Product benefits

Benefits of a strategic plan that feels managable

Neralake closes the gap between planning and doing. Your strategic plan guides your team’s work and keeps everyone connected to what matters.

Planning at a fraction of the cost

High-quality strategic planning has historically been reserved for organizations with the budget to hire outside help. Neralake changes that. A complete, guided planning process starting at $139/month for your whole team. Not per user. Not per seat. Your whole team.

Time back for the work that matters

Strategic planning shouldn't take six months and a full-time effort. Neralake's guided process helps your team build a real plan in a fraction of the time, so you can get back to the work your community depends on.

Full team ownership

When your team helps shape the strategy, they carry it forward. Neralake brings every voice in through surveys, then gives everyone a shared view of the plan and where it stands. Ownership and visibility, in one place.

Confidence when it counts

Board meetings, funder reports, annual reviews. When asked how things are going, you shouldn't have to scramble. Neralake turns the work your team is already tracking into clear, shareable updates, so you can walk into any room ready to tell your story.

Clarity without overwhelm

When planning and daily work are connected, leaders don't have to hold the entire strategy in their heads. The whole team can see the plan and their part in it.

Product Features

Neralake product features

Each part of Neralake is designed to help teams move from planning to action, without adding complexity or extra work.

The Build
Every voice in, one plan out. Built together in working sessions your team can actually fit in.

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Stakeholder surveys

Before planning begins, you send surveys to the people who shape your org’s strategic direction: your board, your collaborators, your team. Their voices shape the foundation of your plan.

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Build

Guided discussions

Each working session walks your team through one planning question at a time. People talk instead of type, and the discussion itself becomes draft plan content, captured as it happens.

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Pacing selection

Choose a focused, steady, or spacious pace for each session, and the timing adapts to match. Planning fits the time and attention your team actually has.

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Human-in-the-loop design

AI drafts; your people decide. Every AI-written suggestion is fully editable and can be reviewed and approved by your team before it enters the plan; nothing gets in without your sign-off.

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The Implementation
You built the plan. Now you can live it. Implementation provides the tools to make your plan actually happen.

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Strategy-informed task management

Every task links back to the plan, so your work always serves the direction you chose. A task is never just a to-do; it’s all part of your vision.

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Strategy meetings

A recurring strategy-meeting rhythm is built straight from your plan. Progress stays visible, course corrections have a regular home, and the strategy keeps moving, long after the document is finished.

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Who it's for

Neralake is for nonprofits who value planning but need a better way to make it happen.

Testimonials

Built and tested with real teams

"What we built with Neralake in one day closely aligned with a strategic plan our Board developed months earlier through multiple workshops and at a substantially higher cost."
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Céleste Thériault
Executive Director
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"Neralake made it easy to navigate the planning process from start to finish. I think this platform will be a game changer for nonprofits and small businesses looking to up their strategy game."
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Trevor Clearwater
Executive Director

See it for yourself

Watch Party

You don't have to book a call to see how Neralake works.

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Build a Strategic Plan With Neralake: A Guided Tour

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Implement Your Strategic Plan with Neralake

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Welcome to Neralake

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Welcome to Your Strategic Plan Build

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You Finished Your Build, Now What?

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Welcome to Implementation!

A dedicated team who’s been in your shoes

Our team has spent years inside nonprofit organizations, leading planning processes, facilitating board meetings, and trying to keep strategies alive with limited time and resources. Neralake comes from that experience. We built it because we know how hard it is to keep a plan moving when the real work never slows down.

Benoit Theriault

Sales & Finance Lead

Dr. Rashmi Boragolla

Machine Learning Lead

Eric Kulchycki

Senior Full Stack Developer

James Froese

Lead Software Developer

Jeff Dugas

Chief Technology Lead

Joanna Nickerson

Strategic Growth & Impact Lead

Justin Band

Intelligence & Full Stack Developer

Matt Dirks

Managing Partner

Matt Schaubroeck

Capital Advisor

Matt Schellenberg

Digital Marketing Lead

Michelle Gazze

Community Lead

Michelle Kuly

Founding Partner

Pam Graham

Strategic Growth & Impact Team

Shanae Blaquiere

Product Lead

Shruti Goyal

Senior Full Stack Developer

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