Type a name. In three minutes you get a complete profile: capacity, affinity, board seats, giving, network. Then the app helps you write, ask and plan. All on your own computer.
Claude finds the connections between your prospects: who sits on which board with whom, who can introduce whom, where a warm intro can come from. The graph builds itself, search after search.
Type a name: in 1–3 minutes you get capacity, affinity, board seats, giving and network — with sources.
The AI tells you how much to ask — with a range and rationale — based on capacity, affinity and your typical amounts.
Recent mentions, each flagged as an opportunity or a risk. An alert tells you when the timing is right.
Cultivation emails in real time. You add the real words and the signature — the app removes the blank page.
Upload your best emails: the AI picks up your tone and rhythm for every prospect.
Ask for advice on a prospect and, from the same screen, create a task, change stage or write an email.
A series of touches spread over time, generated and editable. Mark what you've sent.
A single sheet, in one click: how to open, what to talk about, what to ask, plan B.
From the briefing, download the calendar event, with a reminder one hour before.
Who knows whom in your CRM, and who can introduce you to the donor you care about.
Press ⌘K anywhere: jump to a prospect or a section in a second.
Find the emails of the right people in a company (via Hunter, optional).
Want just the wealth, or just the network? Launch a search dedicated to that part.
The app checks that the cited links are live and flags it. No profiles built on thin air.
From the first time you identify them to the final thank-you. Bulk actions across multiple prospects too.
What to do today, what's overdue, the next seven days. Per prospect or overall.
How much you want to raise, how much is in the pipeline, where you stand.
Every call tracked: cost, time, errors. No surprises.
A nicely laid-out profile, ready to bring to the meeting.
Import a CSV, find and merge duplicates, organize with tags.
The relationships, the real words, the trust: those stay yours. The AI gathers, summarizes and prepares — so you reach the conversation ready, not empty-handed.
A person or a company. Even just first and last name.
The app searches public sources while you do other things. 1–3 minutes.
Scores, suggested ask, summary, next move and sources.
Find the emails, write the draft, schedule the call, export the PDF.
The CRM is free and open source (MIT). You need Claude Code (Anthropic subscription) for the AI features and — optionally — Hunter.io free tier for decision-maker emails.
No. Forager runs on your computer, with a local SQLite database and AI searches via Claude Code. No telemetry, no third parties.
The AI features (research, compose, chat, briefing, sequences) require Claude Code. The rest of the CRM works without it.
No, and it doesn't want to. Forager does the prep work — searching, reading, summarizing, writing the first draft. The relationships, the choices and the real words stay yours: you reach the conversation ready, not empty-handed.
Yes. There's a launcher ./forager start that does everything: setup, database, browser. After install you never touch the terminal again.
Yes: full CSV, a PDF brief for each prospect, SQLite backup with ./forager backup.
Nonprofits, associations, foundations, political parties, referendum committees, NGOs, advocacy groups. Anyone doing major-donor or corporate fundraising.
Yes. Issues and PRs welcome on GitHub. Non-technical feedback is valuable too.