We do the hard work. You approve. You win.
We read the whole funding world and prepare your grant applications, donor appeals and partnerships. Nothing leaves without your approval. Your charity, your name, your win.
The way charities raise money is changing.
Raising money is getting harder. Here is what changed:
- More charities are asking for the same funding.
- Funding is tighter, across the board.
- The windows that matter open and close faster than any team can watch by hand.
The charities that come through stronger stay ahead of it. They see the whole picture, and act while it is fresh.
That is what the start AI fundraising machine is for. It watches everything, all the time, so you are already there when a window opens.
You keep the judgment. It does the watching and the work.
Reach
UK Grantmaking counts around 14,000 active UK grantmakers. Our index runs past 55,000 records because we keep the whole long tail too. We work all of it, so you apply everywhere your cause truly fits.
Sources: our funder library index, counted 11 July 2026 (registers overlap, so we count records, not unique funders); UK Grantmaking 2025, Association of Charitable Foundations.
Sight
The machine learns from real results and from what is working across the sector, so your fundraising follows evidence, not guesswork.
Resilience
Steadier, more varied income, and an operation that keeps adapting. Not one big bet; many steady threads, woven together. So the funding arrives, for the people who need it.


You approve every word. It goes out in your name. Nothing is ever sent for you.
One machine.
Three services.
The promise holds in each. Reach across the whole field, sight into what works, income that holds. Each service is the same machine, pointed at a different part of what you raise.
Fundraising Appeals and donor care for far more donors than a team could hold by hand.
Partnerships The right corporates and partners for your cause, approached in your name.
Two specialist services, hired on their own.
Not part of the pack. Each is the same machine pointed at one job, its own engagement, its own line item.
Emergency Response
Resilience, in a crisisWhen something breaks in your field, a fast fundraising response: the appeal, the donors to activate, the emergency funder windows open right now, and the follow-through. On demand.
A defined piece of work. Talk to us →Field Intelligence
Sight, across your fieldA deep, fully sourced report on the field you work in: who is there, what they run, how they are funded and by whom. Built from public records only.
A defined piece of work. Talk to us →Seven real grants, straight from our library.
Checked 16 July 2026 against the public registers. Live in the finder; zero means zero, we never pad it.
Applying to all seven by hand is about 56 hours. At 40 hours a week, that is more than a full working week.
About 8 hours per application, a sourced sector benchmark.
With us, your applications are ready for you to approve in less than 2 days.
Real counts from the public registers we have swept. No account needed.
A loop that runs all the time, with your hand on it.
It reads
The whole funding world: registers, funders, windows, what is moving. All the time.
It prepares
Applications, appeals and outreach, drafted and ready, in your charity's own voice.
You approve
Every word, before anything moves. It goes out in your name. Nothing is ever sent for you.
It learns
What worked feeds the next round, and the reading begins again, a little sharper.

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.
When you're ready, we're here.
Try the finder, or book a call and talk it through.
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