▪ The Republican fundraising platform
Conservative fundraising,
done honestly.
No pre-checked recurring boxes. No buried fees. No dark patterns. Built for campaigns, PACs, and committees that deserve better rails than what came before.
Federal · State · Local · Candidates · PACs · Party committees
What broke
The last generation of fundraising rails has receipts.
We're not pitching against a strawman. These are documented numbers from NYT, CNN, and the FEC record, plus the platforms' own pricing pages. The pitch starts here because the donor base already knows.
Pre-checked recurring and pre-checked 'money bomb' multipliers drove the dominant platform's 2020 operation to refund more than 10% of what it raised. State AGs in NY, CT, MD, and MN opened consumer-protection probes. The default is still optional today.
Standard credit card donations on the dominant Republican-side platform run 3.94%. That's deducted from the candidate. The opposing side charges 3.95% to the candidate AND pre-populates a separate donor tip on top.
Most committees on the other side wait 2 to 4 business days to see their money. For a campaign in the final 72 hours, that's a problem you can't fix with a better email.
Donors who try to read the breakdown find it hard to tell what reached the candidate, what was a tip, and what was processing. Trust in the rails is downstream of trust in the receipt.
Sources: New York Times (April 2021), CNN (July 2021, January 2022), Al Jazeera (July 2024), platform pricing pages (current).
What we built
A platform that earns donor trust on the first transaction.
Honest checkout
Recurring is OFF by default. Toggles are large and friendly. No second pre-checked surprise. Donors see exactly what the candidate will receive.
Sub-3% platform take
Stripe pass-through plus a flat platform fee that's published in plain English. No bundled processor opacity. No mandatory donor tip on top.
Same-day payouts
Each campaign gets its own Stripe Connect sub-account. Funds settle to the committee's bank on a daily cadence, not weekly.
Full coverage scope
Federal candidates, state and local candidates, PACs, party committees, and IE groups. One platform across the whole stack you actually raise on.
Embed anywhere
Drop the donation widget on any campaign site, Substack, X landing page, or static HTML. One <script> tag. Mobile-first checkout under 30 seconds.
FEC and state exports
One-click CSVs that match the format your treasurer already files. We don't file for you. We make filing twenty minutes instead of two days.
One-tap mobile checkout
Apple Pay and Google Pay native at checkout. ACH for high-dollar gifts at 0.8% capped. The donor finishes giving in under ten seconds on a phone.
Peer-to-peer pages
Any supporter can spin up their own donation page raising for the candidate. Friend-to-friend asks convert at multiples of cold links. Track who brought in what.
Petition pages
Capture name, email, and ZIP before the donation ask. Build the email list first, ask for money second. The strongest list-building tool in fundraising.
How it works
From committee paperwork to first donation in an afternoon.
Onboard the committee
FEC ID (or placeholder, finalized within 48 hours), KYC on the principals, Stripe Connect sub-account provisioned. About fifteen minutes start to finish.
Accept donations
Hosted donation page, embeddable widget, split-donation links, or a clean API. Donors get a receipt the moment they confirm. No surprises.
Get paid and file
Stripe pays out daily to the committee's bank account. One-click FEC and state CSV exports. Refund tools and donor portal included.
Inside the dashboard
What the campaign manager actually sees.
One screen. Live feed of donations as they land. Every active page you're running. Exports the treasurer needs. No menus to dig through, no consultant required to read the numbers.
Today
This week
This cycle
Live feed
live- $50Mary LambertEaston, PA · via P2P (Mary Smith for John)
- $25J. PatelAllentown, PA · widget on johnsmith.com
- $5K. DoeBethlehem, PA · QR on yard sign
- $250R. GarciaReading, PA · hosted page
- $10A. NguyenLancaster, PA · petition → donate
Active pages
- johnsmith.com embedtop performer this week$18,402
- Defend the Border petition1,803 emails captured · $4,212 raised$4,212
- PA-12 endorsement slatesplit across 3 committees$9,801
One-click reports
Formats match what your treasurer files. We don't file for you. We make filing twenty minutes instead of two days.
Phase 2 · Supergod tools
upgrade- · Daily talking points pushed every morning
- · Auto speech writing in the candidate's voice
- · Per-donor enrichment (employer, voting history, persona)
- · Aggregated audience trend dashboards
Bundled for partner committees during launch. Sold as a campaign-manager seat afterwards.
Mockup with representative numbers. Actual data shown after committee onboarding and first donations.
Pricing, openly
Two ways to pay. You pick the one that fits.
