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Website, app, or both
The base layer, and the public face of the work: a website, a native app or an installable web app, or both on one brand and one content system. Your own domain, repository, and developer accounts.
Own the system you run on.
Collective Reparations builds the one system a mission-driven organization runs on, and hands it over on accounts held in your name: a website, the dashboard behind it, and the intelligence that makes a small team's work easy, in place of four vendors, four bills, and your data split four ways. Built in four layers at published prices, paid for once, and yours to keep.
What we build
Built to be governed, and built to last.
Each layer builds on the one above it. Start with the website and stop there, or take the whole system. Governance is the part most vendors leave out: who holds the accounts, who decides what gets recorded, and who can still run the system in five years when the funding dips or the vendor folds. The measure of the work is whether you can keep it running.
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Dashboard
The operating system behind it. Relationships, donations, store, scheduling, invoices, newsletters, and reporting in one database you hold, structured the way your community actually organizes.
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Business Intelligence
Drafting and research grounded in your own content, powered by leading AI and governed by you. It writes the follow-up, researches the prospect, prepares the report. Nothing sends until you approve it.
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Human services
For teams who would rather not run it alone. Support and maintenance, and content written with you in your voice. A person on it, not a ticket queue.
The on-ramp
Migration & onboarding
Spread across Salesforce, Blackbaud, and Mailchimp? Consolidating is the starting line. Your history and relationships carry over intact and in open formats, into one database instead of three. Your team is trained to run and maintain the new system themselves, and you leave with a documented way out of ours too. Most engagements begin right here.
About
Why I built this
The tools most businesses depend on are extractive by design. They scatter your data across a dozen platforms you have to wrangle before you can move your own work forward, and those same platforms profit off you twice: once on the subscription, and again by mining what you and the communities you serve put into them.
I build the opposite. One intelligent system, housed right inside your own website or app, so you run everything in one place and your data goes to work for your community's benefit rather than someone else's margin.
The system does the heavy lifting, and it changes shape as your work does. That is the whole reason to build it this way: a more sustainable business, and more of your life back, because keeping it running does not depend on someone staying late to move records between tools.
I have built these systems for law firms, treatment centers, universities, and nonprofits. I hold an MBA in Sustainable Solutions from Presidio Graduate School, and I write and speak on what reparative systems require.
Christopher Rachal
Natchitoches Tribe · Cane River Creole
Pricing
What it costs to own it.
Most organizations run on four or five separate products, each with its own bill, its own login, and its own copy of the data. The total climbs whether or not the mission does. Here is that stack beside what one system you own costs instead. We break down what a rented stack really costs over five years in our journal.
The mainstream alternative
The stack you depend on now
A vendor for every function · a bill for each one
CRM and relationships
Salesforce, HubSpot, Blackbaud
$7,000–$15,000+/yr
Email and newsletters
Mailchimp, Constant Contact
$1,600–$3,700/yr
Content management
WordPress plus plugins, Webflow
$1,000–$3,000/yr
Store and payments
Shopify, Squarespace Commerce
$1,000–$3,000/yr
Scheduling
Calendly, Acuity
$200–$1,000/yr
Invoicing
QuickBooks, FreshBooks
$600–$2,000/yr
Tax management
Avalara, TaxJar
$1,000–$3,000/yr
Grants and proposals
Submittable, Foundant
$4,800+/yr
Task and project management
Asana, Monday
$1,300–$3,000/yr
Four or five of these is the usual stack, plus $10,000 to $30,000 of setup and implementation to begin.
Every year, forever
$15,000 – $35,000+
Rising each year, and none of it becomes yours. Stop paying and it is gone.
What we build instead
Four layers, fixed prices
One build in your name · Monthly services optional
Website, app, or both
$6,000 – $12,000One time
A website, a native app or an installable web app, or both on one brand.
+ Dashboard
+$12,000One time
CRM, fundraising, store, scheduling, invoices, content, and reporting on one database.
+ Business Intelligence
From $25Per seat / mo
Drafting and research inside the dashboard. Billed by seat, not by action; plain chat is free.
+ Human services
From $500Per month
Support and maintenance, and content written with you in your voice.
The repair pledge
−10%Off the build
Pledge to a repair organization you choose, an amount you set. We collect it and pass one hundred percent straight to them, set up after payment.
Learn more about the pledge →Once, not every year
$5,400 – $24,000
Paid once, and the system is yours whether or not you keep a single monthly service.
What you own instead
One whole system, built once, governed by you.
Whatever you choose, the shape of what you own is the same: your CRM, content, money, and tasks on one database and one login, in accounts that belong to your organization. The intelligence is built in, grounded in your own content, and drafts nothing that sends without your approval. What gets recorded, who can see it, and who is asked before anything about a person is shared are all yours to set. A scattered stack costs more every year and buys nothing you keep.
Featured projects
Platforms built to move money where it was owed.
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Featured project 01 · Food and agriculture
Black Food Fund
A website redesign with a grantmaking system built in: application portal, committee scoring, grantee selection, capital distribution, and impact reporting, all inside a site the fund owns.
$200,000+
Moved
50+
Black farmers
1
Platform, five roles
“A grantmaking system we actually own, where our community decides who gets funded.”
Let's build something that lasts.
Bring your invoices and we will read them together. Four questions and a call, and nothing is paid until after we have spoken.
Stay connected
Read the work, and hear from us each season.
Writing & speaking
Essays on what reparative systems require, and where the work has been spoken about elsewhere.
Contact
Or just say hello.
Not every conversation is a project. Questions about how the systems work, a talk you are programming, or a note about the letter all land in the same inbox. Here about a build? Start a project is faster: four questions, the price on screen, and a call booked at the end.