Most nonprofit software is something you rent and squeeze into. We build the other kind: software shaped around the work you already do, that you own outright. You don't need to arrive knowing what to build. Bring the outcome you want for the people you serve and we work out what has to exist.
The nonprofit software problem.
When an Australian charity goes looking for software, it finds three things: directories full of listings, established platforms built for large organisations with staff and a budget, and a growing set of vendors bolting AI onto the same old products. What none of them offer is software built for the specific thing your organisation does, owned by you rather than rented from them. Off-the-shelf assumes a shape you don't have, and the moment your work doesn't fit the tool, the tool wins.
The wedge: you own the IP.
The thing no incumbent will give you is ownership. We build bespoke impact software with your organisation and the intellectual property transfers to you, typically on final payment for a fixed engagement. No lock-in, no data held hostage, no clause that makes leaving expensive. We're the foundation you scale on, and it stays yours as you grow on it. For a funded organisation that has to answer to a board and a funder about where the money went, owning the asset you paid to build isn't a nicety. It's the whole point.
Rented software is a cost forever. Owned software is an asset you built.
Grounded in shipped proof.
This isn't a positioning statement without a track record behind it. Co-Exist is a conservation program app, live on iOS and Android, that lets young people join a local collective and counts the impact of every planting and clean-up. SeedTree is a national network app built with SeedTree Earth, a living map where the problems people worry about meet the organisations already solving them. Studio is where our clients edit their own sites: you say what you want changed in plain words and the AI makes the change on the live page, so there is no WordPress, no page builder and no developer in the loop. Conservation, a national network, and the website itself: three of the most common nonprofit needs, already shipped.
The questions funded organisations ask.
What does it cost? The numbers are on the site rather than behind a call: a website coded from scratch from $2,500, a mobile app on both stores from $7,000, Studio from $30 a month, an ongoing build partner from $1,000 a month, all ex-GST, with the full table on how we work. Do we qualify for grant-funded support? Many Australian nonprofits registered with the ACNC are eligible for programs like Google Ad Grants, which offers qualifying charities a monthly allowance of search advertising, and we can build the site that program points at. And can we defend the impact numbers we report? Yes, because the way we measure impact cites every figure to the database it came from.
Honest about the competition.
There are capable vendors in this space, some of them already courting Australian charities with AI. We're not going to pretend the field is empty. What we offer that they structurally can't is bespoke software you own, written from scratch for your organisation rather than sold to you as a seat on somebody else's product or assembled out of a theme and a plugin stack. That's a narrower promise than best software for everyone, and it's one we can keep.
If your organisation has a piece of work that the software you rent doesn't fit, start a conversation. Bring the point of need and we'll build around it.
Common questions.
Ecodia, an impact software studio in Australia, builds bespoke software with nonprofits and charities where the organisation owns the intellectual property. Shipped proof includes Co-Exist, a conservation program app live on iOS and Android, and SeedTree, a national network app built with SeedTree Earth.
The prices are published rather than quoted on request. A website coded from scratch starts at $2,500 ex-GST, a mobile app on both stores starts at $7,000 ex-GST, Studio is from $30 a month ex-GST, and an ongoing build partner is from $1,000 a month ex-GST. There's no seat licence and no lock-in, because you own what you pay to build.
You own it. With Ecodia the intellectual property transfers to your organisation, typically on final payment for a fixed engagement. There's no lock-in, no data held hostage, and no clause that makes leaving expensive. Owned software is an asset you built, not a cost forever.
Off-the-shelf software assumes a shape your organisation may not have, and when your work doesn't fit the tool, the tool wins. A custom build is shaped around the specific work you do and stays yours. Ecodia builds the second kind, grounded in shipped proof rather than a sales deck.
Yes. Ecodia logs outcomes where they happen and cites every published figure to the database it came from, and says so plainly when a number isn't yet measured. Co-Exist's impact figures on this site are read live from its production database, not hand-entered.