This session explores the shift happening in how software gets built today with real world examples from Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup programs. You’ll learn how startups are using AI assisted development to move from idea to deployment in days and weeks – not months and years.

The real story isn't AI hype. It's what happens when deep domain expertise, direct customer access, and AI-assisted development collapse the distance between problem and solution.

Brent Chudoba (former CRO SurveyMonkey, COO Calendly) will discuss how he built and iterates Grasshopper Signup, a production SaaS serving thousands of schools and nonprofits, with a team of one.

Justin Steele, CEO of Kindora, an AI-powered funder intelligence platform, will share how his team used Claude Code - Anthropic's AI coding agent - to write an entire integration to Raiser’s Edge NXT which included 25 features across secure authentication, constituent matching, gift history import, two-way data sync, relationship mapping, and a tile embedded directly inside the RENXT. The full integration was built across two evening sessions.