We're letting our launch partners choose the model. Both are listed below in full so the math is visible. You can tell us which one should be the default in the deck further down this page.
Option A
Per donation
Pay only when you raise. Nothing fixed.
- · Stripe Connect sub-account per committee
- · Same-day payouts
- · All compliance exports included
- · Donor portal and refund tools included
Option B
Flat SaaS
Predictable cost. Zero platform take on donations.
- · Everything in Option A
- · Custom subdomain and theming
- · Priority support and onboarding
- · First-look on Phase 2 AI tools
For comparison: the dominant Republican-side platform charges 3.94% standard, 3.2% on donations over $500. The opposing side charges 3.95% to the committee plus a pre-populated donor tip on top.
Coverage
Everything you raise for, we support.
One platform across the whole field. Per-candidate FEC cycle limits, state contribution caps, and reporting formats handled at the checkout layer. Your treasurer still files. We make the filing trivial.
Trust & security
Donor data treated like the secret it is.
A breach of a political donor database is not a normal data incident. It's a list of who funded whom, exposed to retaliation, doxxing, and bad-faith reporting. We treat security as the most important feature, not a checkbox at the end.
We never see card data
Stripe Elements handles every donor's card directly from their browser to Stripe's servers. The full card number never touches FreedomRaise infrastructure. PCI scope: SAQ-A (the lightest available).
Minimum data, maximum encryption
We store the smallest set of donor information the FEC actually requires. Everything is encrypted at rest and in transit. Sensitive fields are tokenized. We never sell donor data.
Magic-link auth, mandatory 2FA
No passwords for campaign managers. No passwords for donors. Anyone with refund or payout permissions must use an authenticator-app 2FA on every login. No SMS-only MFA on critical actions.
Row-level access controls
A campaign manager for one committee cannot read, query, or accidentally see another committee's donor list. Postgres enforces this at the database layer, not the application layer.
SOC 2 vendors only
Stripe, Neon (Postgres), Vercel, Resend, Twilio, Sentry. Every vendor in the stack has a current SOC 2 Type II report. We review them annually.
Pentest before launch, annually after
An independent firm tests this platform before the first real donation. We run another every year. Any committee with security questions gets the latest report on request.
Phase 2 · SaaS upsell
Make your campaign managers supergods.
The fundraising rails are the price of entry. The defensible product is the layer above: an AI workbench that turns a single campaign manager into the operating capacity of a full consulting bench.
Auto speech writing
Trained on the candidate's prior remarks, the day's news cycle, and the room they're walking into. First draft in 90 seconds. Edits, not blank pages.
Daily talking points
Every morning the manager gets the three things their candidate should say today, with the source links, sorted by which donor segment they move.
Curated intel feed
District-level news, opposition signals, donor activity, social momentum. One scroll instead of forty open tabs.
Per-donor enrichment
Every donation gets enriched with public records, voter file, employer, prior giving, and AI-inferred persona. Roll up per district, age band, ZIP, profession.
Audience trend dashboards
Where is the money tilting? Who's softening? Which message is moving them? Aggregated trends from the donor base, not a polling firm's guess.
Email and SMS copywriter
Generates compliance-checked outbound. Caps per recipient. A/B tests subject lines automatically. Honest unsubscribe handling, no dark patterns.
v1 surface
Polished web, mobile-first.
Every tool ships as a fast, responsive web app. Works the same on a phone in the green room as on a desk at HQ. No App Store review. No install friction.
When volume justifies
Native iOS and Android.
We'll ship a native campaign-manager app for push notifications ("$1,000 just landed from a new donor in PA-12"), live donation feeds for rallies, and AI talking points on the go. Donor checkout stays web-only forever; donations come from shared links, not apps.
Phase 2 is the premium tier. Bundled for partner committees during launch. Sold as a campaign-manager seat afterwards.
Tell us what you want firstDecide with us
The open questions. You answer. We build.
This platform is being designed with the people who'll actually use it. Below is the working list of decisions still in front of us. Pick what you'd want. Your answers save automatically and get sent to the founding team when you submit.
Live demo
See the donor experience.
Click through the full donor flow. No real money. No real signup. No pre-checked boxes. Just the product as it'll ship.
A note from the founders
Built by people who actually use it.
The pitch is simple. Conservative donors deserve rails that don't trick them. Conservative campaigns deserve a platform that pays them on the day they raised the money. Conservative managers deserve tools that match what the other side already has. We're building all three, on a foundation of honest defaults. If that sounds right to you, answer the deck above and we'll talk this week.