Mind on the mission.
Superpowers included.
Rigason™ builds software for mission-driven organizations. Your staff gets agents that clear the busywork; the people you serve get an experience that already knows their story. Our first product, PaperlessZen, turns decades of paper into answers in seconds.
- Superpowers for small teams
- AI woven in, not bolted on
- Your data stays yours
“…the naming shall be maintained in perpetuity…”
Hargrove Gift Agreement · p.4 · found in 0.3s
Hargrove Gift Agreement.pdf
Filed by your agent · Gift Agreements
Obligations tracked
- Vendor MOU renewal44 days
- Endowment report due3 months
Every view, share, and download logged.
The idea
For once, software built for the mission first. Mission-driven teams have always inherited tools designed for corporations, then bent them to fit the work. Rigason flips that: we build for how mission-driven organizations actually work, starting with the people who fund the mission. Our aim is software so good the for-profit world wants it too.
What we build
Superpowers for your staff.
A personal experience for everyone they serve.
Every Rigason product works both sides of the relationship: the people who run the mission, and the people who fund it, join it, and believe in it.
For your staff: agents on the team.
Agents handle the routine work of reading, filing, tracking, and drafting, so a three-person team runs like thirty. Every action is reviewable, reversible, and yours to approve.
- Reads the morning mail
- Finds the clause
- Watches every deadline
- Drafts the follow-up
For the people you serve: software that knows their story.
Every donor, member, and partner is met by an experience shaped around their history: the gift they made, the terms they agreed to, the update they're owed. Personal, never creepy.
Welcome back, Maya
Hargrove Scholarship Fund · donor since 2019
Your fund supported 3 students this year. The impact report is ready.
One document is waiting for your signature: 2 minutes, prefilled.
The lab
Serious research.
Invisible seams.
We research frontier AI and agentic workflows deeply: how agents read a document trail, when they should act and when they must ask, and what makes assistance feel natural instead of grafted on.
All of it is held to one shipping bar: the intelligence must show up as work already done, woven into the flow of the day.If it feels like AI bolted on, it doesn't ship.
How an agent earns its place
Read
every page, as it arrives
Understand
terms, dates, obligations
Prepare
filed, flagged, drafted
You decide
review, approve, done
Agents do the reading, the tracking, and the prep. The person who knows the work keeps the decision. Every step is accountable, reviewable, and reversible.
- to the answer, across decades of paper
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- to the answer, across decades of paper
- early warning before a renewal lapses
- 44 days
- early warning before a renewal lapses
- of agent actions reviewable & reversible
- 100%
- of agent actions reviewable & reversible
How we build
What every Rigason product promises.
One set of principles across everything we make, starting with PaperlessZen and holding for every product that follows.
We give your attention back.
Software should return time to the mission, not swallow it. We take the routine off the plate so your people do the work they came to do.
Superpowers, not more software.
Agents read, file, track, and draft alongside your team, so a small staff does what used to take a department, without adding headcount or headaches.
Automation assists. You decide.
The software proposes, surfaces, and flags. Every action is reviewable and reversible. The person who knows the work stays in control.
Personal for the people you serve.
Donors, members, and partners are met by an experience that knows their story: their gift, their terms, their history. Personal, never creepy.
Serious research, invisible seams.
We research frontier AI and agent design deeply, so the intelligence shows up as work already done, never a chatbot bolted on the side.
Your data stays yours.
Open and portable by design. We do not hold your information hostage, and leaving is never a punishment.
The first product
PaperlessZen: decades of paper, seconds to the answer.
Every institution runs on documents and contracts it cannot afford to lose (gift agreements, MOUs, board records, policies) scattered across inboxes, drives, and filing cabinets. PaperlessZen reads each page, files it automatically, and tracks what it promises.
The result is searchable, governed institutional memory: one place you can search, where nothing important slips and every view is on the record.
The first of a family of products for mission-driven organizations.
One system for the whole life of a document
Find
Full-text search across every scanned page. Ask in plain language, get the passage and the page, not a folder to dig through.
Track
Renewals, deadlines, and obligations pulled from the text automatically, so nothing important quietly lapses.
Govern
Audit trails, retention schedules, legal holds, and access control: the record you can defend.
Automate
Agents read, classify, and file documents the moment they arrive. Plain-language rules, no manual sorting, and you approve.
Your documents stay yours: searchable, portable, and never held hostage.
See what software built for the mission feels like.
We are building with a small group of mission-driven organizations. Get the superpowers early, and help shape what comes next.
Insights
Notes from the lab.
Woven in, not bolted on
Most software adds AI the way you add a spoiler to a sedan. We research agents and workflows until the intelligence disappears into the work itself.
Personal, not creepy
Every donor, member, and partner deserves software that knows their story. Here is how hyper-personal and respectful can be the same thing.
Built for the mission, not borrowed from someone else
For decades, mission-driven teams have made do with software designed for corporations. We think the work deserves better than hand-me-downs.