Who's behind it

A person answers here. The machine works behind him.

The Start is built and run by Marc de Andrés: strategy consultant, partnership builder, and the engineer of the machine itself. He designs and codes the systems he sells: the CRM, the outreach pipelines, the AI that reads the funding world.

McKinsey and Company · 6 yearsStrategy consultant on partnership models. 15 to 25% acquisition uplift on partnership strategies; more than 50 board and executive presentations.

12+ years building partnershipsGlobal health, HIV and AIDS, LGBTQ+ advocacy, medical charities and humanitarian work, with live NGO funding partnerships across more than 50 markets.

The machine, proven in a real charityBuilt the complete system from scratch inside a medical charity: CRM, outreach, AI workflows. It multiplied prospecting volume 7 times.

Corporate partnershipsA £950,000 first-year corporate CSR partnership, won at the first attempt.

Digital strategy and AISenior consultant building AI-driven marketing and sales platforms end to end, from the data layer to the pitch.

The personAn MBA, five languages, and he answers the phone himself. A human always answers a human.

Why a machine, and why charities.

Fundraising is won and lost in the grind: reading the whole field, preparing the applications, thanking every donor, keeping every thread warm. Big charities staff that grind; small ones cannot. Marc built the machine inside a real medical charity to close that gap, and proved it there before offering it to anyone else.

The deal is simple. The machine does the hard work at machine speed. Marc and your team keep the judgment. And the people you serve get more of what all of this is for: the funding arriving.

AI, named plainly. Human, in every moment that matters. You approve every word, and it goes out in your name.

Talk to Marc, not to a form.

Thirty minutes, your questions, straight answers.

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