Patronly is the AI co-pilot for nonprofit event chairs. It learns your event, tells you what to do next, and writes the things you didn’t want to write.
I was told I’d “handle the gala.” Nobody told me that meant fourteen spreadsheets, three vendors, and an inbox full of captains who already forgot they said yes.
Last year’s chair stepped down. This year’s chair starts from a blank inbox. Every gala rebuilds what every other gala already figured out.
They store what you tell them. They don’t tell you what’s missing. The chair learns the platform faster than they learn how to run a gala — and neither was the point.
Galas raise the budget that funds the year. A small process gap — an unconfirmed sponsor, a missed dietary form — costs real dollars. Volunteers shouldn’t carry that alone.
Most nonprofit tools open with a blank form. Patronly opens with the next three things to do — ranked by deadline, by impact, by what you’ll regret skipping.
The Coach reads your event state — guests, tables, sponsors, captains — and surfaces the work that actually moves the needle this week.
When the 2027 chair logs in, the Coach already knows what worked in 2026. No more re-inventing what last year’s team figured out.
Captain emails, sponsor reminders, day-of timelines — generated, then polished by you in seconds. Not from scratch. Not from a template.
Five questions about your event. The Coach drafts your sponsorship structure, your table layout, your timeline. You review and tune. You’re live in an afternoon.
Every visit opens with the next-best three or four actions for this event, today. Dismiss what you’ve done; snooze what isn’t ready; the Coach keeps the rest warm.
Floor plans, kiosk check-in, captain portals, walk-up seating, dietary capture, post-event reporting — the operational pieces that turn a great gala into one your guests remember.
The floor plan is set. The check-in tablets are awake. The captains know their tables. The seating chart matches the place cards.
This is the part Patronly was built for. Not the spreadsheets. The moment when months of work falls quiet, and you remember why you said yes.
No. Patronly is built specifically for galas — the planning, the night itself, the follow-up. If you need long-term donor relationship management, keep your CRM. Patronly hands off cleanly with a guest export.
It stays right where it is, tenant-isolated, ready for next year. When your 2027 event chair logs in, the Coach already knows what worked last time.
No. Volunteer captains and sponsors get token-gated portals — no account, no password, no manual. Open the email, two taps, done.
Those are powerful, mature platforms built for professional event teams. Patronly is built for the volunteer chair and the small development staff who actually run most galas. We trade scope for guidance.
We’re finalizing pricing with our private beta tenants. The shape: annual subscription for multi-event nonprofits, single-event option for one-night-a-year galas. Beta tenants get founding pricing locked in.
A Houston-based team with thirty years of nonprofit technology between them. Currently in production with three live nonprofits whose galas raised over $1.4M combined this season.
Twelve nonprofits will join Patronly this beta cohort. Tell us about your event — we’ll be in touch within a week.