Everything your team knows, in one place that stays.

What Enact is

Enact keeps the record of your work the way a good chief of staff would. Your notes, program data and plans live in one place, linked together and easy to search, so a new colleague can pick up where someone left off.

What you can do

Write and connect. Take notes in plain text, link one note to another, and see everything that points back to it. Search all your notes at once.

Keep your numbers in order. Start from ready-made templates for results frameworks, grants and funding, partners and agreements, risks, and activities with participants. Enact checks each entry, keeps a history of every change and lets you undo one. It also includes a reference list of the UN Sustainable Development Goal indicators, with links to their official definitions.

Plan on whiteboards. Start from one of 35 templates, such as a theory of change, logframe, problem tree, stakeholder map or safeguarding flow. Place a whiteboard inside a note, or export it as an image.

Who it's for

Program, monitoring and evaluation, grants and partnerships staff in NGOs, community organisations, foundations and government programs. It suits teams where people move on and the knowledge needs to stay.

What it makes possible

A new colleague opens the folder and finds the notes, data and plans behind a program, not an empty inbox. A grants manager can see how one activity is shared across three donors. A program lead can answer a donor's question from the records instead of from memory.

Your files are yours

Notes are Markdown text files. Data sits in SQLite database files in your folder, where you can see and copy them. Enact does not change a file unless you edit it. You can switch on a plain-text copy of each database (CSV and JSON) that stays readable without Enact. Enact works without an internet connection.

AI, if you want it

Enact does not include its own AI. If you use Claude Desktop or another AI tool, you can connect it from Settings. By default it can only read, and you can keep chosen folders and sensitive tables out of its reach. You can let it write in one folder you name, and every request is logged. This is a safeguard for AI tools that behave as expected, not a security wall, so share only what you are comfortable sharing.

Where it's up to

Enact is in beta and runs on Windows. It is built for one person on one computer at a time, so sharing a live workspace across a team is not available yet. To back up, copy the folder. The app is available in English, Indonesian, Malay, Filipino, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese and Korean.

Get involved

Enact is in beta. We are working with a small number of organisations first. Write to hello@openimpact.studio to ask for access or a walk-through.