About
Funded work deserves better than a folder and a deadline
Organisations doing publicly and philanthropically funded work carry an administrative load that has almost nothing to do with their mission — and the tools they are given treat each stage as though the others did not exist.
The problem, concretely
- The eligibility reasoning that justified a pursuit is lost by the time anyone asks about it.
- Award terms live in a PDF, and the obligations they create live in somebody’s memory.
- Reporting is reconstructed at the deadline from records that were never designed to be reported from.
- When an auditor asks what was true in March, the answer takes three weeks to assemble.
What we are building instead
- One record of funded work, from the opportunity to the final report.
- Human authority on every consequential act, with the authority recorded rather than assumed.
- Evidence produced as a by-product of doing the work, not as a project after it.
- A system that says what it does not know, so nobody discovers a gap during an audit.