Calculate your hours back.
Enter your team's week of repeatable operational work. Get a planning estimate of the hours Ignite is designed to hand back, so more of the week goes to donors.
Sample scenario for a two-person development team.
Your team
Everyone whose week includes donor or constituent data.
Scale the hours to a 4-person team?
Where the week goes
Weekly hours on each kind of repeatable work, all seats combined.
How Ignite helps
Batch gift entry, validated data import with rollback, and deterministic duplicate detection are designed to cut the re-keying and cleanup. The judgment on exceptional gifts stays with your team.
How Ignite helps
A unified constituent record is designed to keep every gift, event, and interaction in one place, so a list becomes a filter instead of an export-and-merge project across systems.
How Ignite helps
The Prospect Research agent is designed to assemble giving history, relationships, and touchpoints into a draft brief; your officer reviews and approves it. Agents propose. Your team approves.
How Ignite helps
Gift-to-opportunity attribution, real-time fund balances, and a balance-verified GL extract are designed to let development and finance work from the same figures instead of trading spreadsheets.
How Ignite helps
Live KPI dashboards are designed to replace the hand-built deck, refreshing the numbers from the platform. Writing the story around them stays human.
Designed to be savedStays with your people
19 team-hours entered.
Hours are your team's weekly totals, all seats combined. Everything here is an estimate you can adjust, by dragging a slider or typing an exact number. Nothing on this page is gated.
Your hours back
Sample scenarioEstimated weekly impact
11
hours a week could be saved
That is 13.5% of a two-person team's weekly capacity, currently spent on repeatable operational work. Adjust any input to calculate your organization's planning estimate.
Planning estimate based on your inputs and published assumptions. Not a customer benchmark or a guarantee of time saved.
- Manual work entered
- 19 hrs/wk
- Stays with your people
- 8 hrs/wk
- Annual capacity
- 495 hrs
- across 46 working weeks
- Largest capacity drain
- Gift entry and data cleanup
Atminutes per donor conversation, those hours would cover about 11 more donor conversations a week.
Add your team's hours.
Enter the weekly hours your team spends, or load the sample scenario, to see your planning estimate.
Your operation already looks lean.
At under three hours of repeatable work a week, a capacity tool is not your biggest lever. The sharper question for a team your size is usually whether your systems are connected. See what a fragmented stack costs instead.
The methodology, in the open
Our assumptions, where you can check them.
Each category uses a recovery factor: the share of that work the platform is designed to take off your team's plate. These are planning assumptions, not customer benchmarks. We keep them conservative on purpose. Here is the whole table.
| Manual work | Factor | What the platform is designed to do | What powers this |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gift entry & cleanup | 0.5× | Batch gift entry, validated data import with rollback, and deterministic duplicate detection are designed to reduce re-keying and rework. Judgment on exceptional gifts stays human. | Batch gift entry · validated import with rollback · deterministic duplicate detection |
| Lists & segments | 0.6× | A unified constituent record is designed to reduce cross-system export, merge, and re-import work, so a saved filter replaces the export-and-merge routine. | Unified constituent record · saved segments |
| Meeting prep | 0.7× | The Prospect Research agent is designed to draft a brief for review and approval. Any brief-time claim is a design target, not a measured result. | Prospect Research agent · approval-gated drafts |
| Reconciliation | 0.6× | Gift-to-opportunity attribution, real-time fund balances, and a balance-verified GL extract to CSV or XLSX are designed to reduce spreadsheet reconciliation. | Gift-to-opportunity attribution · real-time fund balances · GL extract to CSV or XLSX |
| Leadership reporting | 0.5× | The KPI and dashboard engine is designed to reduce manual report assembly. Interpretation and narrative stay human. | Live KPI dashboards |
Recovery factors are planning assumptions, not measured customer results. Capability evidence as of 2026-07-08 shows the platform is designed to perform or reduce the work; it does not by itself prove the percentage recovered. Working year assumed at 46 weeks. A full-time equivalent is 40 hours a week; that figure appears in the emailed brief, not as the headline.
How does the Fundraising Capacity Calculator work?
You enter the number of people who regularly touch donor data and your team's weekly hours across five categories of repeatable work: gift entry and cleanup, lists and segments, meeting preparation, reconciliation, and leadership reporting. Each category is multiplied by a published recovery factor between 0.5 and 0.7 to estimate the hours a unified platform is designed to save. Annual figures assume 46 working weeks and one full-time equivalent at 40 hours a week.
Are the results a guarantee of time saved?
No. The recovery factors are planning assumptions, not customer benchmarks. Capability evidence as of 2026-07-08 shows the platform is designed to perform or reduce this work; it does not by itself prove the percentage recovered. The output is a planning estimate based on your own inputs, not a measured customer result.
The point of it
Capacity you already pay for, pointed back at the mission.
It is about what the same team can do when the busywork stops eating the week: more capacity, pointed back at the mission.
More real conversations
Hours off the keyboard are hours in front of donors. Redirected time is time your major gift officers can spend where the revenue actually is.
Better stewardship
The thank-you calls, the second touch, the lapsed donor who almost slipped: the work that gets skipped when the week runs out is the work that keeps donors.
Room to grow the goal
Rising targets usually mean asking a stretched team for more. Capacity from the platform is how the goal goes up without the team having to grow to match it.
Get the Capacity Recovery Brief.
Your result is already on this page. The optional brief goes further: we will email a one-page plan built from your numbers, made to forward to your CFO, your board, or the colleague who owns the systems above. It includes:
- your top capacity drain and team-capacity percentage;
- the category-by-category model and assumptions;
- three questions to take to leadership or finance;
- the relevant Ignite workflow, and what stays human.
At your scale, our enterprise team handles your fit and pricing directly. The walkthrough routes you to them.
Walk through your numbers with us.
Thirty minutes with someone who knows this territory. We will show you the same work on Ignite and give you honest answers on what it does today, what it does not, and what a move actually involves.
See how Ignite handles gift entry and data quality.