For Foundations

Give your grantmaking team leverage, not another tool.

Starch connects to the stack your foundation already uses and runs context-heavy grantmaking work with custom agents, under human oversight. Your team keeps the judgment.

Starch connects to your foundation's existing tools A central Starch node connected by animated lines to 12 platforms: Foundation Source, Fluxx, GivingData, Foundant, GuideStar, Sage Intacct, and many more, QuickBooks, Gmail, Google Drive, DocuSign, Addepar. Foundation Source Fluxx GivingData Foundant GuideStar Sage Intacct and many more QuickBooks Gmail Google Drive DocuSign Addepar

Tuesday morning, your Grants Manager.

A real morning, from her inbox. The brief on the right is what she opens at 7:30. The lists below describe what she used to do, and what she does now.

Without Starch · Tuesday morning

  • Open Foundation Source
  • Chase three grantees about late reports
  • Pull board data from four spreadsheets and the GMS
  • Dig through the drive for last quarter's minutes
  • Get pulled into a capital call fire

With Starch · Tuesday morning

  • Open the daily brief
  • Approve the three follow-up drafts
  • Skim the board docket. Forward it
  • Review the top-scored grantee application
  • Make the peer foundation call

Built around your grants stack.

Whether your foundation runs on Foundation Source, Fluxx, GivingData, Foundant, Submittable, or Blackbaud, Starch reads, writes, and acts inside the system your team already uses.

Foundation Source

Read grantee data, score new applications, draft reports back into the system.

Fluxx

Track proposals across stages, sync status updates, draft narratives for reviewers.

GivingData

Update payouts and narratives, triage what changed across the portfolio.

Foundant

Process applicants, push decisions, draft reporting your team can sign off on.

Submittable

Triage incoming applications and score them against your funding criteria.

Blackbaud

Update grant records and reconcile across portfolio reporting.

Plus accounting, email, drive, custodians, and 3,000+ more connectors. If your team uses it, Starch connects to it.

Detects what changed. Knows what it means. Takes the next step.

Because Starch is connected to your tools and grounded in your knowledge, it can spot live changes, understand their importance, and take the next step. Every external action waits for human approval.

Example: a grantee report comes in
Example automation: grantee report arrives, Starch processes it, the result lands in the morning brief Step 1: report arrives in Gmail. Step 2: the Grants Manager's Starch agent extracts financials, scores against targets, compares to prior reports, and flags concerns. Step 3: it updates GivingData and files the report in the grantee folder on Drive. Step 4: it lands as an item in Tuesday's brief. Grantee report Arrives in Gmail trigger Starch CoS • Extract financials • Score against targets • Compare to last 4 reports • Flag concerns for review Grants Manager's agent Update GivingData Status, payout, narrative Save to Drive Filed in grantee folder Tuesday's brief "Report filed. 2 flags for your review."

Not a platform to configure. A system we build with you.

Starch isn't software you log into and configure. Our team builds the agentic operating system around your foundation, starting with the two workflows worth automating first.

1

Discovery

We sit with each seat on your team and learn the work that actually happens. You don't pick what to automate. We figure it out together.

2

Build

Our team configures the agentic operating system around your foundation: custom apps, your knowledge, your tools, your guardrails.

3

Tune

Weekly reviews with a named human pod. Workflows evolve. So does the system. You never maintain it alone.

Built for the discretion foundations require.

Your foundation's data, agents, and audit log stay inside your tenant A sealed inner container labeled "Your foundation's tenant" sits inside the broader Starch infrastructure. The tenant holds your data, your agents, and your audit log. Starch infrastructure Your foundation's tenant Your data grants, books, email Your agents trained on your context Your audit log every action, exportable
✓Encryption in transit and at rest
✓Your data never trains a model
✓Granular access per person and family member
✓Full audit log of every agent action
✓Single-tenant deployment available
✓Run in your own cloud on Enterprise tier

Shared context does not mean universal access. The whole team works from the same ground truth, with access scoped to each person's role.

One tier. Built for foundations.

A single Enterprise engagement, tailored to your foundation. Flat annual contract. No per-seat charges, no per-task meters.

Enterprise

Foundations and multi-entity structures

  • Configured around your foundation's tools, knowledge, and team context
  • Dedicated operator pod (named humans you can text)
  • Single-tenant deployment, or run in your own cloud
  • Unlimited agents, automations, and seats
  • Quarterly tune-ups as your workflows evolve
  • Custom SLAs and security review on request

Tailored to your foundation.

Frequently asked.

Does my data train an AI model?

Never. Your data stays in your tenant. We do not train on foundation data.

What if we use a system you haven't listed?

We connect to 3,000+ tools out of the box, and if we don't already, we'll build the connection for you. Send us your stack.

How long does onboarding take?

We start with two workflows and expand from there. Most foundations see the first two live within a few weeks. We map the exact timeline when we scope your build.