DigiKōr and DigiKōr+
Podcast learning platforms for NZ schools. AI transcribes, summarises and drafts NCEA marks; teachers confirm every decision. 18 schools and 226 students as at July 2026, and a 2026 Aotearoa AI Awards finalist.
Charities, churches, trusts and community groups
AI for New Zealand Charities and Community Groups
Small teams, volunteers and a funding round always around the corner. The mission is what matters; the applications, reports, policies and admin around it are what eat the week. AI can carry a real share of that, and we have built it for charities, churches, schools programmes and community projects.
The short answer
What can AI do for a charity or community group in NZ?
Take the paperwork off a small team. Drafting funding applications and funder reports from your own programme data, answering policy and governance questions from your own documents, turning a volunteer's notes into a newsletter, and keeping directories and records current. People make the decisions; AI does the first draft and the finding.
For some groups that means Claude set up across the team with Skills for the jobs they repeat. For others it means a purpose-built tool - a portal, a directory or an app - where AI does one job well and a person signs off. We have done both, for the organisations below.
Trusted by charities, churches and community organisations
Where it pays
What we actually get asked for
Where a charity or community team gets hours back first - the admin around the mission, not the mission itself.
Funding applications
Claude drafts the application from your programme data, past applications and the funder's criteria, in your organisation's voice. You check the numbers and the story, then submit.
Funder and impact reporting
Attendance, outcomes and quotes pulled together into the report each funder asks for, on their template. Reporting season stops eating a fortnight.
Policies and governance, answered
Your own policies, constitution and procedures become something the team can ask in plain English, with the answer and the section cited. That is the core of what we built with Good Church.
Newsletters and supporter updates
From a volunteer's notes, photos and the month's highlights, Claude drafts the newsletter, the social posts and the thank-you emails. Someone who knows the community checks them before they go.
Directories that stay current
Service listings, contacts and programme information kept in one place, with a simple way for the community to flag what is out of date - and a printed version generated from the same data.
Transcripts and kōrero
Interviews, hui and recordings turned into searchable transcripts and summaries, with the audio kept where the people it belongs to decide.
What we have built for charities and community groups
Real projects, live or in build now.
Vaka Ō Te Tupuna
Whānau record kōrero with their elders. The audio saves to the family's own Google Drive, and AI writes the transcript and a summary with a cultural lens. More than 480 recordings as at September 2026.
An AI governance advisor for churches
Anyone on a church team asks a policy question in plain English and gets their own church's answer, source cited. Multi-tenant, with Charities Register sign-up, legislation monitoring and safeguarding alerts.
A community directory for older people
More than 350 services, housing options, faith and community groups across Franklin, on the web and as a printed booklet generated from the same data. Built accessibility-first: large text, tap-to-call, maps and read-aloud. Launching at the Franklin Positive Ageing Expo in October 2026.
The Whānau Hōtaka portal
We look after the portal for The Kura Cares Charity - hosting, database and upkeep - so a small team runs its programme, not its software.
Claude as a virtual team member
Claude set up across Campfire's programmes, with a suite of Skills for funding applications, funder scans, proposals, weekly briefs and engagement reporting.
How a funder report gets drafted
The pattern behind the reporting and application work: AI gathers and drafts, a person decides.
- Your programme dataattendance, outcomes, quotes
- The funder's template readand your last report
- Drafted in your voiceon their headings
- You check itthe numbers and the story
- Submittedwhen you say so
Nothing goes to a funder, a supporter or a whānau without a person reading it first.
More of the work we have done
Trusts, church finance teams and community programmes, beyond the projects above.
AI workshop and Claude setup
A day with Independent Living's team mapping where AI fits, from equipment hire to tenders, with Claude connected to their Microsoft 365.
Claude across five Xero organisations
The Seventh-day Adventist Church finance team asks Claude about any of its five entities in plain English. One shared skill keeps it naming the right organisation and saving anything it writes as a draft.
Peer storytelling platforms
People in Pursuit lets people living with disability record and share each other's stories, and Project Kāinga does the same for rangatahi. Both built for Campfire Studios.
What that looks like on screen
Two of those jobs as they look day to day. People check everything before it goes anywhere.
Watch it done
The same workflows, walked through end to end
Free to watch, nothing gated. Each one has a written version too.
Your existing tools
We work with what you already run
No new platform to learn. These are the tools NZ charities and community groups already run, and Claude works with them.
- Google Workspace for Nonprofits
- Microsoft 365
- Xero
- Mailchimp
- Canva
- Notion
- Airtable
- SmartyGrants and funder portals
- Facebook and Instagram
Claude connects directly to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Xero, Notion and Canva. Your past applications, reports and policies become the knowledge it works from, so drafts sound like your organisation rather than a generic chatbot.
In their words
From the community side of the work
Campfire Studios amplifies Māori and Pasifika voices through podcasting and film. We have built their school platforms, their elders' kōrero app and their Claude setup.
Blake is an outstanding collaborator. He is exceptionally well-suited to work with businesses of any size - whether small startups or large organisations. Blake has a unique ability to identify core challenges and transform them into effective solutions.
In the sector
Speaking to your industry
Community is where we started. Blake founded Young Kiwis in AI, a community of around 300 young people across Aotearoa, and speaks to associations and member groups on putting AI to work.
Getting started
How a charity or community group starts
- Start with the next funding round. Applications and funder reports are where the hours go and the easiest output to check, so they prove the value fastest.
- Gather what you already have. Past applications, reports, policies and programme data. That is what makes the drafts yours instead of generic.
- Set the privacy rules first. Decide what personal information about the people you serve goes in and what does not, switch model training off, and say so in your privacy statement.
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Questions
The ones we actually get asked
Give your team the admin hours back
We set Claude up for your organisation - your tools connected, your past applications and policies loaded, Skills for the jobs you repeat and the privacy settings right - or build the tool you need. It starts with a free call.
Last updated 28 September 2026