Artful Robot crafts websites and CRMs for humans improving humanity.

We stitch together open source software to help you communicate beautifully, nurture your supporters and achieve the change we urgently need.

Our clients are charities, campaigns, co-ops, communities and companies dedicated to doing something good. Likewise, we are trying to do good in tech by prioritising open, honest, respectful, decentralised, low carbon and accessible solutions.

What we're good at

  • Looking after data: CiviCRM - Artful Robot is a CiviCRM partner, developer (core and extensions) and has been an active community member for 15 years. We offer many CiviCRM services from implementation, hosting, management, training and support through to one off development and consultation projects.
  • Websites - from single page microsites or one off data visualisation widgets to complex websites with multiple layers of access control. We have expertise in many popular open source CMSs including ProcessWire, Backdrop, Drupal, WordPress.
  • Cunning campaign tools and integrations - sometimes you need something to work a particular way; we're good at this.
  • Being a reliable and responsive team member - We care about what you're doing and want you to be able to do it well. We hope to be an empowering teammate, listening carefully, considering technicalities carefully and communicating clearly. Our clients rely on their services being secure and available so we make sure things are kept up-to-date, monitored and backed up.
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What we can help you with

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    Fundraising.

    Take one off and regular donations online. Easily segment your donors to make effective appropriate asks. Run increase-your-giving campaigns and other appeals. Encourage sharing on social media.

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    Communications.

    Grow and monitor your email subscriber lists and content success with opens, clicks, bounces, unsubscribes. Automate supporter journeys and reminders, log your important conversations. Track website engagement through clear, anonymous, privacy-protecting web stats.

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    Building your campaign.

    Run petitions, or even a petition platform for your local campaigners. Map your supporters. Build tools to engage people in your work.

  • Special projects.

    We can take your ideas and make them happen, often with super fast turn around.

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    Memberships, Events and Case management.

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    Owning and controlling your own data.

    No more data fragmentation across different systems, keep GDPR and other compliance in your control. Integrations and imports from elsewhere.

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    Presenting your messages.

    Build accessible, responsive, interactive websites that are intuitive for staff and public alike. Make your information beautiful and interesting.

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    Respecting your people.

    We always aim to avoid deceptive designs - it might be common practise to lead your audience into letting tech billionaires track their every move, but we can do better!

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    Reporting and searching.

    Whether this is an at-a-glance dashboard or super advanced queries and reports.

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