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Nine tabs deep before the first call
Researching one donor means the wealth screener, the giving history, last year’s event list, and somebody’s notes doc. An hour is gone before you dial.
Ignite CRM
The fundraiser'scommand center.
Every relationship your organization holds, in one golden constituent record. Ignite CRM unifies individuals, organizations, and households with the gifts, communications, events, and volunteer activity that connect them.
30 minutes. Live product. Real data. No deck.
- AI teammates included, no premium tier
- No per-seat fees
- Your team approves every AI action
CON-000000412Rosalind Achebe-HartIndividual
ContactEdit
Contact
- r.achebehart@example.org
- +1 (555) 0134
- Evanston, IL 60201
Key stats
Lifetime$171,766
Avg gift$1,470
Last giftJul
HealthHigh
Engagement65
Next giftSep
OverviewTimelineDonationsOpportunitiesCommunicationsEngagementRelationships
EscalationJul 1, 2026
Latest insight
Endowment opportunity stalled — 290 days in Proposal, 91 days to close
The Achebe-Hart Endowment Gift ($125K, Proposal stage) has been in its current stage for 290 days, up from 239 days flagged in May, with no stage movement.
Major Gift agent
Suggested next steps
- Solicitor to deliver the revised proposal within 7 days and advance the stage.
- Formally defer or reprice the opportunity if the Sep 30 close is no longer realistic.
- Activate a stewardship plan with 2–3 touchpoints through close.
- Run wealth screening to validate the $125K ask.
Approve 4 stepsEditDismiss
OpportunityStageAmountClose
Achebe-Hart Endowment Gift290 days in stageProposal$125,000Sep 30, 2026
Angel Tree SponsorshipCultivation$15,000Nov 14, 2026
The quiet tax
Your CRM was supposed to help.
Instead, most fundraising teams pay a quiet tax to their database every single day.
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The database eats the calendar
Updating records, merging duplicates, and repairing imports quietly consume the hours that were budgeted for donor visits.
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Nobody trusts the numbers
Two systems, three exports, four versions of the truth. Every board meeting starts with an argument about whose report is right.
The database work disappears. The donor work gets better.
One record per relationship, an answer for every question, and a working day that starts on the donor instead of the data.
One golden record
Every relationship, resolved into one record.
Individuals, organizations, and households unify with the gifts, communications, events, and volunteer activity that connect them, so every fundraiser works from the same complete truth.
- 360° profiles with core tabs, AI Analysis, and a full activity timeline
- Donations, Relationships, Engagement, Timeline, Communications, and Insights in one place
- A map view of your constituents for territory planning and regional campaigns
Ask in plain language
Find who you need the way you’d ask a colleague.
Natural language search works across the record, and more than 80 KPI definitions drive the classifications that tell you who’s rising, who’s lapsing, and who’s ready for more.
- Plain-language constituent search, no query syntax to learn
- Donor Tier, Lifecycle Stage, Engagement Level, and Lapsed Status classifications
- A query builder to turn any answer into a reusable segment
The day’s work
A to-do list that lives on the record.
Task lists, scheduled outreach, AI-suggested next actions, and engagement timelines are built into the fundraiser’s day, so follow-through happens where the relationship lives, not in a personal spreadsheet.
- Tasks, calls, meetings, and notes logged against the constituent
- Next actions suggested by your AI teammates, waiting for your approval
- Wealth and philanthropic screening data integrated into constituent surfaces
Data quality
A record that keeps itself clean.
Bad data is the tax every fundraiser pays twice: once when it goes in wrong, and again in every report that can't be trusted. Ignite CRM treats data quality as a platform job, not an annual cleanup project.
Duplicate detection
Incoming records and transactions match to the right constituent automatically, so duplicates stay out of your data.
Reversible merges
Every merge carries an audit trail and a 30-day reversal window, so cleanup work carries no fear.
A hardened data model
Deceased and anonymous handling, audit tracking, auto-numbering, and profile deactivation, built in.
Guided, validated imports
Imports map and validate before anything writes, with batch rollback if something looks wrong.
Constituent Matching13 pending
Search donors, sourcesFilters
DonorSourceReasonConfidenceFirst seenCandidatesActions
T. FarrowTied score · 1 month agoPaymentTied score75%1 month ago4Review 4 matches
J. OkonjoLow confidence · 1 month agoPaymentLow confidence25%1 month ago12Review 12 matches
M. DelacroixLow confidence · 27 days agoDonation · $50 · Community Transformation FoundationLow confidence25%27 days ago0Find match
A. WhitfieldResolved · 3 days agoRegistrationResolved98%3 days ago1Matched automatically
3 of 13 unresolved records shown
Working in the background
The filing does itself. The deciding stays yours.
