A digital chief of staff for impact organisations, holding the team's collective memory.

What Enact is

Enact is a digital chief of staff for impact organisations: an AI harness an organisation owns and runs itself, with the reasoning built in. It starts with a private, human-only page where staff write messy notes and meeting minutes through the day, with no AI reading over their shoulder. One click files those notes into the organisation's own record, which holds its vision, theory of change, MEL data, past proposals and evaluations as one collective memory. Enact reads that record and helps design programmes, develop proposals and write reports, with every output checked against the organisation's own evidence and its own principles.

OpenImpact Studio already runs an early version of this pattern for its own operations: a working memory of decisions, relationships and voice that grounds everything the studio writes. Enact is that pattern, built out as a tool for the sector.

What it does

A generic AI chatbot answers confidently whether or not it knows anything true about an organisation. Enact answers from the organisation's own material instead. A claim in a draft proposal, an outcome from a past evaluation, a figure from a MEL report, carries a link back to the document it came from, and a claim with no source is flagged rather than invented.

The organisation's own rules run alongside it: an exclusions list screening a prospective donor, a voice guide checking a draft, a safeguarding standard gating a design. Enact stops at defined points for a person to approve, a concept, a draft, a submission, and any decision affecting people's lives, and keeps the record of that approval.

Two workflows anchor it: developing a proposal from a donor call through to submission, and designing a programme from community input through to a budget and risk register. Both draw on the same organisational record, so a proposal and a programme design built in Enact reinforce each other rather than starting from nothing each time.

Who it's for

NGOs and CSOs of any size, coalitions and networks across the Asia-Pacific, and OpenImpact Studio itself, running the tool on its own operations first. Built for organisations where staff turn over fast, institutional memory tends to leave with them, and a proposal or programme design usually starts from a blank page instead of the last one.

How it's held

Enact's ground truths live as plain text files an organisation writes and owns, from the daily page of notes to the finished proposal, readable in any editor with the AI switched off entirely. An organisation runs its own instance, connects the AI models it already has access to, and sets its own rules for what may leave that instance. It can walk away at any point with its entire knowledge base intact. Nothing about it depends on OpenImpact Studio staying involved.

Where it's up to

Enact starts from a pattern already proven inside OpenImpact Studio's own daily work, not from a blank page. The next step is opening that pattern up: publishing how it works, and finding a handful of organisations willing to run it against their own material and tell us where it breaks. What we learn shapes the tool itself, before a line of the dedicated product gets built.

Get involved

We are looking for organisations willing to try the underlying pattern early, on real proposals and programme designs, and tell us honestly what works and what doesn't. If that's you, or you'd simply like to be kept posted as Enact develops, reach us at hello@openimpact.studio.