, Scouting America, Easterseals, Goodwill, Catholic Relief Services, ChildFund and the Hydrocephalus Association. At St. Jude, the average gift went from $22 to $34. Those are big names, but a small shop loses gifts in the same places... the donor nobody called back, the pledge nobody followed up on, the thank-you that went out late. The AI builds further up this page were for businesses, and the jobs carry over.
No. The diagnosis is my judgment, from 25 years of finding money for organizations like St. Jude. AI is the tool that does the work once we know where the money is. If the best move is a phone call from your board chair, not an ASIE, I'll tell you that too.
About two weeks for your Funding Engine to be up and running, with your Roadmap and your first ASIE. If something's bigger than two weeks allows, we trim the scope and keep the date.
For you, between 30 minutes and 3 hours in all. That's an interview, usually 30 to 45 minutes, and a walkthrough of your Roadmap when it's ready. For your team, short conversations, only where they help. Nobody has to build or maintain anything.
Then you get your money back. You approve the 10x at your Roadmap readout, before anything is built. If we can't show at least 10x your fee, we refund your deposit and the Roadmap is yours.
Every dollar we count names the process it comes from and ties to a number from your own books. Nothing gets counted twice. A monthly gift counts only for as long as your average monthly donor really keeps giving. If they give for three months, a restarted gift counts as three months. If they give for twelve, it counts as twelve. If a fix should keep donors giving longer, I count that only when your own records can prove it. You see every line, and you and I sign off on the total together.
About $100 to $500 a month in total, not per ASIE, starting after delivery. Simpler builds cost less, complex ones a little more. That keeps your ASIEs running.
Read-only access where possible. We sign a non-disclosure agreement, so everything you share stays confidential. Your data stays yours, and nothing is shared or mixed with anyone else's. I keep none of it unless your hosting needs it or we agree to it. If we stop working together, you get all of it back, and I verify every copy is deleted.
That's up to you. Some leaders run with the Roadmap themselves. If you want more ASIEs built, your fee carries forward. Start within 60 days of your Roadmap and every dollar you paid counts toward them. Either way, your ASIEs come with your own admin screen, so you can adjust them as you go and upload new files to keep training them.
Because I keep it small so each one gets my full attention before December 31.
Every job below is one your team knows should get done.
Most of them wait, because nobody has the hours. An ASIE takes one and runs it start to finish, so your staff and volunteers have more time for donors and the people you serve.
Read them as ideas, to show you what's possible. Many never talk to a donor at all, and the ones that do reach out only the way you approve.
It's tedious, it never ends, and it grinds down whoever gets stuck with it, staff or volunteer. So it gets done late, done badly at eleven at night, or not at all.
The money you already raised, leaking back out.
The money you never raised in the first place.
The work would pay for itself. But a full-time salary just for this? You could never justify it to your board, and some of it you couldn't afford even if you wanted to. So it never gets done.
The money you already raised, leaking back out.
The money you never raised in the first place.
Not too expensive. Impossible. No person can watch everything, read everything and remember everything, all day, every day, forever.
The money you already raised, leaking back out.
The money you never raised in the first place.
Which of these jobs is your team too busy to do? Your Funding Roadmap tells us which to build first.
Or bring the list to a 30-minute Sit-Down. I'll tell you which hire I'd build first, and what it would be worth to your mission.
Book a Sit-DownPick your Funding Engine and start with a 50% deposit. Need your board to see it first? Take them the one-page PDF below.
Want to talk first? Call (832) 430-6855. My AI front desk books you a call with me.
Terms. Start with a 50% deposit, refunded if we miss 10x. The other half is due on delivery. Pay by card here, or email hello@strahes.com to pay by ACH or invoice.