Duplicate detection and household suggestions run on rules and queue what they find. Prospect scoring is produced from the record itself. Every one of them stops at a person.
Duplicate detection
12 potentialIdentify and merge duplicate constituent records using deterministic matching rules.
Review duplicates→Household suggestions
8 suggestionsIdentify and link constituents who may belong to the same household.
Review suggestions→Rosalind Achebe-HartEstimated capacity $100K–$250KOverall scoreModeled estimate $164K
Produced by the Prospect Research agent from the record’s own history plus wealth enrichment. Approval required before writeback.
Everything in Ignite CRM.
One module, the whole record
Every capability works on the same live record as the rest of the platform.
- 360° constituent profiles with AI Analysis
- Natural language constituent search
- Profile map view
- Duplicate detection with reversible merges
- Donations, relationships & engagement tabs
- Full activity timeline on every record
- Tasks, calls, meetings & scheduled outreach
- AI-suggested next actions
- Hardened data model & audit tracking
- Salutation & addressee management
- 80+ KPI definitions & classifications
- Donor Tier, Lifecycle & Engagement status
- Query builder & segments
- Portfolio management
- Wealth screening integration
- Ignite Intelligence command bar (⌘K)
The record is what makes the intelligence honest.
Ignite's agents are only as good as the truth they read. CRM is where that truth lives.
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CRM captures the truth
Profiles, relationships, activities, and quality queues give the platform its constituent foundation.
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Agents read the context
Prospect Research, Major Gift, Retention Assistant, and Constituent Support work from that record, not a copied slice of it.
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Your team approves the action
Drafts, tasks, and recommendations wait for human approval before anything meaningful is written back.
The record is the platform's memory. Your team is its judgment.
Proven foundation
Built from the ground up on a modern, AI-first architecture.
A genuinely new platform, informed by our history and experience with 20 million+ constituent profiles across our nonprofit customers.
4.5/5
Average on G2.
20M+
Constituent profiles managed across the StratusLIVE platform family.
$1B+
In annual giving processed across the StratusLIVE platform family.
“One source of the truth about our contacts, donors, and partners that is easily kept up to date.”
Robert W.
Director of Fundraising Operations & Digital Solutions
Verified review · G2
“A powerful tool that empowers our team members to not only enter new data but also see a historical perspective of our donors and corporate partners.”
Maria M.
Director of Investor Management
Verified review · G2
“Removes the need for manual import and export of data.”
Charmaine V.
Small-business nonprofit
Verified review · G2
You're not choosing between CRMs. You're choosing between operating models.
| A passive database | Ignite CRM | |
|---|---|---|
| Donor research | Hours across wealth tools, exports, and tabs | Screening data integrated with the record |
| Duplicates | The annual data cleanup project | Caught on entry, merged with a 30-day undo |
| Finding constituents | A query builder and a report request | Ask in plain language, get the list |
| Who to focus on | Instinct, memory, and a spreadsheet | Classifications computed from 80+ KPIs |
| The record itself | Stale the moment you export it | Live, audited, and shared with every module |
Questions
Asked by every team that switches.
Direct answers, because you've sat through enough vendor slides.
Book a Discovery CallWe’re on a legacy donor database. How painful is the switch?
Less painful than staying. Your data comes across with AI-assisted import: mapping, validation before anything writes, and rollback if something looks wrong. Guided implementations run 4 to 8 weeks with zero custom code, designed so your team is working in the product well before the old contract ends.
What does Ignite CRM cost?
Pricing is transparent and revenue-based, with no per-seat fees. Add a gift officer, a volunteer coordinator, or the whole events team without a licensing conversation. AI teammates are included in every subscription; intelligence is not a premium tier.
Will a small team actually adopt this?
Ignite CRM is built for the two-to-five-person development shop, not a Fortune 500 admin staff. Plain-language search replaces query syntax, the command bar (⌘K) replaces menu spelunking, and activities keep the day’s follow-through on the record instead of in someone’s head.
How does duplicate detection actually work?
Deterministic matching runs as data arrives, so incoming records and transactions attach to the right constituent instead of creating a lookalike. When records do merge, every merge is audited and reversible for 30 days. It is data quality as a platform job, not an annual cleanup project.
Can the AI change our data without us knowing?
No. Agents default to read-only, anything that writes is approval-gated with per-agent permission levels, and every action lands in an audit trail. Your data is never used to train public models. Human-led, AI-assisted is the architecture, not a tagline.
Walk through the CRM command center.
See one golden record, plain-language search, and a day's work prepared for your approval.
Book a Discovery Call- Live in 4–8 weeks
- No per-seat fees
- Your team approves every AI action
Not ready to talk?
Walk the eight modules, the golden record, and the approval gates at your own pace. No form, no call.
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