The design tool for nonprofits with no design budget

Impact reports, appeals and campaign tiles that read like an organization donors can trust, made on one canvas by two people and an agent.

Donor-ready reports and campaigns from a two-person team.

The shared live canvas: report, chart and campaign frames holding one brand, exactly how a small team's work should sit. Click in and move something.

Donor-ready without the design line item

Donors judge stewardship from the page in front of them, and a report set carelessly reads like an organization run the same way. The mission deserves better than the design budget allows, because there is no design budget.

Shyne is how a two-person team closes that gap. Describe the year and the agent lays the impact report out as real pages: headline outcome, narrative, audited figures, a photograph with a caption that does its subject justice. You finish it by hand.

Make the report

The figures donors check are drawn as editable chart elements, so the audited numbers go in once and stay styled.

A house style nobody has to police

Palette, type and logo are saved once as design variables and every frame reads them, so the appeal, the report and the board pack come out as one organization. A volunteer editing the words cannot get the green wrong, because the green is not a hex code in an email.

Update the brand once and the documents that already exist follow it.

The volunteer edits the words, never the brand.

The four documents a small team ships

  • Impact report

    Headline outcome, narrative and audited figures on pages that stay editable next year.

  • Campaign appeal

    A specific ask with a real deadline, duplicated per campaign with the format held.

  • Grant appendix

    Long-form pages that hold up printed in black and white on an office printer.

  • Social tiles

    The appeal sized for each channel, all reading the brand so nothing drifts off-palette.

The report is a live document: the agent drafts the narrative, the director fixes the wording, both on one page.

Every AI works on the same nonprofits canvas.

Bring the agent you already use. It reads the brief, sees the work and writes the next editable frame — no exported file, no paste, no drift.

Claude Code connected to ShyneMCP

Lay out our FY25 impact report around these audited figures. build the complete working system.

shyne · canvas.read nonprofits
shyne · page.write writes editable frames
shyne · canvas.write_html shared canvas

A donor-ready impact report is now composed on the same live canvas.

ChatGPT connected to ShyneMCP

Lay out our FY25 impact report around these audited figures. create three useful variants.

shyne · canvas.read nonprofits
shyne · page.write writes editable frames
shyne · canvas.create_variants shared canvas

A donor-ready impact report is now composed on the same live canvas.

Gemini connected to ShyneMCP

Lay out our FY25 impact report around these audited figures. compose the visual direction.

shyne · canvas.read nonprofits
shyne · page.write writes editable frames
shyne · media.compose shared canvas

A donor-ready impact report is now composed on the same live canvas.

Cursor connected to ShyneMCP

Lay out our FY25 impact report around these audited figures. turn the approved frame into code.

shyne · canvas.read nonprofits
shyne · page.write writes editable frames
shyne · canvas.read_html shared canvas

A donor-ready impact report is now composed on the same live canvas.

Grok connected to ShyneMCP

Lay out our FY25 impact report around these audited figures. prepare the publishing pass.

shyne · canvas.read nonprofits
shyne · page.write writes editable frames
shyne · schedule.prepare shared canvas

A donor-ready impact report is now composed on the same live canvas.

Your agent connected to ShyneMCP

Lay out our FY25 impact report around these audited figures. run your own workflow on the canvas.

shyne · canvas.read nonprofits
shyne · page.write writes editable frames
shyne · mcp.call shared canvas

A donor-ready impact report is now composed on the same live canvas.

One shared canvas

Every nonprofits frame stays visible to people and agents at the same time.

Always on brand

Your colors, type and reusable assets stay attached to every nonprofits variation.

Editable output

The result lands as real frames and objects, ready for the next human decision.

Media in context

Generate or place imagery where the composition needs it, without leaving the working surface.

Open to every agent

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Grok and your own agent work through the same MCP surface.

Ready to ship

Move from the approved canvas to the useful file, link or published format without rebuilding it.

Two people, one canvas, an agent between

The agent drafts on the same canvas over MCP, and several people can edit it live, which matters when the trustee with the final word is only free on Sunday. Review happens in the document, not in a chain of attachments.

  • Update the report with this year's audited numbersFigures and charts change in place while last year's layout and wording hold.
  • Make the winter appeal from the report's key statA one-page appeal lands in the house style with the deadline stated plainly.
  • Turn the appeal into tiles for three channelsSized variants land on the content calendar, each reading the same brand variables.

Campaign tiles read the same brand variables as the report, so the winter appeal looks like the organization behind it.

Trust built on a two-person budget

Draft with the agent, edit together live, export to PDF for funders, printers and application portals. Next year's report starts from this year's pages with only the numbers to change.

It reads like a studio made it. The studio was the two of you.

Questions

Can a nonprofit make an impact report without a designer?

Yes. Describe the year and the agent writes the report as real, editable pages: headline, narrative, figures and captioned photographs. You change wording and numbers directly instead of briefing a designer and waiting.

How do we keep branding consistent with volunteers helping?

Palette, type and logo live as design variables that every frame reads. Volunteers edit content while the brand applies itself, and a brand update rethemes documents that already exist.

Can we make campaign social posts too?

Yes. Tiles for each channel sit on the same canvas as the report, read the same brand variables, and can be queued on the content calendar.

Does it export files funders and printers accept?

PDF export keeps text as text and layers as layers, which application portals and print shops both want. Decks also export to PPTX, and any frame exports to PNG.

Make the report

Donor-ready reports and campaigns from a two-person team.

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