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These are not wireframes or mockups. They are working prototypes built on real nonprofit financial structures: C3/C4 splits, fiscal sponsorship, grant lifecycle management, 501(h) compliance. Every one of these structures was navigated firsthand from inside the finance and operations seat, not researched from the outside. Explore freely. All data is simulated.

SLINGSHOT

The Slingshot Duo: two MIAgents, built around how the work actually moves.

Slingshot is the stack. The Slingshot Duo — MIAgent Solar and MIAgent Lunar — is its anchor. Designed around the financial reality of small-to-mid-size movement organizations operating with fiscal sponsors, dual C3/C4 structures, and mixed revenue streams. Lunar holds the accounting side. Solar holds the development side. They share one data layer because the story an organization tells its funders, its community, and its own leadership only holds together when those two functions move in lockstep.

That lockstep is the difference between an organization that can speak with its full voice and one that cannot. Every other MIAgent in the roster is positioned against this duo. Added team members join Solar and Lunar to bring a new core skill on top of the shared Slingshot data layer — they need one or both of the duo to do their work. Standalone agents run on their own ground, either because they cover a domain the duo does not touch or because they serve organizations that are not yet ready for the full Slingshot base.

Data sovereignty is the architectural principle that separates this stack from generic SaaS tools: your organizational data is never used to train external models, and the architecture is designed to keep it under your control. These are purpose-built tools, not rented platforms that extract your data and treat your sector as an afterthought.

Solar · development & grants
Lunar · accounting & budgets
Shared data layer
Foundation for every MIAgent
Fiscal sponsor ready
MIAgent Solar

The development side of the team. Grant lifecycle, payment schedules, compliance, and funder reporting held in one place, ready to speak to funders and to leadership in the same breath.

  • Grant pipeline with lifecycle status and payment schedules
  • Cash vs. accrual reconciliation view against fiscal sponsor reporting
  • Funder reporting calendar with deadline tracking
  • Lobbying compliance tracker with activity log (supports 501(h) election)
  • Revenue summary across grants, events, major donors, and recurring giving
  • C3/C4 cost allocation and compliance monitoring
Explore MIAgent Solar demo
MIAgent Lunar

The accounting side of the team. Program budgets, GL mapping, monthly actuals, and fiscal sponsor reconciliation. Where the budget meets the real work, month by month, in language a program director can read.

  • Program budget vs. actuals with category-level detail and variance tracking
  • Monthly cycle view with budget pace and accrual net
  • Fiscal sponsor reconciliation — sponsor reports vs. internal books
  • Full chart of accounts with GL mapping
  • Staff time allocation — C3/C4 splits across all roles
  • Lobbying expense tracking tied to applicable limits
Explore MIAgent Lunar demo
Both demos use Catalyst Youth Collective — a fictional youth organizing nonprofit in Philadelphia with a C3/C4 structure and fiscal sponsorship through Common Ground Fiscal Partners. All data is simulated. Snapshot date: December 31, 2024. Actuals closed through November 30. Read-only exploration is open to everyone. To edit records, ask MIAgent Solar or MIAgent Lunar a question, or discuss deploying Slingshot for your own organization, reach out via LinkedIn or schedule a session for an interactive access code. Data resets automatically every two hours.

© 2026 Luis Consults LLC. All rights reserved. Agent source code, system prompts, and architecture are proprietary.

Why Slingshot is built the way it is.

Every architectural decision in Slingshot follows from the same commitment: accounting and development must be able to move in lockstep, and what they produce together must be legible to the people who lead the organization. The three principles below are not features. They are the constraints that shaped how the two MIAgents work, where the data lives, and who can read it.

01
Data Sovereignty
Your organizational data is never used to train external models. Grant histories, budget patterns, funder relationships, and compliance records belong to your organization. Lunar and Solar share one data layer that stays under your control, processed through API providers whose terms prohibit training on your data. Network-isolated deployment is available for organizations that require it.
02
Adaptive Infrastructure
Slingshot was built around how movement organizations with fiscal sponsors actually work, not how enterprise accounting software imagines nonprofits work. Lunar adapts to your GL structure and reporting cycles. Solar adapts to your grant portfolio and funder requirements. Together they adapt to your organization. Your organization does not adapt to them.
03
Collective Intelligence
The financial operations function holds more strategic intelligence than most organizations ever access. Slingshot makes it visible by wiring the accounting and development sides together and presenting what they say in language an organizational leader can read without a translator. The full voice of the organization, finally in one place.

