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Four systems, four answers
Ask what a donor gave and the CRM, the giving platform, the events tool, and the finance spreadsheet each say something different. Someone reconciles them before every board meeting.
Platform overview
Truth. Intelligence.Action.
StratusLIVE Ignite puts nonprofit CRM, fundraising, finance, marketing, and engagement on one record, with governed AI teammates included. Insight and action stop living in different systems.
- Eight modules, one record
- AI included in every subscription
- Live in weeks, not months
The stack tax
Every tool made sense. The stack doesn't.
Most nonprofit stacks weren't designed. They accumulated, one urgent purchase at a time, and the bill comes due every day.
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The export is the integration
Moving data by CSV means every list is stale the moment it lands, and every campaign starts with a download instead of a decision.
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AI can’t fix what it can’t see
A bolt-on assistant reads one tool’s slice of the picture and guesses at the rest. A stack built on silos can’t reason across them.
The operating model
Three layers, one motion.
Keep the truth in one place, reason over all of it, and move the work forward with your team's approval.
The truth layer
One record the whole organization trusts.
Ignite CRM, Finance, and Self-Service keep constituents, gifts, funds, and preferences on the same live record. Not synced between systems. The same record.
- 360° profiles that connect individuals, organizations, and households on one record
- Gift-to-GL financial processing on the record fundraisers actually use
- Donor self-service for gifts, payment methods, and preferences on the same record
One constituent recordGifts · Funds · Preferences · ActivityLive
No syncingNo exportsEvery module reads and writes the same record
The intelligence layer
Digital teammates with the full picture.
Governed AI agents come with every subscription. Because they work inside the platform, they read the whole record instead of guessing from a connected slice.
- Plain-language answers, sourced briefs, and drafts from your live data
- Read-only by default; writes go through approval gates your team configures
- Every action logged in an audit trail
Who should we talk to before the spring campaign?
Prospect brief · preparedAwaiting your review
Read-only by defaultSources shownWrites go through your approval gates
The action layer
Insight becomes work where relationships live.
Fundraising, marketing, engagement, and partnerships run on the same record the agents read, so a recommendation lands as a campaign, a task, or a meeting instead of another report.
- Five revenue streams in one fundraising engine
- Audiences built from live segments, not exports
- Events, volunteers, and workplace giving on the same record
This week's workHuman approved
Every outcome lands back on the record
FundraisingMarketingEngagementPartnerships
Which layer hurts most right now?
Tell us on a 30-minute call and we'll start the walkthrough there, on data like yours.
Active intelligence
A cycle that learns from the work.
Passive databases wait for reports to be pulled. Ignite runs a cycle that keeps learning from the work, and the one step that never automates is the one that matters most.
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See
Every module writes to the same record, so nothing starts from a stale export.
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Understand
Agents and KPIs read the full context: gifts, campaigns, finance, engagement.
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Recommend
The platform proposes the next best work, with its sources shown.
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Draft
Briefs, outreach, and tasks arrive prepared instead of blank.
05Your team
Approve
A person reviews anything meaningful before it moves. This step is never automated.
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Learn
Outcomes flow back into the record, so the next recommendation is sharper.
Start where it hurts. Grow where you're ready.
Eight modules, each a full workspace, all working the same record. Nothing to sync, nothing to stitch together. And they describe the work, not the price list: subscriptions are the Core Platform plus the Solution Packs you choose.
Ignite CRM
The fundraiser’s command center.
Ignite Fundraising
Five revenue streams. One engine.
Ignite Finance
Donation to statement, seamlessly.
Ignite Marketing
Personalization at scale.
Ignite Engagement
Events, volunteers, community. Connected.
Ignite Partnerships
Connected to the broader ecosystem.
Ignite Intelligence
Researching, advising, executing 24/7.
Ignite Self-Service
The impact story they deserve.
Proven foundation
Built from the ground up on a modern, AI-first architecture.
Ignite is a new platform, built by the team nonprofits have trusted with their constituent and financial data for over 15 years.
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
One record. Every seat at the table.
Fundraising, marketing, and finance work the same live record. Here is what that means for each seat.
- A sourced research brief before every donor conversation, drafted from the live record.
- Five revenue streams in one engine, from major gifts to workplace campaigns.
- Recommendations land as a task, a draft, or a meeting, not another report.
- Outreach arrives drafted; nothing sends until you approve it.
Donor research brief
Drafted from the live record
Giving and capacityPulled from the record
Relationship historyEvery touch, in order
Ready before the conversationNo research afternoon
Major-gift pipeline
Five revenue streams, one engine
- Major gifts beside campaigns
- Workplace giving in the same view
Proposed next work
A task, a draft, or a meeting
- Outreach arrives drafted
- Nothing sends until you approve
- Audiences built from live segments, not exports.
- Campaigns start with a decision instead of a download.
- Events, volunteers, and community land on the same constituent record.
- Drafts generated from your live data, waiting on your approval.
Live audience segment
Built from live records
Segment builtFrom live data, not exports
Campaign starts with a decisionNot a download
Draft generatedWaiting on your approval
Campaign draft
From your live data
- Written, not started from blank
- Approval before anything sends
Event roster
On the constituent record
- Events and volunteers together
- Same record as the giving
- Gift-to-GL financial processing on the record fundraisers actually use.
- Finance works the same record as fundraising, so there is no month-end reconciliation of exports.
- 360° profiles that connect individuals, organizations, and households on one record.
- Every agent action logged in an audit trail; writes go through approval gates your team configures.
Gift batch
Gift-to-GL on one record
Gifts batchedOn the record fundraisers use
Journal entries generatedNo export in between
ReconciledNo month-end negotiation
Fund balances
Finance and fundraising agree
- One record, both teams
- No reconciliation of exports
Audit trail
Every agent action logged
- Who did what, and when
- Writes wait for approval
Questions
Asked before every platform decision.
Direct answers, because you've sat through enough vendor slides.
Book a working sessionWhat is StratusLIVE Ignite?
Ignite is the Active Intelligence Platform for nonprofit fundraising and engagement. Eight modules work on one constituent record: CRM, Fundraising, Finance, Marketing, Engagement, Partnerships, Intelligence, and Self-Service. Governed AI teammates are included in every subscription.
What does Ignite replace?
Typically a nonprofit CRM, separate giving and donation-page tools, an email marketing or marketing automation tool, event and volunteer management, a donor portal, and the export-and-reconcile work between fundraising and accounting. Ignite processes gifts through to journal entries and produces GL extracts for your accounting system.
Do we have to adopt all eight modules?
No. Start with the work that hurts most: CRM, Finance, and Fundraising are the natural first modules, then turn on more when you’re ready. Every module you add works on the same record from day one, so there’s no integration project between them. And you never buy modules one by one: the subscription is the Core Platform plus the Solution Packs that match the capabilities you need.
What does implementation involve?
A fixed-fee package covering data migration, configuration, and team onboarding, scoped before you sign. Our team guides it and it requires zero custom code. Data comes across with AI-assisted import: mapping, validation before anything writes, and rollback if something looks wrong.
Is the AI an add-on?
No. Every agent is included in every Ignite subscription; there is no premium AI tier. Agents propose. Your team approves. Writes to your data go through approval gates your team configures.
What happens to our donor data?
It stays yours. Customer data is never used to train public AI models, and more sensitive data is handled by more protective models. Agents are read-only by default; writes go through approval gates your team configures, and every action lands in an audit trail.
See the operating model in motion.
One walkthrough: the record, the teammates, and the work moving forward.