Edna
The agent that carries the work.
Runs the loop around the clock — drafting, surfacing, preparing — and hands it back ready for your call.
How Avid works
Your other tools wait for you to run them. Avid doesn’t — it works your program between every campaign, so the work stops outrunning you. It’s yours to direct.
The capacity trap
The work that keeps you afloat — pulling the data together by hand, every cycle — is the same work that keeps you from ever getting ahead of it. So you never do. Working harder doesn’t break the loop; it feeds it.
The cost is real even when it never shows up in a report.
The major donor whose window quietly passed.
The lapsed giver who’d have come back for the call no one made.
The first-timer who gave once and never heard from you again.
The thank-you that landed too late to feel like thanks.
Not missed metrics. Missed relationships.
It was never about working harder or buying another tool — the trap is structural. Change the structure and the same loop that drained you flips: the data ready before you reach for it, every cycle starting ahead instead of behind.
The AVID loop
Four moves, one continuous loop: Aggregate → Visualize → Identify → Deploy, between every campaign. Where the trap drained your hours, this one hands them back.
A · Aggregate
Your CRM, email, ads, online forms, the mail file — reconciled into one current record for every donor, automatically. You stop exporting and stitching data together just to trust the numbers.
V · Visualize
That one record shows you the few things that need your attention — brought to you, not hunted for across dashboards.
Why is this a priority?
Your mid-level revenue is down 4.2% — in the $1K–$5K range — marking it as a critical priority for your program today.
I · Identify
Avid shows you the next move — which audience to reach and what to say. It’s recognizing a pattern it’s seen work before, not guessing, and it shows its reasoning — so you can check the call before you act.
Mid-Level Donors, Starting to Slip
Why Edna suggested this
Mid-level giving is down 4.2%, concentrated in the $1K–$5K range — it matches a pre-lapse pattern Avid has seen before. Reached now, most of these donors stay.
How to talk to this audience
Lead with their impact and a personal check-in — not an ask.
D · Deploy
Avid builds it — the audience, the messages, the sequence. The campaign that used to take weeks arrives drafted in your voice; you adjust it and hit send. A person always makes the call.
You’re about to launch 6 touchpoints.
Mid-Level Re-Engagement, drafted in your voice — Edna places every piece in your connected tools. Nothing sends until you hit launch.
The hands on the loop
Avid is your fundraising agent — it works for you, not the other way around. You hold the relationship; Avid works around it — drafting, preparing, following up — and hands it back. A human always hits send — and Edna never talks to your donors; she makes sure you do. Two hands, both working for you: one that never rests, one who knows you.
Edna
Runs the loop around the clock — drafting, surfacing, preparing — and hands it back ready for your call.
LockStep
Every paid plan includes LockStep — a dedicated team built into the product, so you’re never running the loop alone.
Presence in the room. Time to actually listen. The story only this donor needs to hear. Trust, built across years. That’s where the hours go.