Catalyst Youth Collective

Fictional organization — Philadelphia, PA · All data simulated

Mission
Youth and young adult power building through civic education, leadership development, and policy advocacy
Structure
C3 + C4
Fiscal sponsor: Common Ground Fiscal Partners
Staff
7 FTE
Time allocated across C3/C4 and 5 programs
Annual Budget
$448,500
FY 2024–25 · July 1 – June 30
Grant Funders
4 active
1 multi-year · 3 single-year · mixed restrictions
Other Revenue
Events + donors
2 event budgets · 4 major · 3 recurring · 3 one-time donors

The duo, reading both sides of the books.

Solar and Lunar are the Slingshot Duo: two agents sharing one data layer, reading both sides of the books, surfacing risks before you ask, modeling scenarios against live data, and drafting output shaped for the audience receiving it. Not chatbots bolted onto a dashboard. Agents wired into the data layer, doing the analytical and narrative work that used to require a finance director and a development director in the same room. Every added team member in the catalog builds from this pair. Not chatbots. Agents that do the work. Try them inside the demos.

MIAgent Solar Agent

MIAgent Solar reads the grant portfolio and acts before you ask. It surfaces compliance risks, models revenue scenarios, drafts funder-ready narratives, and translates the same data for a board member, a program officer, or a new hire.

MIAgent Lunar Agent

MIAgent Lunar scans the budget on open and tells you what it sees: pacing risks, variance patterns, reconciliation gaps. It models scenarios, drafts board summaries, and explains the same numbers differently for leadership, program staff, or your fiscal sponsor.

The full MIAgent roster, expanding from the Slingshot Duo.

Naming convention. Every agent in the catalog is a MIAgent — pronounced "My Agent" — a Movement Intelligence Agent scoped to a specific function, trained on the organization's own context and documents, and built to keep organizational data out of external systems. Each carries the MIAgent title and a name drawn from the same sky. MIAgent Solar (the sun) and MIAgent Lunar (the moon) are the Slingshot Duo. The others orbit the same system: MIAgent Equinox is the moment the duo balance each other exactly, MIAgent Polaris is the fixed reference point every sponsor relationship navigates by, MIAgent Tide is the lunar effect at smaller scale, MIAgent Sundial is the original solar deadline device. The argument behind the chart is in Charting New Constellations.

Added team members join Solar and Lunar to bring a new capability on top of the Slingshot shared data layer — they need one or both of the duo because the work they do only holds together when it is anchored to live grant or accounting data. Standalone agents run on their own ground: either they cover a domain the duo does not touch, or they are lightweight alternatives for organizations that are not yet ready for the full Slingshot base. Each card below names the core skill it brings, which duo members it needs (if any), and the operational reality the tool was built to address. A catalog entry becomes a live MIAgent the moment it ships as an interactive agent you can talk to. Read the argument behind the architecture.

Added Team Members Extend the Slingshot Duo with a new core skill
Development In Development

MIAgent Equinox

Team member · needs Solar + Lunar

Core skill: pre-award budget construction. Scopes proposal budgets to your organization's actual GL structure, maps restricted vs. unrestricted allocations, tracks indirect cost rate application, and produces a funder-ready budget narrative. Lives inside Solar's Proposal Budget view and pulls GL categories and staff allocation from Lunar to anchor the math. Needs both halves of the duo because a proposal budget that cannot tie back to the books is a promise the organization cannot keep. Built because every grant proposal budget starts from a blank spreadsheet that no one can find after the award closes.

Preview live in Slingshot
Development Concept

MIAgent Aurora

Team member · needs Solar + Lunar

Core skill: funder-facing narrative drafting in the organization's voice. Produces letters of intent, progress reports, and funder updates that sound like the organization, not a consultant talking about it. Pulls grant portfolio, prior submissions, and funder context from Solar, and pulls program actuals and variance from Lunar for anything that reports on spend or progress. Needs both halves of the duo because LOIs rest on grant context and progress reports rest on the books — a draft is only as grounded as the data it is pulling from. Built because development staff rewrite the same sentences across dozens of funder submissions, and every rewrite is an opportunity for the organizational voice to drift.

Development Concept

MIAgent Horizon

Team member · needs Solar

Core skill: cross-portfolio funding pattern detection. Layers on top of Solar's Grant Pipeline, Payment Schedule, and Revenue Summary to surface patterns across the full grant mix: revenue concentration risk, renewal timing gaps, restriction imbalances, multi-year commitment exposure. Needs Solar because the pattern detection only works against a complete grant portfolio; draws on Lunar's program budget context when present to extend the read into cost coverage risk. Built because the risk that ends a funding cycle is almost always visible in the portfolio before anyone names it.

Fiscal Sponsorship Concept

MIAgent Polaris

Team member · needs Solar + Lunar

Core skill: deep fiscal sponsorship intelligence. Dual-entity compliance tracking, pass-through fund management, sponsor relationship reporting, and restricted fund oversight for organizations operating under a fiscal sponsor. Sits on top of Solar's Cash vs. Accrual view and Lunar's Fiscal Sponsor Reconciliation, reading from both at once. Needs both halves of the duo because the sponsor-side reporting obligation runs simultaneously against the grant portfolio and the accounting books, and neither side alone can close the loop. Built because fiscal sponsorship creates a reporting obligation that runs in two directions at once — to the sponsor and to each funder — and most organizations navigate it manually with spreadsheets that belong to whoever built them.

Standalone Agents Run on their own ground, with or without the duo
Knowledge Management Concept

MIAgent Atlas

Standalone agent · enriches the duo when co-deployed

Core skill: institutional knowledge preservation. The flagship memory agent. Preserves organizational context across staff transitions — funder relationships, campaign histories, operational lessons — in a form the next person can actually use, under full community control. Runs on its own because institutional knowledge is a separate domain from the financial data the duo holds. When deployed alongside Slingshot, it enriches naturally: it can cross-reference funder history against Solar's Documents and grant portfolio without becoming dependent on them. Built because most of what walks out the door with a departing staff member was never written down anywhere the next person could find it.

Program Concept

MIAgent Prism

Standalone agent

Core skill: program-side storytelling across audiences. Turns program data into narrative summaries written for funders, leadership, and community, and adapts voice and framing to the audience without losing organizational authenticity. Runs on its own because the inputs are program outcomes, community stories, and contextual detail — a domain the duo does not touch. (Solar's Report Brief and MIAgent Aurora handle the funder-financial side; Prism handles the program-impact side.) Built because the same program data has to be told three different ways to three different audiences, and the person doing that translation is usually already the most overloaded person in the org.

Financial Ops Concept

MIAgent Tide

Standalone agent · a lightweight alternative to Lunar

Core skill: plain-language variance tracking. A lightweight alternative to Lunar for organizations that are not yet ready for the full accounting stack — tides are what the moon does at smaller scale, and Tide is what Lunar does at smaller scale. Ingests QuickBooks exports or CSV data, tracks grant budgets against actuals, flags variances, and generates plain-language summaries for program staff and leadership without requiring finance expertise to interpret. Tide and Lunar are not meant to run side by side — Tide is the on-ramp; Lunar is the destination. Built because budget variance is usually the first organizational signal that something has shifted, and smaller orgs deserve that signal too even before they are ready to deploy the full duo.

Development Concept

MIAgent Sundial

Standalone agent · a lightweight alternative to Solar

Core skill: grant deadline and renewal tracking. A focused deadline tracker for organizations with a lean grant portfolio that do not yet need the full Solar pipeline — the sundial is the original deadline device, descended directly from the sun. Monitors award timelines and reporting deadlines, drafts deadline alerts, and surfaces renewal windows before they close. Sundial and Solar are not meant to run side by side — Sundial is the entry point; Solar is the destination once the portfolio grows past what a deadline list can hold. Built because every missed deadline in this function is a silent trust loss with a specific funder, and the pattern of those losses is what predicts renewal risk years before it shows up on the revenue report.